As was briefly mentioned in a previous post there is a reason to what "sign" is said to be the major influece when you are born, and it has very little to do with where the actual constellations were at the time of your birth, obviously, since every constellation passes overhead at some time during a single day. To allocate a period of approx 30 days to being under the influene of a single constellation seems ludicrous to me.
It so happened that I was born around lunchtime (12:26 I believe) in mid July (yes, my birthday is a little over a week away .... and yes I like big shiny things for presents
) and so I am designated as being born under Cancer. If I make an assumption for a moment and say it was perhaps actually the constellation of Taurus that was directly over my birth (I'll check the Starry Night software later and see) then someone born later in the afternoon would have had Cancer directly overhead when they were born, someone born later again may have had Sagitarius overhead, etc. Pretty obvious stuff really.
Now I wouldn't give even that system of astrology any credence, but it would at least make more sense to me than saying everyone born for the next 30 days is such-and-such.
Ok ..... now, I have to say that desite my non-belief in astrology, I do have one interesting fact I need to mention to be completely honest. About 3-4 years ago I began talking to a lovely woman whom I met via the net. She did not know me previously, we had no friends in common, we lived an hour apart from each other, etc - no way she could have known me or anything about me in other words.
I found out very quickly that she was a great believer in astrology, in fact she had been studying it full time for 2 years (I didn't even know that was possible) and she was going to become a "professional astrologer". She asked if I knew the precise time and place of my birth, which I did quite accurately, and so she spent the following 2-3 days "drawing my charts".
Being somewhat sceptical I was VERY careful not to tell her to much about myself, my upbringing, my likes and dislikes, etc. I have seen people "read" other people and pretend to be psychic, etc, and I was not making this easy for her.
During a phone call a day or so after she had finished (she could not see my face and read reactions, etc) I sat silently listening while she proceeded to tell me a vast and unnerving amount of things about myself: emotional traits, family relationships, employment tendencies, previous romantic endeavours, educational factors, etc - you name it, it was pretty much there.
I want to make this clear: she was 100% accurate and correct in every way with every single thing that she said, it was all pretty damn specific, and she apparently knew things that I would say even my best friends of 20+ years did not know about me. Some very deep and personal stuff, to the point of being almost embarassing to discuss.
I thought long and hard afterwards, and how she "knew" these things has always baffled me. There was one particular "behavioural trait", very VERY specific, that she could not possibly know I had, and she asked me if I had it (everything else she "told" me, not asked - I denied possessing this trait to see what she would say, and her reply was that the only other time she had ever seen "whatever" (from memory it was something like Saturn rising in conjunction with something else at a very particular time) was in her brother in law or someone, and he had this trait also. I was left with the impression that she knew I was lying to her, she was so adamant and sincere.
So ..... end result : yes I am definitely the backyard scientist type for whom science and logic rule my mind and my life, and No I do not believe in astrology ..... yet, this woman REALLY freaked me out!
