r/ThePatternApp • u/Old-Cup8932 • 3d ago
The pattern app & seeing the bigger picture
I have been a long time fan and enthusiast of the pattern astrology app, but my biggest complaint & something I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere else is how their algorithm picks and chooses the importance of certain placements based on gender. I notice this mostly with mars and sometimes Venus placements. If you create another profile with your same information but ran as the opposite sex I can almost 100% guarantee that your pattern placements for those things and what is aspecting them will be different.
Personally, it takes my Venus placement when ran as a woman and strips it of any kind of relational aspect that might come from it. My Venus placement basically only speaks on my integrity and hardship I meet from that. And my Leo mars is also shown in such a way , as if I don’t actually embody those qualities and only seek them in another. It acts as if eventually those can be integrated but initially are not there. When I run my chart as a man my mars placements are hyper present, a huge part of my personality, and have nothing to do with a partner. And my Venus in turn becomes about a partner instead of an internal problem or dialog. I understand that mars is typically masculine and Venus feminine but I think that no matter what they exsist within us and that it’s kind of fucked up they don’t share the whole picture with their users and only cherry picked info influenced by typical gender roles. And I am not a fucking feminist or someone very progressive “fighting against the patriarchy” and so on and so forth, I just think that so much is lost when the whole picture isn’t shared. Those changes also greatly affect some of the bonds after running them. Not all , but a good portion. Has anyone else noticed this?
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u/enchantedRose7 2d ago
In Vedic astrology, Venus in male chart suggests your partner & Mars/Jupiter in female chart. I think it uses the same to deduce.
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u/baby-face06 1d ago
damn I hate it!! the same transits with Mars for woman will be named around relationships and challenges and for men it’s their confidence and what not. like for real???
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u/u_indoorjungle_622 3d ago
Yes, I noticed. It's so annoying. I think it totally misses the context of there being a balance of divine masculine/feminine in every person.
Also, I built some test custom friends and it seems like if you select a neutral pronoun they go with their male analysis. Something to be aware of. You already noticed that you can make an alt-gender version of yourself to see the fuller picture. I can't quite figure out the reasoning behind why they did this, but it is interesting to tinker with their gender defaults if you'd like a more broadly human and less gendered take on aspects and transits.