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Have you ever wondered why there is such an evident prejudice against Gemini’s? Even if you didn’t know that was a thing, now don’t you want to find out? Well to tell you the truth there really is no logical reason why people target Gemini. People could have just as easily targeted Sagittarius or Leo but they chose not to. I believe that one thing that made it easier to target Gemini was the fact that the sign Gemini stands for the constellation of the “twins” so you could call them “two faced”. There are always good and bad people for every sign, so there is no real reason for any stereotype against any one of them, especially if you don’t believe in horoscopes. I hope as you read more about the process and the science behind all of the …show more content…

By its definition, horoscope means “a forecast of a person's future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person's birth.”* Your horoscope is generally, if not always, determined by your “star sign” or your zodiac sign. Now as I continue to study this, I find that determining a horoscope is a very exact process. Now, I can’t explain this in any other way or it won’t make any sense and my job is to educate you on this right? Right, so I’m going to directly quote the website. “Your horoscope charts the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars at a specific time and place of your choosing (e.g., the date, time and location of your birth). Astrologers don't use "clock time." Rather, they measure it as "sidereal" time, as measured from the sun's position at the spring equinox.” So basically it is saying that your birth determines your horoscope. What I find interesting is that Astrologers, when determining horoscopes, don’t use regular peasant time, they use their fancy sidereal time. The only way I can interpret said sidereal time is after the equinox (Daylight Savings) they measure where the sun is due to the time shift. From there you can then determine the time using your hand like “everyone” knows how to do. After all that mumbo …show more content…

(I can’t remember the website now but) A website said that if you believe in astrology wholeheartedly that is 90%-100% true for you. If you believe on the down low, just dabble here and there, it is most likely 40%-60% true for you. Finally, if you don’t believe at all it would only be 0%-20% true for you. In some aspects it seems totally fake. The chance of everyone born in the same month as you having similar traits to you is about as likely as evolution, it can’t happen. But if you think about it, I would say at least half of those people wouldn’t believe in astrology at all and maybe 20-ish% would just believe a little. Though that may be the case, I would still say it is highly unlikely. Most of the tools used in “reading your horoscope” I believe are “hocus pocus” (no pun intended… well maybe a little…). Things like Tarot Cards, dowsing rods and runes may help you to “feel the energy” but really all they’re doing is putting on a show. Astrology is definitely not irreducibly complex, and I could probably rip this apart piece by piece and dive head first into the root of all the stars. [For the sake of my sleep schedule I will save that for my final copy xD] I will add something though, the horoscopes you see in the paper are definitely not something you should believe, and they are most likely not done by someone who knows what they’re doing.

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