{"id":3389,"date":"2015-12-11T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2015-12-11T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:02:41","slug":"stars-theyre-just-like-us-issue-24-n1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/11\/stars-theyre-just-like-us-issue-24-n1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars\u2014They\u2019re Just Like Us! | Issue 24 | n+1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"[<\/a>This is probably the most interesting defense of astrology I’ve ever encountered. -egg]<\/p>\n

\u201cWhence has fantasy acquired its bad reputation?\u201d Carl Jung once wrote. In a world in which irrationality is seen as a correctable flaw rather than a fixture of human life, fantasy has no place. But this is not our world, and Jung, whose dabbling in the occult did taint his reputation as Freud warned it would, was right when he said that astrology\u2019s \u201cvalue is obvious enough to the psychologist, since astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.\u201d The archetypes one finds in the zodiac belong to the collective unconscious, and the importance of such symbols is that they figure into our thoughts whether they ought to or not. A common concept in therapy is projection: the tendency of a patient to imbue impersonal symbols with personal meaning in the process of interpretation, be they dreams, inkblots, or slips of the tongue. Whether the source material is in itself \u201ctrue\u201d doesn\u2019t make what comes out of it\u2014the reading of one\u2019s self through that material\u2014false. One might say the same of astrology.<\/p>\n

The painter may look at the Scorpio and see Scorpio traits, another instance of confirmation bias. But the color-filter overlay of any deterministic language, be it astrology or psychoanalysis or anything else, can shed some light from time to time. Taken alone, the filter is reductive: dialing up the contrast, blasting shades of gray into patches of black and white. But as a supplement to other points of view\u2014what\u2019s visible on first impression, say, or what you know of someone from experience\u2014it adds another dimension, pulling some features into the foreground and pushing others to the back, reminding you of a person\u2019s complexity.\u00a0As skeptics have long argued, part of what makes astrology appealing (and so easily\u00a0proven \u201ctrue\u201d) is that each sign of the zodiac has a cluster of traits assigned to it that may be found in nearly any person. Astrology could thus be seen as a humanizing corrective to other, worse stereotypes. To consider that the shy person is sometimes wild, the considerate person sometimes duplicitous, is to practice something rather like empathy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Stars\u2014They\u2019re Just Like Us! | Issue 24 | n+1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is probably the most interesting defense of astrology I’ve ever encountered. -egg] \u201cWhence has fantasy acquired its bad reputation?\u201d Carl Jung once wrote. In a world in which irrationality is seen as a correctable flaw rather than a fixture of human life, fantasy has no place. But this is not our world, and Jung, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-SF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}