Power of the mind
In my experience everything that happens to you, for you or around you is (in the real world) not controlled by your mind because there is thing called logic but then again your mind is the one finding logic while fucking you with a strap on of superstitions (a subset of beliefs). Horoscopes are a certain something that has been fucking the human race in ass more than movies selling the idea of love.
Let me tell you how the mind works (at least my mind). Mind is a dimension with endless possibilities and yet I try to define it. However, for the sake of simplicity let’s assume there are 2 sections of your mind - conscious you and the subconscious. It's not a half and half, the size of these sections are variable.
A long story in fast forward.
I liked a girl in college, had a crush (hate the term) for months, then asked her out she said no, boom! moved on, a few months later I was just randomly thinking about all the girls I used to think about so I obviously had a thought about her. I lived in a neighbourhood near college where a lot of college people were self accommodated as well or hung out. I used to take a walk to the beach and come back walking every evening. The day I thought about her (and other ones) after all the moving on process (of months,) I had lunch took nap and went for my daily walk to beach. bumped in to a couple of people from college, listened to music on the beach blah blah blah then it was my time to walk back home. This day was different though. I was too lazy to walk back home so I took a rickshaw. Now my rickshaw was gonna make a right turn and that cut(if you will) my auto went right and her auto took a U turn from the other side.
ILLUSTRATION TO EXPLAIN THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT
It was like a movie where people just drift past each other. and now this is such a big event in my life I was like woah “it’s a sign”. I went home thought about it going crazy that maybe I should give it a shot again.
BUT WAIT…
Now, call it a pre-coping with rejection mechanism or just logic what I’m about to explain. that day right before going out for my walk I wasn’t thinking about her but she was there somewhere fresh in my subconscious for it to bring to my head (the conscious) that it’s a sign. I bumped in to a lot of people from college. technically she is also people from college but since my subconscious had some old memories plus this new fresh thought from the afternoon, it made my mind (the conscious) look for her. It made think of it as a sign.
Same shit is with fuckin horoscopes. You read something, you forget about it but due to your environmental conditioning (people around you (old thoughts)) your subconscious wants that shit to happen. You want to see that chick. You want to see that sign, somewhere deep within and you look for it. Next time try this, read the characteristics of any other zodiac sign thinking of it as your own. You will find those things happening to you. It is because,, these things happen to you daily, but your subconscious is constantly looking for these things once you've read about it, once you have acquired that information. For eg. If I am acting a little bipolar then and I'm a Gemini, everybody's gonna be like "yo gemini people have dual personality and shit". Had I been a libra with the same issue I am maintaining a balance (ciaga) between opposites.
Belief happens when your subconscious and conscious minds work together to consider something impossible to be possible.
To be Continued...