What are some practical ways to use astrology in everyday life?
Do you apply astrology techniques in everyday life?
What do you use them for? Do you find them helpful?
Answer by Genzai
I mostly use astrology to help me think of how someone else would think and try to view things from many points of views.
Answer by Michael from UK
Use it as a means of duping money out of people lacking any form of common sense.
Answer by Mitch
This question failed as soon as you put “practical” and “astrology” together in the same sentence. They are mutually exclusive, I’m sorry. Astrology is a bunch of bogus crap. If the question relates to Astronomy, then we can have a conversation, but as-typed, this question is bunk.
Answer by CARNETRON
There isn’t. Astrology is a pseudoscience and a scam.
The only thing astrologists do is make broad generalizations and “apply” them to people born at certain times. Don’t base ANYTHING in your life on what they say. You’d be cutting yourself short. Your birth month does not determine what profession you’ll have, your success in love, or you personality type.
Answer by anuraganimax
Well you can say so. The biggest use of astrology in my view is to identify your own potential weaknesses and shortcomings. While it is quite possible for a person with a reasonable knowledge of astrology to use it to manipulate others weaknesses I try to stay away from this path.I use it only to identify my own potential blind spots.
“He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is wise.” – some wise man
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How do they come up with the horoscopes for the day?
Just curious with how someone figures that would and such.
Answer by Anonymous
There are these things called “Transit charts” which show the current positions of the planets in relation to a certain star sign.
Answer by Jordie-Boi
Horoscopes use special wording of sentences called “Barnum statements” (made famous by P.T. Barnum). These are statements that appear to make subjective claims about one person, but actually fits the majority of people reading them – they’re actually very objective statements.
It’s a similar technique that is used by many fraduelant psychics and mediums, or tarrot card readers. They produce “insight” into our lives but can merely account for anyone. Here’s a small example:
“You are a person who is prone to bouts of real self-examination. This is in sharp contrast to a striking ability you have developed to appear socially very engaged, even the life and soul of the party; but in a way that only convinces others. You are all too aware of it being a façade.
This means that you will often be at a gathering and find yourself playing a part. While on the one hand you’ll be talkative and funny, you’ll be detaching yourself to the point where you will find yourself watching everything going on around you and feeling utterly unable to engage. You’ll play conversations back to yourself in your head and
wonder what that person really meant when he said such-and-such – conversations that other people wouldn’t give a second thought to.”
This means nothing, it’s essentially saying that “you are the life and soul of the party” and appear “very socially engaged”, but equally it cancels itself out by giving the opposite view, “on the other hand you’ll be detatching yourself” from that situation.
In the end, Barnum statements and Cold Readers use such wording to make it fit our lives. And if they don’t, we disregard is as a “minor hiccup” and forget about it – only remembering those correct statements to back up our beliefs that Horoscopes are true. And while this doesn’t really answer your question on “how they come up with horoscopes”, hopefully it sheds some light on what the content says.
Answer by Aya and baby!
Some invent them entirely on the spot. Others use the sign’s personality to create a situation which that sign would be more likely to find itself in (completely ignoring the fact that every person has an entire chart that makes up their personality but hey, if that’s how they make their money… ) and yet others use planetary transitions in regards to the signs, for example when a horoscope says mercury is in your 12th house for Scorpio, that means mercury is in Libra, but they still interpret it as a 12th house mercury, which will probably make today’s or this week’s horoscope for Scorpio something like: “You can expect people to keep secrets from you as mercury resides in your 12th house.” Of course, people who write periodical horoscopes that way, should be writing them for people with the rising in those signs, not the sun.
Answer by Slippery
guessing..lying.
Answer by ChainLightning ⅜
Here is how one person did it.
The American conjuror James Randi recounts in his book Flim Flam how as a young man he briefly got the astrology job on a Montreal newspaper, making up the horoscopes under the name Zo-ran. His method was to cut out the forecasts from old astrology magazines, shuffle them in a hat, distribute them at random among the 12 zodiacal signs and print the results. This was very successful of course (because all astrology works on the “Barnum principle” of saying things so vague and general that all readers think it applies to them.) He describes how he overheard in a cafe a pair of office workers eagerly scanning Zo-ran’s column in the paper.
“They squealed with delight on seeing their future so well laid out, and in response to my query said that Zo-ran had been ‘right smack on’ last week. I did not identify myself as Zo-ran… Reaction in the mail to the column had been quite interesting, too, and sufficient for me to decide that many people will accept and rationalise almost any pronouncement made by someone they believe to be an authority with mystic powers. At this point, Zo-ran hung up his scissors, put away the paste pot, and went out of business.””
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I use astrology all the time in understanding people and coping with their behavior. For example, my older son has moon in Capricorn in the 10th. I tell him to do something, and he does it….no questions asked. My younger son has moon in Aquarius and the 10th in Gemini. I tell him to do something, and he argues with me, so I tell my older son to help me with the younger son, and it works.
Happy New Year and more, Ms. Capricorn
I find out what The Chiron and Saturn aspects and placements of some of the people I dont like and sting them where it hurts . And yes they are useful.
Sorry I am in a mean mood, its Full Moon in Cancer .
Apparently some people still think astrology = the horoscopes they read in the newspaper! LOL
Horoscopes only deal with a tiny fraction of astrology, the Sun, because that fits best in a small space and is easiest to look up. Astrology does NOT try to fit everyone into 12 boxes. Contrary to popular belief, it has never been “debunked” by science because the ones trying to debunk it stop at the newspaper columns and never explore the subject in its entirety. In fact, most of the arguments used against it show a total and utter lack of understanding of what astrology actually is and what it actually does.
How do I use astrology in everyday life? I use it to understand myself and the important people in my life better, to time my actions with greater success (scheduling writing time around good Mercury aspects for example), to understand the life cycles I’m going through, etc.
I don’t believe the planets “make” anything happen to you, they’re only reflecting what is already happening via synchronicity. So when it comes to “predictions,” I feel astrology is only able to predict archetypally. A particular aspect can play out in an infinite number of ways, but it can not “just mean anything,” it will stick to the archetypal themes of the planets, signs, houses and aspects involved. So I would say it can give me a kind of “mood” of a particular day, not the specific events that will happen. Generally I tend to have a better day if I’m acting in line with that “mood.”
To me, it’s no more “fortune-telling” than estimating when a child will lose their baby teeth or forecasting the weather, and there’s no such thing as being 100% accurate. We’re astrologers: no psychic powers expressed or implied. How often is the weather-man-or-woman 100% accurate? Yet they still keep their jobs and aren’t ridiculed for it.
I use it when I feel less certain about things. It helps to increase my confidence sometimes.
Astrology, not the Sun Sign Horoscopes, has many applications. There is a branch called electional astrology which can be applied in scheduling or electing the best time for major activities such as opening a business or signing big contracts. But since I am an astrologer, I actually use it in all activities where I am at the liberty to choose the time. Here are some activities:
paying for the tuition, buying items more than $ 50, holding a meeting, selling, scheduling a major trip, seeing the doctor or dentist, proposing something.
One simple guide to take note is to avoid “major” activities during Mercury Retrograde periods such as now till Mid-January, the exact day of the New Moon and Full Moon. There are many simple guides which you can follow after several periods of observation. You don’t have to follow blindly, electional astrology can be proven after a period of observation.The void of course Moon is actually a very useful tool.
I actually made a planning guide using astrology that everyone can use for planning their activities.
Astrology can in fact be also applied in stock trading. In 2008 the best stock performer according to Hulbert Financial Digest is an astrologer.