Astrology
I may have to rethink my its full of crap position on astrology. Maybe my biggest problem with it was not knowing where to look.
I had my chart done by a friend, just to see if the actual breathing human working on it made a difference. And I got to ask the question what is it that makes me nothing like, and in many ways exactly opposite, of what they say my sun sign ought to be?
The answer was that its because (or at least mostly because) I have a Scorpio ascendant, the exact opposite from my sun sign (Taurus) and that people with that set up are often nothing like their sun sign.
So, I started looking around for some more information on having a Scorpio Rising. Pretty much the only thing I really knew about that sign before was the typical OMGZ Scorpios are teh sex!!!!! *eye roll* Yeah, that's not me, not at all. But.... well, that piece aside, the rest of what I've been finding is rather frighteningly accurate. (just two immediate examples I found through google)
It is interesting anyway.
The other particularly noteworthy thing I learned there (aside from a number of other things I'm keeping to myself for the present moment) is my Mercury in Gemini, which I did know about, is actually in the house that rules religion and spirituality among other things. So, in other words, there is a very good chance that somewhere on my person I have a birthmark that, if magnified, would read "Property of Hermes." :-P
I had my chart done by a friend, just to see if the actual breathing human working on it made a difference. And I got to ask the question what is it that makes me nothing like, and in many ways exactly opposite, of what they say my sun sign ought to be?
The answer was that its because (or at least mostly because) I have a Scorpio ascendant, the exact opposite from my sun sign (Taurus) and that people with that set up are often nothing like their sun sign.
So, I started looking around for some more information on having a Scorpio Rising. Pretty much the only thing I really knew about that sign before was the typical OMGZ Scorpios are teh sex!!!!! *eye roll* Yeah, that's not me, not at all. But.... well, that piece aside, the rest of what I've been finding is rather frighteningly accurate. (just two immediate examples I found through google)
It is interesting anyway.
The other particularly noteworthy thing I learned there (aside from a number of other things I'm keeping to myself for the present moment) is my Mercury in Gemini, which I did know about, is actually in the house that rules religion and spirituality among other things. So, in other words, there is a very good chance that somewhere on my person I have a birthmark that, if magnified, would read "Property of Hermes." :-P