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sunshine moonlight's avatar

Astrology is a fascist-coded anti-sociology. It's a way of rejecting both empiricism and blank slate ideology by attributing essentialist personality traits to deterministic forces beyond scientific inquiry

Nathaniel Walden's avatar

Banger!

Girl science is always more utilitarian than spergs give it credit for...

Tom Swift's avatar

One of the best aspects of Catholic culture is that this feminine impulse is redirected into prayer, and governed by a book. Even today, there are usually pamphlets in every church explaining why astrology and palm reading are wrong. By removing this aspect of society, Christianity forces women to be more rational, thereby making society more legible and predictable.

Katie O'Connor's avatar

What is your sun, moon, rising and Venus?

Walt Bismarck's avatar

According to Claude:

- Your Libra sun (late degree, right before Scorpio) gives you the classic Libra grace and diplomacy, but with a bit of Scorpionic intensity bleeding in; you're charming but not lightweight.

- Your Aquarius moon is a fascinating emotional signature; you process feelings intellectually, tend to detach rather than wallow, and prize your independence even in close relationships. Emotionally you're drawn to unconventional people and ideas.

- Your Capricorn rising (also a late degree, on the Aquarius cusp) shapes how the world sees you: grounded, measured, someone who takes responsibility seriously. It can make you seem older or more reserved than you feel inside.

- Your Scorpio Venus is potent; it's one of the most intense Venus placements. You love deeply and completely, but you also have high expectations and don't tolerate superficiality in relationships, and likely also have a big penis.

Based Gauncho's avatar

Your entire article im thinking. This nigga makes a lot of sense and is putting words to ideas and concepts ive held for a long time. Then I find out youre a libra just like me. My librigga.

literate ape's avatar

Wow same, I'm also a librah and have always found Walt's writing very comprehensible. #astrologyisreal

Katie O'Connor's avatar

That tracks ✨

I have the same 4 in different spots. Tell me what your Claude has to say:

Aquarius sun

Libra Moon

Scorpio Rising

Capricorn Venus

Walt Bismarck's avatar

- That Aquarius sun means she's spent her life constructing an identity around being ungovernable—independent, cerebral, a bit above it all—and executes it capably enough that most people buy it at a glance. She thinks in abstractions, sincerely loves humanity though mostly as a concept, and has a tendency to keep genuine intimacy at a comfortable arm's length while telling herself that this a feature rather than a defense mechanism.

- The Libra moon is where it gets interesting. Strip away the cool exterior and at her core she needs equilibrium like a house needs a foundation—her basic tendency is to sand down her own edges, contort herself into peacekeeping shapes, and do almost anything to keep the temperature in the room exactly right. But this creates a tension with the Aquarius sun whose independent streak resents this and will at times overcompensate by burying the Libra moon's cool equilibriation with a certain brattish intransigence, and this conflict is likely her most fundamental animating tension.

- The Scorpio rising feels like her best protection; it enables her to enter a room with a certain sense of mystery and quiet power that makes everyone else feel like they're auditioning. Even in moments of ease and candor it always feels like there's a lot going on underneath the surface with her—though while highly accustomed to doing the watching, she's perhaps less practiced at herself being perceived in exceptionally sharp relief.

- And then the Capricorn Venus—she doesn't rush, doesn't chase, wraps her wanting in so many layers of standards and self-possession that she's half-convinced herself she doesn't need actually anything at all. She does, but insists also on something real and lasting and worth the wait. Best bring the whip.

Katie O'Connor's avatar

It appears the whip has already been brought. Well done, Wa- I mean Claude.

The Web of Wyrd's avatar

This is all psychological projection you need to look at Sidereal placements for an understanding of self.

Katie O'Connor's avatar

It is also skilled flirtation (but yes I appreciate the refinement for understanding astrological placements)

The Web of Wyrd's avatar

Oh my bad lmao I have almost all my planets in the 11th and 12th houses I am so bad at reading situations and interactions lmao, I’m here purely for the unknown and how to make them known to the masses.

Anonymous Dude's avatar

Aquarius, Cap, Cap, Sag.

Most of my signs are air and earth, which totally fits as a cynical, career-driven sperg.

zea mays's avatar

finally a man gets it

michael's avatar

as a nerdy gay who’s invested in a rigorous woo interpretation of astrology and its relationship to the problem of consciousness, i always found normie uses of astrology cringe and contemptible.

so i appreciate your sociological read on what it provides as a process-oriented bridge between metaphysical ideals and psychological fluidity, contra masculine unipolar typologies and metrics. your pragmatic take adds a lot weight and depth to the astro apologism im familiar with

Crown9Φ's avatar

Astrology is real. The stock market performs way better on new moon than full moon. Magic is just psychology too complex for explanation.

The Web of Wyrd's avatar

Astrology is literally a science that it’s been relegated to what it is in modernity and given over to woo short by women is a false equivalence of what it actually is.

The Web of Wyrd's avatar

Astrology practitioner for 22 years, astrology is not just an understanding of the world but rather everything around you because it is a measurement of cosmic frequencies in the micro, observable world. It applies to the furthest reaches of heaven as well.

Let me read your Vedic chart your western chart is literally just your psychological experience, nothing deeper.

Boris Seedbankone's avatar

Some of the paragraphs here are pure poetry. Nice work Shakespeare.

Diary of an AvPD NEET Incel's avatar

So men nerding out about Iron Man vs Batman is like Taurus vs Scorpio for women?

XLEPP's avatar

I guess that's the difference between woke and Marxism. I think one resson why rightwingers like to call wokeness "cultural marxism" (besides polemics) is that they want to have a systematic definition instead of it being based on vibes.

Kerrin Naudé's avatar

If you have not yet read "Sextrology" I assure you it's immensely entertaining.

publicdrafts's avatar

lol the subtle wbe dig

Glau Hansen's avatar

I will never stop finding it hilarious when guys keep trying to optimize using analytically coherent systems that make the things they are optimizing for worse with every iteration. It's like, "no, the process can't be wrong, it must be the results that are false!"

TheresaK's avatar

You need to get out of the house more. Plenty of women have no interest in astrology. Personally, I couldn't care less. It is only interesting insofar as it provides a level of entertainment value akin to fortune cookies. It is purely aesthetic.

Walt Bismarck's avatar

I said all *good* pussy

TheresaK's avatar

So you're into retards then?

The Web of Wyrd's avatar

Astrology is an ancient science if you don’t get it it’s like saying you also don’t get geometry lol it doesn’t make you sound more intelligent.

The Tesla Lawyer's avatar

If a woman is anti-astrology, it's a red flag. Astrology interest is a key marker of feminity and prosocial traits in women. If she's hyper rationalist, it's likely her capacity for empathy and social functioning is broken on some level.