BS: What sign are you... now?

Subject: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:54 PM

I was a Pisces... the fish... a sucker maybe. I'd prefer being a Steelhead or a Brilliant Salmon, of course.

But, now, I am an Aquarius.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:59 PM

Hmmmm... or am I bi?

Aquarius is an air sign so maybe I am now an airhead?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: gnomad
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:19 PM

We don't get this (us always being Gemini an'all) How do you get to be two? Have you gone and got yourself an extra birthday?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:23 PM

Myself and three sisters are all Aries, now, with a Pisces mom and Taurus dad. IF this were true, I, and two of my sisters, would be swimming with our mother and the sister I feel I am most like would be raging with my dad! Makes no sense! I have sent an urgent plea to my brother and girlfriend, both of whom are actually well-versed in this. (So WHY didn't they tell me all these years?!LOL.) Thanks for tilting my world, gnu!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Beer
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:59 PM

No frigging way man! I have acquired rights. I am a Cancer and will remain as such. No way I'm going to be a Gemini. Apologies to all Gemini friends.
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:02 PM

I was an Aquarius but now I'm a "Closed For Repairs".

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:03 PM

I have always been an Aquarius and the description fits me too well to bother switching to Capricor, as this study suggested.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:16 PM

Of course that should read "Capricorn" but I'm an Aquarius and we don't like to admit mistakes. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:20 PM

As a Virgo I am highly sceptical about astrology!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:37 PM

AHA!! Thanks, Good Gnu. I have always chafed under Virgo's sign, and now find I have been a Leo all along!! I could have toldja that!! I am so relieved!!

(By the way, it is well established that the plural of Gnu is Gnus, and Good Gnus are No News).


A

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: gnomad
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:46 PM

Aah, should've followed the link. Evidently one of me is now a Taurus, but which one, and where does the other one fit in?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:57 PM

Hey--I got a new sign! I'm an Ophiuchus, and it's a bit weird, but I've been called worse. I guess I've always been an Ophiuchus. Is this pronounced "Oh, fie--you choose" or is it more like "Oh-fee-YOU-cuss?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:59 PM

I used to be a Yield sign but, at my age, I'm more of a Stop.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 05:08 PM

From the cusp of Taurus to the middle of Taurus.....what kinda progress is THAT?

I think this is mine

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 05:17 PM

I'm sitting under a sign that says 'Congratulations! You have now officially passed middle age!'

But I think that the answer you want is Leo.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: michaelr
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:47 PM

I used to be an Asparagus but now I'm a Feces.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:58 PM

I dunno, Jeri...yours is kinda funny sounding...brought me to the point of cold shivers!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:10 PM

I'm still a Leo. Couldn't really be anything else.

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From: Smokey.
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:12 PM

We Capricorns don't believe in all that nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

We Taurus types are also skeptical.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Slag
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:53 PM

Red Cross/DNR, please

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:10 PM

I'll bet we would find as many skeptics in every 'sign'.... people just remember what agrees with their expectations

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: michaelr
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:19 PM

There is no astrological evidence that science is anything but a medieval superstition.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:31 PM

I've often been cast as a pollock.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:06 PM

I've been two signs....a Stop Sign, and a Yield Sign.....but then, again sometimes 'Dangerous Curves Ahead'....

Wink,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:18 PM

I started an Ox and I'm still an Ox.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:31 PM

Dare I post THIS LINK and wait for BillD to rip it to shreds or for Little Hawk to defend it? It is definitely written on a bias, but there are some interesting points made, imo. Have fun!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:21 PM

I saw the first-cited article elsewhere, but didn't think it was interesting enough to merit a discussion.

No competent "caster" since publication of the 1920 USNO Ephemeris would have done a chart for you except by consulting the information in the Ephemeris that gives the concise and accurate locations of all of the astrologically significant bodies at the precise time and place of the person's birth.

The "authority" who wrote the "report" apparently thinks people only consult the calendar, and ignores the much more significant "changes in sign" that result with longitudinal (and to lesser extent latitudinal) differences resulting from differing places of birth.

He essentially says that nobody (except him) has paid any attention to where the atronomical bodies of influence actually are in casting and charting horoscopes, when in fact the competent ones apparently know a lot more about the subject he claims to know than he does, and obviously he knows nothing about their businesses.

Astrologers have known for centuries that when one hurls bullshit it must be aligned and aimed with excruciatingly precise accuracy based on exact knowledge of all the proper and most current elevations and windages.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:46 PM

Uh-oh. I was a Libra. Now I'm a Virgo. Do I have to stop supporting peace and social justice causes?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:20 AM

Uh-oh. I was a Libra. Now I'm a Virgo. Do I have to stop supporting peace and social justice causes?

No big change, since as a Libra you had your internal battles over what to clean first, and now as a Virgo you can't clean anything because Virgo mustn't get her hands dirty.

