What Star Sign are you?

[Gul Re'jal]

The dates are wrong I'm a Capricorn, but according to the poll I am an Aquarius. In protest I won't vote

 

[Rhaven]

I don't put much stock in astrology. I'm a Gemini and some of the characteristics apply, but that doesn't mean much.

 

[auntiehill]

Prof. Brian Cox has famously spoken out against astrology, dismissing it as "a load of rubbish" on his show Wonders of the Solar System - his exact words being:

Now, Jupiter is so different to our planet, a big ball of gas half a billion kilometres away. It’s difficult to see how it could have anything to do with us at all. But despite the fact that astrology is a load of rubbish, Jupiter can in fact, have a profound influence on our planet. And it’s through a force that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds the galaxy together. Gravity.

Amazingly, he was faced with quite a bit of criticism for that statement from various people as well as the astrological community, including arguments that his BBC show should have demonstrated "a fair and balanced representation" of astrology, accusing Cox of making his comment without an “alternative opinion being allowed,” and of not attempting to "consider such questions from the perspective of an astrologer."

Cox's "apology" in response is the stuff of legend:

In the film I said Astrology was "a load of rubbish" and the BBC asked for a statement about this after some criticism so I said "I apologise to the astrology community for not making myself clear, I should have said that this new age drivel is undermining the very fabric of our civilisation."

That wasn't issued by the BBC complaints department.

(As an aside, I accidentally searched for "professor brian cox astrology apology" on Wikipedia, and got the message "Did you mean professor brian cox anthology ufology?" Funny, that.)

Reminds me of this great Dara O'Briain:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvMb90hem8[/yt]

 

[SillyTilly]

Scorpio
Very energetic - Nope.
Intelligent - Nope
Can be jealous and/or possessive - Nope
Hardworking - Nope
Great kisser - No idea
Can become obsessive or secretive - Obsessive yes, secretive not sure.
Holds grudges - Nope
Attractive - Nope
Determined - Can be. It depends
Loves being in long relationships - Prefer being on own at moment
Talkative - Yep
Romantic - Nope
Can be self-centered at times - Nope
Passionate and Emotional - Not sure

Seems mostly wrong for me.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Pisces here, and yes, very accurate.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

The whole concept is nonsense. And most horoscope readings/descriptions are so vague as to be meaningless. They could apply to anyone. For whatever it's worth, I'm Aries, on the cusp of Pisces and closer to the description of Pisces.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Reminds me of the twelve colonies from BSG (either version). As far as I know they never explained how, coincidentally, each colony was named after a star sign...

 

[scotpens]

Astrology is designed with women in mind . . .

That's an interesting observation, but if it applies at all, it describes the astrological forecasts in the popular media of the last few decades. Astrology as we know it has been around for about 2500 years.

 

[The Dominion]

I love astrology just because I like to see how people react. You'd think (hope) no one would be naive enough to take it any more seriously than the funny pages it accompanies, and yet I myself have known people who give it pause for one reason or another. I think it's an invaluable statement about human psychology, and how people are willing to believe something for absolutely no reason other than someone told them. In a manner of looking at it, it's one of the greatest "social experiments" ever conducted.

Besides, if anyone gets "harmed" by believing it, it's their own damn fault.

 

[TrekNut87]

Not big on astrology, but I'm an Aries, though from the descriptions, Virgo fits me much better.

 

[thestrangequark]

Astrology is designed with women in mind - who generally require more emotional and social stimulation than men, hence why so much of this stuff revolves around love, friendships and dating - which the people who create astrological readings, etc, believe to be the things that the majority of women care about.

As a woman I find this insulting, but true, at least in regards to today's newspaper and magazine astrology -- it definitely is shoved down women's throats more than men's.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

just curious - does anyone happen to know what zodiac would apply to a prematurely born person? The one they were born into or the one they would have been born into, under normal circumstances?
If the latter were the case, I'd have to correct my previous entry from Aries to Taurus.

But since I consider horoscopes to be about as truthful as any randomly picked politician's election speech, it doesn't really matter.


IMHO my fate is determined by luck. And luck means putting yourself into a position where the dice might just favour you (which includes loading the dice, occasionally )

 

[RoJoHen]

just curious - does anyone happen to know what zodiac would apply to a prematurely born person? The one they were born into or the one they would have been born into, under normal circumstances?

Your birthday is your birthday. The stars don't care if you were "early."

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I see. How about people who suffered a cesarian? They didn't exactly got born (a vital - or deadly, rather - point in Shakespeare's Macbeth)

 

[thestrangequark]

just curious - does anyone happen to know what zodiac would apply to a prematurely born person? The one they were born into or the one they would have been born into, under normal circumstances?

Your birthday is your birthday. The stars don't care if you were "early."

I don't think they care at all.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

careless they may be, yet they are beautiful

 

[thestrangequark]

^And the reason we exist, which is a lovely idea, in my opinion.

 

[CorporalClegg]

For the record I'm a pieces. And no, I really don't care at all.

^And the reason we exist, which is a lovely idea, in my opinion.

And very poetic.

In fact, I even wrote one about it.

 

[Shaytan]

I don't believe in astrology but it's entertaining to read it and not too long, it's only 3 lines in the newspaper everyday.

I particularly like their lines about health :"Today aries will lack of magnesium". All aries, no exceptions !

 

[Mary Ann]

Prof. Brian Cox has famously spoken out against astrology, dismissing it as "a load of rubbish" on his show Wonders of the Solar System - his exact words being:

Now, Jupiter is so different to our planet, a big ball of gas half a billion kilometres away. It’s difficult to see how it could have anything to do with us at all. But despite the fact that astrology is a load of rubbish, Jupiter can in fact, have a profound influence on our planet. And it’s through a force that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds the galaxy together. Gravity.

Amazingly, he was faced with quite a bit of criticism for that statement from various people as well as the astrological community, including arguments that his BBC show should have demonstrated "a fair and balanced representation" of astrology, accusing Cox of making his comment without an “alternative opinion being allowed,” and of not attempting to "consider such questions from the perspective of an astrologer."

Cox's "apology" in response is the stuff of legend:

In the film I said Astrology was "a load of rubbish" and the BBC asked for a statement about this after some criticism so I said "I apologise to the astrology community for not making myself clear, I should have said that this new age drivel is undermining the very fabric of our civilisation."

That wasn't issued by the BBC complaints department.

Did you ever see the CBBC show Horrible Histories' take on the good professor debunking this kind of nonsense? Here's one of the skits they did on the subject:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXTbKLH5_k[/yt]

I was heavily into astrology in my teens, but that was *cough* years ago, and have considered it rubbish for years.