Why does everyone think it's necessary to believe in the zodiac these days?
550191
I don't believe in the zodiak either. I know what you are saying. I have taken a few tests just for the fun of it and it showed a different compatibility everytime. \n\nI cannot comprehend it. I hear people talking "Oh he's a leo and she's a cancer and they are always bickering. LOL! How stupid can you get? \n\nPeople bicker no matter what. Yes, you are right. A lot of what I read fits me too. And if you put all of the readings together about various personalities of each zodiak character, they are going to be different. \n\nWell...I suppose people feel the need to believe in something\n\nImagine this...A guy wants to get serious with a girl or marry her and she says "oh I am so sorry, I cannot marry you, our signs are not compatible" How ridiculous is that?? LOL!
364361
Some people find truth in it, but I think that tends to be more out of a desire to believe than anything else. My opinion about astrology? Everyone is searching for wisdom: wisdom to comfort and guide us. Whether we find that in astrology, in religion, in science, or elsewhere doesn't matter. It is what it means to us that is important.
722817
The Zodiac is just mumbo jumbo. Pheremones make you react to someone, whether on not they match the right sign!
674936
I believe in them, but don`t think they limit your abilities.People have followed the signs for years.In search of food,shelter,and creation as well.They`re time tested signs.
318349
Hmmm I'm not sure but since astrology doesn't bother to correct itself for the fact that the constellations have drifted one full sign over the lat 2000 years....\n\nMy fortune cookie seems to back me up on this.
197360
I used to be an amateur astrologer and it sure seemed that way at the time.\nI am uncertain at this point in my life but I tend to think it is true. I am intelligent and well educated and know it sounds ridiculous and stupid.\n\nAnd yet, if well done, and if you use your RISING sign in those newspaper predictions (the rising sign is where you will find the sort of predictions they are giving in the newspapers and magazines, it can't be done with the birth sign), you are often surprised...............
1000907
Yeah horoscopes are really silly. And it's like if you read two different papers and two different magazines then you will have 4 different horoscopes... and people actually believe it...\n\nFor that person above, religion is something totally different.
219104
I am a Virgo and that is about all I know. I don't even know the dates. I will occasionally read my horoscope if I am flipping through a magazine but just for fun. They are so vague and to group people by birth months seams silly to me. I think it is better to understand a broad variety of personalities. I have friends who put a lot of faith in their sign and their children's signs. I don't get it but don't dare criticize.
800679
Think about it. Doesn't astrology seem to be biased against itself? It does not consider things like age differences, education, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or economic stature important. Single parenting or divorce is not an issue.\nNobody has control when or where they are born. But you believe in compatibility just because of birthday, time and location of birth. Isn't that a form bigotry? Why let  complete strangers make such a decision for you?
367877
I agree with mainwoolly (and not for the first time); I suspect that nonsensical beliefs of all kinds actually have a real-world, real-time effect, on the human mind if nothing else.\n\nWe all know people who never make a decision without first performing a tarot card reading, or faithfully check their horoscopes every day, or whatever.  They simply do not hear you when you point out that it's a pile, no, a truckload, nay, a Matterhorn of horse-hockey.  These same people retain enough sense to enable them to pass their drivers' license tests; to get and hold jobs; to raise children who stay out of prison (the majority of them, at any rate).  \n\nAnd they never notice the contradiction, they never notice that their own brains are divided against them.  It's like walking around with a big ole ugly-a$$ nine-hundred-pound gorilla perched on your shoulder.  I've never studied psychology so I can't understand how or why this works for anyone; but apparently it does.\n\nHow much might more have been accomplished already if so many of us weren't permitting ourselves to be held back in this way?  It doesn't bear thinking about, really.
31604
The point of astrology is to be so vague that the person can use astrology to explain what they want to explain.  Horoscopes have no real predictive power, but a person well-versed in the breadth of atrological detail (beyond mere sun signs) is able to use astrology as a language to describe and define.  This can give them the ability to better see people's personalities, because it gives them a structure oin which to base their understanding.\n\nPeople are multifaceted, and astrological charts are completely over-whelming with the amount of information that they throw out, much of which is mutually contradictory.  But if you try to see how a person's chart matches their personality, it will give you a structure for systematic analysis, and through this, you can come to discover a great deal more about a person than you would have otherwise realized.  It becomes a sort of forced analytical exercise, much like many of the tools in psychoanalysis.\n\nAn added advantage od astrology is that it gives people the faith necessary to act.  If you think you know something, you gain confidence, and confidence is almost always a good thing.  Too many people become paralyzed with doubt and they second-guess themselves too much.  Astrology leaves little room for pessimism.  ANd horoscopes usually give advice taht would be good advice no matter what your sign is, so they help you to look at conflicts and problem areas and instruct you to do prudent things.  At that point, the predictive power fo it all becomes moot.
1118719
One doesnt have to believe in astronomy. It is a legitimite science. Astrology takes as much belief as tarot cards, crystal balls, reading tea leaves, tossing bones, palm reading............
34912
I think what this guy is trying to point out is the frustration with so many people being led blindly by dated or 'obsolete' ideologies. I think this question is more akin to people with 'leftist' ideals, that see in the masses a repeating pattern of spoon-fed idiocy. Whenever I think of this question, I think of the millions of people that believe in anything without questioning or analyzing the deepness of the subject. What really comes to mind is RELIGION and PATRIOTISM. So many have been led into believing things that are not even entirely certain, are very subjective and bound to relativity and seemingly created to keep a group of people in power. \nI think this person is frustrated with so many people not questioning beliefs and believing blindly just because 'tradition' demands it.\nWhat frustrates me is that I see so many backwards things and so many people not even questioning them, buying into them and being told how to be and how to act by non-founded dubious sources... this is very saddening, and yes, I think it affects us all. Open-mindedness and an analytical, critical attitude is much needed nowadays, when we're being bombarded by propaganda and lies every day. It's time for society to evolve, go beyond tradition, rid of the old attitudes that have proven wrong, and WAKE UP!
746574
Horoscope and astrology are wonderful sciences. I have read, it is very much possible to predict accurately using those sciences. The problem is finding the person, who has mastered those sciences. I feel, there are very few people in this world, who have mastered those sciences.\n\nIf you believe in astrology, then you might know that the destiny of your life is pre-determined. Then, why you want to know your destiny. Just live each moment filled with peace, love and joy. Wish you a happy and healthy life.
948609
Because people are not ready to accept the facts what is happening in their real life. Having so much of desire beyond their limits and they want to get it by crooked way, and sometimes coincidentally it happens they started believing it strongly.
703073
Astrology is a science twisted into an Art. It can tell you where particular stars will be at a particular time in the future. The rest is conjecture built on the basis of data you provide and some cross checking of the Mathematical projection . Don't depend too much on it for accuracy. Modern Psychology and general knowledge can give better results in predicting what will happen to you.
1163437
I am Aries myself, and i have no problems trusting most people.  Yes it is an Aries personality.