As an ex-Evangelical kid who grew up in Amish country in the Northeast, I never really felt tied to anything — least of all religion. It's hard to trust or instill faith in anything when all your life you've been told what you should believe.
My agnostic views towards life and the larger meaning of life changed when I found a love of astrology in college with my best friend. We would spend hours reading each other's charts and diving into the deeper philosophical reasons we are the way that we are. We would run compatibility charts on the people we crushed on and each other. It became a pure and innocent way for two non-religious college girls to bond. She has always had an instinctive bond to the spiritual world — she grew up in a Cuban-Puerto Rican household that practiced and believed in Santería, a cross between West African spiritual and religious beliefs with Cuban Catholicism. For me, as someone who grew up Ethiopian and Evangelical, all of this spiritualism was new ground I was breaking into, and I was scared of what it held for me.
