do you take astrology seriously or not

It's always just been a for fun thing for me. I remember as a kid I thought the stories behind the constellations were interesting but I don't remember anything sadly. 

no lol

I'm usually not a judgmental person, but if someone does take it seriously, I'm reaching physical limits lol

idk what's wrong with me, help

only if it gives me an answer i want to hear (kidding)

in all seriousness, nah, not really !! astrology is just generalization & statistics for the most part, stuff may apply, but its not a guarantee & its just all in good fun tbh

this being said ive never met a scorpio sun/moon that didn't terrify me

kinda like mbti, i like to see what descriptions people get based on their charts, i like to research what each placement means, but its all for fun i dont fully believe someones birth chart defines them as a person

i will judge them tho

It's nice seeing everyone's opinions thanks for replying!!

I mean I believe everything has some kind of meaning, but I don't take enough notice in Astrology to take it seriously. It's a thing and I acknowledge it. That's about it.

Nope. 

It's completely illogical to me, that the stars and planets could affect my life's circumstances. Life is only the choices you make, and your maturity in handling what comes. So no, it's nonsense to me.

hiii i've been studying astrology for about a year now, it's become my special interest. with everything i have learned so far, and after analyzing my own and my friends, family, and others' charts, everything matches up too much every time. their sign placements/aspects/houses' activities aligns heavily with their traits/behaviors/etc.

for example; in tropical astrology, im a gemini stellium (9th house in placidus system, or 10th in whole signs system) (sun, venus, mercury, mars, midheaven). im also a virgo rising, which is ruled by mercury so i am very mercurial... i've always lived in my head for the most part, and having chiron (wounded healer) in sagittarius (3rd house [or 4th]), i can see this being linked to my autism & adhd running in my family (4th house involves the home/upbringing), and due to my disabilities alongside the way i had to grow up, i had a very difficult time opening up and being social, difficulty being able to talk very much. everyone stereotypes geminis as being chatty and social, but you can see how that isn't always true; there's way more nuance that can be found depending on the person and how their planets aspect each other. using the internet at an early age gave me a way to develop more socially in some way, since i could actually find and talk to people i related to. now chiron also being in my 3rd house(learning, communication, siblings), i see how that lines up with my constant struggles in school. i was chronically mostly failing for 11/12 years because i never got help with my ADHD; everybody always said/acknowledged me being extremely smart though? my problem was never doing homework. i only finally had straight As (with occasional Bs or Cs) in my senior year because the pressure was on and i wanted to graduate. my mom has always emphasized the importance of being logical (shes a libra[air] sun and mars in the 3rd house, and virgo venus[mercury, earth]). mercury is the planet of communication and acts very logically. that's how my brain has always worked, and i would get overly upset or angry at anyone or anything being illogical as a kid. im also a pisces moon which has a square aspect to my sun sign; which makes me feel strongly and heavily, shows i have difficulty with my emotions (which has been too true my whole life). it conflicts pretty hard with my gemini placements, because air wants to be detached but water signs can be very attached to what's being felt. i've always had the issue of suppressing my feelings because in my head i "knew better" or was thinking too logically about my emotions and thinking i needed to stop feeling upset/mad due to whatever reasoning i had. i have very little fire placements in my chart... so you won't see me being super expressive or acting without thinking. hell, i overthink every damn thing i do or everything i say. i also have venus conjuncting my sun; this has made relationships (of all types) very prominent in my life, and has been a huge part of my self expression alongside venus qualities (love of beauty, comforts, etc.) i do have my venus(1 degree) conjuncting jupiter&saturn in taurus (22 degrees), venus is ruled by taurus & libra so that does emphasize taurus qualities to my relationships or what im attracted to/what i love. with it being jupiter and saturn, especially them being at the same degree, saturn has always given me blockages/challenges in my relationships and love life, but also a lot of luck and ease because of jupiter. there's a lot of ways in my life or disposition i see how jupiter and saturn balance each other out for me.

