Prices of weepy mess is a Scorpios psycho.

That's astrology, isn't it?

It's a pseudo science that studies the effect of celestial objects with humans dating back to around the second millennium B C.

That's around 4000 years of jokes about Devon eyes.

There are many strands of astrology, but contemporary Western astrology is most likely the type that you're familiar with.

Western astrology revolves around horoscopes on the 12 signs.

Zodiac, which uses a person's date and time of birth along with location to be the NATO charter that supposedly explains an individual's personality attitude to love, life and work on DDE can predict what's in store for them.

Astrology has been most popular in the last 40 years.

There was the whole 19 seventies age of Aquarius, but thanks to Internet for must like means concepts that power astrology have been boiled down to easily digestible and terrible snippets that cause it to blow up on an unprecedented scale.

Over the last three years, it's spirituality with digital twist.

Major mainstream publications now cover a strategy, and you combine Zodiac seemed makeup, jewelry, clothes on books at any high street retailer dedicated astrological social media pages command thousands of followers.

But is our obsession going too far?

In January, dating at Bumble announced users could filter matches fire star signs.

And in April, a post went viral that saw someone rejected from joining a shared house.

Important because they were a capital 2019 season off Love Island UK released a list of the contestants star signs so that curious viewers could work out who were the most compatible.

So what's the problem?

Isn't it just a bit of fun?

Well, astrology like Myers, breaks any pseudo science test that fails.

Objective attempts to measure the accuracy is not rooted in provable fact, because if taken too far, it could lead to discrimination, like preventing certain star signs from accessing housing or ruling them out as romantic options.

Equally, astrology tends to be most attracted to those in vulnerable situations, and 1982 studies showed that people turned to astrology when they were highly stressed.

Therefore, it's easy for strategy to become a deterministic crutch, directs on every decision and also lose them open to being taken advantage of like a recent Twitter storm over scam artist charging people for fake birth chart readings.

Of course, not everyone enjoys astrology accepted as fact, but online discussions.

Astrology sphere where it finds the biggest papel, often like nuance and presented in binary black or white terms.

Interpretations can be useful tools for self reflection, but they can also create inflexible fixed ideas of personality that becomes self fulfilling prophecies.

People feel helpless to change its ideas like I'ma tourists.

I'm naturally stubborn, and I can't do that.

Astrology can be homes, but I was heart a pseudo scientific faith system on ideology that provides narrative and meaning to human lives.

Sure, it's fun when we're light heart to be matching up our traits.

Yet when it slips into dogma or being presented as fact is probably time to stop checking what stars have in store.