#Current astrology chart series#
Instead, it consists of a series of prompts meant to help readers interrogate notions about themselves and make practical decisions for their futures, albeit with the help of some guidelines based on patterns and myths associated with various sun, moon and rising signs. It doesn’t arbitrate exact personality traits based on astrological signs. To that end, her book isn’t prescriptive. She approaches it more as a system of encouragement toward living a life in accordance with one’s skill sets and values. Nicholas, 44, and other socially conscious astrologers, manage to sidestep the individualized self-obsession of it, which can easily venture into amateur self-analysis and endless confirmation bias.
The rise of astrology, especially among the internet generation, has been widely chronicled (it travels because we love archetypes, it’s easier to understand because we love apps, it’s popular because we are all miserable).īut Ms. Over time, I have found it to be a useful organizing system toward self-definition and a fun way to deploy memes. (Yes, she’s a Gemini.)īut I never gave it much thought until I came out as queer a few years ago, and found that my new dating scene was populated with people asking not just “What’s your sign?” but for my whole astrological chart. A friend of mine always says that “astrology is fake until it’s real” - that is, until it confirms a presupposition or dovetails with a future outcome. Many things are both, but astrology seems to bear the brunt of all this ire. I’ve heard two main criticisms of astrology: that it’s fake and that it’s narcissistic.
Nicholas’s words still covered me in a sheen of being known.Īnd being known, or at least, being treated as knowable and worth knowing, is the most comforting thing in the universe. Inasmuch as astrology is a chicken-and-egg scenario - will I experience changes in my relationship with my parents and in my home because of Saturn or because I’m 28 and my lease is almost up, who is to say? - Ms.