The phantom phenomenon of ghosting AKA disappearing from a r🗹elationship without c🔜ause, trace or closure is as old as the insistent beating of the first human heart.
Though we’ve been hunting and haunting each other since the beginning of time, the term ghosting was officially added to the defined as “the act or practice of abruptly cutting off all contact with someone (such as a former romantic partner) usually without explanation by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls, instant messages, etc.”
Prince, AKA the king of side burns and broken hearts, captured the feeling of being ghosted in his 1982 banger♍ decades before the nomenclature existed.
In a more recent pursuit of/plea for clarity, industrious TikToker Stephanie D’Agostini created an exit survey to determine what made her partners ghost.
Basic psychology suggests fear, low emotional intelligence and the cheap convenience of technol🌄ogy all conspire to make ghosting preferable to direct communication and ultimately, the t🦂rue compassion of clarity.
In honor of heartbreak and slow fades, we bring you the zodiac si🉐gns most likely to ghost. Be sure and read for your sun, Venus, Mars and rising signs.
ARIES (March 21 – April 19)
Aries is ruledཧ by impulse driven, desire serving pla༺net Mars, so named for the Roman god of will and warfare. Apropos of this, Aries natives are action oriented, impatient and prone to falling in and out of love with alarming speed and staggering intensity.
The very definition of hot and cold, love em and leave em’ they are capable of swinging wildly between bold, Bonnie and Clyde, blood oath devotion and bored, on to the next “new phone, new side piece, who dis” energy.
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GEMINI (May 21 – June 20)
Built for ghosting, the average Gemini is quick to court and quick to forget. Ruled by trickster planet𝔉 Mercury, Gemini is the sort to play games, flirt without follow through, and send mixed signals and multiple nudes to multiple folks.
Mutable, easily distracted and apt to change their minds and cancel plans, they abandon sh🌳ip and people when something shinier captures their attention and/or affections. They need the freedom to change course and keeping their options open often looks like double booking and/or flat out disappearing.
A classic example of a Gemini ghost is Russell Brand who all but dematerialized to ex-wife Katy Perry. The “Hot N Cold’ singer, who has since moved on with partner and nude paddler Orlando Bloom, “He hasn’t spoken to me since he texted me saying he was filing for divorce.”
Brand doubled down on the erasure by removing the he and Perry shared. Because Perry is a Scorpio with approximately no chill, and nary a scrap of subtlety she immortalized her ex’s exit in the song
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 21)
Freedom loving, good time having and commitment eschewing, Sagittarius folk ghost when their plans to keep it light, keep it open and keep it casual are compromised. When it stops being fun, they start looking for an escape hatch and will go t🐲o extreme measures for extrication.
Examples of this include actor Jake Gyllenhaal who famously ghosted Taylor Swift on her twenty first birthday and who continues to haunt🌟 her songbook.
Another archer who made good with a disappearing act is who after six years of marriage to Tom Cruise ♏reportedly left him without notice, changed her phone num𓄧ber, left no forwarding address and would only communicate through her legal team.
Many speculated that was Holmes’s dip out. Interestingly, the church itself is a bit of an institution of ghosting as it supports disconnection, the sanctioned severance between members and infidels.
AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18)
If the golden rule is to be applied to the world of dating than a ghosting Aquarius i🌺s simply treating others like they want to be treated; namely left alone to fend for themselves in a moonscape of thought bubbles, unanswered questions, unrealized fantasies and emotional vapor.
If you’re looking for a water bearer ode to the art of disappearing may I suggest apex Aquarius the Weeknd’s 2018 bop No, no you weren’t and you never will be, Abel.
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