I have a friend who gets the daily newspaper and the first thing she reads is her horoscope. Wow! Oh dear! and everything in between will be heard from her each and every day. NO conversation with her excludes the horoscope.
Her husband, on the other hand, thinks horoscopes and astrology are a right load of codswallop.
Personally, I think they are both wrong … and right!
I’ve never been much interested in astrology, to be honest – although I took a bit more interest when my son became obsessed with it (for about 2 years).
The sceptics ask how millions of people can be one of 12 zodiac signs .. therefore, horoscopes don’t make sense. They are right, logically speaking, it doesn’t make sense … but then, they don’t know three important things:
(1) Yes, western astrology is based on sun signs, of which there are 12, BUT an astrology chart consists of 12 houses, which generates a minimum of 479,001,600 different results.
(2) If you were to look at an astrology chart, you’d see that it is divided into 12 segments, each segment represents an element of your life. The first house is the most important: it is the House of Self – and that will, in most cases, not be the same as the sun sign.
(3) The Rising Sign is more important than the sun sign – although you should try telling that to my friend!
IF (and that’s a big ‘if’) I want to read a horoscope I ignore what the day holds for Cancer (my sun sign), and check out Virgo (my rising sign) instead.
If more people did this, there would be a few less sceptics, I think. 😊
If more people read their sun sign AND rising sign together, they’d get a much more accurate horoscope reading 😊
The same can be said of Chinese astrology. Although there are 12 animal signs, there are four types of each animal, so you’d have to wait almost 50 years before another person would have the same animal and type as you.
In addition, the western zodiac relies on the sun, so if you were born in May and your friend was born in May five years later, you’d both have Taurus as your sun sign. The eastern zodiac relies on the moon, and the year you were born – in which case you and your friend would have been born under different animal signs.
When my son became interested in astrology, I mentioned Eastern astrology to him because we were both born in the year of the rabbit (or cat if you are in Tibet or Vietnam!), but we have completely different personalities, probably because I am a Gold rabbit and he is a Wood rabbit.
As an aside, I’d always thought my dad had been born in the year of the Rat BUT he’d been born in late January, and as the Chinese new year doesn’t kick in until February, he was actually born in the year of the Pig!
I’m a Life Path of 7 (in numerology), compelled to research and feed my thirst for knowledge, so I set up the eastern and western zodiacs for myself to see how many differences there were in my personality traits and characteristics. Shock! Horror! There were more things the same than different!
Then I discovered Vedic (Hindu) astrology … followed by Celtic astrology. Both completely different in the way they work, all pointing to so many personality traits that are the same.
At this point, the Curiosity Factor kicked in Big Time! How many other types of astrology are there? Do they correlate in any way? Imagine how I felt when I discovered Hellenistic astrology (which has three major subdivisions), Egyptian astrology, Kabbalistic astrology, and Arabian astrology!
Once I’d compared them all – for me, of course – I was flabbergasted. There were so many similarities in the results. This led me to ask just one question: How come they are so much alike, even though their origins are in different parts of the world?
If you find the answer, let me know. 😊