Today an astrologer read my birth chart.

It's been a year and a day since all my memories returned. Since I rediscovered myself. The air feels heavy around me sometimes. Like there's an infinite amount of information stuffed into every spec. And it's all right there waiting at my finger tips.

Does the alignment of planets and stars affect us on Earth?

Is Venus all about love and beauty? Is Saturn all about hardships?

I believe it's possible.

But, I had a thought today during my reading.

What if astrology is actually all about patterns?

What if it's more about recurring themes in humanity conjunct with space and time?

We all know that astrology is a tool to learn about ourselves. It gives us a starting point for inquiry.

Take my birth chart for example. We can look at it and say, "Oh your Venus is in the fourth house in Aries. This might indicate difficulties with domestic love."

But we choose for it to mean something or not.

We choose the next question to ask.

"Do I really have difficulty with domestic love?"

"Do I bounce around from partner to partner?"

The short answer for me is yes (or I used to anyway), but the long answer tells a bigger picture.

One too long and not the point of this post.

The point I'm making is this:

What if there are cosmic patterns? Patterns too large for us to hold in our minds.

What if at this time of the year, under these circumstances, this type of person is born?

We know that history goes through patterns.

Why not the birth of people too?