Should I really place my bed facing north and where does astrology come from ?

We’ve all heard the advice: you should place your bed facing north. But where does this idea come from? Is it just superstition, or is there something deeper going on?

For the past few centuries, we’ve lived in a world shaped by naturalism^[1]. But humans haven’t always seen the world this way. According to the anthropologist Philippe Descola, there are four major ways human cultures relate to the world: animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism^[2]. Each of these modes brings its own understanding of how humans interact with animals, plants, and the cosmos.