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Why I Believe In Astrology

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
3 min readApr 12, 2023

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It’s not what you think, I think

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The stars within ourselves

Human beings have stumbled upon many discoveries. They also have invented things. Sometimes, they combine a discovery and an invention.

This is the case of how we learned to observe the stars.

Then we mixed the whole hot mess together like a burning star system.

But, there are sucky black holes throughout.

We have invented many religions, myths, and memes. Like money. Or, an economy. Then, we give them power. I have always been extremely skeptical about the idea that the positions of planets and stars as viewed from Earth affect us.

But, at the same time, I am absolutely certain that our human psychology DOES empower ideas. Then they take on a kind of control in and of themselves.

For me, then, all this talk of astrology being pure bunk is pure bunk.

Astrology doesn’t work because you were born on a Wednesday when mercury was retrograde and Scorpio was rising. No. That’s a bunch of Taurus.

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Written by Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.

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