For many, the ominous thought that they could have been another zodiac sign all along can be let out with a sigh of relief. Don’t worry, your fire sign is still totally you.

NASA’s attempt at displaying the pseudoscience behind astrology was instead turned into this week’s social media shitstorm. Users began challenging everything they ever knew and contemplating their existences in 140 characters or less.

An article published in January on NASA’s children’s blog, Space Place, was taken out of context by several publications, including Yahoo, Cosmo and Glamour. The heavily sensationalized blog post does not offer any rewritten form of the zodiac. Instead, the post discusses the lack of scientific validity in astrology and explains that the positions of the constellations have shifted in the 3,000 years since the Babylonians gazed upon the sky.

Though Babylonians neglected the fact that the sun moves through 13 constellations because that did not match with their 12-month calendar, the inclusion of the 13th sign, Ophiuchus, is anything but new. Western astrology, which is the type of astrology most of us follow, recognizes Ophiuchus as a constellation, but it does not rely on constellations in the same way as Eastern astrology.

For some, this is good news. Your zodiac sign is just as accurate as it was before, though that isn’t saying much. If you’re instead wondering why the hell people believed that NASA would bother to officially announce something so inconsequential, it’s probably the same reason people actually bother to read Cosmo’s daily horoscope: Confirmation bias, or the tendency to accept truths that confirm our preexisting views. The world where NASA breaks news about fire signs instead of worrying about a meteor is the same world where daily horoscopes hold legitimate value.

People have a tendency to believe vague, general descriptions of their personalities. That’s why people still pull up their natal charts or walk into sketchy apartments in Adams Morgan where thinly veiled psychics offer tarot card readings. The idea that somehow people can be categorized into monolithic groups based on their birthdays has been proven false time and time again. But does that mean we all should stop using the zodiac for horoscopes or pickup lines? Maybe not.

Astrology shouldn’t be seen as a rigid guide for your lifestyle or how you choose your friends or romantic partners. Instead, it’s a flexible system that can serve as the medium for introspection.

Is it really a bad thing if it takes an arbitrary belief system to confirm your own suspicions of being an inconsiderate asshole? While the zodiac may describe the qualities everyone has, these are qualities that also go unnoticed.

While humans fall victim to confirmation bias, we are also guilty of self-serving bias. So if you read your personality traits and the critical ones creep up and resonate with you, maybe it’s your subconscious voice guiding you toward self-improvement.

Or maybe I’m just being optimistic about an occult system founded on archaic theories.