Why astrology is retarded
The fact that so many people (mostly female) are so impervious to logic as to actually believe in astrology is something that needs to be set right. Toward this end, I offer the following brief explanation of why astrology is retarded.
For astrology to have even the slightest claim of validity, it would have to be demonstrated that the positions of the planets against the stellar background exert some kind of physical force that can affect events on Earth. The physical forces in the universe are electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak forces. The strong and weak forces act only on a subatomic scale, and can therefore be eliminated from consideration, so we are left with gravity and electromagnetism. What if I were to tell you (with complete truthfulness) that the mother who gives birth to a baby exerts a stronger gravitational pull on the baby than do all the planets in our solar system combined? Gravitation can therefore be eliminated. What if I were to tell you (also with complete truthfulness) that a single light bulb in the room in which a baby is born has a stronger electromagnetic effect on the baby than does the entire rest of the universe combined? The same could be said for a single candle in the delivery room, in the event of a power failure. In fact, even if the child were born in total darkness, the same could be said of the electromagnetism of his own nervous system. Would you still hold even a shred of belief? Besides, exactly how would the electromagnetism of any planet penetrate the walls and ceilings of a delivery room? (These data are not at all esoteric; they are of the level covered in high-school science classes.)
There is a scientific maxim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but for astrology there is not a shred of such evidence. Astrologers will point to the approximately . 01% of their predictions that even come close to coming true, but ignore the other approximately 99.9% of the predictions that are completely false. No scientist would ever boast with such a record. You will not find a single science department at ANY accredited university in the world that has a single class devoted to the study of astrology, except perhaps to debunk it in classes offered to nonscience majors. Go to the astronomy department of any accredited university and see if you can find even one astronomer there who believes in astrology. They'll look at you as if you're an idiot, and with justification. I doubt that you could find a single living reputable scientist who believes in such rot. In fact, for many decades, scientists have become increasingly alarmed that so many people allow themselves to hold such superstitious beliefs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_Astrology_%28The_Humanist%2C_1975%29)
There is even an organization that has, for decades, offered a $1,000,000 prize for anyone who can prove, under scientifically controlled circumstances, that ANY supernatural powers (astrology, psychic phenomena, or otherwise) can be demonstrated; no one has won it. [randi.org]
Sure, the planets have specific positions at specific times relative to each other against the stellar background, which has been arbitrarily divided by people, not nature, into constellations. But if the plane of the planets' orbits happened to be just slightly different, the constellations of the zodiac would not be what they are now, and they're not what they were many thousands of years ago, nor what they will be thousands of years from now because each star in them moves independently of each other in different directions. For example, what is now called the Big Dipper because of its resemblance to a ladle will, some thousands of years, more closely resemble a shoe. Perhaps then it'll be called the Big Slipper. Likewise, if humans had happened to evolve only slightly more slowly (or rapidly), the constellations would not appear as they do at this point in human history.
Additionally, because of precession, the sun does not actually lie in the same constellations as it formerly did in bygone ages. Therefore, everyone's astrological sign is off by one. Some one to whom astrologers would refer as a Libra is actually a Virgo, for example, because that's from where the sun actually shone when that person was born.
Also, if the surrounding interstellar nebulae were shaped rather differently, the constellations would have a completely different appearance because the light of some stars currently obscured would then reach us, and the light of others we now see would not.
While the moon is close enough for its gravitational pull to have an effect on Earth, there is absolutely NO evidence that it influences people's behavior, personal characteristics, or other events on Earth beyond its tidal forces aside from menstruation, but that's a biological phenomenon, not an astronomical one. Moreover, the Moon's gravity does not vary according to its phase, as astrologers claim. However, the planets' gravity is so weak that it has no effect on anyone. As I said, a baby's mother has a greater gravitational effect during childbirth than do all the planets in the solar system combined. That doesn't bode well for any claims for the validity of astrology.
If astrology were valid, then all babies born at the same time as Beethoven would be musical genii who began to go deaf sometime in their late 20s, all babies born at the same time as Einstein would have been scientific genii who formulated the Theories of Relativity, and all babies born at the same time as Lincoln would have been the 16th President of the United States who led his country through the war that ended American slavery and who died by an assassin’s bullet. That, of course did not happen. There was only one Beethoven, one Einstein, one Lincoln, and so forth.
Really, it's sad that people look to superstitions such as astrology when anyone with a high-school scientific education, the slightest understanding of how the universe formed, and even a modicum of logic ought to be able to figure out that there is no rational basis for believing that astrology has even the slightest validity. It's so retarded as to be offensive to me. I wonder why so many clueless people cling to such mundane superstitions when real science offers far more fascinating possibilities.
Apparently your horoscope did not account for any of this.