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Sky Piercer
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This just in! Mystic Meg disagrees with scientists! Well Duh!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2003380897,00.html
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SCIENTISTS and astrologers are engaged in a new star wars – over whether horoscopes are a load of rubbish.
Canadian boffins claim to have discredited the idea that our characteristics and lives are shaped by the influence of the sun, moon and other planets when we are born.
They spent several decades studying 2,000 Britons born within minutes of each other and concluded that astrologers’ belief that they all had similar traits was nonsense.
But astrologers are furious at the report and say its findings are simplistic and highly selective.
Here, the world’s top astrologer, The Sun’s own Mystic Meg, hits back.
OF course, I should have seen this attack coming – scientists love to discredit things they can’t explain.
And, needless to say, it doesn’t take an astrologer to foresee that I totally disagree with these “findings”.
This report in Canada’s Journal of Consciousness Studies doesn’t prove a thing.
The claims are based on 2,000 Pisces babies, born in 1958, and assessed at the ages of 11, 16, and 23.
You will notice straight away that the “experts” actually finished their survey in 1981 — so this “new study” has been gathering dust for 22 years.
The researchers claim the guinea pigs’ characters and the way their lives worked out were not similar — and, therefore, that their astrological birthcharts were worthless.
First of all, a survey based on just one zodiac sign — and without any reference to the other 12 — doesn’t seem very thorough.
And there is much more to take into account than the position of the sun when a birthchart is calculated. Something new happens in the sky every few minutes.
Secondly, one of the two authors, Geoffrey Dean was once an astrologer — obviously not a very successful one — and now makes a living from claiming it is all nonsense.
At best, these findings are just a matter of opinion — after all, science is not the same as fact.
Think how one week you read a scientific report saying coffee is bad for you, followed, a week later, by an equally scientific report saying that coffee is good for you.
Astrology is more of a belief system.
Not even astrologers agree exactly why it works but they firmly believe from their own experience that it does.
Because of that scientists feel uneasy about it and only a handful ever dare to speak up in its favour.
But don’t you find that the best things in life are those you can’t explain?
Who can truly understand how we fall in love, the feelings we get watching a beautiful sunset, or that sense of knowing who is calling you just before the phone rings?
Astrology goes back 6,000 years, and for all that time people have studied the skies and seen a link between the movement of the planets, against the fixed background of the stars and what happens down here on Earth.
Astrologers have passed on their knowledge over the generations to help clients.
I love the letters I get from Sun readers saying how my daily star forecasts have worked out.
I have to confess that I did a survey of my own some years ago.
More than 350,000 people, from all the 12 star signs, filled in a special questionnaire about their love lives. In all the categories the star sign made a real difference.
For instance, my survey revealed that eight out of ten women said their best ever sex was with a Scorpio male, while men rated Aries as the sexiest woman.
The secret fantasies of every star sign were different, too.
With women, Aries has sexy dreams about athletes, Taurus wants chefs, Gemini fancies politicians.
Cancer melts for home makeover kings, Leo fantasises about movie stars, Virgo yearns for firemen.
Libra wants to score with footballers, Scorpio loves soap stars and Sagittarius are turned on by newsreaders.
Capricorn dreams of policemen, Aquarius fantasises about pop stars and Pisces has a thing for film directors.
And for the men, Aries loves nurses, while for Taurus it is pop stars.
Gemini has a yen for newsreaders, Cancer fantasises about secretaries, Leo loves Hollywood stars. Virgo fantasises about exotic dancers, Libra, tennis stars.
Scorpio likes Page 3 girls, Sagittarius is switched on by telly doctors and Capricorn are mad for policewomen. Aquarius loves TV presenters and Pisces has the hots for teachers.
I think these results have more relevance to you than the conclusions of a bunch of scientific spoilsports.
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Man, you don't know how funny I find this article. Especially the last line! 
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