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The celestial objects probably have nothing to do with it besides serving as convenient and consistent identifiers, but why wouldn't the time of year of a perso

by Lammy 3y ago

The celestial objects probably have nothing to do with it besides serving as convenient and consistent identifiers, but why wouldn't the time of year of a person's birth have an effect on their development? Like if a toddler is of the age for first words in summer where long daylight and warm weather encourages interaction with more people than just immediate family vs being that age in winter where short cold days are often spent inside around the same few people. For a personal example I was a """gifted kid""" in public school a.k.a. almost a year older than many of my classmates thanks to October birthday just after the cutoff date for each school year enrollment. Also a lot of anti-astrology screeds have an air of “I don't hate women, I just hate everything women like” lol

f6v 3y ago
> why wouldn't the time of year of a person's birth have an effect on their development? Because whether your parents can provide you with quality nutrition and good education (among 10000 other factors) has much bigger impact.
goku12 3y ago
> Like if a toddler is of the age for first words in summer where long daylight and warm weather encourages interaction with more people In that case, we need to look at more than just the time. As somebody else pointed out, we need to consider the Earth latitude where the person is born - since that affects the length of daylight. Similarly, we need to consider the pandemic for babies born during that time - since the longer daylight would have made no impact on their isolation. Despite all that, I have never seen anyone consider anything more than time for astrology. > Also a lot of anti-astrology screeds have an air of “I don't hate women, I just hate everything women like” lol It's easy to push off anti-astrology arguments as misogynistic. However, many statements here give a hint that astrology may be more prevalent among the female folk. What if that trend really exists? There are so many practices that are biased by gender - it may be worth studying that possibility. My personal experience though, is different. I'm from a society where belief in astrology is biased by the generation you belong to, rather than the gender.

by Lammy 3y ago

f6v 3y ago

> why wouldn't the time of year of a person's birth have an effect on their development? Because whether your parents can provide you with quality nutrition and good education (among 10000 other factors) has much bigger impact.

goku12 3y ago

> Like if a toddler is of the age for first words in summer where long daylight and warm weather encourages interaction with more people In that case, we need to look at more than just the time. As somebody else pointed out, we need to consider the Earth latitude where the person is born - since that affects the length of daylight. Similarly, we need to consider the pandemic for babies born during that time - since the longer daylight would have made no impact on their isolation. Despite all that, I have never seen anyone consider anything more than time for astrology. > Also a lot of anti-astrology screeds have an air of “I don't hate women, I just hate everything women like” lol It's easy to push off anti-astrology arguments as misogynistic. However, many statements here give a hint that astrology may be more prevalent among the female folk. What if that trend really exists? There are so many practices that are biased by gender - it may be worth studying that possibility. My personal experience though, is different. I'm from a society where belief in astrology is biased by the generation you belong to, rather than the gender.