Do you believe in horoscopes?

hollydolly said:
I agree wholeheartedly with this....

I do not believe in daily horoscopes... in any way shape or form... Having worked in the media I can tell you that very often those newspaper and magazine ''astrologers'' are just the backroom boys..in that they get to do agony aunt.. and horoscope as part of their job.. they just make it up.. of course nowadays they can copy someone else's work from the internet.

However Astrology... as opposed to Hororr-scopes.. is a science..I believe in that...ad I am archetypically Aries....
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Yes, you are and we love you for it. You keep us on our toes and thinking. :)
 

I've often wondered why there's never a prediction and someone else has a prediction to fulfill the first one. Example, "today, you will meet a new loved one," but there's never another sign, who gets a prediction about being your new loved one.. Like, "today,you will lose a wallet"., and your opposite sign gets, "Today, you will find a wallet'.
As astrology being based on star groups. Quite frankly, the only relationship these stars have is to appear to be next to one another as seen from earth, but are trillions of miles apart, in an entirely whole different sector of the universe.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
As astrology being based on star groups. Quite frankly, the only relationship these stars have is to appear to be next to one another as seen from earth, but are trillions of miles apart, in an entirely whole different sector of the universe.
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Those constellations of the Zodiac are merely symbols or markers for fixed 30 degree segments of the celestial sphere, in particular near the ecliptic.

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No, to believing the daily horoscopes, but YES, I do believe in astrology signs, such as earth and water signs are more compatible, than fire and water signs. The personality traits of the astrology sign seem to hold true too, such as Scorpio's are extremists. They have a hard time finding the balance, and so forth. I do not understand the astrology charting stuff.
 
My parents once did one of those compatibility things - their signs were the worst possible compatibility combination. :oops:

Which was rather funny as they had been happily married for 50 years. :love:
 
No, I don't believe in astrology.

But as a teen I bought all the horoscope magazines out there. I believed back then. But in time you start to realize that it's not working.
 
One of the ways you can tell whether something is real or nonsense is to track it over time. Things that are real tend to progress over time while nonsense does not. Look at the history of physics or chemistry, for example, as opposed to alchemy. Or look at the history of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon just 66 years later in 1969.

But astrology shows no such progress. What I hear from astrologers today sounds extremely similar to what Stephen Belgrave said in Introduction to Astrology, published in 1682. Which sounds extremely similar to what Claudius Ptolemy said in his Tetrabiblos in the second century AD.
 
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