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The picture above shows 'astrological signs' also known as 'zodiac signs' which are allotted to people based on the month/date they were born on. People believe that a person's astrological sign determines their personality, character and successes in life. People born between mid-May and mid-June are said to have the 'Gemini' astrological sign and are deemed to be 'two faced' and 'strong' just because the astrological sign and it's explanation depict so. Astrological signs are symbols which are also attached to a picture/visual (as shown above) which is referred to as the sign's representation. People are great believers of the astrological signs and go as far as planning their year around what their astrological sign brings to them during different months.

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The picture above shows the representation of a belief that the sun, moon and planets affect our past, present and future and are connected to the astrology in our life. People believe that the position of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets determine how their day/week/month is going to be coordinated with the astrological sign they belong to. People also believe that the positions of celestial objects determine if their is going to be positive or negative energy in their life when studied through the perspective of their astrological sign.

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Celestial astrology could be related to many red flags just like astrological signs. These red flags are confirmation bias, which is when people remember the incidents where vague celestial astrology turned out to be slightly accurate while ignoring all the times it was inaccurate to maintain their belief. Another red flag is ancient wisdom as people believe the concept of celestial objects affecting our life and behavior was discovered by our ancient ancestors but when we actually look into the, our ancient ancestors had no methods to do scientific research on any topic. The third red flag is mystical energy, which is said to be the energy behind the connection of celestial objects to humans, their lives and luck. The energy mentioned here cannot be seen, felt or heard making it impossible to scientifically prove the existence of.
The reason for belief connected here is emotional connection - as people are emotionally invested in learning about their celestial astrology and put time and effort into it, alongside using it as a source of hope and an explanation to their bad luck and/or behavior.
The flaw with celestial astrology is that it is a rip off for people's money as it cannot be scientifically proven and often leads to mental stress and disappointment among people who are believers.

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Astrological/zodiac signs are connected to many red flags; these are proof by verbosity, ancient wisdom, confirmation bias, confusion of correlation with causation and mystical energy.

Proof by verbosity: If you try to research about astrological signs, you will notice that the amount of information provided about the whole belief is way more than what is expected. Pseudoscience believers flood websites and articles with false information, confusing the reader and tricking him into believing that something with all this information must be true and legible when it's not.
Ancient wisdom: People believe that the belief about astrological signs has been carried from ancient times and since our ancient ancestors believed in this, it must be true which again, is a false claim considering the ancestors had no scientific knowledge to test their belief.
Confirmation bias: People who believe in astrology remember only the incidents when a vague prediction was even slightly accurate and completely ignore all the moments when it was totally inaccurate which results in confirmation bias.
Confusion of correlation with causation: Any incident that may have occurred in a specific time period where there may have been a vague astrological prediction about a similar incident results in believers connecting the two resulting in confusion with correlation and causation even when the two incidents aren't even slightly connected.
Mystical energy: There is believed to be some mystical energy behind the working of astrological signs which has never been seen, felt or heard but believers say it is present irrespective of there being no proof.

Reasons for belief of astrological signs can mainly be linked to emotional connection. People find a sense of hope in belief and following along with astrological signs and it makes them happy, causing them to solidifying their belief. Ideology is another reason for belief as people's ideology leads them into thinking that astrological signs affect our lives and well beings, thus making it important to follow.
The flaws in the belief of astrological signs are that people may get ripped off for money by people selling supplies to learn about astrological signs or about deviating a negative period caused by other astrological signs.

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The picture above shows a different branch of astrology called 'Vedic astrology'. As can be seen in the picture, Vedic astrology connects astrological beliefs with God and portrays a person's astrology to be influenced directly by god as something that doesn't affect him just mentally but also physically. Vedic astrology is believed to be the kind of astrology that helps people explore their body, their core and their chakras. Vedic astrology believes that the human body has 6 chakras and all of them are influenced by the celestial bodies/objects as well as by God. It also believes that certain changes in the position of the celestial bodies along with some changes made by God result in illnesses in humans.

