[aiwv]

Yeah, it's sort of funny how much scorn people heap on astrology. I am not trying to convince anyone to take astrology seriously, but I think it's foolish to condescend to those who take an interest in it. The archetypes that astrology describes are undeniably true if you bother to read them and think about how you, yourself, and others relate to them. As a tool for forecasting what's going to happen tomorrow, it's of very dubious value. But if one thinks across longer time scales, if you are manifesting certain types of archetypal energies, and we all are, there are certain types of events: conflicts, romance, etc. that are very likely to happen and others that are quite unlikely to happen.

On a meta level, it's also interesting simply because so many people find that they strongly relate to their chart, even when they really do not want to believe that their time of birth has any meaning at all. You don't have to believe that there is actually some physical influence of the position of the stars to be curious about why it has that effect. Is it just one of the greatest magic tricks of all time? If so, it might be interesting to understand how that works from a human psychological perspective.