Capricorn's are hard workers pisces of
weepy messes a Scorpios are psychopaths
astrology isn't new it's a pseudoscience
that studies the effect of celestial
objects on humans
dating back to around the second
millennium BC that's around 4,000 years
of jokes about geminis
there are many strands of astrology but
contemporary Western astrology is most
likely the type that you're familiar
with Western astrology revolves around
horoscopes and the 12 signs OD AK which
uses the person's date and time of birth
along with location to be some natal
chart that supposedly explains an
individual's personality asks you to
love life and work and can predict
what's in store for them
astrology has been most popular in the
last 40 years there was the whole 1970s
Age of Aquarius
but thanks to internet formats like
memes the concepts that power astrology
have been boiled down to easily
digestible and shareable snippets that
cause it to blow up on an unprecedented
scale over the last three years its
spirituality with a digital twist major
mainstream publications now cover a
strategy and you can buy zodiac themed
maker jewelry clothes and books at any
high street retailer dedicated
astrological social media pages command
thousands of followers but is our
obsession going too far in January
dating @bumble announced users could
filter matches via star signs and in
April a post went viral that saw someone
rejected from joining a shared house in
Portland because they were a Capricorn
the 2019 season of love island UK
released a list of the contestants star
signs so that curious viewers could work
out who were the most compatible so
what's the problem isn't it just a bit
of fun well astrology like myers-briggs
or any pseudoscience tests that fails
objective attempts to measure their
accuracy is not rooted improvable fact
because if taken too far it can lead to
discrimination like preventing certain
star signs from accessing housing or
ruling them out as romantic options
equally astrology tends to be most
attracted to those in vulnerable
situations a 1982 study showed that
people turn to astrology when they were
highly stressed
therefore it's easy for storage II to
become a
her monistic crutch the directs on every
decision and also leaves them open to
being taken advantage on like a recent
Twitter storm over scam artists charging
people for fake birth chart readings of
course not everyone who enjoys astrology
accepts it as fact but online
discussions of astrology the sphere
where it finds the biggest platform
often like nuance and I presented in
binary black or white terms
interpretations can be useful tools for
self-reflection but they can also create
inflexible and fixed ideas of
personality that become self-fulfilling
prophecies people feel helpless to
change its ideas like I'm a tourist so
I'm naturally stubborn and I can't alter
that astrology can be harmless but as
heart pseudo-scientific faith system an
ideology that provides narrative and
meaning to human lives sure it's fun
when will light heart be matching up our
traits yet when it slips into dogma or
being presented as fact it's probably
time to stop checking what the Stars
haven't stored
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