And the moon sinks low in Scorpio

[venta]

This is something I've been meaning to experiment with for ages, but never got round to. I've just been reminded of it, because someone posted on a thread elsewhere with the assumption that "birthdays are randomly distributed" - which I've always assumed they're not. For a start, there's always a bit of a clump of birthdays round February/March, which I've always blamed on people having early summer holidays in June.

Now, I'm assuming that unlike, say, musical taste, incidence of birthdays among my friends list will at least be representative of the population as a whole. If not, then we're into the suggestion that being born in a particular month predisposes you to particular behaviours and that smacks of astrology, so I don't like it.

(Yes, I know there are other non-astrological factors which might be relevant, but let's give it a whirl, shall we?)



You're getting no tickyboxes for this, dammit, it's radio or nothing. I refuse to allow people to be born in more than one month.

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Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

the only reasonable explanation for Astrology

Does astrology require a reasonable explanation? For example, does it make any verifiable claims about birthday-dependent personality characteristcs?

things like day length, external temperature and so on must still have quite a developmental effect.

Do you mean that it's entirely plausible that they would have an effect, or that you'd be extremely surprised if there weren't any (observable) effects?

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Surprised if no observable effects. I thought (no hyperlink to hand, sorry) that there were observable differences physically between children born at different parts of the year, at the most basic level.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

thought that there were observable differences physically

I'm not claiming that there aren't, mind you. Just that I've not noticed many astrologers going out on a limb and predicting what they should be...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I remember my mum commenting once that she'd seen an article around the time I was born, which claimed (among other things) that the dominant feature in the face of a Virgo child would be the nose.

So I not only get to despise astrology for being rubbish, but also for causing me to have a big nose.