Astrology brings out a different side of me cause my father was literally obsessed with it and owned a billion astrology books and constantly talked about his chart. I have no sense of it being frivolous, I’m just like, “ah yeah astrology the dork religion”— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) April 4, 2022
I was only recently exposed to how deep this rabbit hole goes, I've only been exposed to the benign or sillier side of this from pop culture. Born in China and immigrating to Australia but still growing up in a Chinese household, I thought it would be more like how the Chinese view the Chinese zodiac - Largely ceremonial. But people deeming that some others are less desirable either platonically or romantically simply because of the timing of their birth, a factor entirely out of their control, seems kinda problematic. And attributing behaviour, positive or otherwise, of themselves and others not based on human free will is probably not a good position to have.
This is starting to sound more like white people Falun Gong, lol.
I was only recently exposed to how deep this rabbit hole goes, I've only been exposed to the benign or sillier side of this from pop culture. Born in China and immigrating to Australia but still growing up in a Chinese household, I thought it would be more like how the Chinese view the Chinese zodiac - Largely ceremonial. But people deeming that some others are less desirable either platonically or romantically simply because of the timing of their birth, a factor entirely out of their control, seems kinda problematic. And attributing behaviour, positive or otherwise, of themselves and others not based on human free will is probably not a good position to have.
This is starting to sound more like white people Falun Gong, lol.