lillyjgc said:
The one good thing about newspaper astrology is that it raises the *profile* of astrology generally. Had it not been for newspaper columns/horoscopes etc many people wouldn't even know astrology existed.On the other hand, it only takes one *lousy* astrologer to give the whole thing a *bad name*.
Lilly,
I suppose we all have to start somewhere.
(Meaning that however it happens, if we stumble into some serious study of astrology, it's a good thing…)
But is there any way around the fact that whatever "reading" is done has to be for anyone born under a sun sign, and day during that period and for any year?
It would be cool, for instance, to have a daily "reading" for all the possible combinations of Sun/Moon/AC, but that would take 1,728 separate readings.
I started out learning about astrology to prove to myself that it doesn't work. I sent away for a computerized "reading" based not on my Sun sign only but on my exact birth data, and even though I got much the same kind of "cookbook" readings for my AC, Sun/Moon combination, other planets, it was suprisingly accurate.
That caught my interest, so I went to a library, checked out all the materials I could find, then learned how to cast a chart. I became interested in astrology by trying to prove that it was nonsense. Ironic, isn't it?
But I can't help thinking that anything I read in a newspaper is written to be applicable to one out of 12 people who live on this planet.
Then again, I'm one of those people who avoids newspapers, so I should probably not even be in this discussion.
And on the other hand…
But…
Or looking at it from another view…
Sun and Moon in Libra can be so confusing!
Gaer