• lugal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

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

    • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      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.

      • lugal@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

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

          • lugal@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            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

  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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