Do you really believe in horoscopes?

I do when they are good, but think its rubbish when I don't like what they say ;)

No, I don't believe in them. It put me off when a young friend who had started to work for a local newspaper, had been given the job of inventing/writing the horoscopes each week!

No not at all.
The law of averages will mean that some one on here today will have a correct reading but that would just be a lucky guess. If the future could be seen in the stars all readings in newspapers/ magazines/ on line etc etc would be more or less the same. Also why on earth afer all this time hasn't goverment put such things to the greater good, why waste such power as that.
Its all a load of codswallop.

No - it's a load of old codswallop, but then a Gemini would say that (the old ones are always the best!)

Statistically one in twelve of the population can probably expect this week to have a wonderful day, meet the man of their dreams, have sudden good fortune, encounter problems at work, or hear bad news.

If they also read someone's prediction that one of these things is going to happen, and then it does some of them are going to believe that there is something magical going on. Most people are not so credulous.

Carol

Elegran Thats got it all covered then

Given that the stars in the constellations are hundreds of thousands of light years away from each other and from our solar system, and at the present time they're not even where we now see them, how could they possibly have any influence on anything happening here on this planet?

No way. I am supposed to be a sagittarian which is I believe a fire sign! In fact I am gentle, quiet, retiring, tranquil and shy!

Yeas ago I was a sub-editor of a magazine. The celebrity astrologer lived in the South of France and sent in three month batches of horoscopes at a time. Early on I realised that I had got the sequence wrong. In trepidation I phoned him to let him know, and apologised profusely. "Dear boy," he replied, "don't worry about it, it's a load of twaddle anyway, put it in whatever order you want."

Pretty unanimous so far.

Just for fun, I've looked at the Wiki description of the Scorpio character. If it were correct, I should have been, at the very least, prime minister or even a dictator!

They sometimes get it right though - I am a Libran, calm, peace-loving, generous - altogether a very wonderful person.

We are all wonderful people. They can't go wrong on that.

Greatnan I have been called many things but calm ? no never and I am a Libran (I think).
Jasper Carrott spoke of horoscopes many years ago he said when asked what sign he was he said... hump back bridge !

Apparently (according to one site on google) we are the most civilised sign, good looking, exhibiting taste, charm and elegance, and with a strong , analytical mind. That will do me for starters!

Billy Connolly said his sign was Pyrex - he was a test-tube baby!

feetlebaum

No I don't believe in them - but I still read 'em from time to time; just in case...... . I'm a Virgo: pernickety and a pain in the proverbial

no, i don't.

i worked for a local paper. we bought ours in from a supplier and printed them randomly. no meaning at all.

admittedly, it was some time ago.

Of course not, but they are just a bit of fun.

The only horoscopes I ever read are those in The Onion -always worth a look!

Aries Mar 21 - Apr 19
One man truly can make a difference, assuming he's willing to drive a loaded schoolbus into the base of a dam.

Not horoscope-related really, but I've just realised it's a full moon tonight. Could that be why some of us (including me!) are a bit tetchy?

No, I don’t.

Your future isn’t in the stars - it’s in your head!