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/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