So true!

It's what I say after every time I read horoscopes or anything dealing with astrology. Now you may make fun, but I don't care. I'm not an idiot. I realize there is a bogus element to it, choosing just the right words and phrasing that can really allow horoscopes and predictions to apply to anyone at anytime. Many will say, it's just a matter of subjectivity. BUT, sometimes these things are just way too fucking accurate and it makes me think, "Even if this isn't real or fact, there's this level of accomplishment it reaches in pointing out interesting things in YOUR reality."

It's like interpreting a poem. It isn't saying specifically to you something about you and your life. But we often read it that way. The word choice and thoughts it presents are just the right things to make you think of how it applies to you--vague yet easily subjective. Does that invalidate the legitimacy and value of the poem? No. That is, for the most part, how I see astrology with varying moments of belief in some validity in the ideas that the alignments of space and time do create certain personalities and...happenings.


"The hands on the dial of a clock turn in a circle. The zodiac, as drawn by an astrologer, also resembles a dial. A horoscope is a clock. Whether we believe in the predictions of astrology or not, a horoscope is a metaphor of life that conceals great wisdom.

How does an astrologer draw your horoscope? He makes a circle, an image of the heavenly sphere, and divides it into twelve parts representing the individual signs: the ram, the bull, twins, and so on. Into this zodiac circle he then places symbols representing the sun, moon, and seven planets exactly where these stars stood at the moment of your birth. It is as if he took a clock dial regularly divided into twelve hours and added nine more numbers, irregularly distributed. Nine hands turn on the dial: they are the sun, moon, and planets as they move through the universe in the course of your life. Each planet-hand is constantly forming ever-new relationships with the planet numbers, the fixed signs of your horoscope.

The unrepeatable configuration of the stars at the moment of your birth forms the permanent theme of your life, its algebraic definition, the thumbprint of your personality; the stars immobilized on your horoscope form angles with respect to one another whose dimensions, expressed in degrees, have various meanings (negative, positive, neutral) : imagine that your amorous Venus is in conflict with your aggressive Mars; that the sun, representing your social personality, is strengthened by a conjunction with energetic, adventurous Uranus; that your sexuality symbolized by Luna is connected with dreamy Neptune; and so on. But in the course of their motion the hands of the moving stars will touch the fixed points of the horoscope and put into play (weaken, support, threaten) various elements of your life's theme. And that's life: it does not resemble a picaresque novel in which from one chapter to the next the hero is continually being surprised by new events that have no common denominator. It resembles a composition that musicians call a theme with variations.

Uranus strides across the sky relatively slowly. It takes seven years for it to traverse a single sign. Let's assume that today it is in a dramatic relation to the immovable sun of your horoscope (for example, at a ninety-degree angle): you are experiencing a difficult period; in twenty one years this situation will repeat itself (Uranus will then make an angle of 180 degrees with your sun, which has an equally unfortunate significance), but the similarity will be deceptive, because by the time your sun is attacked by Uranus, Saturn will be in such a harmonious relationship with your Venus that the storm will merely tiptoe past you. It is as if you had a new bout of the same disease, except that now you would find yourself in a fabulous hospital where instead of impatient nurses you would be cared for by angels.

Supposedly, astrology teaches us fatalism: you won't escape your fate! But in my view, astrology (please understand, astrology as a metaphor of life) says something far more subtle: you won't escape your life's theme! From this it follows, for example, that it is sheer illusion to want to start all over again, to begin "a new life" that does not resemble the preceding one, to begin, so to speak, from zero. Your life will always be built from the same materials, the same bricks, the same problems, and what will seem to you at first "a new life" will soon turn out to be just a variation of your old existence.

A horoscope resembles a clock, and a clock is a school of finality: as soon as a hand completes its circle and returns to its starting point, one phase is finished. Nine hands turn with varying speed on the horoscope dial and constantly some phase comes to an end and another begins. When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realize it only when his life begins to enact its first variations."

And so I decided, out of boredom, to check my astrological compatibility with a rather fine looking sweet man I have come to know. This is not fact. It is a thematic evaluation that is very close and very accurate to MY reality that I take into consideration the next time I happen to spend some time with this fellow.

Love Compatibility of Aquarius with Virgo

This is a relationship that begins with a mental attraction and stays there. You are driven by originality and invention, offering new ideas and insight into everything you do. Your Virgo, on the other hand, is driven by accuracy and precision, focusing more on small details than the big picture. You may seem odd and quirky to your down-to-earth Virgo. He or she will most probably seem too practical and you may tire of the criticism, however well-intended it may be. This relationship will work if you learn to accept each other's vastly different approach to life.

So as long as a guy isn't a complete creeper, I could see myself not being turned off by the cheesy line, "So what's your sign?"