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Astrology and Spirituality

The very first post on this site is a post about the Catholic church's hypocritical rejection of astrology. I've also written elsewhere that I think a lot of what is in the Christian Bible is not really rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ but is more about other people projecting onto him what they wished to see. I'm not a huge fan of religion but I've thought a lot about what constructive purpose it can or does play in society when it's, you know, going well and not some awful debacle. I think what it TRIES to do (and probably mostly fails at) is deal with a person's inner reality. Whatever your earliest, formative life experiences are, we all have biases and blind spots, like those cats raised by scientists to only see either horizontal or vertical lines but not both. I write elsewhere about my hypothesis that women get raised to have a private sphere life and men get raised to have a public sphere life and my opinion that this is a large part ...

Quick and Dirty Romantic Compatibility

So I once had this get rich quick scheme where I was going to offer to do a quick and dirty romance compatibility astrological thing and market it to heterosexual women, in part because it's usually women who are into astrology and in part because this logistically works better for a potential hetero relationship if the person snooping is the woman rather than the man. As noted previously, the Sun moves roughly one degree each day of the year , ergo all you need is someone's birthday -- Month and Day -- to know where their Sun is in their chart to within about a degree. You do NOT need a birth year and you do NOT need a place of birth. This is significant because aspects are considered exact if it is within one degree of exact. NO OTHER astrological body will get you this level of accuracy from JUST knowing the birthday. The Moon changes signs like every 2.5 days, so every two to three days, you may not even know what SIGN it is in. The Rising Sign changes signs every ...