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Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse. 

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 50 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why does anyone need an "astrology influencer"

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Desperate escapism?

[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

This is certiably a phrase / concept the world would be better off without.

Takes two of my least favorite things, mysticism and internet points, and rolls them into a real shit sandwich

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Here's the cool part: they don't

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Secular people, or people without religious membership, tend to look for substitutes.

We need normalization of post-graduate secular community organizations that have a set schedule of yearly events, and regular, ideology based meeting times. The Freemasons kind of come to mind, but they have their own set of historical issues. Something like co-ed fraternities for non-college going adults, but without superstitious concepts associated with membership. The only criteria should be “no conning other people” or something similar.

The Satanic temple has done a good job of framing a reasonable humanitarian charter, but I don’t like their religious movement framing. Supernatural concepts and superstition needs to be removed from such community membership.

[–] sepulcher@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

A certain group of people tends to believe in this stuff more than others.