I don’t read my horoscope with any kind of regularity, but I have read astrology books from time to time. I even did up my birth chart once, and read a subsequent interpretation on the web.
Do I believe that astrology can fortell the future and give me valuable insight into my life? Not really. Every now and then I’ll jokingly quip that I’m about to have a bad day at work because my horoscope says so. Sometimes I’ll muse about how accurately my birth chart corresponds to my personality. Every now and then I’ll read up on what a Virgo’s traits are supposed to be and try to fit them into who I am. In the end, though, I realize that astrology is just a very old and complicated meme, like the kind you find in great quantities on the web today (What kind of beer are you? Which Star Wars character are you? etc… ).
I used to live and breathe astrology.
Between age 13-19.
I found sometimes people do act like their signs. I am a Sag, and we sometimes blurt out insulting things without meaning to.
But not all Sags do.
So when people find something that correlates, it seems to make it aaccurate.
Sagitarius, Gemini Moon(full moon) Cancer rising.
Sun exactly square Pluto.
vanilla, were you a Christian at the same time? My mom. a Christian, would often say that astrology was “unbiblical”, but I realize other Christians feel otherwise.
Past job regression . . .Whenever the head of a very prestigious, well-thought-of, financially solvent local company hired a manager at a certain level, said manage was sent to a psychic/astrologer for a reading. I know this because the readings were taped, and then transcribed by a fast typist who was paid by the page (me).
Along with a complete analysis and a nice, very decorative chart, the candidate (or maybe they were already hired at that point; I’m not sure) got something like this: “Oh, wow, in your past life regression I see that you and Gerald were Druid monks together on the island of Atlantis . . . that’s very very very indicative that you’ll work well together in this lifetime . . .”
(Really. I am not making this up. If I made it up it would go like this: "I see that in one past life you were a mosquito on the Nile. You only lived for three days, then Gerald, in a past life, squashed you when you tried to drink his blood. So, you’re fired!)
I found a book on crystal ‘healing’ in the geology section of my local library. I created a fuss and they moved it. I’m not sure where; fantasy I hope.
I believe astrology is totally unreasonable, moronic.
That’s my firm belief, which will not change. Laugh at your own risk.
Look at it this way, the bible vacillates between ‘foreign gods’ being real (but demonic and subject to the Will of Yahweh and having anything to do with them is idolatry) and ‘foreign gods’ being a sham since there is only one God (their idols do not see, yada yada yada). Thanks Bible, that’s helpful. :dubious:
And so with astrology (and Wicca and ouija and ghosts and UFOs and magick and chi and Satanism and tarot), I take the side that ‘there’s nothing there,’ and wind up laughing at them.
You should try Japan. There they judge personality types by blood groups: it’s quite disconcerting to be casually asked in conversation “What’s your blood type?” I’ve even been asked that on an membership application for a video store over there, although God knows why. Might make an interesting chat-up line, though: “So, what’s your blood type? Don’t tell me, O positive, right?”
I used to collect pairs of people with matching birthdays and absolutely no characteristics in common.
When people would tell me that astrology was legit, I would cite these pairs – I mean, if you share the same birthday, you should at least have something in common, right?
Invariably, there would always be some attempt to point out that these dissimilar people “aren’t really all that different, when you think about it”. E.g., since they were usually celebrities, one of the common replies was, “Well, they’re both celebrities, aren’t they?” :rolleyes:
When someone made this argument about Ernest Hemingway and Don Knotts (who do indeed share a birthday), I gave up.
As someone on these boards puts it, sometimes ignorance fights back.
I used to be really into astrology when I was fifteen and became friends with a Wiccan, but then eventually grew out of it when we grew apart. When we were friends, I became annoyed whenever she would say, “You are so totally an Aqaurius” whenever I said anything. She personally disliked anybody that was a Leo because she claimed to never have met a nice Leo.
It’s a shame because she’s quite intelligent in other matters.
Do you mean I am not really ‘focused, driven, and self-confident’, that I do not ‘seek leadership positions and find that people respect’ my ‘abilities as a leader’? That I am not ‘outgoing and idealistic’, ‘fun and enthusiastic’? Darn!
I once started a pit thread about Feng Shui, which somehow even bugs me more than horoscopes. There is a TV channel where they show tips on decorating your house and cooking according to your sign. I wish I could reach through the TV screen and strangle them… but that would be SO not Leo!
I enjoy astrology for entertainment purposes only just like the disclaimers in every astrology publication, but I only get free ones like on the web.
Its always a boost of optimism because they talk about how great your next day or month or whatever will be.
I’ve always thought I’m nothing like the supposed Leo archetype but my friend thinks I am, and I guess he believes in it a bit.
I think of it almost like a personality test just to look through descriptions of all the signs (but they vary from site to site, and I’ve never got a definitive idea of what Leo is except vague things like rulers, overachievers, etc)
