LiveScience.com Article on Astrology
Unfortunately, most astrologers don't either.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/your-astronomical-sign.html
My response to the article follows:
This is old news, of course... ;-)
Nonetheless, IMHO:
The qualities of the signs are based on the relationship to the equinox itself (and, in my view, the length of the daylight hours), not to the background "wallpaper" of the fixed stars. There are four 'elements' and three 'qualities' which iterate through the twelve signs.
Aries is "Cardinal" (containing the initial signature qualities of its season) "Fire", appropriate enough for the Vernal Equinox, as the lengthening days raise verdant. (Of course southern hemisphere astrology would need to invert the cycle, not a problem, since the length of the solar day is the appropriate 'impulse' here, not the "effects" of distant points of light). Taurus, the "Fixed, Earth" middle of the vernal season is traditionally associated with the fecundity of the Earth, a time for planting...
Gemini, the mental "Mutable, Air" sign comes as the season changes (mutable) into summer, and the breezes of late spring invigorate the mind (poetically speaking, of course) (and "Cancer" the first--Cardinal--sign of Summer brings Water to finish the elemental cycle, etc)
While I am not an apologist for astrobabble, I can easily see that the diurnal and lunar cycles have an effect on biological scales, and seasonal affective disorder shows the same on neurological and psychological scales.
What unbiased scientist would discard the 'old wives tales' of astrology, now that we see the economic and therapeutic value, for instance, of herbs used for millennia by Amazon shamans? 19th and 20th C arrogant Euro-centric academics imagined that they already knew everything there was to know, dismissing the iterative and augmentative observations of 1000s of generations of intelligent humans. We do so now at our own peril, both intellectual and global!
:-)
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