Myths About Astrology Part 1

Myth Number 1: Astrology is what you read in the newspapers

The sun-sign columns you read in the newspapers are typically written to a specified length: astrologers get paid so many dollars to write 60 words per sign. What can you say in 60 words? That’s not even half a tweet. And we know how intelligent a lot of tweets are.

So how intelligent do you expect sun-sign columns to be?

Hey, this sounds as if I’m defending them! Actually, to write anything thought-provoking in 60 words, you probably have to be reasonably intelligent and aware of human nature to start with. So, perhaps they aren’t doing a bad job after all.

But is this ‘serious astrology’?

Nearly every astrologer, including the ones who write these columns, would say No – it’s really just the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

It is nothing more than saying ‘G’day, ‘owya gowin’?’ without the body language.

Footnote: there are some great sun-sign astrolgers who do incredible work based on interpreting sun-sign charts, but they really need at least 1000 words per sign to cover a period of a month or so. So that’s 4 pages in a newspaper. Tell that to the publishers. Yeah, right.

© Rainer Rollfink, 2011

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