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Long before people blamed Mercury retrograde for their missed emails, Renaissance dudes were dealing with Saturn. Astrologers believed Saturn radiated…
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When you have absolutely no idea what bacteria is, you blame the sky. During the Black Death, the faculty of the University of Paris officially declared that…
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Early leaders of the Catholic Church vehemently condemned astrology as a demonic practice, with prominent theologians like Saint Augustine arguing that…
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Ptolemy wrote the Tetrabiblos in the second century, effectively creating the foundational textbook that almost all modern western astrology is still based…
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Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung actually used astrological natal charts during his psychoanalytic sessions with patients, believing the positions of the planets…
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People genuinely believe that a distant planet completely messing up their internet connection is more likely than them just being unorganized.
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