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Vedic astrology connects to several red flags. Some of the red flags are Ancient wisdom - as people believe that our ancient ancestors have a huge role in learning and gathering information about Vedic astrology, confirmation bias - as people remember the coincidental incidents where there is vague connection between the Vedic astrology and an incident in their life, and mystical energy - who here is referred to as God, who influences our chakras and life.
The reason for belief in this pseudoscience is emotional connection. People are connected to the idea of God and his influence, thus believing in this pseudoscience.
The flaw in this belief is that people lose money catering to their belief and often face disappointment when things don't turn out to be the way they expected even after their consistent effort to follow this astrology. the limitations here are that people attempt to do as much as they can but for as long as they believe, they cannot figure out why things are not turning out right.

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The video attached above is a 'tutorial' on how to learn and read astrological charts and visuals. The video explains how astrological 'birth charts' can be attained from a professional and how those birth charts are capable of telling a person all about their life's past, present and future. The birth chart is based on astrological signs and birth time and then a list of determining factors about a person are attained through that information providing a person an insight into what their life is going to look like. The video teaches how the said chart should be read and what it means.

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This video contains several red flags including ancient wisdom - referred to when the astrology is talked about in general and how our ancient ancestors believed in the concept of psychology, proof by verbosity - by providing a load of information causing confusion and tricking into believing the pseudoscience and mystical energy - which is connected to how all the details in the birth chart are attained just on the basis of a person's birth date and astrological sign.
Reason for belief connected to this video is emotional connection. People are emotionally invested in astrology and tend to look at birth charts as a way to receive a guideline of what their life is going to be like, giving them a sense of hope and relief.
The limitations with this video are that it encourages people to believe in astrology and further leads them into spending money on it.

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The video attached above is based on the concept of celestial bodies affecting our astrological signs, and thus affecting our behavior, luck and mood. In the video, the narrator describes the horoscope predictions for all the astrological signs based on the changes in the positions of Uranus and Saturn. The narrator describes how this change in position will have an effect on each of the astrological signs and how the effect can be positive or negative depending on the person's astrological sign and celestial compatibility. She also describes how this change will result in stress for some people (some astrological signs) and blessings for others.

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This video is connected to several red flags including ancient wisdom - how our ancestors have taught us this concept and study, proof by verbosity - how loads of information confuses us into believing that astrology is real and celestial objects affect us severely, confusion of correlation with causation - how certain incidents are confused and correlated with astrological predictions even when they are not related at all and mystical energy - which causes us to be affected by the movement of the celestial bodies.
Reasons for belief here are ideology and emotional connection. People have an ideology which causes them to believe that celestial objects affect our lives and this ideology solidifies their belief by correlating completely unrelated things and people are emotionally invested in their beliefs, making them feel connected,
A flaw in the video is how the narrator sounds so convincing as if the celestial objects actually affect us the way she claims that they do and her way of explaining things may severely impact a young, impressionable person and trick them into believing in astrology.

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The video attached above is about the personality/person qualities of someone who has the Sagittarius astrological sign. The video claims that every person who belongs to the Sagittarius astrological sign has the 21 personal qualities that are listed in the video. The video is based on 'research' about the astrological sign, its visual picture and the people who belong to this specific astrological sign.

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This video connects to two red flags which are proof by verbosity - the video contains a lot of information which in turn confuses the viewer and tricks them into believing that the information being provided in the video is accurate, and the second red flag is confirmation bias - where even if all the aspects stated in the given video are false except one, people will remember the accurate aspect and completely ignore all the ones that were false, thus believing that the video is providing accurate information.
The reasons for belief related to this video are ideology and emotional connection. People have an ideology that every person who belongs to a specific astrological sign has similar kind of behavior/personality leading them into thinking that this video unveils that personality aspect for the people belonging to the Sagittarius astrological sign. People are also emotionally connected into believing this as it provides them with a false explanation to some people's behavior at seldom occasions.
The flaw here is that the false information is being spread in a way that it reaches a younger audience who deem the information to be true, resulting in the formation of a belief in pseudoscience like astrology.

