Astrology, Rhesus Negative ..and Folic Acid in Bread

A month or so ago I found out I was rhesus negative - A negative in particular.  To be honest, I'm only mentioning it here for cynical reasons. I made a blog post about it over on my red hair blog (a place more apt for it, given some of the online woo associating RH- with redheads). Anyway, that particular post got a spike in views, so I'm mentioning it here to see what happens. It's a strange topic, as it's something that comes up online in woo-woo land, in relation to aliens and other wackiness, but it largely goes unmentioned elsewhere. It's similar to blood groups in general. They're a big deal in Japan, they make a big fuss about them. It's like a person's star sign (we'll come to horoscopes next). Here in the west it isn't considered worth mentioning though, unless for practical reasons like blood donations and so forth. The fact that I only recently found out my blood type confirming this general lack of care - and I only discovered mine because I purposely ordered a test from Amazon out of curiosity.

Astrology

More woo now. I've been taking a slight interest in astrology. Largely accidentally, as a channel I watch on YouTube dabbles in it. I'm sure it's all nonsense - it must be, right? But still it's a bit of fun and the history of it is interesting. Also, it strokes the ego a little bit. Like the rhesus negative blood, it gives a sense of, "I'm special."

"This is my chart, this is why I'm so interesting."

I mentioned that I was a Taurus on this blog not too long ago, that time in relation to childhood memories, and how it never really appealed to me. I never really saw myself as an angry, hulking bull. An unthinking hothead. However, the YouTuber pointed out that the bull isn't angry all the time. Most of the time it's solitary and placid. It's just that when it does get angry it gets really angry. Which is true of me, I must admit. A good example being this recent thing where the UK government is mandating that all plain flour must be fortified with folic acid.

I'm genuinely pissed off about it (though most of the time I tend to be shy and passive). I'm still in a mood now as a I type, even though my initial burst of annoyance was yesterday. (I wanted to overthrow the government yesterday 😅). It also annoys me that other people aren't as annoyed as I am. 

It's a bit of a detour from the astrology, but this impulse to mass medicate populations. In ways where it effectively becomes impossible or illegal to avoid it is just outrageous to me. We see the same thing with the fluoridation of water. Even if there were no health downsides whatsoever the principle alone would be worth fighting for. How dare you medicate me against me wishes.

And, as with Covid, I'm past the point of caring about public health. If the rest of the country are happy being treated like barnyard animals that's their problem. Not me.

We also recently had news that the UK government are banning restaurants from refilling sugary drinks - i.e. from giving free top-ups. Again in the name of public health. This one doesn't affect me in the slightest, but I'm peeved nonetheless. This endless interfering; this endless communism. So much money, time and effort wasted to busybody.

You really have to wonder at the mentality of the people making such rules. Some bad things that governments do make sense. For instance, censorship. I get why governments censor people. They want to exercise power, and people contradicting the narrative is a threat and hindrance to them. I don't agree with the censorship, but there's a logic to it. Bringing in a rule to ban the refilling of a cup of hot chocolate is just completely inane though. That they think the idea in the first place is telling. That they then go to such an effort to implement and enforce the idea condemns them entirely.

Give these people a China-style social credit system and they will be worse than China.

Back To Astrology

Anyway, let's back to lighter things. I got myself a birth chart thingy. (Just type 'create birth chart' or something to that effect into Google and countless free generators pop-up.)

My Moon is in conjunction with Venus, and they're both in opposition to Saturn, whatever that means. I did read some of the descriptions from the site that produced the chart and they were actually quite accurate to be fair. Especially in regard my woeful dealings with the opposite sex. Of course, there's always the tendency to pick and choose, and to see what we want to see though. The vagueness leaves a lot of room for interpretation. So it's easy to read too much into things.

Still, it's more fun than spending time trying to avoid the countless industrial chemicals the government tries to shove down our throats.