How did people come up with the personality types in astrology?!


Question: I was born on June 10, so in the zodiac that makes me a Gemini. The Gemini personality describes me very accurately. With my friends and pretty much everyone else I know their sign describes them very well. How can people create personalties based on dates? How can they be so accurate for a lot of people?


Answers: I was born on June 10, so in the zodiac that makes me a Gemini. The Gemini personality describes me very accurately. With my friends and pretty much everyone else I know their sign describes them very well. How can people create personalties based on dates? How can they be so accurate for a lot of people?

A lot of them are generalisations, and - I hate to say this as an astrologer, but with what I'm about to say, I strongly agree with sceptics out there... - the trick to those is that all 12 personality types sound more like synonyms of one another rather than 12 completely different personality types.

Add to that, that the majority of people ignore their own bad traits and believe any compliments - honest or otherwise - to their address. Without realising it. So if I would tell you that Geminis are highly intelligent, realistic and honest people, you would see no reason not to believe me. Although the only typical Gemini trait out of those 3 is... none, actually.

Thats why nearly everyone will say that their personality description matches their actual personality. What I want to get at, is that people shouldn't make such assumptions without having had a crash course in astrology or without a PhD added to your name. Or simply a knack for psychology. If you want a good diagnosis for an illness you go to a doctor rather than having the man on the street telling you that "you have a flu, you'd better take some antibiotics" (antibiotics shouldn't be taken when you have a flu to begin with, because they don't help)

Similarly, you also don't read a general "horoscopes" booklet to form an accurate description of your personality. You either go to a professional astrologer, educate yourself on astrology, go to a psychiatrist or take a psychology course.

Now, as for how they came up with those different - arguably accurate - personality types for every sign of the zodiac, has absolutely nothing to do with the symbolism behind every sign. The reasoning behind it is fairly simple; 4 elements, 2 polarities and 3 qualities. The 4 elements are: fire, earth, air, water. The 3 qualities are: cardinal, fixed, mutable. The 2 polarities are: positive (masculine), negative (feminine).
They are used in that order until the total makes up 12 different combinations.

Aries: fire - cardinal - positive
Taurus: earth - fixed - negative
Gemini: air - mutable - positive
Cancer: water - cardinal - negative
Leo: fire - fixed - positive
Virgo: earth - mutable - negative
Libra: air - cardinal - positive
Scorpio: water - fixed - negative
Sagittarius: fire - mutable - positive
Capricorn: earth - cardinal - negative
Aquarius: air - fixed - positive
Pisces: water - mutable - negative


The elements, qualities and polarities on their own have a seperate meaning, for example; negative polarity gives an introverted nature, fire element gives a very active and energetic nature. Because those two generally don't go well together, you will notice there's never a negative fire sign. Cardinal quality has leader capacities but combined with a fire element that leader is more inclined to lead the way and not care if anyone follows - if no one follows, he'll just do it on his own! Cardinal quality with earth element will make sure he has followers by numbers, because earth needs grounds to stand on.

So it's basically the combination of element, quality and polarity that gives every sign of the zodiac its unique personality type.

So forget the Scorpio's sting, the Leo's roar and the Virgo's sense for purity. Those are just to flatter those signs ^_^

it's B.S to screw with ppl and make money from the weak...if you didn't notice they are all saying the same thing just in different ways

lol..

each sign have similar traits..
some act on them a lot others
dont..but its there.

Astrology is the study of planetary and cosmic cycles. It's about symbolic archetypal energies in our birth charts...

The basic principle of astrology is that the planets have a fundamental,cosmically based connection to specific archetypal forces or principles which influence human existence, and that the patterns formed by the planets in the heavens bear a meaningful correspondence to the patterns of human affairs on the Earth. In terms ofindividuals, the positions of the planets at the time and place of a person's birth areregarded as corresponding to the basic archetypal patterns of that person's life and character.

"We are born at a given moment, in given place, and we have, like the best wines, the quality of the year and the season which witness our birth." - C.G. Jung

suggested website for more info:
http://thezodiac.com/soul/

Astrology is very very old.
What is its origin ?? thousands of years old...It has always existed in any population around the earth (hence Vedic, Chinese, Western etc astrology).
It is based on archetypes.
The Romans and the Greeks , Mesopotamians (who were advanced mathematicians as well) had their myths and legends : they were not mere stories for children but profund truths about human nature. Well..everybody across the world really.
They also were knowledgeable in planet constallations (how ??)and deducted lots from them.
Calendars were changed (Gregorian I think ?? the old one). Typically a calendar should start in end of March/April : Aries.
Famous astrologers studied those archetypes and transformed astrology to be more understood by using psychology (which again also has its root in the same way).
Study Plato, and ancient philosophers, study Carl Jung ( who came up with the collective unconscious but this has more to do with the generation planets : Neptune, Pluto, Uranus.......etc..).
The term "New Age" is actually nothing but that.......



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