Astrology: thoughts

[Asset]

Obviously the day to day 'mystic meg' style predictions are rubbish.

BUT is there anything to it?

What do we think about the general physical and character traits attributable to zodiac signs? How many of us have done a compatabily test?

I will stick my neck out and say that I do believe there is an element of stereotyping that can be done.

For example: Cancerians often have moon faces; Librans like balance and calm and are crap at making decisions, Leos have big hair; Virgos are pernickety buggers.

Get on it.......

[Michael Palaeologus]

I am a Capricorn and am therefore highly suspicious of the whole thing

[david_carnell]

As a Taurean I stubbornly refuse to believe a word of it.

And as a right-minded individual who has a basic understanding of how the universe works I think it's the biggest load of codswallop around.

[VeryBerryCherry]

I am a Virgo and I'd like to start by picking a couple of holes in your argument.... :))

[chuff]

I am a Pisces who is terrible at making decisions, there might be something in it, but then again there might not.

[SeanMacGabhann]

5 replies and no mention of "woo"

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Load of arse

And I can say that as I'm a Libran and like calm and balance.

Only when I tell people I'm a Libran do they say "ooh you can tell" - before I tell people it's normally about 7 guesses.

Big pile of arsey woo

12 types of personality combination????

* bites fist *

[Brendan]

I have big hair. I'm not a Leo though which may have something to do with me being a Gemini.

[pk]

i am prepared to believe that your earliest experiences can have some impact on who you are later in life, and that the time of year at which you are born may have some impact on what your first experiences are

i am also prepared to accept that how old you are (relative to those in the same school year) when you start school can have some impact on how you are at that stage - given that the oldest children could be a year (or may be a year less a day) older than the youngest in the same year. by way of example ive heard the more professional sportsman are born the first half of the traditional school year - and as such on average are bigger and stronger than those in the second half and therefore are probably as a group better when they first play sport and therefore enjoy it more, with this early influence having a longer impact

so i am prepared to accept that when grouped together on aggregate there may be some charactertics that may be more likely or more prominent in people born at different stages of the year, however i think that the differences would be small and subject to many exceptions

is that astrology? probably not

[PeckhamRose]

Saw a documentary on this years ago, and those folks who invented it according to the position of the stars in the sky at that time - well basically the stars positioning has changed since then meaning - ummm - there's actually fourteen star signs. But two got lost when the stars moved position.

Having said that I did get someone to cut out the names of the star signs from the descriptions, and I do have all the Taurean characteristics. And I am a Taurean!

Bollox tho, really.

[Brendan]

So in the Southern Hemisphere where the school year starts in January and the seasons are switched around are the horoscopes all out of wack?

[Moos]

I haven't got big hair.

It is all about me, though. And I'm a tiger too, if we may be oriental as well as occidental.

[chuff]

ooh if we're being oriental moos, then I'm a dog. Better than a pig though I suppose.

I don't believe in anything really though, apart from chocolate.

[Asset]

woo woo woo

[Asset]

horse me, that'll be the long face (boo hoo)

[Moos]

My son is a pig, and a golden pig too (it's a fire year). Very lucky, or so I gather.

I have to admit that he is very round and pink.

[Asset]

but hang on a feckin minute, some of you are prepared to believe in God - yet not in Astrology. Can I have a distinction please?

[Asset]

I'm a fire horse, apparently they were drowned at birth in China!

[Moos]

Astrology claims to be scientific and fact-based. It's not a faith.

[Asset]

yes, faith, that's the operative word

[Asset]

what's the difference between faith in a higher being and faith in astrology?

[Moos]

A fire horse sounds rather magnificent! Why??

[Asset]

neither has any basis in fact

[Asset]

'cos I can burn round that race course

[Moos]

Faith isn't about fact, it's about ethics, belief and a way of life.

Astrology purports to be a scientific method of determining various things (I'm not sure exactly what, think it goes beyond just personalities?). So no faith is required - either you think the method is sound or you don't.

[Moos]

I'm a wooden tiger. God knows what that is supposed to imply.