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Is Astrology a real thing? I mean i've had few readings abd they all tend to be close to my current reality.
That is something to watch out for.🤔

Fecone 5 July 5
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Hmm, astrology is pseudoscience. Of course, many natural phenomena like the Full Moon, the tides, and the tides can affect our health or moods. For instance, I can't concentrate during a full moon, but I don't know what that means. But the location of our constellations has nothing to do with destiny, choice of partner, or job, guys. I don't like astrology. I don't want to believe in it. But I like the interpretation of dreams. Dreams are a reflection of our reality. When interpreted and understood, some cases and ideas from dreams can help us solve problems. Have you ever wondered about the meaning of dream about hurricane or dreams about blood? It's important. It's how our brain tries to get something out of our subconscious to the outside.

Yeah, astrology, dreams, numerology, clairvoyance, tarot, and all those stuff are such a mystery to me. I believe in them, but sometimes I get confused. For example, recently, I had a dream about running from the police, and I didn't understand what it should mean. I haven't seen the police lately, nor have I done anything wrong. It seems that our subconscious mind is like a player, and sometimes it plays a movie that doesn't make sense whatsoever.

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Astrology is not a science nor is it real. It was invented by philosophers around the third century BCE to con rulers into hiring them for important advisory posts in their courts. Of course ignorant rulers considered them wise because they "consulted the stars" to give them commonsense (and more often outrageously stupid based in personal greed) answers. Astrology allows the practitioner to fleece the ignorant by using generalized "predictions" which most often could apply to anyone and is cases where more detailed "predictions" are required for a specific mark by studying the information available on said victim. it is no different from the Gypsy palm readers who con victims out of tens of thousands of dollars telling them the money is "cursed" and to bring it to them to be "cleansed" then wrap it up in a piece of cloth, say a few words of hocus pocus then instruct the victim to take the money home and wait three days sleeping with it under their pillow. Of course when the victim finally does unwrap this money they find out they just gave this conartist a three day head start and they have already opened up shop in another state looking for the next chump.
Astrologers, palm readers, priests, snake oil salesmen, Nigerian scammers, love scammers and all the rest should be treated with contempt as the criminals they are...

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Ohferpetessake, in the 70's i did both this and Tarot.
The Truth is, you can pretty much say Anything & people will nod in agreement.
Numerous studies have confirmed this!

hmm "say anything and people will nod in agreement".
That just verifies that it could be false, or true nevertheless

@Fecone ummmm..same principle in "daily astrology " columns in newspapers, use generalizations. If doing such in person, watch closely for "tells" & run with it.
I could have made A LOT of money, but flim-flam makes me uncomfortable.

@Fecone the way it works, if you dig into the psychology of it is, astro readers say a variety of things that might reasonably happen to that person of age and general appearance, then that person over time reconstructs what was said in line with their experience, over mapping it so to speak, and then impresses people at dinner parties about how the reader said this and that, and wow this and that kind of came true. It's what people do: reconstruct memories into a new narrative that suits them.

Consider also this contradiction: if a future can be predicted, then it must be predetermined. If it's predetermined then you have no free will and are just living out some plan by some external force. Problem is, people always say they believe in free will. It's very uncool to say that our lives are all predetermined, even those addicted to tarot, astrology, and tea leaf reading etc. When they try to rationalise by saying it is reading possible futures, then they land in all kinds of logical problems. Oh, possible futures? Then how many possible futures do we have? How do you know being told about a possible future won't change that possible future? And so on.

The best fortune teller you'll ever meet is yourself. We look ahead, and we know the truth of our lives. We can't know dramatic unexpected things of course, and nor can a fortune teller.

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to quote a wise man

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I explain it in this guided meditation experience but have other vid's going into other aspects of the theory.

i so have to watch this video.

@Fecone Please tell me what you thought when you do.

What's up with his jiggling his balls with his leg every 5 seconds?

@AnneWimsey I'm unsure what that was about. Nerves from the firework booms, I guess.

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Let me be the first of I expect many on this site to tell you that astrology is all crap. The 'closeness' of readings is usually readers applying the principle of cold reading, intuitively reading people and making up crap to match.

Interesting!

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