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> One trend that surprises me is the upturn of astrology I'm not sure astrology ever went away. Nancy Reagan famously consulted her astrologer in the 80s. It w
by UncleOxidant 4y ago
> One trend that surprises me is the upturn of astrology
I'm not sure astrology ever went away. Nancy Reagan famously consulted her astrologer in the 80s. It was big in the 60s/70s too. There may be some cyclicity to the popularity of astrology where it tends to pop up every 10 or 20 years, but we've been in a rational age for a couple of hundred years where you'd think it would've just completely gone away, but it hasn't. A lot of people are superstitious and want to look for causality where there is none even in modernity.
- wpietri 4y agoAnd I should add that it gives people a convenient language to talk about personalities and human characteristics. Clearly people find it (and other things, like ennegrams, tarot, palmistry, Myers Briggs, etc) useful as a way of structuring the vast complexity of humans in a society. I would love to have something equivalently helpful and engaging that isn't based on superstitions. But something like the Big 5 model is a mouthful of sawdust compared with the other things I mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
- mst 4y agoI find the Big 5 useful for self awareness in the large. For self awareness in the small (i.e. surfacing my subconscious view of a specific situation) I've always been fond of rune casting, or in a pinch a dice roll or coin flip. In the sense that if I'm faced with a choice between two options, I flip a coin for it, and immediately upon seeing the results can tell if that's the 'right' answer or not.
- cole-k 4y ago> There may be some cyclicity to the popularity of astrology where it tends to pop up every 10 or 20 years Must be because of a comet that passes by on that cadence.