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Astrology.com provides free daily horoscopes, online tarot readings, psychic readings, Chinese astrology, Vedic Astrology, Mayan Astrology, Numerology, Feng Shui, zodiac 101, sun sign compatibility and video horoscopes.

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The website attached above contains information regarding horoscopes, tarot card readings and compatibility between two people. It is a free website that lets you browse through to learn more about the above mentioned topics and also has a 'shop' section where you could purchase charts, tarot cards and horoscopes. The front page contains a list of astrological signs along with the dates connected to each astrological sign as a guide incase someone browsing through the website is unaware of their astrological sign.

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This website is connected to certain red flags like red herring - the website contains information that is not even related to the topic being discussed as such but guides people into purchasing products rather than getting the information they may be looking for on the website, proof by verbosity - a large amount of vague information has been presented under most of the sections making it vaguely related to every person irrespective of which astrological sign they belong to making it sound and feel believable, mystical energy - referring to the energy which connects a person to their astrological sign.
Reasons for belief connected to this website are ideology as people believe that horoscopes are accurate and connect the vague information to their daily life situations, thus further solidifying their beliefs. Another reason for belief is emotional connection as people feel a sense of hope if they already know a 'prediction of their future' and tend to move forward more prepared and with a positive attitude.
A flaw in the website is how the information is portrayed to make it seem believable to anyone who visits the site and lures them into spending money in the shopping section of the site without even realizing it.

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In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac-even if they don't exactly believe in it.

Astrology is a meme, and it's spreading in that blooming, unfurling way that memes do. On social media, astrologers and astrology-meme machines amass tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, people joke about Mercury retrograde, and categorize "the signs as ..." literally anything: cat breeds, Oscar Wilde quotes, Stranger Things characters, types of french fries. In online publications, daily, weekly, and monthly horoscopes and zodiac-themed listicles flourish.

This isn't the first moment astrology's had and it won't be the last. The practice has been around in various forms for thousands of years. More recently, the New Age movement of the 1960s and '70s came with a heaping helping of the zodiac. (Some also refer to the New Age as the "Age of Aquarius"-the 2,000-year period after the Earth is said to move into the Aquarius sign.)

In the decades between the New Age boom and now, while astrology certainly didn't go away-you could still regularly find horoscopes in the back pages of magazines-it "went back to being a little bit more in the background," says Chani Nicholas, an astrologer based in Los Angeles. "Then there's something that's happened in the last five years that's given it an edginess, a relevance for this time and place, that it hasn't had for a good 35 years. Millennials have taken it and run with it."

Many people I spoke to for this piece said they had a sense that the stigma attached to astrology, while it still exists, had receded as the practice has grabbed a foothold in online culture, especially for young people.

"Over the past two years, we've really seen a reframing of New Age practices, very much geared toward a Millennial and young Gen X quotient," says Lucie Greene, the worldwide director of J. Walter Thompson's Intelligence Group, which tracks and predicts cultural trends.

Callie Beusman, a senior editor at Broadly, says traffic for the site's horoscopes "has grown really exponentially." Stella Bugbee, the president and editor-in-chief of The Cut, says a typical horoscope post on the site got 150 percent more traffic in 2017 than the year before.

In some ways, astrology is perfectly suited for the internet age. There's a low barrier to entry, and nearly endless depths to plumb if you feel like falling down a Google-research hole. The availability of more in-depth information online has given this cultural wave of astrology a certain erudition-more jokes about Saturn returns, fewer "Hey baby, what's your sign?" pickup lines.

A quick primer: Astrology is not a science; there's no evidence that one's zodiac sign actually correlates to personality. But the system has its own sort of logic. Astrology ascribes meaning to the placement of the sun, the moon, and the planets within 12 sections of the sky-the signs of the zodiac. You likely know your sun sign, the most famous zodiac sign, even if you're not an astrology buff. It's based on where the sun was on your birthday. But the placement of the moon and each of the other planets at the time and location of your birth adds additional shades to the picture of you painted by your "birth chart."
"The kids these days and their memes are like the perfect context for astrology."
What horoscopes are supposed to do is give you information about what the planets are doing right now, and in the future, and how all that affects each sign. "Think of the planets as a cocktail party," explains Susan Miller, the popular astrologer who founded the Astrology Zone website. "You might have three people talking together, two may be over in the corner arguing, Venus and Mars may be kissing each other. I have to make sense of those conversations that are happening each month for you."

