The renewed fascination with forecasts and signs reflects a deeper discomfort with unresolved identity.
There is a noticeable pattern in today’s feeds. Alongside breaking news and commentary, daily horoscopes and psychic forecasts have become unusually prominent. They appear not only in explicitly spiritual spaces, but embedded in mainstream media, lifestyle sections, and general news outlets.
This resurgence is often explained as entertainment or cultural habit. But its timing matters. When uncertainty rises and narratives multiply, attention does not only fragment — it begins searching for orientation.
What draws people back to these messages is not belief in prediction itself, but the promise of coherence.
Meaning as a Stabilizer
Periods of collective uncertainty reliably increase interest in symbolic guidance. Astrology, forecasts, and intuitive language offer something that fragmented information does not: a sense that events belong to a larger pattern, that experiences are not random, and that the individual has a place within an intelligible story.
This does not indicate confusion or irrationality. It reflects a deeply human impulse to locate oneself within time.
From the Dualistic Unity perspective explored in Proof That You’re God, however, this impulse carries a subtle cost. Meaning becomes externalized. Orientation is sought in narrative rather than presence.
The question quietly shifts from What is happening? to What does this mean for me?
When Orientation Turns Into Seeking
The act of scrolling often looks passive, but psychologically it is active. Attention is not drifting — it is checking. Each new message becomes a potential answer to an unspoken question about direction, timing, or readiness.
At this point, the fatigue people report is not informational overload. It is the exhaustion that comes from sustaining an unresolved self-story.
The system is not asking for more insight. It is asking for closure.
The Role of Identity in the Search for Signs
Forecasts work because they address the reader as a character moving through time. They speak to a “you” with a trajectory, challenges, lessons, and turning points. Even when read lightly, they reinforce the assumption that there is a personal narrative unfolding that needs guidance to stay on track.
From the Dualistic Unity lens, this is the mechanism by which suffering stabilizes. The self is assumed. The story is maintained. Stillness remains deferred.
The search for meaning does not arise from the headlines, the stars, or the predictions themselves. It arises from identification with a self that believes it must be oriented before it can rest.
Stillness Is Not an Outcome
What people are often surprised to discover is that the relief they associate with understanding does not actually come from explanation. It appears in moments when the effort to orient the self relaxes.
Stillness is not something added to experience. It is what remains when attention is no longer recruited to maintain narrative continuity.
This is why even accurate or comforting messages fail to satisfy for long. They address the story, not the assumption that a story must be carried at all.
A More Honest Relationship With Meaning
This is not a rejection of symbolic language, spirituality, or introspection. These can be rich and expressive human activities.
The distinction is subtle but decisive: whether meaning is used creatively, or relied upon for psychological stabilization.
When meaning becomes necessary for inner equilibrium, stillness is postponed indefinitely. When the need for orientation is questioned, stillness becomes available without effort.
If this resonates…
These dynamics — identity, seeking, and the subtle ways narrative sustains restlessness — are explored more deeply in
Proof That You’re God
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKCMR183/
Not as a framework for understanding life, but as an inquiry into what remains when the need to understand relaxes.
Open Reflection
What if the fatigue beneath the scrolling is not about information at all, but about the quiet labor of maintaining a self that needs to know where it’s going?
