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Horoscopes, the all-telling birth charts, have been around since the beginning of time due to their connection to astrology. For years, they have served as wonderful tools of self-discovery and decision making. However, horoscopes and astrology have become very dumbed down in the last decade.
Horoscopes suddenly became a trend in popular teen-centered magazines such as J-14 or Teen Vogue in the 2000s. In these short magazine segments, people would find their astrological sign and read their horoscope.
Most of the time, the horoscope- regardless of what astrological sign it belonged to- would read something along the lines of: “Trust your gut! The boy you like will notice you next week!”
These magazine horoscopes lacked any sort of substance or reality. There was no depth to them, and they were just a shallow way of trying to make teenagers feel better about themselves.
In reality, someone who is truly interested in becoming familiar with the traits of their astrological sign needs to become aware of their full birth chart, which can be done by inputting specific information about your date and time of birth onto trusted websites such as astro-seek.com.
From here, people can read their full birth chart which can truly reveal so many interesting habits about yourself that you might have in common with other people who were born at a similar time as you.
Birth charts are truly a wonderful way of exploring your most inner workings, and they correlate directly with your horoscope.
However, it is important for people to be mindful when they read their horoscopes, even if it is on a trusted website.
Horoscopes are meant to be informing and guiding, but they should not be used as a way to “tell the future” or anything of that nature. For example, my horoscopes have recently been telling me to trust my intuition and to believe that I will be having positive changes in my career soon.
I am not taking this as a sign that the job of my dreams will suddenly drop into my lap, and I don’t have to do anything to achieve that because my horoscope told me it’s going to happen.
Instead, I am focusing on the fact that based on my birth chart and my own personality, I have the means and the drive to pursue the job that I want. Will things align perfectly in the universe so that I get this apparent dream job? Maybe. But, I can’t plan on that and rely on an intangible thing such as a horoscope to get there.
I can speak from experience that becoming attached to what a horoscope is telling you can sometimes be very damaging.
My senior year of high school, I competed in a scholarship competition for a full-ride to a university I desperately wanted to attend. I was extremely into astrology at the time and all my horoscopes were leading me to believe that something amazing was coming my way.
Everything I was reading in my horoscopes convinced me that that meant I was going to get the scholarship- that it was fate for me to get that scholarship.
I did not get the scholarship and I was heartbroken about it and ended up distancing myself from astrology for a very long time. Even though I’m happy I didn’t end up at that school, it was a very heartbreaking experience for me at the time, all because I let my hopes up due to what I thought my horoscope was telling me.
Now that I’m older, I’ve found a healthy connection with astrology that allows me to see my horoscopes more as a guide than as a prophecy.
It is very important for people who are interested in astrology to know your birth chart alignment is not an all-telling sign of who you are and what is going to happen to you. It is simply a tool meant to help you understand yourself and why you are the way you are.
When someone is able to have this healthy understanding of astrology, they’ll be able to see just how fun it can be when you don’t take it so seriously!