2007-09-05 21:45:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
One of the big problems with Astrology is that the Astrological Calendar begins at a place in the sky called "The Point of Aries", this makes Aries the first sign in the Zodiac.
Unfortunately, in the time since the calendar was invented in the middle east, the "Point of Aries" has moved into the constellation Pisces.
But the calendar has never been corrected for this. So, anyone who thinks they are an Aries, was actually born under the sign of Pisces. Kinda blows all the interpretations out the window.!!
And that's totally beside the fact that the whole idea is based on false premises in the first place.
Adolph
2007-09-06 00:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Adolph K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ogg the caveman didn't want to hunt. It was dangerous and the cave was particularly warm this morning. Unfortunately, the clan had a 'you don't work, you don't eat' policy, so Ogg knew he was screwed. Just at the Chief was about to smack the lazy Ogg out of his bison skin blankie, Ogg crawled upright, accidently stepping on the skeletal remains of the small rodent-like animal he had for supper last night. The crushed bones made an interesting pattern on the cave floor, drawing the eyes of both the Chief and Ogg.
"That looks kinda neat, Ogg," the Chief said, looking at the twisted and broken bones.
Ogg suddenly had an idea. The Chief was a great hunter, but as far as intellect goes, his supra-orbital ridge was kinda thicker than most.
"Oh, no! Great Chief! If we hunt this morning there will be a great tragedy! Many animals will escape and someone will get hurt!"
Knowing full well that every time they hunted many animals DID get away and always someone was getting hurt, usually Ogg.
Later, after the hunt, when Ogg's predictions came true, the Chief gave Ogg his own woman and so long as he made predictions before every hunt, he could sponge off the rest of the tribe for the rest of his life.
Ogg, the first Astrologer!
2007-09-06 07:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by Faesson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Horoscopes themselves are of course real, but their so-called predictions are utter nonsense. There's not one tiny shred of scientific evidence to support horoscopes or astrology in general. At best such foolishness might be considered a kind of statistical juggling act.
2007-09-06 06:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. A planet's proximity to you "supposedly" affects something about you, like if you were born under Mars or something like that, right? Well, that planet has no more gravitational pull on you that does a truck parked 5 blocks away. So if star and planet alignments mean something, then traffic jams are even more influential!
2007-09-06 05:19:16 · answer #4 · answered by luvlaketahoe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Astrology is drivel. It is outdated, foolish, a waste of time. If there was any reality to it, school classes would be divided up along sun sign or on other astrological principles and hospitals would be working to such principles. But they are not and do not. Why? Perhaps there is nothing but legend to astrology.
2007-09-06 06:00:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. - There were some studies that hinted
that the season of your birth, and thus your
early experiences, had some effect on your
personality, but that has only an accidental
correlation with the appearance of the night
sky at the time.
2007-09-06 14:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Horoscopes or Astrology.
ZODiAC.
2007-09-06 08:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by Tuncay U 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no.
2007-09-06 08:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by B. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