Gordon Showes: There are two kinds of answers. The fantasy based answer which requires blind belief and is magical thinking. Then there is the reality based answer that is based on evidence that can be tested repeatably. No magic required. I can only answer with the latter. Astrology and astrologers do not pass testing, have no consistency, and contradict each other. Also astrology is a fate of birth discrimination, a lot like racism.Why WANT astrology to work? Don't you like to be able to live your own life? No need to have strangers tell us how. We have free will to choose our own identity. Why give this up to be programmed like a robot?...Show more
Rosie Travino: I will explain, and you can make up your own mind:You are a Virgo. That means that you were born while Sun appeared to be moving through the "sign" of Virgo. This takes about 30 days, and happens every late-August through most of September, regardless of the year.Now, REAL astrologers use more than just! your Sun sign. They look at Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars ... all out to and including Pluto. That is 10 "planets", not just the one of the Sun.However, since the Sun is the ONLY one that moves according to our calendar (that is because our calendar is based on Earth's orbit around the Sun), no one will know their OTHER planets unless they do up a timed birth chart for day-month-year, hour-minute, longitude-latitude of birth.Therefore, no writer can write for everyone's chart ... ONLY for their Sun sign.And no writer can KNOW what a reader's chart will be ... they have to have YOUR specific birthdata to know that.So Sun sign astrology has evolved not as a true form of astrology, but as a way of earning a regular paycheck .. originally by writing a daily column in the newspaper. It is not based on accuracy.Look at it this way ... Say I had a pizza with onions, green pepper, pepperoni, cheese, and mushrooms for supper last night. So if you ask me what I had for supper, I cou! ld honestly say "I had onions for supper". Does that actually! tell you what my supper was like? Not really.Using the Sun sign is like saying "I had onions for supper". It's not technically incorrect, but it sure doesn't give you accurate or useful information.Now to the daily horoscope.First of all, "horoscope" means "looking at the hour", and the word refers to your timed birth chart .. your personality characteristics, as shown by a map of the heavens for the time and place of your birth, having all 10 planets and all 12 signs on this map.So the daily horoscope is not even using the proper word.How do they do it? They PRETEND everyone was born at Sunrise. And then they put all the current positions of the 10 planets onto this map, this map that puts Sun on the eastern horizon. And they do their "reading" based on this map of where everything would be at sunrise.So ..unless you ARE born at sunrise . your "horoscope" has nothing to do with YOU. Even if you were born at sunrise, the house cusps they use are not your house cusps .! . so it is not even then YOUR birth chart.Daily horoscopes: no validity. Entertainment only.Working with Sun signs: onions for supper.Only by working with the individual birth chart can you arrive at useful and valid information. And even that has its limitations. Your chart does not control you nor the outer circumstances of your life. It is only an influence, and only as much of an influence as you allow it to be. Still ... it is a very useful and valid tool for self-understanding, for self-growth, and for managing current challenges and crises in our life (by understanding our internal needs and processes).So if you are curious about this, find out your birthtime and start by doing up your birth chart. This site is accurate and will give you some information to get you started:http://alabe.com/freechart/...Show more
Claire Billegas: The type of horoscope you read in the newspaper is unreliable. That's because they are made to apply to a lot of people at once ! and only takes the sun sign into consideration without getting into hou! ses or other planets. They can only get a vague idea of what is going on. Some things will apply to you and others will not. The only way to get a reliable horoscope is to see an astrologer in person, but it can be very expensive (over a hundred dollars depending on what you want). You will need to know the exact time and place of your birth to make it as accurate as possible. You can actually do this all yourself, it's not that hard, but it will take a while to learn and it can be good sometimes to get someone else's perspective. The thing to remember in astrology is that all prediction are based off of symbolism. So someone could look at your natal chart and tell you what is more likely to happen, but the ability to predict the future 100% accurately is never going to be there because it could manifest itself in other ways. Good luck and try not to worry so much. :)...Show more
Brice Greczkowski: People who don't know alot about astrology say it is fake, yet they do! n;t know that their is a Whole birth chart' You could be fire dominant, air dominant, or water dominant,your sun sign is your inner essence, and everything that you are but other planets like rising, and moon are very important too.If you don't feel like a virgo then fill in a birth chart too see what planets you are dominant in: http://astrology.about.com/library/bl_freeAstrocha...Here's a free birth chart calculator with interpretations.hope this helped....Show more
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