These planets you mentioned above flavor your Sun Sign like a spice, if you will. Your Venus sign indicates your romantic personality. Your Mars sign indicates your sexual and or fighting personality. For example, if you have a Venus in Taurus, you are one of the most romantic in the zodiac & a break-up is really hard on you. Say you have a Mars in Scorpio, you have a deeply felt sexuality & you get extremely explosive & emotional when angry. To determine where your Venus & Mars signs are, simply go to alabe.com. It is free.
2006-10-03 12:14:29
·
answer #1
·
answered by maggie w 2
·
1⤊
1⤋
Great answer Logan!
I'd like to add the planets are named after Roman gods (even the more recent ones) so they get their attributes based on that god's personality. Venus must be the romantic only by name. If someone decided to name it Athena it would have a set of attributes. Of course in a different culture the planets and constellations have others names.
2006-10-03 14:46:05
·
answer #2
·
answered by Chaine de lumière 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
Supposedly, if a planet or, shall we say, "astrological body" is in a Zodiac constellation, it affects people born under that sign. As far as I know, there can affect it positively or negatively (perhaps neutrally).
Some cautionary advice from a skeptical perspective is in order, though.
Astrological predictions are made purposely ambiguous so that any prediction is likely to fit any person, no matter when they were born. In his book The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan (famous skeptic and science popularizer) talks about astrology among other things and mentions a study in which a hundred people (with different signs) were presented a horoscope that they were told was tailored especially for them. About 90% of them agreed that the horoscope fit their personality. But wait... there's more: the horoscope was actually that of a serial killer.
Imagine that you could assemble every person in the world with the birthday of October 3rd, 1981. Astrology claims that their personalities should be similar (or at least too similar for any other possibility). Want do you think the chances are that these people would have drastically different personalities and histories? What about people born on the same day as Hitler, or Stalin, or BTK?
What's more, astrology uses an obsolete model of the cosmos for its predictions and horoscopes. Astrology is in fact suited for a geocentric universe, which no sane and educated person accepts these days.
In addition, over tens of thousands of years, Earth spins in a cycle (less noticeable than days and years) called 'precession.' In this cycle, Earth's axial tilt (the cause of the seasons) remains more or less the same but the axis itself rotates. In ancient times, we had a different North Star. Astrology is based on the Zodiac. The Zodiac are the 12 constellations that the Sun passes through from Earth's prespective as Earth orbits around it. Precession has caused the "Classic Zodiac" (used by astrology in ancient times and today) to be different than the "Modern Zodiac." In fact, it is so shifted that the Modern Zodiac has one less old constellation (Aries) and one more new one (Ophiuchus, between Sagittarius and Scorpius). Plus there might be a couple more as Orion and Cetus just barely touch it. What this potentially means is that, IF astrology was true, those who count themselves as Cancers under astrology might actually be Geminis.
And then, astrology only works on Earth (it was, after all, made in a time when people thought Earth was the center of the universe, and that the other planets were "wandering stars," moving with respect to the background stars which always stayed in place)
If you lived on Mars, Mars for you wouldn't be an astrological symbol but Earth would, but astrology doesn't count Earth as an influence of any sort.
If you lived on Pluto, which has a bizarre orbit, the Sun would sweep through totally different portions of the sky, at times completely exiting the Zodiac as we know it.
If you lived 500 light-years away in another solar system, you would have a completely different set of constellations, planets, and perhaps even additional suns (the majority of solar systems in the galaxy have 2 or more suns).
Even still, sunless planets have been discovered. Without a sun, the object that determines your sign (if the Sun is in Scorpius when you are born, you are a Scorpius), astrological predictions cannot be made.
The same situation would apply if you were born in a spaceship in transit from one solar system to another.
And the constellations themselves are only patterns we have drawn in the sky. Two stars of the same constellation are no more related to one another than the Sun is to *any* of the constellations we see. The left star and middle star of Orion's Belt are separated by a stretch of 525 light-years (the Sun's closest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is only 4.3 light-years away).
2006-10-03 13:42:48
·
answer #3
·
answered by Logan 5
·
1⤊
1⤋