BS: does your zodiac suit you?

Subject: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Scoville
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:15 PM

This has turned into a running joke amongst myself and several friends.

The short answer is that I don't believe in astrology.

The long answer is that I would never base any major life decisions on astrology but I find it amusing and must confess that all the attributes (and flaws) attributed to Cancerians apply to me--moody, sentimental, insecure, sensitive, blah blah blah. Worse, my closest friends are two Scorpios, another Cancer, a Pisces, and a Taurus.

What about the rest of y'all? Do you think your astrological attributes describe you?

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Gizmo
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:46 PM

I tend to believe it cynically. I am not a typical gemini, and questioned the basis of it all, I then discovered alot more about the subject, and got pretty good at guessing peoples signs from their behaviour or something they said.

It is not just dependant on your star sign, in your case Cancer, mine Gemimi, but where all other planets were in position at your time of birth.

There are many horoscopes which do not apply to me, but there are definitely some astrologers who are worth their mettle.

On the otherhand, like Geminis I tend to be able to talk glibly when needed to, love socialising, have been called flirty - which I deny hotly, and can for life of me never make a decision, without mulling over the consequences of what if........

Other than that I am more taurean in my nature. I could explain - but it would take an age, I perhaps bore everyone.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:49 PM

I'm ruled by Mercury... I have "an unusual ability to reason that is lacking in other signs".   I "lean towards the logical; find it easier to think than to do anything else."

I "have a computer like memory" (with a couple of disks missing) but when it comes to something close to my heart, such as love or compassion, I "find it hard to let the other person know and can thus appear to be aloof and cold"... I "have a tendency to get out of sorts and become 'picky' with those around me which makes for some unforgiven hard feelings in the future". That'll be the git I sit opposite then...

"You can be argumentative, critical, nervous and tense." Can I, really???

In short, I'm a cantankerous old nitpicker with security issues... live with it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:59 PM

Of course, in the Chinese horoscope, I'm a dragon... much more like me!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Gizmo
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:01 PM

Bloody typical Virgo then, have a few of those in my family too.

[grins then ducks for cover]

As soon as I read your Liz, I remembered your b'day was a day before my eldests.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Mooh
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:05 PM

Suppose so. Pisces...I fish, have always fished. Fish representative of Christ and I'm a Christian (not to worry folks, not one of THOSE Christians!). What else?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:05 PM

Virgo, Liz?

Thats what I am (supposed to be) too....

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:06 PM

I don't believe either and I was shocked to see how well they had me pegged. But only for the last 15 - 20 years.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:07 PM

Oooops!

Should have refreshed the thread before I posted!

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:27 PM

Yup .... I'm pisces, my wife is also (5 days younger than me).

We both have the attributes of pisces to the 'T'. I was a bit of a skeptic until we had an astrologer read our charts ... his feedback was incredibly amazing.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:29 PM

Yup. I'm a very typical Aries and the bits of the character that don't quite match can be explained by rising sign (Aquarius) and moon (Cancer). I've had my chart done twice and was quite taken aback at how much the astrologers could tell about me even if they only knew my date of birth. And in Chinese astrology I'm a dragon, which is perfect, too. Can't explain it logically, but there it is.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:40 PM

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Epona
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:43 PM

Oh, I'm an Aries alright... :)

E

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:45 PM

Horny?

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Epona
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:57 PM

Interesting...I was thinking stubborn. HAHA.

E

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:57 PM

"Your need for independence should not be neglected as it is essential that you develop and sustain the right lifestyle. In many ways you are the quiet, retiring person who prefers his or her privacy even though you have a reputation for being friendly, this is linked mainly to the fact that you always want to be helpful so anyone that needs it will be able to look to you. You will approach other peoples problems as you do your own, without emotion, logically and detached. As long as your views and privacy are respected you make a wonderful friend."

This is me pretty much to a T. I wouldn't base any major life-altering decisions on it, but most of the things I read peg me as a pretty typical Aquarius.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:01 PM

I think my problem is that I have a Scorpio rising, which makes for interesting times.

Apparently this week is going to be shitty for us Virgos.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:01 PM

oh, indeed my sign DOES fit me! As I have noted before (we had a LONG 'discussion' of this last year) I once had a friend ask for my birthday, so she could 'read' me....I said, "well, it's May 20, but I really don't put much stock in those things."

"Um...hmmmm" she said, scanning her books, "That's JUST what your horoscope says you would say!"

Ya' can't win.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Gizmo
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:04 PM

In my family more than half are cancarians.

This includes among others, my mum and dad - who sahre a birthday 1 year apart.
My maternal grandmother, her mother and her mother before her. All born early July.

Then of course there is my daughter.

Practically everyone who has a bearing on my life is cancerian, and at times I feel rather drowned out (pun intended) by them.

But I seem to get on with them, most likely to most of my birthchart being in the sign of Taurus. I have Leo rising which gives me my grrrr and love of performance, Taurus in Venus which gives me a good voice - apparently, but I do enjoy signing.

I also share a birthday with Bob Dylan, the musician, and we both have moon in Taurus. Unfortunately I can't pen songs the way he does.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:19 PM

Becca 72, that is right on the money for you!

I'm a Taurus but I'm not stubborn. I have firm opinions. I get along well with Virgo and I've only met one Scorpio that I didn't like.

