r/Psychonaut • u/Ok_Plant9930 • 1d ago

Does this make astrology more believable?

I always thought the soul descended from heaven, travelled through space and whatever constellation that’s present at the time to your body. And the reason zodiacs share common core personality traits is because of this process. Last night I found out that the human body shares the same atomic/elemental make up as a star which would somewhat support an astrological connection to the make up of humans right?

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u/Ok_Plant9930 1d ago

Why

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u/Whack_and_sack 1d ago

The human body also shares some of the same elements as a doorknob dude.

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u/Ok_Plant9930 1d ago

Not 97% dude lol

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u/Whack_and_sack 1d ago

What’s your source that a star and the human body have 97% of the same atomic structure?

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u/danknugless 1d ago

Dude wants to identify as 97% star. That's it. There are no sources.

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u/Whack_and_sack 1d ago

Lmfao alright guess I’m 96.4% golf ball now.

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u/corneliusvanhouten 1d ago

I think op is a little goofy for thinking this way, but the science is pretty clear that all matter in the observable universe comes from exploding stars. We are matter in the universe, therefore we are 100% made of material that originated in stars.

Edit: I guess we still don't fully understand dark matter, so we don't really know. But with regards to the non dark matter parts of our body, 100% stardust

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u/Whack_and_sack 1d ago

Yes we are made of some material but we are not majority the same. Like I said, you and a door also share some common atoms.

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u/corneliusvanhouten 1d ago

Where does the part of us that doesn't come from stars come from?

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u/Whack_and_sack 1d ago

Hydrogen is most likely from big bang. I would say that while yes OP is correct on the science his conclusion astrology is a wild jump that has little correlation.

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u/corneliusvanhouten 1d ago

Yes, certainly by our current understanding, everything traces back to the big bang. But it wasn't just free floating hydrogen in space for 13 billion years and then it entered our bodies directly.

Early matter aggregated into stars, which then exploded, creating more complex elements, which formed planets, including Earth. Ergo, we are made of stars.

Definitely agree that astrology is a wild jump!

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u/weedy_weedpecker 1d ago edited 1d ago

Who said “majority the same”.

No one is saying we are stars. The majority of the elements that we are made of weren’t formed during the Big Bang, they were produced by nova and supernova. Hence; we are made of stars.

https://www.space.com/35276-humans-made-of-stardust-galaxy-life-elements.html

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u/DraumNadia 1d ago

It was revealed to him in a dream and confirms his biased magical thinking, so it must be true. Bro, you just gotta believe me bro.

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u/Deborah_Pokesalot 1d ago

One reason would be that the stars that we see as a constellation are in reality spread apart over whole galaxy. Our concept of them is 2D drawing but in reality they are ransom spots.

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u/Ok_Plant9930 1d ago

But a constellation by definition is a group of stars in a pattern how could they be random and form a pattern?

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u/Deborah_Pokesalot 1d ago

They didn't form a pattern. People made an association between how the brightest stars we observe are similar to things or creatures if you play 'connect the dots' game.

By the way, different cultures have different constellations. Our Orion is not the same constellation in Japanese or Native American cultures.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencemill.org/blog/2023/5/13/constellations-according-to-different-cultures%3fformat=amp

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u/HamsterDunce 1d ago

Humans determined the pattern bro. We connected the dots. You could go outside tonight and connect some more if you felt so inclined.

And the comment you replied to was more saying that they look close to us here on earth, but all of those stars in a constellation are incredibly incredibly far apart. Like on the magnitude of 5 - potentially hundreds or thousands of light years apart. By default, each star in a constellation is going to have its own unique elemental makeup. They share nothing in common except for being in the same relative neighborhood