brainpuddle
Well-known member
Here for some good discussion, and as always, more data. -puts on a lab coat and starts jotting on a clipboard while unapologetically staring at you-
Been studying on and off for about seventeen years. Went through some weird intellectual and emotional journeys about believing in a superstitious concept, but I'm quite settled into my views now. I'm very interested in its biological basis, I 100% believe that astrology is a misrepresented neurological science. Someday I'm hoping to have the resources to run tests, such as oxytocin levels in Cancers, or a study of amygdala anomalies in fire signs. In the meantime, it's been nice to see science going in that direction, albeit unrecognized as astrology, with more and more studies showing inherent biological and observed psychological differences based on season of birth, that tend to correlate with the conclusions astrology has been positing for hundreds or thousands of years.
I also probably practice differently than most of you, since for me, studying astrology has been a long running test of which aspects hold up and which don't. I completely ignore planets, I've found no apparent basis for them, and I find some of their supposed purposes in the chart redundant and needlessly obscuring. I focus on Sun/Moon/Ascendant, almost exclusively. I also believe in the Houses, mostly but not exclusively as an extension of the Ascendant, not including the planets within them. And I believe in Lilith, but within somewhat of a different framework than is typically applied to it. No planets, no nodes, no other celestial bodies. I barely **** with degrees, but I'm learning. lol So I expect a lot of the talk here will go over my head, but I hope I can contribute some good ideas anyways, from astrology as I've come to understand it.
Been studying on and off for about seventeen years. Went through some weird intellectual and emotional journeys about believing in a superstitious concept, but I'm quite settled into my views now. I'm very interested in its biological basis, I 100% believe that astrology is a misrepresented neurological science. Someday I'm hoping to have the resources to run tests, such as oxytocin levels in Cancers, or a study of amygdala anomalies in fire signs. In the meantime, it's been nice to see science going in that direction, albeit unrecognized as astrology, with more and more studies showing inherent biological and observed psychological differences based on season of birth, that tend to correlate with the conclusions astrology has been positing for hundreds or thousands of years.
I also probably practice differently than most of you, since for me, studying astrology has been a long running test of which aspects hold up and which don't. I completely ignore planets, I've found no apparent basis for them, and I find some of their supposed purposes in the chart redundant and needlessly obscuring. I focus on Sun/Moon/Ascendant, almost exclusively. I also believe in the Houses, mostly but not exclusively as an extension of the Ascendant, not including the planets within them. And I believe in Lilith, but within somewhat of a different framework than is typically applied to it. No planets, no nodes, no other celestial bodies. I barely **** with degrees, but I'm learning. lol So I expect a lot of the talk here will go over my head, but I hope I can contribute some good ideas anyways, from astrology as I've come to understand it.