do you believe horoscopes are real?

Answer 1

This is a question of do you believe in fate. If horroscopes can predict the future, that means that the future exists and is already planned out. I'm a great believer of choice in life. One choice can change the path of your life totally and therefore come to a different ending. So my answer is no. If you read a horrorscope, you can make sure that event doesn't happen by making the right choices

Answer 2

OK... let's talk horoscopes.

Horoscopes are based on an astrological convergence that occurred when you were born. It is specific to several variables.. including the specific time you were born and the place you were born, amongst other things.

When you have a professional astrologer draw up and read your horoscope, he does a chart, outlining all the variables, and gives you a reading specific to you and you alone.

When we see newspaper horoscopes or magazine horoscopes, these are generalities. They are based mostly on the month of your birth, they are vague at best and can not call much of anything specific that may pertain to you. Very general, and sometimes they can get lucky, but mostly its very general.

Also, you have variables within the astrological charting system itself. Some astrologers set the change of the astrological sign on the 20th of the month, others the 21st. Then you also have personal interpretation. Each reader will see something different in the charts. Some readers can't read to save their lives.

Newspaper readers just happen to have a syndicated column they get paid for, they get famous simply because they have a magazine or newspaper column. And to be honest, they are rarely correct. They may see a specific highlight for that month, and mention it, but it will apply only to a few, if any, people who will read their column. Again, general traits, a vague overview and not much meat and potatoes.

If you take the time to chart out your horoscope specifically, you will find a much better tool for examining your life and the roads open to you. But for most horoscopes, they are very general, not specific to anyone in particular and more for fun than anything else.

Answer 3

Yes, real fantasy and delusion!

I am an astronomer, and I can tell you that horoscopes are based on an incorrect, geo-centric view of the universe that was proven wrong centuries ago! The Zodiac used by astrologers does not exist anymore! All their bable about such a planet moving into the house of Aquarius etc has no basic in reality what so ever. For example I was born on the 9th of March. An astrologer would therefore say I was a Pisces, on the basis that the Sun was in that constellation at my birth (Let's just skip over the facts that the constellations themselves have no objective reality and are chance pseudo-alignments of stars that are no where near each other in space, just an optical illusion when seen from earth, so nothing could actually 'be in' Pisces or any constellation, and that it's not the sun that's moving anyway, it's the Earth!) On the basis of that, I could go out and buy all sorts of books telling me what my personality is, what sort of job I should do, who I should and shouldn't marry and so on. I could look up horoscopes telling me what to expect in my life.
Except, the sun was not in Pisces on the 9th of March. It was in Ares! Use some astronomy software, or do the maths, or - shock horror - actually look in the sky!!!
So the whole thing is based on incorrect data, and is unmitigated codswallop from beginning to end. Those folk who are convinced that their horoscopes contain truth are the victim of a technique called Barnum statementing – the use of phrases that sound unique and specific but are in fact very general and fuzzy, and open to interpretation and retro-fitting.

Answer 4

No. If anyone thinks that a person is capable of writing something that pertains to millions of people born in the same time bracket needs to be looked at.

These people pray that the one horoscope for a million snags at least a few if only one sucker by coincidence.

Answer 5

They're just a bit of fun for the gullible. Newspaper ones are deliberately so vague that you can nearly always find some justification for saying that they were right.

The relative positions of the celestial bodies follow a precise and predictable path. Therefore it would be possible (if you could be bothered) to do a horoscope for everbody on the planet for thousands of years ahead. This, logically, would mean pre-destination so the concept of "free will" becomes meaningless.
In other words, nothing you think that you're "choosing" to do would make any difference to the "pre-ordained" future. This would make the whole of life just cogs in a pre-programmed machine. Ludicrous.

Thus, Astrology is logically completely at odds with (say) Christianity. They can't both be right. You choose- oh, sorry you can't choose - it's pre-ordained isn't it.

Answer 6

No.

How could the position of planets and the moon dictate our future? If it was true, then people could use them as a defence in court.

"I didn't mean to murder him me Lord - It was that Mars planet crossing Jupiter that did it......... I had no choice in the matter"

Horoscopes are very general and say things like "You'll come into money this month and will have tension at work"

But that would happen to everyone!

Horoscopes are junk.

Answer 7

horoscopes are very vegue. meaning that the same exact thing isnt going to happen to every gemini on the same day. that would just be rediculas. I may be true however that it might happen to a percentage of Geminis. I guess it would depend on what part of the month you were born on. Astrology is moer realistic. it gets more in depth with you personally.

Answer 8

No, how can 12 short desciptions fit 60 million people in Britain alone. Plus they also seem to be different depending on the newspaper. Pure rubbish!!

Answer 9

Believe it or not, it is theorized that the nephilim Genesis 6, taught man how to war and other things like astrology, and God destroyed them with the flood, so it does work because the gift of prophecy works, but it is not of God.

Answer 10

I'm a Gemini, and Geminis don't believe in horoscopes.