Aug 05 2008
Understanding Astrology Signs
What’s your sign? I’m not talking about some corny pick-up line from the 1970s, or a Blue Color Comedy tour award ‘here’s-your-sign’, I’m talking about your astrological sign. What is the symbolic meaning associated with the specific pattern of the stars and the planets at the moment of your personal birth? Do you know?
Chances are good that, even if you claim not to believe in astrology, you do know what your sign is, and what’s more, you probably also know what characteristics are associated with your sign, and whether or not they seem to match who you think you really are.
What you might not know is that astrology comes in many other forms and is an incredibly rich and varied tradition. Knowing your astrological sign in the Western Zodiac (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces) is just the beginning of an exploration that can be as complex as you want to make it. There are Moon Signs, natal (birth) charts, relationships of stars and planets to one another, and the impact of planetary events and movements through the heavens.
Other traditions of astrology have different signs and meanings. Chinese astrology is very different from Western Astrology. Vedic (or Indian) astrology is not like either one. Dip your toe into the waters of astrology, and you will be swimming in deep tidal waters before you know it.
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