i will go further and declare that astrology is easily one of the most hetero things imaginable. how would any queer person proclaim "i can tell everything about you from a field on your driver's license" with a straight face
The most good faith understanding I have for the popularity of astrology among queer people is, okay you have a population of people who have childhood trauma from being placed in boxes without their consent, now they're processing that experience with a different set of arbitrary categories. Which makes astrology a lot like kink. But the key thing in kink is consent. So I'm just like, I won't clip a leash on you without your consent, and you won't refer to me by my sign without my consent. Capisce?
after leaving mormonism in my early adulthood i sort of abandoned ritual and rolled my eyes at anything which attempted to prescribe absolute truths about the universe (and ESPECIALLY the mysterious future). but after shaking off some of those stubborn biases i started to view these things in a new light. i don't like astrology, but i did once let a friend give me a tarot reading, and it occurred to me that things of this nature are often more about interpretation than they are about prediction. similarly to how you will develop your own readings of a poem or a painting, you will develop your own readings of the inevitabilities in your life. in this way i came to see a horoscope or a tarot reading as more of a suggestion than a prediction. i still don't see any personal value in it, but hey.
i did once have a support call while working at a LAMP stack host where the customer very earnestly suggested that her server was down because mercury was in retrograde. she and i definitely didn't see eye to eye on this matter.