now my boyfriend; scorpio sun, chiron, and venus all conjunct, sagittarius mercury, virgo moon&mars conjunct each other, and gemini rising. his mercury is in the opposite sign of mine; him and another friend who has a sag. mercury(&sun and rising) are pretty bad texters.... obviously not all sag mercuries are. you can't apply that to everybody, that's just what i see with them. with the sun/venus/chiron close together in scorpio, i've seen him struggle a lot in friendships and relationships too. i can tell things with his parents have affected him to where he was avoidant of dating people or committing for a long time, experienced several heartbreaks that i think made him even moreso avoidant. he's been my best friend since 2013; we clicked instantly and that connection stayed so strong and still is. we both actually started liking each other that year too... he was honest but declined taking it further. but yet he would go on to date other girls i dont think he ever got as attached to as me. i believe he was terrified of fucking something up and losing our friendship. i would have to get over him for the time being though. then i crushed on him again for a couple months 2018-19, once again. in 2021, we started reconnecting more again (i was isolating myself due to mental health issues), and we ended up in a situationship that year that HE actually initiated??? i couldn't believe it i didnt have to do or say anything??? that situationship lasted 1-2 years until i ended it because him being afraid to commit and actually treat my like a girlfriend was killing me. a year apart with just brief talking.. we were both horribly heartbroken over each other and eventually couldn't take it anymore. we both came back to each other early this year and have been dating since march. he's full on committed to me now and actually treats me the way i had been wanting, and again didn't even have to ask him. i only stated a year prior i wanted a serious relationship. when i asked him if he wanted to be my bf (for the third time in our lives lmfao) he said he assumed we were already together O.o but anyways, i see him slowly healing his fear of love, attachment and commitment through me because of how our connection is, which he struggled to really do with anybody else. he caused a lot of those connections to fall apart because of his own mental health issues that made him seem detached or uncaring. i've always had a very easy read on his feelings though, and he's always proven to me that i read him right. that feels like a lot for just 2 planets with chiron alone.
so his virgo moon and mars; 4th house, he grew up feeling the need to be in service of others around him and prioritizing other people so much more over himself. it's how he feels safe/comfortable(moon), so he shows that through his actions (mars). virgo is the more sensitive earth sign compared to capricorn and taurus; him and 1 other friend with a virgo moon absolutely show that to me. they're also both my 2 very best friends, i just feel safe and comfortable with virgo moons apparently (i would think due to my virgo rising & pisces moon).
my bf also has jupiter in pisces(though retrograded) forming an opposite aspect to his moon & mars; because theyre in opposite signs, that shows this duality or these 2 different energies that are fighting to express themselves. to feel safe he has to act and show himself with practicality, logic, and groundedness. his jupiter trines his sun/venus, heavy water energy, so he also gives very dreamy and empathetic... he's very sensitive but doesn't want to show it to most people, pisces also seems to make him inclined to drinking and smoking pot (pisces and its' ruler Neptune are associated with addictions). i can see that despite his struggles, especially with saturn in aries retrograde, his jupiter aids and grants him luck/brings expansion to his relationships that ultimately help him to grow and heal. i think that's where i end up coming into his life with my pisces moon...

when i look at our synastry chart, his jupiter falls into my 6th/7th house where my moon is at. 7th house is associated with relationships, marriage, business partners, etc. my other best friend who also has a virgo moon; she's a gemini and pisces rising; so both of our moons fall into each other's 1st houses, while our rising signs are in each other's 7th houses; she's been in my life since 2014 and will continue to be one of my best friends for a very long time. we have both crushed on each other before, but ofc 7th house connections aren't always romantic. we just like each other as friends and we're cool like that. meanwhile my boyfriend and i both want to marry and have children together. my moon and his jupiter interacting with each other in pisces, especially in my 7th house, has always strongly enhanced our connection since the very first day we met. we've always cared an extreme amount for each other and just understood each other intuitively in such ways that nobody else could ever match with either of us (im sure theres others out there too ofc haha but i dont care to meet them!). pisces and water placements in general are pretty intuitive too, since they involve feelings/the emotional world, using those senses. if anyone else believes in telepathy too... there's been so many times where we both suddenly started thinking of each other, then got a text from the other right after. also times where, especially if i was half asleep waking up, i would get a sudden vision of a message notification from him, check my phone to see nothing, then instantly he texts me. there's been one time too where i heard a very specific thought pop into my head in his voice.. i was confused but brushed it off. hours later, he texted me that exact thought that popped into my head. it wasnt just some general statement either it was way too specific and tied to me.

that's a lot but i had to infodump lol. i think astrology is extremely misunderstood by most of the world today, especially because of pop astrology. so many misogynistic men who hate "astrology girls", but it was men who were working with astrology thousands of years ago and laid so much of the foundations for it. the irony. i think the last thing i have to say is, too many people try to use astrology as a way to diagnose people with certain traits, instead of taking people's ACTUAL traits and life experiences and seeing how they may be explained within a birth chart. this seems to me why a lot of people don't find themselves relating to their signs/charts, they're not actually being taught or learning how it all actually functions. if you read all this thank you for reading all of my yapping :) as any gemini would do i guess especially an autistic one.

i already commented but i had one more thing to say lol i think people are afraid to take astrology seriously or get much into it because of how skeptical and negative most are about it now, because of pop astrology or tiktok astrology. nobody has legitimate serious sources. nobody's doing actual reading or thinking critically about it. whenever i do see others who take an interest in astrology, they always try to distance themselves from it like "oh i just learn it for fun i dont believe in it" then they'll read somebodys chart that fits the person 100% to a T ..... and yet you say you don't believe in it? im tired of people having to suppress their interest in this field because of dismissive people who don't even want to attempt to understand it.