Yeah?
Bad news for horoscope readers! Astrology doesn’t work – and predictions based on the motion of the planets and stars are no better than random guesses, scientists say
You don’t say? And for tomorrow’s statement of the blindingly obvious – the sun sets in the west.
I always rather liked Douglas Adams’s suprisingly generous take on it in Mostly Harmless:
I choose to never buy a magazine or newspaper or subscribe to a website that includes astrology.
You are wrong. Astrology has been proven to be correct when everyone born under the sign of Aquarius was run over and killed by a 32 ton truck yesterday …
Oh, wait. That didn’t happen.
As you were.
In a Dilbert cartoon his dog said, “If you are dumb enough to believe that the stars influence our lives you are probably better off listening to an astrologer than making your own decisions.”
It’s difficult to come up with any sort of rationale for your birth date and time to affect your future but your birth date could affect your character. E.g. a baby born in Spring. say March or April, will spend his important developmental first few months of life in the summer, whereas a baby born in September or October spends his first months in the winter. Also, the conditions experienced by his pregnant mother could affect his development.
For what it’s worth, my birthday is 19th February. Some generalised horoscopes say that’s Aquarius, some say Pisces. I never felt comfortable with being Aquarius, Pisces seemed a better fit to my character. I later found out that for my birth year, 19th February is indeed Pisces. Obviously that’s just one data point, more research is needed. Please send me lots of money and I’ll start the research right away. 🙂