• lugal@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Pretty sure you’re a Taurus. Tauruses do not believe in astrology. Source: I’m also a Tauraus

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      5 months ago

      Astrology is the belief that the positions of the stars have some significance for you.

      The picture is talking about our local planets, which is even dumber.

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        5 months ago

        In the astrological sense, planets are stars, too. The relative position of the planets is important.

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            Astrology dates back into antiquity long before telescopes. Stars and planets were just dots in the sky, only difference is that planets move relative to the static stars hence their name (planet means something like wanderer).

            I have heard stuff in astrology like “Mars is in the house of Taurus”. Don’t know what exactly it means but it is very important

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        Yeah but, Mars is awfully bright tonight. Explain that!

        Those who are educated amongst us know this is a clear sign that Voldemort is on the rise. To each their own, though. Go ahead and just be unprepared for the Dark Lord’s reprisal.

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    5 months ago

    Well, I mean you can probably blame Earth for a lot of issues; although I suppose it’s the population and not the planet itself.

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    Who. It’s who. Nominative, not objective. Compare and contrast:

    • He, who smelt it, dealt it
    • Him, whom the letter is for, sent to it was.

    See? Easy: Only ever use “whom” when speaking like Yoda.

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    5 months ago

    “'This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,

    when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit

    of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our

    disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as

    if we were villains on necessity; fools by

    heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and

    treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards,

    liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of

    planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,

    by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion

    of whore-master man, to lay his goatish

    disposition to the charge of a star! My

    father compounded with my mother under the

    Dragon’s Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa

    Major, so that it follows I am rough and

    lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am,

    had the maidenliest star in the firmament

    twinkled on my bastardizing.”

    —EDMUND, KING LEAR, ACT I SCENE 2

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    5 months ago

    So the pull of the full moon affects the tides and we’re mostly water. What if the planets affect our health and not our moods in very subtle ways. I doubt it, but it’s a thought.

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      The tides are not an indicator for the health of a body of water. They just move it back and forth.

      My hypothesis: the planets affect which nostril you can breathe through this night.

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        The tides are not an indicator for the health of a body of water. They just move it back and forth.

        I didn’t say it was indicator, I wondered if it affected us in ways. Having your insides move around with the tides might do subtle things. Then again, it might not.