"Astrologers are always trying to boil down these giant concepts into digestible pieces of knowledge," says Nicholas. "The kids these days and their memes are like the perfect context for astrology."

Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles, and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. And that shorthand works well online, where symbols and shorthand are often baked into communication.

"Let me state first that I consider astrology a cultural or psychological phenomenon," not a scientific one, Bertram Malle, a social cognitive scientist at Brown University, told me in an email. But "full-fledged astrology"-that goes beyond newspaper-style sun-sign horoscopes-"provides a powerful vocabulary to capture not only personality and temperament but also life's challenges and opportunities. To the extent that one simply learns this vocabulary, it may be appealing as a rich way of representing (not explaining or predicting) human experiences and life events, and identifying some possible paths of coping."

People tend to turn to astrology in times of stress. A small 1982 study by the psychologist Graham Tyson found that "people who consult astrologers" did so in response to stressors in their lives-particularly stress "linked to the individual's social roles and to his or her relationships," Tyson wrote. "Under conditions of high stress, the individual is prepared to use astrology as a coping device even though under low-stress conditions he does not believe in it."

According to American Psychological Association survey data, since 2014, Millennials have been the most stressed generation, and also the generation most likely to say their stress has increased in the past year since 2010. Millennials and Gen Xers have been significantly more stressed than older generations since 2012. And Americans as a whole have seen increased stress because of the political tumult since the 2016 presidential election. The 2017 edition of the APA's survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they were significantly stressed about their country's future. Fifty-six percent of people said reading the news stresses them out, and Millennials and Gen Xers were significantly more likely than older people to say so. Lately that news often deals with political infighting, climate change, global crises, and the threat of nuclear war. If stress makes astrology look shinier, it's not surprising that more seem to be drawn to it now.

Nicholas's horoscopes are evidence of this. She has around 1 million monthly readers online, and recently snagged a book deal-one of four new mainstream astrology guidebooks sold in a two-month period in summer 2017, according to Publisher's Marketplace. Anna Paustenbach, Nicholas's editor at HarperOne, told me in an email that Nicholas is "at the helm of a resurgence of astrology." She thinks this is partly because Nicholas's horoscopes are explicitly political. On September 6, the day after the Trump administration announced it was rescinding DACA-the deferred-action protection program for undocumented immigrants-Nicholas sent out her typical newsletter for the upcoming full moon. It read, in part:

The full moon in Pisces ... may open the floodgates of our feelings. May help us to empathize with others ... May we use this full moon to continue to dream up, and actively work toward, creating a world where white supremacy has been abolished.

Astrology offers those in crisis the comfort of imagining a better future, a tangible reminder of that clichéd truism that is nonetheless hard to remember when you're in the thick of it: This too shall pass.

In 2013, when Sandhya was 32 years old, she downloaded the Astrology Zone app, looking for a road map. She felt lonely, and unappreciated at her nonprofit job in Washington, D.C., and she was going out drinking four or five times a week. "I was in the cycle of constantly being out, trying to escape," she says.

She wanted to know when things would get better and Astrology Zone had an answer. Jupiter, " the planet of good fortune," would move into Sandhya's zodiac sign, Leo, in one year's time, and remain there for a year. Sandhya remembers reading that if she cut clutter out of her life now, she'd reap the rewards when Jupiter arrived.

So Sandhya spent the next year making room for Jupiter. (She requested that we not publish her last name because she works as an attorney and doesn't want her clients to know the details of her personal life.) She started staying home more often, cooking for herself, applying for jobs, and going on more dates. "I definitely distanced myself from two or three friends who I didn't feel had good energy when I hung around them," she says. "And that helped significantly."

