Reagan was an astrology guy. He had a white house astrologer to advise him. Our own rasputin 😊
IIRC it was mostly his wife who talked to the astrologer. Doesn't change the fact that Ron was a pudding-brained racist homophobic piece of shit rapist
Lol of course the Hollywood president had an astrologer.
I've heard or seen that joke around before, and it cracks me up every time
Personally speaking, yes. I understand it can be fun, I guess, but in this case you're denying a person housing due to their star sign.
And what's fucked is most likely, if they had decided to let this person in, they would have turned on her, because if you're at a point where you're seriously discussing "what if we took a chance on this person despite them being a Capricorn?", you're primed to dislike them.
The majority of folks into astrology are like that. I would say the split in my mind is between folks who assign meaning to it after the fact ("oh, I forgot Steve was a Jupiter rising in his sun sign, that's why he banged the Pilates instructor!"), who I find mostly harmless. If it helps you make sense of things, have at.
But the type of person posted here, and whom I've met two of IRL, are the kind who let it determine their choices. And that's much more dangerous and scary. Putting decisions like housing or, in one memorable meeting, if we should support a particular candidate, into the hands of uncaring balls of hydrogen and the vagaries of when someone's parents fucked is not ok.
There's a lot of these type of people these days. I've noticed a lot of this kind of "zealot-approaching" flavor of astrology particular in younger (early 20s) women lately. My partner works at a store that only employs women and she talks about how weird and common it is with the younger girls (we're in our late 20s/early 30s). And I have a few younger clients in my work that are on the same wave. they'll be talking about people and invariable 3 seconds in they'll bring up their sign and try to rationalize their behavior to it.
They tried it with me and was like "oh you like money cuz your capricorn" and I just laughed.
The whole thing is literally about judging people you don't know based off something they can't control, this type of shit is only gonna be more common if people keep treating it like a joke.
I agree that most people who are into it are harmless but it's still stinkin-thinkin, putting people into weird categories that somehow predict who they are is just never a good thing. I've also dealt with enough of the harmless ones that think they know who you are based on your fucking sign, it's apparently a very saggitarius thing to not like astrology so there's no winning.
A manager at an old workplace once took me aside and asked me what my sign was. When I said my sign, completely confused, she said "Oh that's why. We'll never get along because you're (my sign)." Anyway from that point on until i stopped working there, I was as nice and polite as I could possibly be to her and the looks she gave me were priceless. Could tell she genuinely was completely perplexed.
I've become an Astrology Bad dude, and I'm not even the person being denied housing here
I don't know if that's also a common thing in the US but there's also plenty of hacks scamming people out of their money with astrology. Also rich celebrity astrologers.
Obligatory comment saying astrology should be destroyed in its entirety. No, I will not explain why because of how obvious of a scam it is.
"In this house we only allow INTJ, Ophiuchus, that identify with the Wizard Jungian Archetype!"
Real crystal heads know that the Chinese astrological signs are the authentic shit. We pump out runs of the same baby for a year then switch molds.
Yea? How bout I get a couple of my Aquarius buddies and come thru for a tour anyway
I'M A
FORKLIFT OPERATOR
BORN IN
JANUARY
AND THAT MEANS
DON'T MESS WITH MY WOMAN
OR YOU'LL GET A BOOT IN YER ASS!!!
You mean to say this guy is making decisions based sun signs? Buddy, you need to get under the hood a little and consider the impact of rising signs and moon placements before you get hurt... Also, never telling anyone my birthday again.
When prophecy fails: If your framework utterly collapses in the face of data and scrutiny, just add variables in a couple extra dimensions to make it even more unverifiable. Then keep underlying belief.
This is how the Romans ended up worshipping hundreds and hundreds of gods.
Astrology can be super fun, but also opens the door to easily exploit people like any structure put around spirituality.
I’ve met people like this irl and holy shit it’s a trip.
