An idea from The Enneads

The stars don’t make you rich, sick, cruel or kind. At most they signal, as writing does: “We may think of the stars as letters perpetually being inscribed on the heavens”. That came with a belief that the stars are living beings with souls, which no astronomy keeps now.

From The Enneads by Plotinus

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