The popularity of astrology is one of the few things that makes me feel really despondent about current culture. It seems such low hanging fruit for even a basic amount of self-skepticism. Can any astrology supporters explain why they believe it?
The lens I view astrology through is self-skepticism and curiosity - like everything else, I want to understand it thoroughly - so what's the mechanism? How strong are the effects? Are there correlations between birth days and personality?
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This attitude towards experience, of intense curiosity and trying to figure out how things work, is very beautiful to me, almost sacred. I love it. And there seem to be zero good answers for astrology when I try to figure out how it would work.
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Like - why is the system the way it is? Who came up with it? *somebody* came up with it somewhere. And there's different astrological systems depending on the culture, so it's not like it's universal. So why do you trust the one you're adhering to now?
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