to think that anynoe who believes in star signs is a complete numpty?

[bettybosseye]

I mean it's so clearly such a great stinking heap of horse shit, how can anyone actually believe it?
Another mum at playgroup today was telling me what kind of personality my 9 month old will have based solely on her star sign.
All pleasant enough stuff but she actually believed it.
What's wrong with people?

[kerala]

YANBU utter tosh and am afraid if someone talks seriously about them I leap to the "bit dim" conclusion. That said a super intelligent top lawyer I worked with believed in them which I found really odd.

Like the story of the journalist on the local paper who said the journo that finished first on a Friday got to write the star signs

[bubblewrapped]

I have always found there is some truth in the traits that each star sign has. Everyone that I know is just like their typical star sign, but I have no idea why.

I dont believe in horoscopes, and think they are a crock of shite.. because 1 in 12 of the population are not going to have the same thing happen to them at the same time.

[AtYourCervix]

utter hrseshite but Leos are the best.

[AgentZigzag]

My 10 YO DD1 has just got some Zodiac Girls book and has been banging on about what star signs people are.

I put her straight with words not dissimilar to yours

[Mymblesson]

Newspaper horoscopes are always generalised crap for the reason bubblewrapped says.

Detailed Natal charts are a mite more interesting, however.

[unfitmother]

YANBU

[EauRouge]

YANBU, star signs are utter guff. The reason so many people fit their profile is because they are just a long list of very vague personality traits that could apply to anyone.

[mutznutz]

Load of old bollocks. People are people no matter what their signs...and all the 'traits' the signs are supposed to show, can be found in just about everyone.

[joydivisionovengloves]

YANBU. Total bobbins.

[kerala]

Awww Agentzigzag think star signs are fine for 10 year olds its when adults take them seriously that is peculiar.

[Hassled]

YANBU. A twelfth of the world's population sharing character traits because they were born in roughly the same month - tis madness.

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

I have no interest in them, so much so when someone asked me what starsigns my children were I couldnt answer because I didnt know.

at Reality.

[HecateQueenOfWitches]

Oh no. I live and breathe my star sign.

My character is exactly as my star sign says it is supposed to be.

Oh, hang on, wait a minute.

whoopsie

I'm now an Ophiuchus.

I wonder what my personality is now?

Well, waddya know. I guess it is all horse shit after all...

[AgentZigzag]

I was too hard on her with the realism wasn't I kerala?

Ah well...

[GrimmaTheNome]

You may all enjoy this

[bettybosseye]

I wonder why it's such big business? I do think that grown up people taking this stuff seriously must have a screw loose somewhere.
Don't even get me started on clairvoyants!

[WhereYouLeftIt]

Someone decrying astrology to me explained that he believed personality traits could have been influenced in utero by what the mother ate when pregnant, and that since until fairly recently everything you ate would be seasonal and local, the in-utero environment would be greatly influenced by the foods available so that could account for supposed shared traits to those born around the same time. He then realised that he'd actually supported astrology, albeit through the latitude/longitude/birthdate rather than "the stars" -his pained expression was a picture!

Does anyone know if personality is affected by mother's diet in pregnancy?

Not that I believe such nonsense, we Aquarians are famously sceptical ...

[RamblingRosa]

YANBU

[bettybosseye]

GrimmaTheNome- OMG are these people for real? Scary stuff.

[Lamorna]

It is useless if you go for sun sign astrology, but it is very accurate if you take the exact time and place of birth. Lots of businesses use it, they just don't admit to it!

[GrimmaTheNome]

Does anyone know if personality is affected by mother's diet in pregnancy?

no, but I think there have been studies linking various ailments to when a child was conceived/born. That is a scientifically credible, testable hypotheisis. It in no way supports that the alignment of lumps of rock or blobs of gas in space have any predictive effect on an individuals fortune or finances.

[woollyideas]

YANBU.
And I'd like to add feng shui to the general list of arrant nonsense.

[DilysPrice]

YANBU, but it's a very handy idiot detector - she'd have been unlikely to have walked up to you and said. Hi, I'm Sadie and I'm an idiot! otherwise.