stackyFACTSYou can thank ancient bureaucratic anxiety for the complexity of your birth chart.
You can thank ancient bureaucratic anxiety for the complexity of your birth chart. While zodiac signs describe personality, the 'Houses' dictate where things happen. Hellenistic astrologers arbitrarily divided the sky into twelve sections explicitly to predict highly specific, mundane earthly problems like inheritances, legal battles, and agricultural taxes. Because even in 200 BCE, people didn't care about their spiritual journey as much as their IRS audit.
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