They are generic. They are shallow. According to this pile of shit astrology website I just googled, as a recently-restored Capricorn, I enjoy "hot, simple food, history, not being pressured by others, having plenty of unconditional love, and expensive gemstones. I also dislike "being teased" and "loneliness. Like Randi shows, a horoscope can literally be given to anyone stupid enough , and they will read into it whatever they want in order to feel like there's some cosmic grandpa up there, ready to give you a hug and tell you it'll all be okay.
And that you like fun! And have an aversion to being set on fire! There's no grandpa. There are just stars. Lots of them. Burning matter. Ignorant particles. Maybe it sucks, but please—let's all be quiet about it and just admire them for what they are: gorgeous things that couldn't care less that we exist. Astrology is just a voluntary form of bigotry. It has just as much usefulness in the real world as Pokemon cartoons as Veterinary training videos.
I just have a message for every moron who has ever said "I hate all gemini's" or "Me and Libra's don't get along" or anything so simple minded and dumb as that. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. If we can set modern judgments aside and learn the language of the ancient astrologers—a language that is now newly available due to the recent revival of classical texts—we may discover lost insights.
The ancients looked to the sky for clues about why things happened in the material world around them. Astrology had its heyday in the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period, an era that took place between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century CE. These ancient astrologers based their interpretations on centuries of observations recorded by the Mesopotamians who came before them. They kept careful records of astronomical phenomenon, looking for correlations between what happened in the sky above them and the material world around them.
Today, modern psychology has cast astrology as a fantastical way that people of the past project the workings of their minds onto the environment around them. This interpretation leaves far too much wiggle room for astrology to simply sound like affirmations of what people want to hear about themselves and think about the world.
Even worse, the nurturing approach psychologists take has polluted modern astrology with watered-down interpretations that seek to protect their clients. Where is the trust in that? With the feel-good, pop-psychology variety of astrology growing like fungal spores throughout the millennial covens of the internet, both believers and skeptics are cause for concern.
But in the past 20 years, traditional astrological texts have been translated into modern languages for the first time. These texts come from the same scientists who produced the first analog computer and principles of geometry that we still use today.
Modern astrology may be overrun with mushy hocus-pocus thanks to conflations with psychology, but newly accessible ancient astrological methods could produce a revival in the power and credibility of the craft.
That might be because sun-signs astrology is a recent creation designed to appeal to mass audiences. Pop astrology was born in the late 19th century during the boom in new-age exploration, and was then fueled by developments in psychology in the 20th century. The notion that your sun sign indicates your character was popularized by esotericist Alan Leo in England in the s. He was part of a group called the Theosophical Society that scoured spiritual traditions of all sorts looking for wisdom that would help society get to the next stage of development.
His writing garnered enough of an audience to provoke several legal battles in the s for unlawfully practicing fortunetelling. The sun-sign approach to astrology continued to grow in popularity through newspaper columns in the first half of the 20th century and boomed when New Age went mainstream in the s.
When modern science was making humanity look smaller and more insignificant than ever, people found it reassuring to think of their personalities as being reflected in the stars. Jung, who created the psychological categories of introversion and extroversion and formed the basis for the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, placed astrology on par with mythology in explaining the workings of the human psyche. As far as he was concerned, it was all just in our minds. People who claim that astrology as practiced in its current form is based on thousands of years of tradition are wrong.
So now, it transpires that you probably aren't from the star sign you think you are from, and everything you and I were ever told about all a lie. Horoscopes, also known as lies. Credit: someone who won't want the credit. You see, these star signs were set in stone over 2, years ago, around the time when fiction was popularly purported to be fact. This is over 1, years before Nostradamus was knocking around.
TheLADbible could not ask him for his opinion. Credit: Topcount. Things have changed over 2, years and apparently stars you were supposed to be born in have shifted, and now the dates are messed up. This actually means roughly 86 percent of us who thought we knew our star sign actually don't.
Russell Grant's been lying to us for years, the absolute lizard.
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