Jupiter entered Leo on July 16, 2014. That same July, Sandhya was offered a new job. That December, Sandhya met the man she would go on to marry. "My life changed dramatically," she says. "Part of it is that a belief in something makes it happen. But I followed what the app was saying. So I credit some of it to this Jupiter belief."
A combination of stress and uncertainty about the future is an ailment for which astrology can seem like the perfect balm.
Humans are narrative creatures, constantly explaining their lives and selves by weaving together the past, present, and future (in the form of goals and expectations). Monisha Pasupathi, a developmental psychologist who studies narrative at the University of Utah, says that while she lends no credence to astrology, it "provides [people] a very clear frame for that explanation."

It does give one a pleasing orderly sort of feeling, not unlike alphabetizing a library, to take life's random events and emotions and slot them into helpfully labeled shelves. This guy isn't texting me back because Mercury retrograde probably kept him from getting the message. I take such a long time to make decisions because my Mars is in Taurus. My boss will finally recognize all my hard work when Jupiter enters my tenth house. A combination of stress and uncertainty about the future is an ailment for which astrology can seem like the perfect balm.

Sandhya says she turns to astrology looking for help in times of despair, "when I'm like, 'Someone tell me the future is gonna be okay.'" Reading her horoscope was like flipping ahead in her own story.

"I'm always a worrier," she says. "I'm one of those people who, once I start getting into a book, I skip ahead and I read the end. I don't like cliff-hangers, I don't like suspense. I just need to know what's gonna happen. I have a story in my head. I was just hoping certain things would happen in my life, and I wanted to see if I am lucky enough for them to happen."

Now that they have happened, "I haven't been reading [my horoscope] as much," she says, "and I think it's because I'm in a happy place right now."

For some, astrology's predictions function like Dumbo's feather-a comforting magic to hold onto until you realize you could fly on your own all along. But it's the ineffable mystical sparkle of the feather-gentler and less draining than the glow of a screen-that makes people reach for it in the first place.

People are starting to get sick of a life lived so intensely on the grid. They wish for more anonymity online. They're experiencing fatigue with ebooks, with dating apps, with social media. They're craving something else in this era of quantified selves, and tracked locations, and indexed answers to every possible question. Except, perhaps the questions of who you really are, and what life has in store for you.

Ruby Warrington is a lifestyle writer whose New Age guidebook Material Girl, Mystical World came out in May 2017-just ahead of the wave of astrology-book sales this summer. She also runs a mystical esoterica website called The Numinous, a word that Merriam-Webster defines as meaning "supernatural or mysterious," but that Warrington defines on her website as "that which is unknown, or unknowable."

"I think that almost as a counterbalance to the fact that we live in such a quantifiable and meticulously organized world, there is a desire to connect to and tap into that numinous part of ourselves," Warrington says. "I see astrology as a language of symbols that describes those parts of the human experience that we don't necessarily have equations and numbers and explanations for."

J. Walter Thompson's Intelligence Group released a trend report in 2016 called " Unreality" that says much the same thing: "We are increasingly turning to unreality as a form of escape and a way to search for other kinds of freedom, truth and meaning," it reads. "What emerges is an appreciation for magic and spirituality, the knowingly unreal, and the intangible aspects of our lives that defy big data and the ultra-transparency of the web." This sort of reactionary cultural 180 has happened before-after the Enlightenment's emphasis on rationality and the scientific method in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantic movement found people turning toward intuition, nature, and the supernatural. It seems we may be at a similar turning point. New York Magazine even used the seminal Romantic painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog to illustrate Andrew Sullivan's recent anti-technology essay, "I Used to Be a Human Being."

JWT, along with another trend-forecasting group, WGSN, in its report "Millennials: New Spirituality," lump astrology in with other New Age mystical trends that have caught on with young people in recent years: healing crystals, sound baths, and tarot, among others.

"I think it's become generally less acceptable to just arbitrarily shit on things as like 'that's not rational, or that's stupid because that's not fact,'" says Nicole Leffel, a 28-year-old software engineer who lives in New York.

Bugbee, the editor-in-chief of The Cut, noticed this shift a couple years ago. "I could just tell that people were sick of a certain kind of snarky tone," she said. Up to that point, the site had been running slightly irreverent horoscopes with gifs meant to encapsulate the week's mood for each sign. But Bugbee realized "that people wanted sincerity more than anything. So we just kind of went full sincere with [the horoscopes], and that's when we saw real interest happen."