Actually, I don't believe in this stuff...we Taurians are skeptical you know.

My friend, Marshall Dodge used to say, "I don't believe a word of this stuff. The hell of it is, It's all true"!

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:20 PM

Most everything's true, if you pick the right context.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:22 PM

Yes. All twelve of them.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: bobad
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:22 PM

That's true.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:32 PM

Yep...seems to me I remember a test where some people went to several different astrologers, giving a different birthday each time, and got readings that seemed taylor-made for them. No matter what you said, the analysis 'fit'.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:59 PM

So if I tell you that I am the sort of person who thinks that astrology is a load of cobblers, can anyone tell me which star sign I fit into?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:00 PM

That could be, Bill D. We all are many things and at different times and at different ages we've been all of them, I imagine.

That said, I say that I tend not to put any stock in it but I have noticed that when I know that someone shares a birth sign with me I frequently feel that I know how they will react to an event or even to something that is said.

I have three friends in Juneau who each have their birthday in the same week as I (ranging from the 25th to the 28th)although our ages vary widely. As it happens, all three of them are foreign-born ( used to tutor them in English) but we are all very much alike. I could wish that I was as smart as one of them and I hope that I'm not quite as dogmatic as another of them...

My father was also a Saggie(as I am) and a far cry from a believer in the zodiac. But one day when I showed him on paper the character and attributes that he would be expected to have, he read it and then grunted, Looks pretty good to me.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:14 PM

All three of my sisters and I are Aries, but there are a lot of ways in which we are not alike, at all. Of course, as someone said, it goes much more into all of the other aspects at the time of one's birth. They were all in April, while mine is in March. We do share general characteristics such as being really good at starting things.

I believe it can be a tool in being aware of how things may be for us, but I do not use it to any extent, or bet my life on it.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:27 PM

I'm a Testes with Penis rising. I read mine and it says, "You have monstrous titanium balls and your Johnson looks like a baby's arm with an apple in it's fist."

Pretty much right on the money!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:28 PM

Thanks for sharing.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:30 PM

Been into the Christmas swill a bit too much have ya Spaw?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:35 PM

WATCH OUT

biLL

or

I'll

FONT YOUR ASS

UP one side and

down the

OTHER

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:38 PM

Holy f@ck!

I'm gonna go out and get bifocals tomorrow. Tinted ones at that.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:45 PM

Make sure the frames are square.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:46 PM

Oh ... yeah, thanks for that advice Peace.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:28 PM

I think you will find that the Enneagram is much closer to the truth. That is a book which was created by the Sufis. It's a study of different basic personality groups.This is not hukum, it is widely used by reputable psychologists.Is anyone else familiar with this?

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:34 PM

Kendall ... do you mean the Enneagram?

No, I'm not familiar but would like to know more about it.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:45 PM

I signed on because I thought that the zodiac in question was an inflatible boat.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:21 PM

Kendall, is THIS what you mean? They have two free sample tests available. Judging by the results of both, I am a Type 7. It does seem pretty accurate.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:21 PM

Kendall recites the standard cliche about Taurians:

"I'm a Taurus but I'm not stubborn."

I've never met a Taurus whom I considered stubborn.

People fail to recognize that our principal characteristic is unlimited

                PATIENCE

while we wait for those of lesser abilities to figure out that we were right to begin with.

John

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: GUEST,Scoville, checking in
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:27 PM

Crap--my Chinese zodiac is the snake and that seems to apply pretty well, too.

Rising sign is Taurus. Not really a surprise, either, although they're sort of similar to Cancer anyway. My college boyfriend was Taurus to a "T": Unbelievably stubborn but secretly cuddly, and capable of putting away enormous plates of pierogies at dinner.

My best friend is a Scorpio but seems to lack the potential stalker qualities. Whew.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:00 AM

I don't care one way or the other about it, Scoville.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:02 AM

That's just because they don't have a chimp as a zodiac sign.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:04 AM

Or a dachshund.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 02:53 AM

JohninKansas, a dearly loved friend of mine was a Taurus. Like you, he wasn't stubborn either. Just - well, you be the judge:

A few months before, he had met my brother in law and when I showed him some recent pictures I pointed out my brother in law to him. He raised an eyebrow, scanning the picture intently. Hmmm, he said. I'm not sure that IS Allen.

I said, He's been my brother in law for 37 years. Take my word for it: That is Allen.

Another time I ran into him on the street. He yelled at me to wait then strode over to me with a birthday card for me. I'm sorry to be late with this, he said, but I DID have it in my car.

I said, That is very sweet of you but actually my birthday is not until NEXT month.

He said, It's not October 28?

No, I said. It's November 28.

He said, uncomfortably, Are you sure?

:)

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:58 AM

I'm Leo with Sagittarius rising and the moon and four other planets in Leo. I've had my chart done and it comes pretty close, according to those who know me.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:24 AM

I'm a Cancerian but usually I just get by the best I can.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:34 AM

Yes, that's it. Maybe a clone will correct the spelling.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:38 AM

I've got nothing rising at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:39 AM

On the Chinese zodiak I'm a dog.

Subject: RE: BS: does your zodiac suit you?
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 10:07 AM

Bad boy, kendall! BAD boy!