During a pit stop at Northampton Motorway Services this morning, I was sat having a coffee minding my own business when a woman came and sat at the table next to me. Nothing odd so far. She was soon joined by another woman who she clearly hadn’t met before, but had arranged to meet there.
The woman who joined her (who was very gobby) said, “Hi, you must be Jane, I’m Sarah”. She then dropped the bombshell, “it’s so cold today – I’m a Pisces which is one of the sun signs so I don’t do cold”. The woman she was meeting clearly noticed me look up and shake my head in bewilderment and obviously joined me in the same thought. Nutter. She then proceeded to ask the other woman what star sign she was.
I didn’t hang around long enough to discover if it was a job interview or some sort of meeting but what a way to endear yourself to a stranger – by assuming they give a shit what astrological star sign you are. If it had have been me interviewing her and she’d come out with that I’d probably have legged it.
This got me thinking, so I looked up my horoscope for today from one of the hundreds of sites on the internet. I quote “The world seems to be placing obstacles in your way to test your dedication to a cause. Although you could be hitting brick wall after brick wall, you should take encouragement from scaling each one. Someone close may be facing similar challenges; perhaps joining forces could be the answer. Not only could you support one another but perhaps form a lasting partnership. Love may blossom in this period too, and it might come in an unexpected way. It’ll pay to keep an open mind. “
Basically, every word is complete horse-shit and totally irrelevant. None of it applies to me and I suspect if I checked my horoscope every day for a week it would be the same steaming pile of poo. Why the hell do people take all this stuff so seriously?
The number of people making a living from being “astrologers” is alarming – talk about money for nothing! But what of the people who rely on this shit to get them through the day and who actually let it control their lives? The word “crank” springs to mind.
I don’t know much about astrology but the fact that Venus has entered Aries doesn’t make me want to take more care over decisions which is what yesterday’s horoscope suggested. I take care over decisions every time, not because there may be strange activity in Uranus. Or anyone else’s anus. I just don’t get it. And I suspect Pisces woman didn’t get the job if the other woman’s face was anything to go by.
