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Does Your Zodiac Sign Have Any Real Influence in Your Life?
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I have not really bothered to check. I mean I work on improving myself on a daily basis and getting to the part where I should begin to check my zodiac sign and what it entails has not crossed my mind as I wouldn't want to live by some theories.
I thought the idea was that you wouldn't need to know your sign, it just reveals your personality.
Someone could get to know me and then guess my birthday to within a month.
I know other people are more knowledgeable about this, but also:
"The sun sign represents our ego and motivations; the moon governs our emotional nature, and the ascendant or rising sign speaks to the energy that we put into the world"
so don't forget to calculate the moon and rising signs (or have your close friend predict them) before you try to fully understand yourself.
Tbh it's kind of eerie how close these three align with myself and others I have studied.
Someone could get to know me and then guess my birthday to within a month.
I know other people are more knowledgeable about this, but also:
"The sun sign represents our ego and motivations; the moon governs our emotional nature, and the ascendant or rising sign speaks to the energy that we put into the world"
so don't forget to calculate the moon and rising signs (or have your close friend predict them) before you try to fully understand yourself.
Tbh it's kind of eerie how close these three align with myself and others I have studied.
…no, none at all…I’m probably the complete opposite in character traits to what my sign would tell me I was…I am glad of that, though because it really does mean that we’re all very individual and unique and that’s a nice thought…
I think it is most of the time
I don't know of any religion that includes zodiac signs. I think it is mysticism, more the hope that there is order and not just chaos, rather than the belief that some specific force created a zodiac system. Some Greek god tossing something or someone's remains up into the sky to create a constellation is not the same as noting a correlation between the moon phase and people's actions.
You may not believe in mysticism, superstition, etc, but I don't think you can pin zodiac mysticism on a religion.
Taoism and Greek Paganism are some good examples. Zodiac signs also played a part in with the Babylonian Religion thousands of years ago.
The official definition of mysticism is "belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute"
I can agree that Astronomy and Religion are two very different things that often get thrown into the same boat together for the benefits of a person's religious beliefs (confirmation bias).
Not at all. We are shaped by our cultures, upbringing and experiences not some random accident of birth.
Taoism has a similar philosophy that your personality is affected by the year you were born. Kind of odd, an entire year's children having similar personalities, much worse than the discussion above finding fault that everyone born in a specific month-long segment of time would have a similar personality.
Greek mythology of throwing pixie dust into the sky to create constellations, is more like indigenous religions. The fact that the zodiac follows the (mainly) Greek definition of the constellations I think is just convenience.
"Belief" in zodiac I feel is a bit overblown. I consider trying to understand our own personality is a good thing, and astrology is an interesting tool to examine it. Similarly I consider tarot to be an interesting tool to understand situations from a different perspective.
Belief or not: side note. I noted in another thread about living with light pollution. I was in the middle of nowhere in Tennessee once, with the whole sky on display including the Milky Way. I am a Scorpio, and I believe this was the first time I had actually seen that constellation - actually sent kind of a shiver through me. I don't think it was related to astrology, though, just the splendor of the universe.
lol I agree. I don't think we should allow a belief to define who we are as a person. I don't like the idea that an ancient idea that a star sign should define me just because I was born on this month or that month. We have people sitting in prison of all zodiac signs that committed horrible crimes and I'm pretty sure their personality doesn't fit the comforting definition of their zodiac. On another note, I don't have any issues with anyone believing in Zodiacs. It's just not my thing.
Here is a classic example of how sharing an exact birthdate doesn't make you the same. The American singer Madeline Bell and the British murderess Myra Hindley (a participant in a well documented British case from the 1960s) were both born on 23 July 1942. Miss Bell went on to great success as a singer and actress and made something positive of her life. Miss Hindley, on the other hand, accompanied her boyfriend in murder and was given what you Americans call life without parole (known here as whole life tariff), dying at the age of 60 after 36 years in custody.
About five years ago I jousted at that windmill for a Non-Fiction article, killing a lot of perfectly good electrons in the process. The conclusion was less than conclusive.
ASTROLOGY, an in depth, almost exhaustive, or at least, exhausting, Look at the ancient practice, from the Mystery Series.
ASTROLOGY, an in depth, almost exhaustive, or at least, exhausting, Look at the ancient practice, from the Mystery Series.
