The horoscopes are always about when you *find out* something happens, not when it actually happened Which directly leads to this disastrous tendency to bury your head in the sand, to not actually check what's going on when you have the opportunity to check
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Getting diagnosed with cancer, your car's electrical system suddenly dying, your spouse filing for divorce -- these are all consequences of things that started happening months or years in the past But this mindset treats these like they "manifest" retroactively when you look
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THANKS MERCURY RETROGRADE is officially my new saying.
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Hot take: telling people that their ~true nature~ and role in society is created by their circumstances of birth is an *obviously terrible fucking idea* and people promoting it are actively causing harm.
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It drives me up a wall how many otherwise intelligent people take astrology seriously, and it makes me think less of them if they do. Given, I'm an astrophysicist, so I probably have an implicit bias, but still! How many can even define retrograde, or explain how it happens?
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Mercury gets a bit bored and decides to just completely reverse motion with no expenditure of energy, thus flipping the karmic polarity of your atoms. There are probably paradigms and quantum involved too.
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The description of a Cancerian is very similar to a description of me, so it's a useful shorthand but otherwise it's all bunk. Astrology is just apophenia.
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I see a lot of marginalized folks, who have been consistently, utterly failed by mainstream medicine, latch on to it as a place where, even if the "remedies" are utter bunk, the practitioners listen to them and treat them as people. It feels symptomatic of something a lot bigger.
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