You know, I always hated (well okay....strongly disliked) my mars and my sun. They throw my chart outtat wack. But in time I've learned to love them. My gemini sun gives me my communication skills, which aren't always the best, but can be very good if I want them to. Also, I do love talking and I love that I love talking. With mars in aries, it's is a lesson planet for me big time (in the 3rd and is the focal point of a T-square...also involved in a Yod). But, I know I need lessons. Challenges. Otherwise I'd have things alot easier as most my other planets and signs don't cause too much a stir.
I would play the mystery game at first upon meeting someone new (in person) for the first time. Let them guess before eventually giving in and telling them I'm a scorpio (ha ha....they'd fall for it). Then I'd say I was really a gemini, mess with them a little. I don't judge based on signs, but I figure if someone is going to do that to me, I don't really want to get to know them anyway. I do love my taurus moon, I might add.
I just hope they don't hate me based on my sun sign....it's their loss if they do HA HA I keed I keed....
Maybe its wrong, but 1 of my 1st actual questions...besides whats your name, how old are you, where you from, etc etc etc, is: whats your sign?
I judge people by their sign...and refuse to befriend someone that has a sign that i dont perticularily like. I have for the longest time avoided even further talking to certain people because of their sign.
i ablsolutely refuse to date anyone of a fire sign...and some air signs.
i have been working on becoming more open, because i have realized that there are exceptions to the stars...but even still, i struggle.
I don't walk around thinking if somebody is prejudging me because of my sign. And, if somebody is judging me because of my sign then they need to get a life. I'm never reluctant to tell a new person that I'm a Sagittarius. Why should I be? If they hate my particular sign then that's their own problem not mine. Any person with some sense and some brains wouldn't be judging someone just because of their sign. Everybody is their own unique person even if they are born under the same sign and have similar traits. Nobody deserves to be judged that way before someone gets to know them personally.
Not personally because nobody I know really does not bother with astrology. If I noticed that someone is trying to use it to prejudge me, I'll tear them a new one.
If there is one thing that astrology does do well is stereotype and pigeon-hole people. No one has control of when and where they are born. So this make astrology a form of bigotry. Even though this makes it akin to racism, it is easily ignored and accepted by believers. But it's okay for them to do it. After all astrology has been proved as factual, Right?
No, not at all. I've been pre-judged for a number of other reasons, but never my sign.
Chainlightning: You are beginning to make me laugh. What do you mean that "nobody I know really does not bother with astrology?" You know a lot of people on YA that bother with astrology. HaHaHaHaHa. WHAT IS YOUR SUN SIGN? I promise I won't stereotype or pigeon-hole you. lol Oh, btw, I think I read that same answer to another question that was posted.
LuvLeeEna: ....love your honesty!
Okay, to answer your question Hsu_mi: no, I am never reluctant to tell a person my Sun sign, because if they want to form an opinion about me based on one sliver of information, that is not my problem and probably not someone I would care about anyway. I tend to like people with a little more depth.
Hmm, I don't think so...at least as far as I can tell. But, I have to admit that I have observed this strange look in some people's faces the moment I mentioned my Sun sign...Although I never really felt reluctant about it.
I think that most people (from the ones that are prejudiced against Caps) believe that we are only interested in our own ambitions and that we'd do anything in order to reach our goals, no matter what we have to use...This is actually setting us as cold and heartless power-seekers in their minds...let alone the "depressed and boring" part, LOL. I have to admit that there are times when these are true, but not that frequently...
And it is also true that people who think that way are usually not that very knowledgeable as far as the real aim of Astrology is concerned.
So, I still have no problem interacting with them (not sure if they do,though, hehe), but I'm definitely not willing to start a whole conversation about it just in order to make them change their minds about me. After all, their life is theirs...They have the pie and they also have the knife- they are the ones who define the pieces.
most-who am i kidding-no ALL the people I meet are like 'I bet 'you' are a scorpio' whenever we get to talking about astology...then I am like 'no I'm a capricorn' and theyr'e like so much less impressed...like shrug their shoulders or 'or ok'
it's not FAIR! esp since I dont particularly favor scorpio...
Not in real life, no. On this forum, sometimes. They don't always say the nicest things about Sagittarians. In this context, no, I don't typically wait to put the astrological info out there...what's the point, really? If someone's going to discriminate on the basis of sun sign (or any sign), it'd be a case of "damn me now or damn me later", so the way I see it, it's best just to get everything out in the open right from the start, and see what you're dealing with from there. Then again, when you put it in the context of "I am a Sagittarian", there are really very few things that I'm reluctant to tell anybody.
In "real" life, I find more so that I am pre-judged due to my interest in astrology. By people very much like chainlightning. But still I do not hide that interest, even if it is someone that I think I might like, because it's a part of who I am, and they're going to find out eventually anyhow.
And if you've got to hide parts of yourself and make yourself appear to be something that you're not in order to insure that a person or people like you, you're really not doing yourself very much of a service, are you?
And chainlightning, what in your opinion is more prejudicial, I wonder....the observations which astrology allows us to make in regards to an individual's character, or the rejection of those observations without even exploring them first hand, because someone else says they don't work or are inaccurate?
Uh yes, and those who prejudge me, usually have a very very superficial knowledge of astrology.
Usually I am the one who judges and prejudges. I like knowing their signs to know their true motivations.