Here's what I DON'T get about horoscopes.

[Blue-Jay]

Am I to actually believe that I have demonstrably similar personality characteristics to everyone else who was born during a particular month? I'm talking about those characteristics that are not found in others who were born during the other 335 (or so) days of the calander year.

I know people who read their horoscope in the newspaper and act as though they're being personally addressed. What a load of shit that is. I'd be better off relying on the advice of a fortune cookie than believing that everyone born during my month is going to have a similar experience on a given day.

What brought this on was a conversation that I overheard on the train today. I won't relate the whole exchange because I quickly grew bored with it, but the quote that stuck with me was "Oh yeah. She's a Libra for sure. She shows all the classic signs of it." My head almost exploded at that point, so I buried my head in my book.

Dear People Born In December: I have no more or no less in common with you (emotionally, physically, mentally or spiritually) than I have with any other random person. If I have a bad day at work, that doesn't mean that you'll also have a bad day at work. That would be a stupid thing to assume.

OK.... I guess that's enough.

pffffht.

[stellanoir]

1. First of all

I have loved your sig pict for eons.

Secondly, Sun Sign astrology is total BS. People draw from varying archetypes and few, aside from the most overbearing are aligned with their solar placements for the duration of their lifetimes. Human interactions have far more to do with Lunar, Mercurial, Venusian, Martian, Jovial, and Saturnine interactions than Solar ones. That would relate to people's emotional, communicative, joyful, motivational, altruistic, committed, energies than merely our spiritual alignment which is represented solely by the sun. On that spiritual level we all get along (hopefully). One most simply, must focus far beyond the self alone.

Analazing one's chart based solely on solar data is akin to diagnosing one's health by examining their left foot only. It is totally worthless. We are very simply, not at all one dimensional creatures.

[MrScorpio]

2. You lookin at me?

You lookin' at me?

I don't see anybody else here.

[Blue-Jay]

5. No. No I wasn't.

[crispini]

3. Astrology may or may not be a load of shite;

I haven't really studied it much. But it sure is kinda fun. Have you ever read Rob Brezny's horoscopes? www.freewillastrology.com. They're sort of poems in the form of horoscopes. Very wack.

[Blue-Jay]

4. Nah. Haven't seen that before.

as for it being "fun", I again refer to my comparison to the accuracy of fortune cookies. Read your horoscope, tack on "in bed" to the end of it, and have a good laugh at the absurdity of it.

[ofrfxsk]

6. I used to work with someone who read and believed the TV Guide horoscopes

and some tabloids.
At least once a day, she'd try to correlate every set-back in our professional and personal lives with what the astologers predicted. Every good thing was greeted with "I knew it! <so and so astrologer/psychic shyster> said this and that about your lower moon and Mars colliding! Isn't it exciting?!"

We wanted to kill her to put her out of our misery.