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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, not saying it's deterministic, just that on quite large time scales the patterns are still happening, and probabilities work

probably the meaning imputed by much of the various versions of astrology are quite incomplete and inaccurate though
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Gojiberra | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i agree with that last statement. that's why it's probably recommended to be avoided because you'd have to be God to see how all the factors align to create just such a version of someone.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, i think the most important things are the big patterns like the motions of jupiter and saturn and our position in the galactic spiral arms relative to our yearly cycle, etc

and definitely lunar cycles directly affect us, shielding or drawing energy from the sun towards us and deflecting it

but yes, way too complex to be able to boil it down to better than fuzzy probabilities