Do people consult Astrologers?

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1. I just see it as a scam.

   “Today you’ll experience things” – now give me some money

2. They are either lying or they are mentally ill. However con men, and women, utilise platforms like tiktok to ply their charlatanism to take your money using astrology, yes.

3. Only when I’m out of those folded paper fortune tellers, magical beans, and talking sheep

4. The gullible still do.

5. Yes people that have no common sense

6. What else are you on the fence about? And while we’re here, do you need any magic beans? I’ve just had a new shipment.

7. https://youtu.be/L9ynufrbj48

8. My mother used to do it partly for the lulz.

9. I’ve never been able to understand how people believe birthdays (and places) influence personality/choices/the future. Too many people would be too similar if this were the case. There is no mechanism for how and no evidence

   Mediums are also nonsense but there’s enough ambiguity around the details of death that I can at least imagine the straws being clutched

10. And every astrologer is always different from the other. No two say the same thing

11. Years ago I was at a house party where it got to that time of night when everyone’s sitting around chilling, and during the conversation some random girl that half of us had never met before pointed in turn to everyone in the room and told us our star sign, and among a roomful of 15 or 20 people she got a couple wrong but then told them, you’re on the cusp of x/y and got that right… I’ve never been able to figure out how she did it, other than believing she must have been fae

    It freaked us all out, house party was over, lol… my next memory of that night is a bunch of us getting chased by horses out of a pitch-black field where we’d been stargazing

    Hallucinogens may or may not have been involved

    Predicting the future based on the position of the stars when/where you were born is like making human sacrifices to the gods to ensure a good harvest, primitive unscience

12. Some look at the daily horoscope in the paper, but I don’t think many pay to consult an astrologer.

13. Never been into it but don’t really have too much of an issue with those who do. I’ve seen people use it in their private homes and it has been a good tool for discussing issues in their life and that kind of thing. I’ve also been people get a great sense of relief when all is lost, particularly when they can’t get their head straight following a traumatic event and that kind of thing. If it works in that case then so be it.

    Another thing is that a lot of people see it as a bit of fun. Most people I’ve met don’t actually believe it to any great extent.

    I do have an issue with this though: some people do believe it to the point that they literally profile people and make decisions based on it. As somebody who doesn’t care for it, I’ve found it bizarre in the past when I’ve mt people and some of the first conversations we’ve had were about it. Saying things like “ahh, so you’re X, Y, and Z a person, I see” and literally judge everything based on that which I find totally bizarre. At least it’s a good sign to… get out of there.

14. I always found it amazing that giant balls of luminous plasma, light years away from earth, have a direct correlation as to the things that happen to you everyday based on its position, in an ever expanding infinite universe, depending on when your parents had sex.
    I also find it amazing that the best person to interpret the results of said configuration is someone in a tabloid newspaper with an over the top jumper with planets on it.

15. No, we aren’t American or 14 years old.

16. James Randi on astrology: https://youtu.be/3Dp2Zqk8vHw