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support group for those who have rejected astrology

for various terrible reasons

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Yrsa Daley-Ward
Jul 11, 2023
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Help; I don't know my rising, 
and it's messing up my social life. 
It's the first thing that everyone who's anyone asks.
I'm tired of not knowing the truth. 
Here's the tragedy of it all; 
Mum told me the exact time
I was born once. I thought she'd be around
forever and didn't listen properly.
She might have said ten pm, or
she may have said three am,
meaning I'm a Gemini moon or a Gemini moon. 
Meaning I'm a Libra ascendant or a Sag ascendant, 
and I'll never know which,
which is criminal! Perhaps I even heard her
wrong. Perhaps I'm misremembering. 
I likely confused things. I'm awfully confused.

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