But a sincere burgeoning interest in astrology doesn't mean people are wholesale abandoning rationality for more mystical beliefs. Nicholas Campion, a historian of astrology, points out that the question of whether people "believe" in astrology is both impossible to answer and not really a useful question to ask. People might say they don't "believe" in astrology but still identify with their zodiac sign. They may like to read their horoscope, but not change their behavior based on what it says. There is more nuance than this statistic allows for.

Many mainstream examinations of astrology as a trend are deeply concerned with debunking. They like to trot out the National Science Foundation survey that measures whether people think astrology is scientific and remind readers that it's not. Which, it's not. But that's not really the point.

While there are surely some people who blindly accept astrology as fact and view it as on par with a discipline like biology, that doesn't seem to be the case among many of the young adults who are fueling this renaissance of the zodiac. The people I spoke to for this piece often referred to astrology as a tool, or a kind of language-one that, for many, is more metaphorical than literal.

"Astrology is a system that looks at cycles, and we use the language of planets," says Alec Verkuilen Brogan, a 29-year-old chiropractic student based in the Bay Area who has also studied astrology for 10 years. "It's not like these planets are literally going around and being like 'Now, I'm going to do this.' It's a language to speak to the seasons of life."
"We take astrology very seriously, but we also don't necessarily believe in it. It's just a way to look at the world."
Michael Stevens, a 27-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, was in the quarter-life crisis season of life around the time of the total solar eclipse in August this year. "Traditionally, I'm a skeptic," he says. "I'm a hard-core, like Dana Scully from X-Files, type of person. And then shit started to happen in life." Around the time of the eclipse, in the course of his advertising work, he cold-called Susan Miller of Astrology Zone, to ask if she would put some ads on her site.

She was annoyed, he says, that he called her at the end of the month, which is when she writes her famously lengthy horoscopes. But then she asked him for his sign-Sagittarius. "And she's like, 'Oh, okay, this new moon's rough for you.'" They talked about work and relationship troubles. (Miller doesn't remember having this conversation specifically, but says "I'm always nice to the people who cold-call. It sounds totally like me.")

Studies have shown that if you write a generic personality description and tell someone it applies to them, they're likely to perceive it as accurate-whether that's in the form of a description of their zodiac sign or something else.

Stevens says he could've potentially read into his conversation with Miller in this way. "She's like 'You're going through a lot right now,'" he says. "Who isn't? It's 2017."

Still, he says the conversation made him feel better; it spurred him to take action. In the months between his call with Miller and our conversation in October, Stevens left his advertising job and found a new one in staffing. Shortly before we spoke, he and his girlfriend broke up.

"[I realized] I'm acting like a shitty, non-playable character in a Dungeons and Dragons RPG," Stevens says, "so I should probably make choices, and pursue some of the good things that could happen if I just [cared] about being a happy person in a real way."

Stevens's story exemplifies a prevailing attitude among many of the people I talked to-that it doesn't matter if astrology is real; it matters if it's useful.

"We take astrology very seriously, but we also don't necessarily believe in it," says Annabel Gat, the staff astrologer at Broadly, "because it's a tool for self-reflection, it's not a religion or a science. It's just a way to look at the world and a way to think about things."

Beusman, who hired Gat at Broadly, shares her philosophy. "I believe several conflicting things in all areas of my life," she says. "So for me it's very easy to hold these two ideas in my head at once. This could not be true at all, and also, I'll be like 'Well, I have three planets entering Scorpio next month, so I should make some savvy career decisions.'"

This attitude is exemplified by The Hairpin's "Astrology Is Fake" column, by Rosa Lyster, with headlines like " Astrology Is Fake But Leos Are Famous," and " Astrology Is Fake But Taurus Hates Change."

It might be that Millennials are more comfortable living in the borderlands between skepticism and belief because they've spent so much of their lives online, in another space that is real and unreal at the same time. That so many people find astrology meaningful is a reminder that something doesn't have to be real to feel true. Don't we find truth in fiction?

