star struck baby!

[mollymay]

You probably think I'm mad but have any of you planned a pregnancy to avoid have a baby of a certain star sign?? I am ready to try for baby no.2 but don't want it to be born a certain star sign for personal reasons (I won't tell you which one cause I don't want to offend / upset anyone!!
Am I being stupid?!

bobsmum, the idea underpinning astrology is that everything in the universe is connected. It is very far fetched, yet so are theories of quantum physics!

Just think how profoundly the moon influences us on Earth - the tides, our menstrual cycles and so on... Why shouldn't other planets inflence our life on Earth also?

yes, the sun and moon have a physical effect on us, and there is a school of astrological theory that says that the other planets exert a physical influence also. Other schools of thought disagree (although the physical effect of the sun and moon is undeniable!) and explain the truth of astrology in terms of this universal interconnectedness at every level.

yes, the sun and moon have a physical effect on us, and there is a school of astrological theory that says that the other planets exert a physical influence also. Other schools of thought disagree (although the physical effect of the sun and moon is undeniable!) and explain the truth of astrology in terms of this universal interconnectedness at every level.

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oh and btw, i know the sun isn't a planet (i'm a pedant and would've picked up on that!)

I don't deny the existence of gravity. What I do question is how a constellation which looks vaguely like a sheep when viewed from certain points on the earth's surface can shape a personality. After all - move a little further into space and the stars could quite easily bear a striking resemblance to Ozzy Osbourne. Whatever would Russell Grant say?

hehe bobsmum

i don't think it has anything to do with the shape of the constellations really

The constellations look tiny from our perspective, but each star is of course a sun with its own solar system!

Well, I am a Piscean and I suffer from bad feet. And that is a piscean trait. And I also take ages to come out of a general anaesthetic, and have big eyes. They are traits too! So I have to say that I find it all very interesting in a quirky kind of way. So Mollymay, don't go for a March baby as it will have to wear mules all its life.

I'm a Piscean too dahlia and I too have big eyes, bad feet and take ages to come out of a GA!

there we are spacemonkey and dahlia give us prove at last...I have weighed up all your views and have decided that I will err on the side of caution and just in case there IS something in it all I will skip that month

So, are all the people born in the same place at the same time as me exactly like me in temperament and character?

Weere there a lot of mummies in the delivery room with yours then, soupie? "Altogether now - push!"

More ammunition for you, mollymay - Aries rules the head and most of my physical ailments/accidents are head things - very bad eyes, always get sinusitis with a cold, tendency to go deaf with earwax, bitten by a dog on the face, 2 operations to remove cysts (one in a very dodgy place on my jaw, could have had a facial nerve severed), fell backwards over a low wall and bashed my nose so hard it flattened the bump at the bridge on one side, thrown out of a Land Rover in an accident, bashed face and broke 3 teeth. (I look like Desperate Dan )

So, how precise are star charts with regard to time and place? Seconds? within a few feet? Maybe an hour or so or a mile or 2? I bet there was more than one baby born in my vicinity at a similar time. Also, since personality is definitely formed before actual birth (did any of you have a lively bump? A placid one? One that was prone to hiccups?) then a doctor deciding I should be induced 4 weeks early (I'm talking about me, not my babies) can not have decided my personality by deciding I should be born at that time.... no star signs are nothing but a bit of fun for me really.

Still, you're entitled to believe what you like, obviously!

Oh, and I've had no head injuries to speak of and I'm supposedly Aries

coincidence ladies - you've been fooled

ner ner ner ner ner!

Have a gemini to liven things up a bit in your household Mollymay!

mollymay, I don't think you're being daft or stupid, I think astrology (if done properly) is entertaining and fun as long as you don't take it too seriously. You can avoid a sun sign to some extent, but you could still get that sign as the rising or moon sign, which might be just as significant.

At the risk of being laughed off Mumsnet, I got interested in astrology a long time ago and learnt how to do a complete birth chart, not just the sun signs. I'm keeping an open mind on whether there's any truth in it, but I've seen too many charts which really reflect the person well to think it's all a load of old tosh.

There is a line of argument which says that genetic likenesses can show up in charts - for instance, my rising sign is Virgo 25.3 degrees, and dd1's rising sign is ..... Virgo 25.3 degrees!! (ie the constellation of Virgo happened to be at exactly the same point on the horizon at my and dd's births) Now this seems to me to be beyond the realms of coincidence, although completely unexplainable.

Anyway, will now retreat below the parapet again ....

by the way!

Caroline5, I don't usually admit my interest to people because I can't be bothered to have a big debate about how it can possibly work. I dunno, but there seems to be something in it!