Posted: 8/21/2006 2:55:26 PM EDT
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I read mine on Yahoo when bored. Fortune cookie stuff. Anyone have experience with a source that they feel is reasonably accurate? 
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You know, the horoscope says you'll hear from someone in your past... Then like magic the phone rings and its someone you haven't heard from since yesterday... Sometimes its just amazing... |
you mean, how can the physical environment affect psychology? after all, we know for a fact that lunar proximity has a measureable influence on animal behavior. are humans not animals? |
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I don't feel like reading/posting any Aug 22nd stuff. Tomorrows YAHOO HoroScope for me is: When you see a chance to get away from the drama or pressures of your life, take it! So if the SHTF, I'm going to get away from the drama and pressures. Maybe I'll clean my guns, its been a while. Okay?  |
Animals being "affected" by a circadian rhytm or such things is very different from believing that the positions of stars thousands of lights years away, or the positions of planets hundred of millions of miles away can control or affect events around us. If astrology were true, identical twins should have almost identical lives. Even with 100% shared DNA - which is immaterial to astrology - psychology (and medical) research demonstrates that twins generally do NOT lead identical, or even very similar, lives. In fact, if astrology were true, unrelated babies born at the same time in the same hospital should have very similar lives. (Sorry if I sound short or arrogant. I've had a headache for the last three weeks, and it's probably making me irritable  )
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| A good horoscope "writer" can make people believe that there is some connection by suggesting pretty obvious events as atypical, suggest some positive insight as how to handle those events, and make it all seem like it came from some stars. I read them sometimes, but don't take them seriously - but it adds some color to the day. It is kind of fun though when some off the wall horoscope seems like it came true. |
no offense taken--i often come across as very cantankerous on here. a few fine points: --astrology has nothing whatsoever to do with stars. the constellations of the zodiac are merely reference points to determine the positions of the planets across the ecliptic plane. remember, astronomical observations were the closest thing that older civilizations had to a reliable clock. --when planets line up, (known to astronomers as "conjunctions") there is a very serious gravitational effect here on earth. strangely enough, before the idea of gravity was developed, conjunctions were known to astrologers as significant behavior modifiers. oddly enough, the man who postulated gravity, isaac newton, subjected the field of natal astrology to deep study. he concluded that it was, in fact, legitimate science. --astrology is not mystical, nor is it in any way tied to the supernatural. it was developed purely based upon the empirical observation that people born in the same place, at about the same time of year, exhibited broadly similar personality traits. in other words, it was the very first empirical science, using the hypothesis-observation-synthesis scientific model. --you use the term "similar lives", which is not an appropriate idea here--astrology says nothing about how your life is, or will be. what it does indicate is that in general, a leo will be more inclined to go out to a party when they are depressed, whereas a cancer will be more likely to stay home and brood. that a libra is often more concerned with the process of falling in love than with the actual day-to-day relationship afterwards. not always, mind you--the world is a lot more complex than that, and other psychological factors are always at work. what astrology talks about are influences upon your personality, not some rote script that you act out. trust me--there was no greater sceptic than me when i was first introduced to astrology. but i don't believe in condemning anything as untrue without first studying it. after my own investigation, which was actually biased against its legitimacy, i found that i couldn't dismiss it. granted, there's a lott of chaff, but the core of natal astrology is quite simply the quickest, most accurate insight into the broad strokes of someone's personality. when you sit down and study it, it beats meyers-briggs all to hell. |