In describing her attitude toward astrology, Leffel recalled a line from Neil Gaiman's American Gods in which the main character, Shadow, wonders whether lightning in the sky was from a magical thunderbird "or just an atmospheric discharge, or whether the two ideas were, on some level, the same thing. And of course they were. That was the point after all."

If the "astrology is fake but it's true" stance seems paradoxical, well, perhaps the paradox is what's attractive. Many people offered me hypotheses to explain astrology's resurgence. Digital natives are narcissistic, some suggested, and astrology is a navel-gazing obsession. People feel powerless here on Earth, others said, so they're turning to the stars. Of course, it's both. Some found it to be an escape from logical "left brain" thinking; others craved the order and organization the complex system brought to the chaos of life. It's both. That's the point, after all.

To understand astrology's appeal is to get comfortable with paradoxes. It feels simultaneously cosmic and personal; spiritual and logical; ineffable and concrete; real and unreal. It can be a relief, in a time of division, not to have to choose. It can be freeing, in a time that values black and white, ones and zeros, to look for answers in the gray. It can be meaningful to draw lines in the space between moments of time, or the space between pinpricks of light in the night sky, even if you know deep down they're really light-years apart, and have no connection at all.

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In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac-even if they don't exactly believe in it.

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The website attached above establishes a connection between astrology and millennials, and why the youth is so interested and involved in astrology at present. It describes how the millennials seem to flourish when using different apps and websites to find their horoscopes and predictions and how the initial 'fun' of learning about astrology slowly lures them into getting deeply involved and addicted to reading horoscopes and checking their astrological sign and celestial positions.

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The website, even though contains information about astrology being a hoax does have a red flag - proof by verbosity. The website contains a lot of information which is not entirely true and subliminally supports the pseudoscience of astrology by making it appear to be fun and interesting to the millennials.
A reason for belief connected here is perception and observation as many people these days are observing how millennials are getting involved in astrology and are constantly reading horoscopes and predictions. Simplicity as a reason for belief can also be connected to this website
A flaw here is that not enough research has been done when creating this website which leads to portraying astrology as something 'fun' which leads people into looking into astrology and getting ripped off for money.

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astrology, type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets. Devotees believe that an understanding of the influence of the planets and stars on earthly affairs allows them to both predict and affect the destinies of individuals, groups, and nations. Though often regarded as a science throughout its history, astrology is widely considered today to be diametrically opposed to the findings and theories of modern Western science.

Nature and significance

Astrology is a method of predicting mundane events based upon the assumption that the celestial bodies-particularly the planets and the stars considered in their arbitrary combinations or configurations (called constellations)-in some way either determine or indicate changes in the sublunar world. The theoretical basis for this assumption lies historically in Hellenistic philosophy and radically distinguishes astrology from the celestial omina (" omens") that were first categorized and cataloged in ancient Mesopotamia. Originally, astrologers presupposed a geocentric universe in which the "planets" (including the Sun and Moon) revolve in orbits whose centres are at or near the centre of the Earth and in which the stars are fixed upon a sphere with a finite radius whose centre is also the centre of the Earth. Later the principles of Aristotelian physics were adopted, according to which there is an absolute division between the eternal, circular motions of the heavenly element and the limited, linear motions of the four sublunar elements: fire, air, water, earth.

Special relations were believed to exist between particular celestial bodies and their varied motions, configurations with each other, and the processes of generation and decay apparent in the world of fire, air, water, and earth. These relations were sometimes regarded as so complex that no human mind could completely grasp them; thus, the astrologer might be readily excused for any errors. A similar set of special relations was also assumed by those whose physics was more akin to that of the Greek philosopher Plato. For the Platonic astrologers, the element of fire was believed to extend throughout the celestial spheres, and they were more likely than the Aristotelians to believe in the possibility of divine intervention in the natural processes through celestial influences upon the Earth, since they believed in the deity's creation of the celestial bodies themselves.

