#also let's be real vedic/hindu astrology is traditional and unfortunately due to uuh a certain country

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astrology *is* cultural but

so allat to say many people of color as well as queer people (dare i say queer people of color) have found community and expression through modern astrology. which i do think is an accurate statement lol

the astrology most people (generalizing here) in America use nowadays is "western". hellenistic and vedic (greek then roman vs the indian subcontinent) astrologies are distinct beliefs that have influenced each other, which you might see combined in some charts these days. though vedic astrology and texts do predate greek astrology, there are several different astrologies that belong to several different cultures and besides that, many more ethnic groups have charted the stars in some fashion and incorporated that into their mythos. anyways, seeing as greek is... a white culture and many people who are not ethnically a part of that culture believe and practice western astrology, which, at least in "western" countries, is more popular than hindu astrology (the perceived popularity of something just because it's popular in America... no) so, i wouldn't say "queer people like astrology because many queer people are brown" (which I'm assuming means south asian here or a part of a culture that has hindu influence, speaking as a khmer person whose birth name is lit hindu/buddhist). obviously this doesn't apply if you purposefully and/or strictly practice vedic astrology, and i'm not denying that there are many brown, astrology lovin' queers out there. but let's be real, sara is the average american astrology liker who's never heard of/just learned that hindu and chinese zodiac were a thing. and then there's like 999,999 saras. even being khmer, my millennial ass cousin strictly practiced western astrology, i assume completely out of ignorance that there were other options (well that's a lie, our grandparents are buddhist but she was also lit sinophobic- that is an entirely different can of worms) but I'm just going to assume that it was out of preference, since most references online just tell people to make a western and vedic chart a go with the one, or evn just individual placements, they ~resonate with~ the most lmao. but leo, aquarius, cancer all *those* names are latin, which, at least according to Wikipedia, was a hellenistic influence on vedic astrology: "Hellenistic astrology and astronomy also transmitted the twelve zodiacal signs beginning with Aries and the twelve astrological places beginning with the ascendant". hellenistic astrology itself iz based off of a separate text as and uses grecian formulas to chart the stars. which many people point out, is actually less accurate than the vedic formulas. again, vedic astrology came first, they are similar and often compared and have influenced each other (apparently intense debate on who influenced what hope I'm not jinxing myself here do not debate me) but are two separate beliefs that came about... uu separately.

a lot of queer people i know in real life are either into or open to talking about astrology but online i think ive noticed a lot more people who dislike astrology and im super curious to see if that holds up.

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