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Horoscopes.

where do people get them from

         

walkman

2:17 pm on Dec 21, 2007 (gmt 0)



we them all over in all papers and for months ahead, but where do they get them? Does everyone invent their own or...?

eventus

7:04 pm on Dec 21, 2007 (gmt 0)

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These come from sources like Astrology.com, All Headline News, Tribune, and a few others.

stapel

7:51 pm on Jan 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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walkman said: horoscopes.... where do they get them? Does everyone invent their own or...?

Of course horoscopes are invented! They're pretend!

Horoscopes are logically non-sensical (everyone born in a particular time period will have identical experiences today? really?), astronomically inaccurate (there are only five planets besides Earth? really?), and repeatedly empirically disproven (all the debunkers -- scientists, anthropologists, statisticians, reporters, researchers, etc -- are merely part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to pick on astrologers? really?).

If you want to post horoscopes on your site, work up some whimsy and make up whatever sounds good to you. Just make sure that your "predictions" are too vague to be disprovable, and are generally complimentary. If the credulous feel "stroked" and have something into which they can "read" their mundane daily experiences, they will generally enjoy your creations just fine. *wink*

Eliz.

prfb

1:56 am on Jan 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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One of my favorite passages about horoscopes comes from Douglas Adams' novel "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul", p. 39 of the paperback edition:

"Dirk [the protagonist] slapped the paper shut with a grunt. He did not for a second hold with the notion that great whirling lumps of rock light years away knew something about your day that you didn't. It just so happened that [the horoscope author] 'The Great Zaganza' was an old friend of his who knew when Dirk's birthday was, and always wrote his column deliberately to wind him up. The paper's circulation had dropped by nearly a twelfth since he had taken over doing the horoscope."

Have fun with your horoscopes!