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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 78 points 11 months ago

I mean, the sun is a star, and that one definitely affects your life

[-] ares35@kbin.social 49 points 11 months ago

earth is a planet. it might play a role, too.

oh, planets, plural. well, jupiter's massive gravity helped clear and shape the solar system, and the planets (except mercury) align to its orbital plane, not the sun's 'equator'.

[-] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

also stars helped people to navigate

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Also there are tons of people who do give in to astrology that do effect your life by their reacting in different ways to how others read those signs.

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[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Not depending on the time of year you were born though

[-] Astrealix@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

eh, I have my birthday near midterm season every year, I'd say that's the sun's fault for being where it was when I was born.

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 33 points 11 months ago

I once saw the headline

Dog Breeds You Should NOT Get Based on Your Astrological Sign

I did not click but as an optimist, I imagined the content would be nothing but

Sign Problematic dog breed
♈ Aries Chihuahua
♉ Taurus Chihuahua
♊ Gemini Chihuahua
♋ Cancer Chihuahua
♌ Leo Chihuahua
♍ Virgo Chihuahua
♎ Libra Chihuahua
♏ Scorpio Chihuahua
♐ Sagittarius Chihuahua
♑ Capricorn Chihuahua
♒ Aquarius Chihuahua
♓ Pisces Chihuahua
[-] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 6 points 11 months ago

I thought this was an image.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Markdown and Unicode can do cool things

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Let's just say for a moment that the placement of the planet earth at the moment of your birth actually mattered. Hell, if conscience was pulled from dark matter or dark energy at the moment of our birthday as Earth past through a certain area are the universe, that would be a cool idea.

But the problem with astrology is this assumption that our solar system is stationary and that every year, the earth nears the exact same location as your birth.

But this is entirely wrong because the sun is orbiting the super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. So even if you believed the astrology stuff, you would have to make a calendar for 230 million years.

But wait the universe is expanding and our galaxy is moving! Even after a galactic year you would still not be located at the location of your birth. Woops astrology is dumb.

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 months ago

The zodiac constallations don't even line up with their original dates anymore, for exactly the kind of reasons you described: the universe and our position in it are not stationary.

This website has a chart for the updated dates (note also that they had to add another zodiac sign because of parallax or something)

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

One thing that could have an effect is the time of year you are born because it seasonal changes. A spring baby will be exposed to more sunlight than a fall baby in the first 6 months of life outside the womb, and the opposite for the second 6 months.

What that actually affects other than maybe the strength of their immune system early on, I can only speculate about. But it would be a mechanism through which birth sign can be correlated to personality or health.

And if there is such a correlation, it would make sense that the signs and dates falling out of sync as the constellations process wouldn't have any effect on anything because the stars and planets don't matter as much as the seasons do.

Though it does make me wonder if there have been studies analyzing personality difference statistics based on birthdate. Though I think it would have to be based on full birthdate (year included) due to year to year weather variations, as well as location dependent due to geographical weather variations. Like if there is such a correlation, it's probably stronger in Canada than California.

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[-] Insig@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I feel like a random one should say, "your going to have a bad day"

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I was expecting it under "cancer"

[-] Masculinum@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

That's such an aquarius thing to post

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Libra: A big promotion is just around The corner for someone much more talented than you

-Weird Al

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[-] callyral@pawb.social 15 points 11 months ago

pretty sure the earth is a planet and it does affect my life

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

The stars and planets affect the lives of astronomers every day though.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not to be that guy... But stars and planets definitely have the potential to affect all of our lives, just not in any positive w-- the sun goes supernova

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[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Most stars (comparatively), I'm pretty sure there's one pretty close to us that lights up the only half the world at a time, that one might be more relevant.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

My favorite thing is that astrologers are working with a 'zodiac' of stars which is so old, the stars have changed position in the sky and their zodiacal charts aren't even accurate if you just up.

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

Also IIRC there should be thirteen astrological signs but that number was unpopular so the charts were fudged to make them fit twelve. So they aren't accurate for any age.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

?Ophiuchus is one of the thirteen constellations that cross the ecliptic.[65] It has sometimes been suggested as the "13th sign of the zodiac". However, this confuses zodiac or astrological signs with constellations.[66] The signs of the zodiac are a twelve-fold division of the ecliptic, so that each sign spans 30° of celestial longitude, approximately the distance the Sun travels in a month, and (in the Western tradition) are aligned with the seasons so that the March equinox always falls on the boundary between Pisces and Aries.[67][68] Constellations, on the other hand, are unequal in size and are based on the positions of the stars. The constellations of the zodiac have only a loose association with the signs of the zodiac, and do not in general coincide with them.[69] In Western astrology the constellation of Aquarius, for example, largely corresponds to the sign of Pisces. Similarly, the constellation of Ophiuchus occupies most (29 November – 18 December[70]) of the sign of Sagittarius (23 November – 21 December). The differences are due to the fact that the time of year that the Sun passes through a particular zodiac constellation's position has slowly changed (because of the precession of the Earth's rotational axis) over the centuries from when the Babylonians originally developed the Zodiac.[71][72]

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[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

That's not true! They can soothe your mind while watching them, they could light your path on a very very dark night in the wilderness, they help you navigate, they're a nice hobby for some people, even a profession for some. Boom! QED mate!

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Not true, I will travel to view a solar eclipse, therefore at least one star is affecting my life.

[-] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

OMG that's such an Aquarius thing to say.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I've read before that astrology can actually be a good indicator of personality IF the person actually believes in astrology in the first place. It becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where the person models their personality after whatever they've been told they're supposed to be like. Astrology seems to just use alot of universal personality traits that probably anybody could manifest at some point in their life. So then a person who believes in it probably internalizes a few specific traits as "their" personality and after awhile just turn to that trait automatically.

No idea how true it actually is, but it seemed to make some amount of sense. It could potentially be useful if you're dealing with a person who believes in astrology, but it's such a random thing that it'd be just as useful to study Myers-Briggs personality types.

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[-] switches@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

a capricorn made this smh

[-] infreq@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Actually, this planet affects my life every day.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

How could they? They're not real and the earth is flat

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[-] TheSanSabaSongbird 6 points 11 months ago

Man, there sure are a lot of smart people in this thread!

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[-] AmberPrince@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

But what about if Mercury is in retrograde?

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Mercury in your Gatorade will have a definite impact on your life.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Dinosaurs have been put on notice.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Mine told me I am the true lord of the dance, no matter what those idiots at work say.

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

i love reading daily astrology columns.

i can never remember what i am supposed to do so i just read those

so much easier than task lists

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

If I’m bored with a newspaper, I specifically read all but mine. Helps to prevent any subconscious influence it might have on me.

Or I read the previous newspaper and rate how many of the 11 could apply for the past day/week.

[-] sock@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

found the virgin

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

I can't even with how virgo this is

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You won't be saying that when Earth drifts into the path of a gamma ray burst.

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