The role of the divine in astrological theory varies considerably. In its most rigorous aspect, astrology postulates a totally mechanistic universe, denying to the deity the possibility of intervention and to man that of free will; as such, it was vigorously attacked by orthodox Christianity and Islam. For some, however, astrology is not an exact science like astronomy but merely indicates trends and directions that can be altered either by divine or by human will. In the interpretation of Bardesanes, a Syrian Christian scholar (154- c. 222)-who has often been identified as a Gnostic (a believer in esoteric salvatory knowledge and the view that matter is evil and spirit good)-the motions of the stars govern only the elemental world, leaving the soul free to choose between the good and the evil. Man's ultimate goal is to attain emancipation from an astrologically dominated material world. Some astrologers, such as the Harranians (from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Harran) and the Hindus, regard the planets themselves as potent deities whose decrees can be changed through supplication and liturgy or through theurgy, the science of persuading the gods or other supernatural powers. In still other interpretations-e.g., that of the Christian Priscillianists (followers of Priscillian, a Spanish ascetic of the 4th century who apparently held dualistic views)-the stars merely make manifest the will of God to those trained in astrological symbolism.

Significance of astral omens

The view that the stars make manifest the divine will is closest to the concept that lies behind the ancient Mesopotamian collections of celestial omens. Their primary purpose was to inform the royal court of impending disaster or success. These might take the forms of meteorological or epidemic phenomena affecting entire human, animal, or plant populations. Frequently, however, they involved the military affairs of the state or the personal lives of the ruler and his family. Since the celestial omina were regarded not as deterministic but rather as indicative-as a kind of symbolic language in which the gods communicated with men about the future and as only a part of a vast array of ominous events-it was believed that their unpleasant forebodings might be mitigated or nullified by ritual means or by contrary omens. The bāru (the official prognosticator), who observed and interpreted the celestial omina, was thus in a position to advise his royal employer on the means of avoiding misfortunes; the omens provided a basis for intelligent action rather than an indication of an inexorable fate.

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Astrology | Definition, History, Symbols, Signs, & Facts

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Astrology, type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets. Astrology is widely considered today to be diametrically opposed to the findings and theories of modern Western science.

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The website attached above lists the definition of astrology, how it originated (history), facts about astrology along with the astrological signs and how what they represent/are connected to. The website also has games related to the topics along with quizzes and other topics that can be browsed through for more information about astrology and/or its history.

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The website is connected to certain red flags like ancient wisdom - as the website talks about the history of astrology, while mentioning how we inherited it from our ancient ancestors and how they believes astrology to be real and effective in predicting our future, proof by verbosity - by providing a large amount of information to confuse people and to trick them into believing in astrology, red herring - by mentioning things that are in no way connected and work as a distraction from the topic.
The reasons for belief connected to this website are emotional connection and ideology. People's ideology makes them think that astrology is something we inherited from our ancient ancestors which uses our emotions to trick us into thinking that astrology is accurate and can be believed in.
A flaw here is that by reading information like what is provided in this website, people begin to think of astrology as something real and ancient and thus start believing in this hoax.

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I learned that people spend a lot of money annually to buy things that would seemingly help them stay positive when their astrological sign enters a 'negative area' upon a celestial body's movement to a different position.

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My aunt is a firm believer in astrology and this topic was interesting to me because when I was younger, I could never understand why she checked her horoscope daily and/or why she researched about the positions of certain celestial bodies. Learning more about this topic has helped me make my mind about astrology being a pseudoscience so I could help her change her mind about her belief in the near future.

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The 21 secrets of Sagittarius research was the most interesting to me as I was intrigued by how people can possibly imagine that they can describe a large group of individuals as having the same 21 qualities.

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I will most likely remember how people earning money through the use and manipulation of pseudoscience will go to great lengths to make people believe that things like astrology are in fact real and worth spending money on.

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I feel like astrology and fortune tellers are the most dangerous pseudoscience beliefs are they can cause a person to lose all their money and have their life ruined just because of their belief that some people and objects are capable of predicting and changing their future.

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The information that I would pass on is that no matter how real it may sound, pseudoscience will always remain fake science and will never be true or accurate in terms of information or practices.