#notallgeminis

[rpattzhateshislife]

Happy Birthday to my fellow Taurus R Pattz

[albertcamusofficial]

via notallgeminis

[heiskiiwii]

Saw this on IG yesterday

Venmo | PayPal

[astrologymemesforpoliticalteens]

meme credit: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxkkkSFZg6/

[citronvanille]

100% me and my hidden hurt feelings

[gracedenton]

The strangest thing happened. I was looking at co-star late one night, reading up about all my placements and the houses they’re in and the different signs that come into my chart. It was the first time I’d properly engaged beyond the sun, moon and rising signs. I read into each of the placements and felt a very powerful sense of identification. I don’t swallow astrological theories (especially about others) wholesale, but these felt incredibly accurate.

I was navigating round the app, and I went into the settings. I don’t fully remember why. I looked at the birthdate I had set several years ago and my heart sank in horror. My date and month and birth time were correct, but rather than 1988, the year was set at 2018, possibly the year I had set up the app? Had this been incorrect the entire time? Did the app think I was a baby? A brand new human?

I changed the year to my own birth year, and re-looked at my chart and what the signs in the houses meant. It suddenly felt way off. My Mars is in Pisces meaning “I put a lot of energy into routines”, mate, I do not. The others felt vague enough to apply, but the previous placements had felt SPOT, ON. I didn’t know what to think.

A lot of people would use this as evidence that astrology is fake, but I want to resist that easy dismissal. It might say something about the fact that we ascribe meaning and hold on tightly to external theories, that we need validation and creed to live by, to add order to the internal chaos. That a lot of us have a predisposition to do this without necessarily caring what that outside influence really consists of.

But I would like to think more of myself than that. I am wary of ascribing too much meaning to astrology, but I can also use it as a means to understand myself and the people around me. Yes it might all be hooey, but that doesn’t explain why all Aries are like that.

Now that it’s a few weeks later, and I’m looking again at my chart, I guess they do still apply. I do put a lot of energy into routines, it’s just that the energy is misspent because of my inability to stick to them.

I look at my ‘day at a glance’. ‘The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts’. Hot damn. I have ‘Power in spirituality (I’m writing this piece aren’t I), social life (today I connected with my favourite Cherry), and sex & love (we’ll see when Craig gets home).’ I have ‘Trouble with routine (yep), thinking & creativity (yep), and self (always).’

Looking at ‘Today through tomorrow’ the app asks ‘Are you feeling committed to any particular idea?’ I guess I should be feeling committed to the ideas behind my PhD proposal, and this text and this weird occurrence fits into that idea however tangentially. ‘Today you’re able to make connections, it’s not magic, it’s your capacity to deal with miscommunication (huh). Focusing until you master something will serve you well right now (no kidding).’ The app tells me some Dos and Don’ts. Apparently I should do Crosswords, Reading Groups (I literally just signed up for a reading group!!), and Charades. And I shouldn’t do Dad jokes (Craig would agree), Humblebrag (accidentally did this yesterday), and Hyperbole (have I ever lived a day without it?).

The next item in my to-do list after posting this is to read Astrology Year Zero: The zodiac as collective not-joke by Lauren Oyler, which has been an open tab for a few weeks.

I also want to re-watch the video of Channing Tatum accusing The Pattern of tapping his phone because its insights were so accurate.

[little-trashes-astrology]

[warm-aries]

Get into it honeys