Advice from friends vs astrology

Sure, friends are great to go to for advice. They mean well. They love you and do their best to steer you in the right direction. But is their advice always the best?

For instance, a friend will tell you to do things the way they would do it. Doesn't mean they are wrong. However, because something is right for that person, doesn't mean it's right for you. Such as, a fire sign is going to go in all aggressive and take care of business...which is fine for them, but an earth sign is more analytical and might can achieve the same results from coming around the backside of a situation. Guns a blazin' doesn't work for a less aggressive person and coming at them from a sly side angle might not work for a fire sign.

And in dealing with men. Your friend might have good advice, but the advice they give might work on a water sign with no problem, yet your man might be an air sign who won't respond the same way.

Here's a more personal example that made me start thinking about this topic - I gave aqua a jar full of pieces of paper listing the reasons I love him for his birthday. I gave it to him when we were alone, in private. He loved it and sat there quietly reading every one of them. A friend told me I should have given it to him at his birthday party and he would have enjoyed reading them to everyone, that her husband would have loved receiving it like that. Well, my bf has a virgo moon and would have been mortified had I done that. Her husband is a Leo and would have loved sharing that display in person. I told him later she had suggested that and I was right - he would have hated that.

So, the point is, knowing astrology might be more beneficial in how we approach things with other people than just taking advice from friends who may or may not be right but they know nothing on how someone might respond (unless they know the person very well).

Do you guys have examples on the merits of advice from astrology versus advice from well meaning friends/family?

Great question!

You have a point here!

I agree, besides best friends give biased advice to make you feel better. Kind of like that movie in "He's just not into you" where the characters kept doing that.

My friend give advice all the time and I keep telling them that certain things will not work.

they never listen. They don't listen to my advice either and then shit gets worse for them.

moreso, my friends tend to be right about things, whereas with astrology i may focus on the wrong areas and can quite possibly delude myself.

There are both sides of the coin (friends/astrology) and I like seeing it from all angles.

Astrology feeds have a way of describing a person's personality, problems, flaws or weaknesses in a more articulate way than a friend can.

Some times all it takes for you to best receive a message is for it to be delivered and articulated in the right way. Isn't that part of the reason astrology became believable to those of us who are only here b/c we went, "Omg yes that describes me!" when 1st reading about astrology?

Here's the thing though...many of my friends have said, "Krys you're an Aqua who can be hot & cold," but the difference is that all of those astrology sites I used to visit articulated my supposed 'personality' in a more creative yet clear cut fashion.

Plus, people will always subconsciously believe to an extent that a friend's advice is almost always biased advice...It's a lot easier to hear the exact same words from an anonymous blogger & it set in that way vs. hearing your over protective friends tell you the exact same thing.

Astrology does NOT however take into account outside factors that influence personality, circumstances, etc. And all of those outside factors are crucial in you getting true unadulterated advice. Only friends know the intimate details, therefore my final conclusion is that a friend's advice about a situation will always trump what astrology has to say on a generalized (only) basis.

I love it though when astrology & my friends agree. It makes me have more confidence in astrology moreso than them lol b/c I'm so amazed sometimes at how easier it is for me to understand others or myself by simply reading a scientists version of who and what we're supposed to be =)