Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Why I Read My Horoscope

I find myself reading my horoscope every day. I 'm not sure why. I can vaguely link It to some Jungian idea of accessing the collective, but more readily I the think of The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K DIck. There was a character that drew I Ching straws everyday.

 The idea fascinates me. Are the people who really do live by some novelty oracle? Ages ago things made sense, but today?  There is a romanticism in the mystic. The ability to control your fate with herbs, or chants, cards is a very seductive idea, especially  in a world where it's hard to control anything else.

Jung somehow makes it feel more scientific, and still romantic. Through some device we can acces the collective and get glimpse into some other, a  super humanistic mind.  Also a seductive idea, that in a world of uncertainty we can tap into truth from beyond.

I'm fairly certain I don' ascribe to either of these ideas, yet I read my horoscope daily. Why?

Because I'm enough of a romantic to want the explanations to be true.