I did too. That would have been way funnier :(

While I agree, and also do the occasional tarot reading for fun, some people actually believe they can deduce divine factual information about you from your date and time of birth. To me that's a bit of a yellow flag that they might have other dangerous anti-science beliefs.

I mean, by your own reasoning though it's at least a yellow flag - if she's just doing it because she thought it might be fun and cute, then yeah knock yourself out - if she looks at you seriously and says shit like "I need to make your star chart so I know if we're compatible and whether or not we have a future together", then I'd personally nope out of there

If someone starts doing my star chart, that's a blood red flag that we are going to disagree all the goddammit time and it just isn't worth it.

Astrology, tarot, etc are essentially just guided meditation. An option to think about yourself deeply for a while, and possibly more accessible and doable for certain types of people. The problems only arise when fraudsters use it for fraud.

Astrology is fun if you don’t take it seriously.

I agree, but the problem is that a lot of people do take it seriously. It's perfectly fine to enjoy these things if you just think they're fun. But actually believing in things that are demonstrably wrong is definitely a huge red flag for me. I've also become extremely negative towards astrology in particular because I've had to deal with family who used to take it at face value and also because I love astronomy, which, to me, gets tainted by this pseudoscience nonsense that sort of imitates it.

Or you could just talk about your lives like normal people do.

Astrology and any other religion/spirituality stuff itself is a flapping red flag.

In astrology, a bunch of trivia about your life factor into your reading... So like basic newspaper horoscopes are just like "which range of dates does your birthday fall into? Oh okay you're a Pisces then, so go read the horoscope for all Pisces..." But if you go to a "real" astrologer for a "real" reading, they wanna know other stuff, including what time you were born, and that'll help personalize the reading.

Mom is making the assumption that the reason for the question is to use her response as input to an astrology reading. Instead of sharing the time of birth, she warns the subject to stay away from "her," the astrologer, who are stereotypically female.

Short answer: The joke is that astrology girls are crazy.

Context: If you look up your sign according to your date of birth (sun sign) and find that it doesn't fit your personality at all, well you just need to delve deeper, find out your rising sign and moon sign by having a professional (or algorithm) cross reference your time of birth with the fancy astrology chart. Still doesn't fit you? Well you probably just got the time wrong because it has to be to the exact minute. Perhaps it's that your mom doesn't remember correctly, or that many hospitals will fudge the times a little in your birth records. You must work extensively with a professional astrologer, who will assign your sign based on whichever one sounds the most like you. You need the 3 signs for your reading to really "work"

it's an astrology girl

Anybody that has a strongly held belief in superstition is off the "hang out daily forever" list. Be that a traditional superstition with meetings on Sundays or some equally incorrect combination of fate and astronomy.

Yeah but they let you filter people out based on the fact that they answered the question.

Yea, the last girl I was dating was into all of that stuff. I think she thought that because she was into all of that stuff it meant she was automatically kind, open and blah, blah which meant that she didn't realise when she was being judgemental or mean because it didn't fit her image of herself.