Many of the most familiar constellations were handed down from the ancient Babylonians, who lived in what is now Iraq, the Greeks and Romans.
No doubt some of these star groups go back even further.
Nowadays we speak of Orion, the zodiac constellations, the Dippers and bright stars like Sirius and Vega thanks to storytelling and later through writing.
More recently, all this wisdom has been converted into strings of ones and zeros and packaged for mobile phones and iPads.

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For a long time, I wondered why manipulation victims have a hard time seeing what really goes on in manipulative interactions. At first, I was tempted to fault them. But I've learned that they get hoodwinked for some very good reasons:

4. What our gut tells us a manipulator is like, challenges everything we've been taught to believe about human nature. We've been inundated with a psychology that has us seeing everybody, at least to some degree, as afraid, insecure or "hung-up."

So, while our gut tells us we're dealing with a ruthless conniver, our head tells us they must be really frightened or wounded "underneath."

What's more, most of us generally hate to think of ourselves as callous and insensitive people. We hesitate to make harsh or seemingly negative judgments about others. We want to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't really harbor the malevolent intentions we suspect. We're more apt to doubt and blame ourselves for daring to believe what our gut tells us about our manipulator's character.

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