14 DAY TRIAL // One of my girlfriends woke up one morning and said she would have a bad day.
So she forced everybody in the house to listen to all the predictions broadcast on every live show on TV, hoping some astrologist would change her opinion and she will therefore make up her mind whether to go to work or not.
She is a true believer. Star signs are her life.
She is a walking encyclopedia of the media astrology offers.
She's done ten birth charts on different websites so far, she knows her Chinese horoscope aspects, her Indian tree, her horoscope flower, her lucky numbers, stones or colors, she learns how to cope with the stubbornness of her Scorpio boss, and how to frequently seduce her Taurus boyfriend.
Monday is her worst day. So she decided to try a new approach. Another website. One of the most popular searches.
The one she has been avoiding to use, thinking it's much to "commercial" to be accurate.
Annie's chart:
Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others You are a natural diplomat, reasonable, tolerant, fair, always willing to listen to varying viewpoints, and ready to see the other side of an issue. Even if you strongly disagree with someone, you will try to find points of similarity and agreement rather than emphasizing the differences. You often avoid taking an extreme or one-sided stance on anything. You have a strong desire for harmonious and pleasant relationships, and express a spirit of cooperation, compromise, friendship, and fairness. You very much want to be liked and because of your need for approval and acceptance, you are easily influenced by others' opinions, especially when young. You so much want to please that often you will suppress your own intense or unpleasant feelings in order not to offend others. Sometimes your politeness is interpreted as phoniness or wishy-washiness. Find out more with your full-length reading...
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The daily prediction confirmed her fears. Her boss will pick on her, as it's Monday, and the Moon enters who-knows what cycle, but Neptune cheers up and Venus smiles, which will bring her some luck at the end of the day.
She decided to confront some other opinions.
Annie's top search :
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She got tired. And disappointed. She was about to let the sun signs beliefs rule her life. She was about to become part of a business that offers hopes for money, speculating people's need to find their way to a better life. So she decided to live things as they are, as they come and as they go, paying attention to her feelings, her own powers and expectations.
We need a clue
Most people are intrigued by this rather unnatural type of discourse for a contemporary society? Horoscopes have become in some way a pseudoreligion. This is a generally pejorative term applied to a non-mainstream belief system or philosophy which is functionally similar to a religious practice, typically having a founder, principal text, liturgy and faith-based beliefs. Belief systems such as Theosophy, corporate Kabbalism, Discordianism, Scientology, Objectivism, the Church of the SubGenius and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have all been referred to as pseudoreligions.
Nostradamus has become for some people a high point of reference or a super-God. It's much easier to ask for guidance and trust the immediate predictions than to follow the thin general church lines. In our contemporary society it seems like God is not enough anymore. Horoscope internet guru Pasqualina, Sara Freder or others lead the mainstream. They offer hopes for free. If people want some more clues about their path to happiness they accept to pay for books, complete personalized birth charts, forecasts and recipes. The common belief is that an astrologist has not only the talent to see what planets say about people, but it has also the gift of interpretation and maybe clairvoyance.
Horoscopes offer a better discourse than the Bible, in a world where people are more concerned about the present than about their afterlives. They need short-term scenery.
"Getting a clue" - about why we do what we do - is the key to making our daily choices and actions feel less "fated" and bringing our lives new meaning. In our day-to-day lives we end up making choices and acting in ways that leave us stuck in mud-filled ruts, traveling down dead-end roads, and continually repeating destructive patterns of behavior that aren't "working for us." As much as we'd to believe that we're always in full conscious control of our thoughts and actions... we're not. In our day-to-day lives, we often "unconsciously" (and compulsively) get "caught up" in acting out various archetypal, typical, universal, inherited, patterns of behavior. (about.com)
"Astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.", C. G. Jung once said.
Venus brings experiences of love, beauty and pleasure to our horoscopes, Mars still makes us decisive. We claim that the movements of particular planets are associated with events of various kinds. We assume that the association of planets with particular qualities is based on centuries of empirical observation, of the ancients looking out and observing that for example Mars generally rose or culminated at the time of conflicts. What about Pluto? The latest planet to be discovered was named after Mickey Mouse's dog, but predictably makes his appearance in our charts in his ancient guise as Lord of the Underworld, bringer of upheavals and guardian of buried treasure.
Astrology defends its regularly observed correlations. Some include the applied astronomy of cosmobiology, weather forecasting and the practice of agriculture according to planetary positions. They also include the study of planetary cycles, with its insight into social and economic change. Some consider astrology as strictly linked to the study of birth charts and their various directions, considering that the planetary positions of a moment in the past describe the supposedly continuing nature of an entity in the present. Twelve 300 sectors of the ecliptic, measured from the vernal equinox named after now-far-distant constellations impart qualities to the planets, houses, parts and nodes which we view against ones background.
In horary astrology the Moon's north node is a point of ill-fortune, but in humanistic astrology it is the direction of personal growth. A planet may be in Cancer in sidereal astrology but in Leo in tropical astrology. Some astrologers often decry Sun-sign forecasts as nonsense, but Sun-sign techniques (turning the chart, transits to "turned" house rulers, lunations in "turned" houses etc.) are in fact part and parcel of standard astrological method.
Vedic Astrology, for example, is technically termed a "sidereal system" whereas Western Astrology is "tropical." What this essentially means is that up in the sky there are stars which make up the various constellations of the Zodiac such as Virgo, Aquarius, etc. Vedic Astrology is based upon the actual stellar constellations (sidereal), whereas Western Astrology is based on a fictitious zodiac that slowly moves backwards in space as a function of time ("tropic" in Latin means "to turn").
The rules of traditional, modern (post-Theosophical), sidereal and local space astrology (with its sidereal ancestor Vastu-Shastra) are quite different. Yet how many of us have decided that we would be tropicalists rather than siderealists, traditional rather than modern astrologers (or vice versa) after any process of sober reasoning?
Astrology might as well be an idiosyncratic way of facilitating a superficial access to the control of one's destiny.
Today, horoscopes have become not only a business, but a major entertainment issue. It's fashionable. In some cases, the zodiac signs columns are the most appreciated articles. It's the first thing people come to read in the bus when they open a newspaper or a magazine.
Some of those who really believe their problems could indeed be solved by an astrologist find a well-known specialist whom they pay a fee. And they feel safer if they find out what the stars might suggest.
For most of us, horoscopes are a good gossip, a conversation topic, a way of socialization. It's all about getting along.
