<p>I’m just curious how many of the CC parents actually believe in astrology? </p>
<p>While I myself am not a “total” believer, I can’t exactly claim to be a non-believer, either because I’ve found some of the personality traits ascribed to the astrological signs to be eerily accurate.</p>
<p>Not a believer, but I do respect black cats :D</p>
<p>H works with a guy who would not show up for work if the stars are not aligned right. Then he’d work day and night the next day when the stars and planets are OK. He is a brilliant PhD physicist, a “beautiful mind”-type.</p>
<p>BB–is “beautiful mind” the new euphemism for nuts? :)</p>
<p>I don’t believe in it but then I’m a Leo so I’m naturally argumentative.</p>
<p>I don’t believe in astrology. I do believe in jinxes. My problem is the lack of generally available wood in the modern workplace to knock on.</p>
<p>I’ve read a bit on it and there IS something to be said about how often the personality traits seem spot on. But I’ve never really gotten into it enough to have a chart done or to try to understand all the planet alignment stuff and I have never tried to live my life by it. </p>
<p>Of course, I"m also a Gemini - jack of all trades, interested in everything and constantly changing one’s interest like others change clothes, never stays with anything for long or studies anything in great depth before moving on to something new… (ie we get bored easily).</p>
<p>But then again, I have had the same job for 20 years - although I am a patent litigation paralegal so the cases I work on change all the time - as does the subject matter, which is usually very technical… so that must satisfy my need for constant change ;)</p>
<p>It does seem that more often than not the personality traits tend to follow the sign under which one is born. And it seems that romantic pairings among the “compatible signs” tend to work out more frequently than astrologically opposed pairings.</p>
<p>As far as pseudo sciences go, it beats the heck out of phrenology. There are some things that just fall out of our realm of knowledge. My mother could uncannily read a signature and would amaze people with the amount of personal info she would pull “out of the air” just by reading the signature of someone she had just met. This talent is probably related to something in her bloodline, as her grandfather was a Russian holy man of the masses, a “starets”, who is reputed to have healed people by the laying on of hands.</p>
<p>I don’t buy it in total. Yet I don’t dismiss it either. But then, I don’t want to dismiss Nessie, little grey aliens and yetis either.</p>
<p>I would not however trust my horoscope to picking lottery numbers. I’d much prefer to cast runes. ;)</p>
<p>I find the “I Ching” works better for (losing) lottery numbers (those are the only ones I know).</p>
<p>I don’t hold much store by astrology, but do believe the phases of the moon affect people - see it constantly in the workplace (and no, I don’t mean werewolves).</p>
<p>I don’t see any harm in reading a horoscope in the paper for entertainment with the same mild degree of interest and belief that one might normally grant to a fortune cookie. But to make serious decisions about your life or otherwise put any real stock in what is essentially Babylonian mysticism is just nonsense.</p>
<p>it’s fun, but as a Libra, do I believe in it?
No- because we see both sides.;)</p>
<p>You’ve got to be kidding. That the alignment of the planets at your birth affects anything at all? </p>
<p>I’m a goat-footed Capricorn, btw. :)</p>
<p>Nope, not even a little.</p>
<p>No, I dont believe in astrology. I believe in occasionally remarkable coincidences, though.</p>