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Posted by Chris Morris on 8th September 2009

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I was up in the loft earlier and found an astrology chart that Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon from Poirot) did for me last year.

I’m fairly sceptical about astrology, but it is certainly interesting.

Here’s the summary:

“Your considerable analytical powers, if used positively, will bring benefits. You may be impatient with others who are less precise and this could bring friction to relationships and working conditions.

You have excellent mental processes and the ability to communicate ideas logically – this indicates considerable teaching skill. At times your quick mental processes could mean you are impatient with slower colleagues.

A tendency to extravagance may make any financial gain short-lived and cause you to gain weight. Your love of philosophy and higher learning will broaden your outlook. Travel in distant places is likely and men could bring you benefits. You may well have a highly-charged sexual energy or unconventional ways of expressing this.

You project a sense of power and an intensity which others may be fascinated with. You can understand their unspoken thoughts and can keep a secret. You prefer to keep them at a distance and to keep your own counsel. Transformative experiences in the use of your power and authority will aid your development. You are one who inclines toward the realms of higher consciousness. You seek new forms of spiritual discipline. You are interested in higher education and have an increased capacity for communicating advanced new ideas. Long distance travel may further your inner search. Never let your enthusiasm run away with reality. Your nature is elevated and spiritual – to others you may seem vague and unfocused. You do however, have a strong inner sense of purpose. You are an idealist and at times can be a visionary.

The contemporaries with whom you share this configuration will strive towards the creation of a better world. You are idealists and dreamers who will seek to transform and begin anew. Life is seen as part of a cosmic whole and many of you will be open to new ideas and spiritual disciplines. Alpha meditation and New Physics, sexual freedom and equality, occult and esoteric knowledge, advances in science, communications and medicine will be of much importance as mankind realises the relationship of the smallest part to the whole.”

Hmmmm.

Methinks P.T. Barnum would be proud.

What do you think? I’m curious to know: a) if you know me, do these statements resonate? b) how many other people do you know who this summary would (also) describe?



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11 responses:

Julie

8th September 2009 (3:16 pm)

Very accurate and the pair of you should be burned as witches


Carol Robertson

8th September 2009 (3:31 pm)

Did she know you before she wrote this?


Chris Morris

8th September 2009 (3:56 pm)

No, she just had my name and date/time of birth.


Lydia

8th September 2009 (4:14 pm)

Some of that is very you, other bits I’m not so sure, and it’s a bit vague in parts. Overall it relates more to you than anyone else I know. Do *you* believe in it?


Lydia

8th September 2009 (4:15 pm)

I guess not if it’s been in the loft for a year?


Matt Wingett

8th September 2009 (4:20 pm)

I can think of several friends to whom this would apply. But, to be fair, she hasn’t said “You like doing building work and are a skillful bricklayer” – so she’s kind of in the right area…


meeta sengupta

8th September 2009 (4:46 pm)

That’s me! Are you sure that’s your horoscope?


Bridget McKenna

8th September 2009 (7:12 pm)

I think most people would be thrilled to have these things said about them (myself included, for the most part), so given that, it seems vaguer to me on reflection than it did on first reading.

I gotta say, though, that Hannes Bok — an astrologer who was also justly famous as an illustrator — who had no information about my mother other than her name and birthdate, wrote her a stunningly detailed and not terribly flattering horoscope that knocked the whole family’s socks off. I consider that one an exception to the usual vague and flattering horoscope, as it would not at all have fit the vast majority of people. I have no idea how that happened.


Stephen Redmond

8th September 2009 (10:43 pm)

I love this! I think Russell Grant would be ashamed to put this lot down on paper.

Go on, argue with, “…At times your quick mental processes could mean you are impatient with slower colleagues.”

If anyone hasn’t come across it, I recommend Ian Rowland’s Full Facts Book on Cold Reading – http://www.ianrowland.com. The information in this book gives me great pleasure when I see “professional” psychics on the TV.

For example, last year on Irish television (RTE), Gordon Smith (the “Psychic Barber” – where did that come from???) appeared on the “Late Late Show” – a long running and still popular Friday night chat show. He very sincerely explained to the presenter how he had realised since he was child how he could see dead people and used this “power” to help people. After this very sincere interview he then agreed to give a demonstration with the audience and did a classic cold reading of a woman. It was almost straight out of Rowland’s book.

This type of “art” is pure fraud and should be made illegal.

Stephen


Chris Morris

9th September 2009 (2:10 pm)

You mean I’m not really an elevated visionary? haha :)

I met Ian Rowland last year by the way, and it was terrifying. On the surface, he is just a very good cold reader. But if you start modelling what he does, ‘reality’ implodes into a vacuum. It’s very clever, and very scary. I get the feeling he could walk through a field of snow and leave no footprints.


meeta sengupta

9th September 2009 (2:19 pm)

And I’m the only person I know who has never tried a cigarette- like your coffee. I must be your star-twin! ;-)

Hang on! Did I just invent new gobbledegook? This should be a game for all of us into language – spotting. The horoscope thing is a game, another mind game. It has enough science backing it for it to be saleable, but not enough for it not to be misused.

Like every other social science, it probably started with a set of hypothesis. There were enough co-incidences or events to fund research. Sadly not enough robust data. Plenty of PR hype, and derivative ‘experts’ to keep it going.

And its fun!


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