Go right ahead and ask for that raise if you really don’t want the boss to understand. Mercury retrograde causes communication fail…
I mean. I don’t know anyone who believes this stuff and I never gave readings to any of them back when I was looking for replacement religion in my teenage years.
ahem
I used to do Tarot readings in a chat room on AOL, many years ago. My disclaimer was, “I am a charlatan. All of my insights and predictions are made upon the spot. I do this for my own amusement and your entertainment.”
It was amazing how many people lined up for readings. It was more amazing how many of them came back later to tell me how it all came true. :rolleyes: :dubious: :smack:
Oh Oh, do a reading for me, do a reading for me!
I had a girlfriend who at least half believed that stuff before. She had a book that gave a few of my off the wall interests. It said that I played the trombone and was a swimmer, both of which are true. Pretty funny how I matched the off the wall instrument. And yes I know it was pure luck and nothing more.
In a general sense,yes.
LOL…the sign change only affect those born 2011 and later. So you are still a cancer:).
See, that is why I say I believe in the zodiac to an extent, I’m not into the specifics such as daily horoscopes like: “July 7 will be your lucky day” and things like “You have 10 degrees in aries”…don’t really care about all that, just the generalization.
I’ve had a tarot reading once and surprise surprise the card I got was a symbol of death…but everyone is gonna die one day ,so this is why I don’t believe in psychics…
Having the Death card turn up, does not mean you’re going to die.
One of our ex roommates was a reader for one of the call in psychic networks that you saw advertised on TV [this was back in the 90s] and she could do a cold card reading that was amazing, all from just random chatting for about 2 minutes. It is amazing what people babble on about when you get them on the phone while you are getting credit card details and what not. She would also do reading for people that asked her, or also at SCA events and street fairs. She certainly did not believe that there was anything mystical going on, she didn’t believe in horoscopes, cards, palm reading or anything of the sort. It was a great way to make a few bucks on the side to her.
Scorpio, chinese year of the Cow. Anybody want to do a random read on me, 340 am Oct 27th 1961 =) Favorite color is blue.
Even if I did believe in horoscopes, I wouldn’t know which one to go by. I’m a Taurus in the English calendar and an Aries in the Hebrew calendar.
LOL…which of the two signs do you feel Is the closest to your personality?
Starting just about every sentence with “LOL” is annoying, even when talking about something as ridiculous as astrology.
So, I cant laugh?Would “haha” be better for you??? Geez lighten up…
“LOL” “HAHA” “TEEHEE” and “HEHE” at the start of every sentence are also annoying. It makes you sound like a 9 year old girl.
This afternoon I Googled the person I mentioned earlier. He has a website now and also now charges for a reading. Maybe he used to didn’t, or didn’t charge “neighbors.” At any rate, (get the pun?) his card is alway full and he’s a kind man. I remember when his hair was red—he’s gray now, like a lot of us. If anybody doesn’t think this is too foolish (and I’ve been thrown out of better bars than this) message me if you’re interested in looking him up.
One of Robert A. Wilson’s books claimed that CSICOP (commitee for scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal) only did one actual investigation. They chose horoscopes because it seems like such a ‘low-hanging fruit’. They gave a control group their ‘correct’ horoscope, and the experimental group a random one, expecting both groups to report similar degrees of accuracy.
The experiment seemed to confirm horoscopes! According to Wilson they decided not to do any more investigations for fear of confirming something else that they had chosen not to believe. Instead they simply continue to ‘debunk’ them.
Disclaimer: I don’t have any personal knowledge of the foregoing.
If indeed this happened as reported by Wilson, here’s where I think they went wrong; they failed to consider the possibility that horoscopes might work to some degree for some other reason even if their supposed basis in astrology was pure BS.
It seems to me that babies who crawled around naked in the grass through long days of bright sunshine for their first months might tend to have quantifiable differences in personality traits from those who had to remain in an artificially heated environment or be cocooned in layers of cloth during short, dim days for those same first months.
Assuming most of your readers were born in the same climate where your horoscope is printed, a smart columnist might capitalize on any tendencies towards certain traits that they notice in people born at various times of year, and tailor their comments accordingly.
Having said this, I could never put any stock into a daily horoscope, but I have noticed that many of my fellow Virgo’s do, indeed, tend to be perfectionists, as ‘foretold by the stars’.
we Virgo’s don’t belive in horoscopes