I was looking though the zodiacs recently. Both western and eastern. I’ve been looking at my horoscope almost daily for a couple years now. I started by looking it up online and it was NEVER accurate. Not Once. I wrote it off as some stupid little thing, and gave up on in. Then my brain popped in again, “but so many people around this world can find advice and solace here.” I was wondering what I was missing…

Then I started looking around for different sources of horoscopes…. The more local they got they more accurate they got. It was strange… So I started regularly looking at the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. I get, now, three horoscopes and I feel together they give me a good look at the day. Now the goal, for me at least, of a horoscope is not to predict specific events but just to give some general advice of the day. Advice that I have found has been much needed, either because of me, or because of another person or event in the day.

I never game much thought to the Chinese Horoscope until recently. Once I read about it in more detail I realized it really is accurate too… November 17, 1985 was a good day for me ;) It makes me a Scorpio and an Ox. Which at first I thought was a strange and incompatible mix, until I realized that the Ox hides the darker sides of Scorpio:

Information from Wikipedia: Scorpio (astrology), Ox (zodiac)

Scorpio & Ox Similarities: Water Signs, both feminine signs.

Scorpio Traits: Intense, Powerful, Determined, Tenacious, Persevering, Emotional, Sensitive, Calm but Seething, Reserved, Withdrawn, Secretive, Deep, Profound, Passionate, Loyal, Devotional, Ambitious, Extreme, Willful, Fanatical, Mysterious, Magnetic, Deeply Resentful, Brooding, Potentially Destructive, Sexual

Ox Traits: Responsible, Dependable, Honest, Caring, Honorable, Intelligent, Industrious, Practical, Petty, Inflexible, Possessive, Dogmatic, Gullible, Stubborn, Critical, Intolerant, Materialistic

At first look, they seem rather incompatible, and that is what struck me when I was a child. I was like how does this mix at all? It lead to my disbelief of the entire system, both of them. “These could never apply to me.” was the line I kept telling myself. Then I got Stubborn, I refused to look at horoscopes at all, and I refused to look at those little place mats in Chinese food restaurants.

But as I explored more, I found some truth, and started getting deeper. Now it has become intertwined into what I call ‘religion’.