Is Pluto a really a Dwarf? What would Grumpy say?

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Actually, I don't think I've ever known astrologists to refer to any planets beyond Saturn anyway.

I'm embarrassed that I have this information in my head but I can't remember things I need to know to get by in the world today...I remember some astrology books that even referred to some as yet undiscovered planet because it was needed so that two astrological signs wouldn't have to share the same planet.

But all that seems moot because your astrological sign is dependent on what astrological section of the sky the sun was in at the time of your birth. (The actual constellations have rather inconveniently moved a bit in the past several thousand years.) After that it's what sign was on the horizon (your rising sign) and then which sign all the other planets were in (the moon being the most significant because it's so physically close). Oh, and let's not forget you have to consider which house each planet was in (twelve astrological "houses" that relate to different aspects of your life).

So many variables is what killed astrology for me because it soon became obvious that you could come up with enough stuff that you could interpret it all anyway you wanted. However I still wonder why my very Virgo-ish friend turned out to have most of her planets in Virgo. And it seemed to make some sort of sense that my rising sign Libra and moon in Cancer were what made me a rather unadventurous Sagittarius.

And the aliens who abducted me said it was all bunk.