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Feminism and Astrology
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This is very silly. Not everything needs to fit into a "materialst/anti-materialist" box.
What about reading works of fiction? Playing card games? Watching movies? Studying languages? Learning a skill? None of these have anything to do with materialism or production. Are the people engaging in them, "anti-materialist"? Are the activities "anti-materialist"?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with astrology, its a fun hobby like anything else.
There's nothing anti-materialist in fiction because it doesn't claim predictive capabilities on reality, there are anti-materialist things in astrology because it claims predictive capabilities on reality.
Lots of works of fiction make claims about reality.
How seriously those are taken is up to the person. You're treating astrology in a way that most people interested in it don't. Its less of a religion and more like a magic 8-ball.