As a nondogmatic practice, astrology can illuminate both the singular and the universal in encouraging and supportive ways. Not because it encourages you to try your luck with a lottery ticket today, the stars are on your side, or other superficial nonsense, but because it can reveal more about ourselves and the world we live in, as well as the growth patterns we all experience and the emotional dynamics we can choose to lean into more or try to lessen. 
 

At the end of the day, any self-development tool, it can be something we really connect with and feel inspired by or something that doesn’t really resonate with our emotional centre. Either way, it’s good to keep an open mind and try to educate ourselves as much as we can about what astrology is and isn’t, before dismissing it or its potential!
 

Chani Nicholas, one of the most popular astrologers of our time, writes in her NYT bestselling book “You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance” that the first time she encountered astrology was the first time she remembers feeling seen. “If astrology does its job, it offers a mirror in which we see both our best selves and our growth edges,” she writes, and that’s why, “fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to.”
 

And perhaps, this kind of knowledge can bring us all closer to flirting with Andrew Garfield on a red carpet. Thanks, astrology!