Sheldon wrote:
I've just flicked channel 7 news on and they're reading the lads horoscope.
And that must be the oddest thing of all. How do these astrologer frauds even get away with it? The arguments seemingly centre on the baby being born "on the cusp" of Cancer and Leo. Yet anyone who has the wit to consult any online sky chart will immediately see that the Sun was yesterday (and still is today) midway between the constellations Gemini and Cancer, and absolutely nowhere near Leo.
Yet there is bullcrap like
"
The Sun entered Leo (and thus the sign of Leo began), just a couple of minutes after he drew his first breath. "
Er, no, the sun really didn't. This isn't up for debate.
"
Just a few hours before he was born, Venus moved from Leo to Virgo, suggesting that babies born this week will be especially blessed with clever, inquiring minds."
Eh? Ignoring the obvious question ("how come?"), no Venus didn't. Venus sits proudly on the front paws of Leo, and nowhere near Virgo.
Somehow, even though it is illegal to claim horoscopes are true, and they are only meant to be for amusement, yet so many gullible people swear by them and are duped by them, even though they are manifestly based on fundamentally incorrect assumptions about the positions of the sun, moon and planets.
The funniest thing was once I printed my own skychart at birth off and triumphally showed it to someone I was discussing this very subject with, proving beyond doubt that the horoscopes were wrong, and that whilst I am supposedly "a Taurus", the sun had in fact been squarely in Aries on the fateful day.
"Oh - i see, so you're really an Aries, then," came the winning reply. I mean, really, what's the point?