(Or so I was told once when a Virgo and Libra were trying to get me to take sides in their debate.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:22 AM

ChanteyLass: "Uh-oh. I was a Libra. Now I'm a Virgo. Do I have to stop supporting peace and social justice causes?"



..and while you're at it, you can change your name from, 'ChanteyLass' to 'ChastityAss'.........................(wink!)


Regards,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:47 AM

I was KEEP LEFT
but now I'm YIELD

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:06 AM

Sagitarrian the Archer ptwang!!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:41 AM

Same as Patsy...signwise that is.

Ptwang's the Thang

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:52 AM

I was a Libra, luxury-loving, artistic, sensual and always seeking love.
Now, I'm a horrid uptight perfectionist old Virgo, nit-picking, inhibited and cold.
This is NOT good news!!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:23 AM

Ooohhhhh.....all my life I thought I was Taurus and while being bull-headed is not glamorous, it does sum me up.......now they tell me I'm Aries. I don't want to be Aries, I want to stay Taurus.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:44 AM

JennieG -

You must IMMEDIATELY stop propogating that malicious fallacy that Taurians are stubborn.

Taurus is simply patient enough to wait until everybody else figures out that we were RIGHT in the first place.

John (patient and tolerant)

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:34 AM

""I was KEEP LEFT
but now I'm YIELD ""

Now you should stop.:)

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:51 AM

I am a Taurus, I am not stubborn, I have firm opinions. Others are stubborn and pig headed.

Now for the truth. That whole concept is rubbish. In ancient Egypt they worshiped Cats. In India, cattle are sacred, Malaysia it's Monkeys.
Give me a break; it's the 21st century.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:59 AM

If the descriptions fit, why not attach the descriptions to the revised names? So from here on a Piscean will have all the attributes of an Aries.
Well, it works for me.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:58 AM

Yield

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Becca72
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:33 AM

Some of us still worship cats....

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:41 AM

If you believe in astrology, you must believe that knowledge and understanding of it evolves and improves, as with any branch of "science"

The change in the plane of the ecliptic has taken place very gradually over the centuries, and the effect taken into account.
You can be quite certain that horoscopes are as accurate now as they have ever been.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:11 PM

Never quite understood why astrology is so cut-and-dried about itself. why should it be the planets and not the season, or the weather. Why should it be at birth and not at conception, or at a foetal development stage.
And why should it be pre-ordained and not a psychologic conditioning "You are Aries, so you are likely to...."

Sounds suspiciously like religeon to me! "No-one can explain it, so here is a superstition to be going on with."

Ducks, exits left :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Smedley
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

Years of being a reliable, plodding goat are over. (I read an astrology book once that gave parts of the body to each astro sign - us goats got knees and shins - come on, be fair, how rubbish is getting SHINS??) But no I am a Saggitarius - hoorah!

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:47 PM

The thought that horoscopes can predict what will happen to each twelfth of the population on a daily basis is totally alien to me....... It's worse than a religion.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:10 PM

Hey, religion sells tickets, even if aliens are involved. Ask Tom Cruise. He's a Space Cadet if there ever was one. Of course, the Scathingtologists also had great (?) dancing. Ask John Revolta.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:04 PM

http://www.bigdog1009.ca/blog/mindy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10192228
This blog explains how the signs have not changed. Yet, I say that
Ophiuchus should still be brought back into usage. I already knew
about the thirteenth sign, and I think that it should have never been
removed.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Slag
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:06 AM

Right you are Maple Leaf Blower! Most folks do not know that Ophiuchus tags the Zodiac and is therefore a member of the band, that old snake charmer himself! Is it his hobby of playing with snakes that got him banned or just that Astrologers tend to be a little superstitious or have trideskaphobia?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you - now?
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 03:38 AM

Is there such a thing as a born-again Virgo?

Or, can you regain your Virgo once you've been Leo'd?

And if you're no longer a Virgo, is your new sign Viagra?

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 03:44 AM

GUEST,Eliza: "I was a Libra, luxury-loving, artistic, sensual and always seeking love.
Now, I'm a horrid uptight perfectionist old Virgo, nit-picking, inhibited and cold.
This is NOT good news!!"

Naw, its an easy fix......you need to get laid!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: JHW
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 06:38 AM

All these years I've had to be nice to everybody because I'm Libra and I needn't have bothered

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 09:17 AM

I observe that if the letters in the name of the 12th Zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, are re-arranged, it becomes 'hocus up hi'

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 12:45 PM

Funniest thing is all the comments on the web page from people complaining that they now have the wrong tattoo. Any body who believes this stuff deserves to have Moron tattooed right below their horoscope sign, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: What sign are you... now?
From: Janie
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:06 PM

Ophiuchus? After all these years of being a typical "girl next door" Sagittarius?

I'm having an identity crisis. I know longer know who I am.