You know what’s cooler than astrology? Ancient cults. I mean the kind of thing where a group or city state has a patron god/goddess and then they steal and subjugate the gods/goddesses of others. I don’t really believe in this stuff of course, but I just think it would be kinda cool to have a mascot to rally around and give us the courage we need to smite our enemies. Like, imagine if we had a cult based around Artimpasa or Inanna and then offered up transphobes, chuds, megachurch pastors, etc. to her as a blood sacrifice. That would be way more cool and useful than some astrology nonsense, and if I ever met another trans girl who was ready to brutally slay our enemies and fill the streets with rivers of their blood in order to bring honor to our goddess/cult, I’d totally be

Sorry comrade. I hope that you’re better off without them and find someone better for you.

(aside, fuck astrology) ( I legitimately would not date someone who’s into astrology, I can’t fuck with someone that unmoored from reality. Especially when inability to discern material realities is a liability that can get people killed. None of the people I know into astrology are taking covid seriously anymore, they’re so used to magical thinking that they just can’t look at the science to defend themselves against the capitalist gaslighting even though they’re principled leftists)

How does astrology explain two different people with the same birthday having radically different personalities and traits?

I feel like it was used as a cop out for transphobia with lesbians Ive interacted with. Just say some woo shit to hide your bigotry, like sure Jan I’m certain the reason you wrinkle your nose at a whole room of trans people is because Mercury was in retrograde

I pretty much think anyone that takes it seriously is going to need to be hardcore reeducated. At least they’re not cutting open animals to find where the poop is in their intestines to see if they’ll be lucky today anymore.

Whenever people tell me something about astrology (implying they believe in it) I can’t help but start thinking in a societally critical descriptive way. Like Disco Elysium describes social phenomena or Modernists in general.

“Astrology is the belief that someone’s personality, habits, and even fate are written in the stars when they are born, and their relationships between each other depend on which of 12 calendar periods they were born in. These correspond to the star shapes present in the plane of the sun as it moves around the earth according to an influential Greek that popularized the idea. When we learned that the earth actually orbited the sun, very little changed in astrology. While astrology has historically been a very complex topic, the modern Western version is mostly about advice columns from unaccredited hacks and explaining problems in romantic relationships. The person I am talking to is trying to socialize with me through their appreciation of astrology but I’m just trying to get them to come to a meeting organized by communists.”

I personally think astrology is destructive to the people who take part in it. I see a lot of arguments along the lines of, “people have fun with it and it gives them comfort” etc. and if that’s all it was, that would be fine, but anyone who’s met someone really into astrology can see that it primes people to apply a totally illogical and incoherent framework to problems in their lives. The problem with that is that you’re never going to grow and learn as a person if you continually grab for this totally illogical tool in your emotional toolbelt every time one of life’s challenges arises. You’ll never reflect on the emotional genesis of a lot of your feelings or responses to the world if you just think, “I did that because I’m a Leo” or whatever. You’ll never get to, “I realize now that I responded to x situation negatively because y factor happens to be a trigger for me and I need to be conscious of that in the future” if you never get past “I responded to x situation negatively because mercury is in retrograde.” Overall I think it’s a toxic trend in our society that prevents people from being able to grow in a healthy way.