Is Astrology of ANY use ?

I mean, how can the alignment of the planets or the influence of the constellations have ANY effect on what we do as individual insects on this little ball floating in the void ?

I think that Astrology is just another kind of religious cult with all of the nonsense that is attached to religious cults...don't you ?

it is not a cult.
it is fun 😱

and stars are telling the truth 🥷

somtimes it can be fun, and sometimes it can be true

*btw clovie, i like your sig*

Yeh...OK Emma and Clovie...I would not argue with THAT...BUT...

When it is true is that not just co-incidence ?

Some people won't go across the threshold until they have consulted their stars...That makes me think that they are afraid of what the stars can do to them.

How can the movements of the stars and the constellations billions of light-years away from us have any effect on what we do as individuals on this little planet.

Fun...maybe...but real ? I can't see how.

tx emma.

no.. i mean it is FUN in the first place.
it may be true, but don't have to 😬
and i think that asking stars about stuff is just not totally sane 😕
(and i don't mean to insult anyone)

I have been wondering at those glowing and scrolling and bouncing lines so I thought I would try to do it too...

Yahoooooooo this is fun....

Can't make it work !

Why can't I make it work...it looks easy ?

[scroll]
[glow=color]
[blur]
[bounce]

and in the end you're putting the same word with /
and it look like eg: [/tag]
clearer?

Yeh Clovie...I did that and it didn't work !

I have been using forum code-tags for a long time now and yet I cannot get them to work here.

I just put the tag word inside square brackets and close off the bit of text I want to muck about with with a slash before the code word - as you show...but...to no avail ! VERY puzzled 🙁

astrology?..bwah!
i could not possibly believe in such a thing.
there is no existing rational explanation, to back all those daily horoscopes (and others in this matter) up.
all of the possible resemblances are merely coincideces.
but..hey..it's anyone's choice to believe in it

Originally posted by Papaumau
Yeh Clovie...I did that and it didn't work !

I have been using forum code-tags for a long time now and yet I cannot get them to work here.

I just put the tag word inside square brackets and close off the bit of text I want to muck about with with a slash before the code word - as you show...but...to no avail ! VERY puzzled 🙁

let me try
it is working

i have no idea why isn't it working for you 🙁

Originally posted by Clovie
it is not a cult.
it is fun 😱

and stars are telling the truth 🥷

Yup, it's fun.....but shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Astrology? Well, first of all the position of astrology’s constellations have nothing to do with the position of the REAL constellations. So…
Secondly: Astrology always seem to be so vague it can basically fit ANYONE:
Read the following:

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

Does this fit YOU? Then read on here http://skepdic.com/forer.html

With those two things being said: can astrology be beneficial? I suppose if people are depressed it helps to have some support of some kind for a period of time. Other than that it shouldn’t be taken more seriously than the cartoons in a newspaper.

Now that's pretty !

So far so good...

But it STILL won't scroll or bounce or upsize !

Hi "The omega".....

Sorry for getting sidetracked with that vB codes thing....

I found the Barnum effect very interesting and can see how that would be incorporated in the fortune-telling, ( for that is what it is ), of Astrology.

I have studied the work of Astrologers for many years and agree that they are skilled readers of human behavior and of human habits and because of this they are very good at making the Astrological reading seem to suit the individual and feel personal to that individual too.

But, as you say, all of these readings can fit - to a degree - all of us if we read them and want them to be true to our condition.

Having said all this I am sure that many people who are attracted to Astrology do wait until parts of the forecast comes true and then this just feeds their need for the forecast in weeks or months to come even if most of the forecast did not actually come true.

I suppose, like palmistry and bump-reading and tarot and tea-leaves and general fortune telling, the actual reading is incidental to the event itself.

"Cross my palm with silver" they say.... and maybe that is what it is all about: Money !

Hooray...I got the glow AND the bounce to work

http://www.maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=astrology

Humerous article on Astrology.

Astrology as we use it or praise it in modern civilization is Bullshit. However, ancient civilizations used astrology and star signs to mark births and important happenings. The Aztec's Believed people born on certain star dates from previous marks in their history would shadow people's persona born on the same dates. This is more or less an early horroscope system. I think this fact has some lagitamcy to it. I mean alot of gemeni's reflect other gemeni's the same for all other signs. For the most part though as in daily horroscopes and shit i think is just that BUllshit.

Saggitarius!
All your friends are laughing behind your back
KILL THEM

Astrology is very interesting to study and understand but you shouldn't take it seriously.

and Backfire i like the link 😂

I think that astrology is really interesting. I started reading about it and stuff last year, and I have to say, some of the things that are said about my sign (Aquarius) is so much like me it's uncanny.

Originally posted by Silver Stardust
I think that astrology is really interesting. I started reading about it and stuff last year, and I have to say, some of the things that are said about my sign (Aquarius) is so much like me it's uncanny.

OK then Stardust....Let's have a bit of fun with this:

I don't know your starsign but I betcha that much of this stuff is SPOT ON with your personality....

Here goes:

You are a sensitive person who cares for others and who hates to see strong people abuse weak people !

Sometimes you feel rather inadequte when life throws you a curve-ball !

You only have few real friends but often you wish that you could open up more to your best friend !

You think that people are cruel to you and you feel that nobody can feel your particular pain !

You wonder if you will ever be clever enough or confident enough to get past all of the hurdles at school without making a fool of yourself !

Now...your future:

I see by looking in my crystal ball that you will soon get over the problem that you have with boys and that you will soon find another one that will treat you as you feel you should be treated.

The relatives that you at present feel are not listening to you will come around and that row you had will soon be forgotten and put where it should go...in the past.