Horoscopes

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I often hear the more scientifically literate condemning the concepts of horoscopes and astrology. Of course, we all know they’re nonsense. I guess some people derive a bit of fun from them, and I guess that’s OK.

But does anyone actually know anyone personally who believes this stuff? I’m pretty sure I’ve never in my life heard anyone profess any kind of actual belief in astrology, but they must exist - otherwise skeptics wouldn’t feel the need to explain that they’re nonsense.

So - anyone know anyone who believes in astrology?

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Sure. I hear people talking about it at work. “Maybe I shouldn’t ask for a raise because Mercury is in retrograde right now”.

Midlevel managers, people that are married and have children. I’m not kidding.

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I worked with a woman years ago who was always saying crap like “He’s a typical Scorpio!” in all seriousness. What was most interested were the 3 Scorpios - they were as different as any 3 people could be. So which one was typical? I never could figure that out… :rolleyes:

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Yes I do, they’re pretty much all females that I can immediately remember.

Never met anyone so bad to mention any planets being in retrograde like campp but I hear all the time that “Oh that’s a typical X for you.” Or “Well I am an X and can’t help it.” or some other deluded bullshit.

5

My Aunt believes in it enough to have planned her pregnancy so the baby would be born under a specific sign.

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Supposedly Ronald Reagan was partly guided by astrologer Joan Quigley.

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I believe in astrology to an extent but that’s only because my zodiac sign describes me to a T.

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Really?

9

Actually, it was Nancy who was a true believer and she would call in her “person” whenever Ronnie had a big decision to make.

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Mine does, too – as to about seven other of the twelve signs.

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I don’t believe in astrology per se, but I’m fairly proud to be a Sagitarius…the Archer…adventerous. And puffed up about the fact that I was born under the planet Jupiter—the “lucky” one. Being born in the Year of the Tiger according to Chinese astrology just makes it even better.

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Again I say… really? You ascribe your own character to the position of a planet?

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LOL yea, and I like to guess other pols sign’s too to see if they match thier description. Usually not though…

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I assume you are joking.

I had a friend who believed in horoscopes and visited a psychic once a year. I couldn’t take her seriously. She freaked out about November 29, for some reason. it was some kind of bad date for her.

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You probably have planets and moons in other signs too.

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LOL no I’m not, ima a cancer and everything the description says is me inside and out that’s why I believe it. Don’t believe in psychics though…

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So you believe there are only 12 personality types in the world, and you’re the same as one twelfth (or about half a billion) of the people on the planet?

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Well, ya know, it all changed last year.
I think there are now 13 signs. I used to be a cancer, now I’m geminie cricket, I think.

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lol You’re right! But I prefer not to believe in that.

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We have a psychic in East TN. I don’t know what the rules are about giving out specific names and locations, so I won’t here. But he’s been “booked” every day for the last twenty-five years or so. My brother had an appointment with him that was years away. He doesn’t charge for his readings. People come to him from all over. I was afraid to see him for fear of what he might tell me…I prefer to believe that I’m lucky and leave it at that.