An 11-year-old wants to legally change her birthday because she wishes she had a different zodiac sign. Then a tarot reader asks whether he’s wrong for questioning his friend’s animal telepathy business—and refusing to support her spiritual MLM.

In this episode of What in the Woo Woo, Emily and Krista unpack two Spiritual Reddit AITA stories involving birth charts, animal communication, tarot, pyramid schemes and the complicated line between respecting someone’s beliefs and enabling bad behavior.

Can someone actually have a “bad” zodiac sign? When does an astrological birth chart officially begin? Is it ethical to give astrology readings to children? Does charging money make a spiritual service less legitimate? And are you obligated to pay your friend to telepathically communicate with your pet?

CHAPTERS

0:00 A Child’s Zodiac Sign and an Animal Psychic
0:20 Welcome to What in the Woo Woo
1:13 Can You Legally Change Your Birthday?
3:11 When Does an Astrology Chart Begin?
5:03 Are You Always Born at the Right Time?
5:16 There Is No Bad Birth Chart
6:39 How to Spot a Bad Astrologer
8:22 Astrology, Children and Self-Discovery
9:18 Should Minors Receive Astrology Readings?
10:51 The Animal Telepathy Reddit Story
11:51 How the Animal Psychic Business Works
14:14 Does Charging Make It a Scam?
15:29 Spiritual MLM Red Flags
15:58 Paying a Friend to Read Your Pet
16:59 Is She Actually Communicating with Animals?
18:03 Why Spiritual Work Is Treated as Illegitimate
19:21 Fortune-Telling Laws
21:44 The Final Reddit Verdict
22:13 Go Make Some Magic

What’s your verdict? Would you ever pay an animal communicator to read your pet?

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