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We've Hit Peak Astrology

A few years back, if you asked someone on a dating app the exact time and location of their birth within the first ten minutes of initiating contact, you’d probably end up getting blocked for being a weirdo. These days, though, this is normal behaviour – especially among people in their twenties. I personally do it every time. How else are you supposed to know whether your potential relationship has any longevity if you haven’t typed their details into a birth chart calculator, rigorously compared Venus, Mars and moon placements, and weighed up the likelihood of you actually getting on face-to-face? I can't be wasting any time with a Venus Capricorn; they'll only hold me back. This isn’t the only example of astrology growing into the bedrock of some people's decision-making. In what's only felt like a couple of years, people have come to unquestioningly integrate thoughts of the cosmos into other ways they run their lives. You may have clocked a screenshot doing the