What's Your Sign?, Zodiological Stereotyping Options

Have you ever had someone ask you what month and day your body was born – only to then discover that they wanted that information so that they could stereotype you according to your zodiological sign?

That has happened to me. And because that happened several times, years ago I made the decision to stop giving people that information, because if they zodiologically biased then they tremendously struggle to relate with me, instead of relating with the sign. Most often, they have lost that struggle.

I always have had problems with astrology for that reason: the propensity for many who consider, and engage, events according astrological explanations about whatever is happening (be the event either environmental or personal) - with little regard for the dynamic actually occurring.

However – I do not throw out what I consider to be the baby with that bathwater.

To me, the baby is the union – the combined interconnection - of the zodiological archetypes. Such that: I consider each person to have all of the archetypes, including all associated qualities of those archetypes, as aspects of their personalities. Sure, some people have cultivated one or more of them to either greater or lesser degrees than others. Yet, I do not consider any one archetype to be the central, primary, or whatever-other-term-or-phrase-suggests-exclusive-personality-determinance of someone’s personality – based upon when someone’s body was born.

I consider the zodiological system as a map for archetypal development – one guide (amongst many guides) for cultivating various traits as clarified and consolidated according to those famous archetypes – where one can work on cultivating all their positive qualities (and surmounting the respective challenges for doing so with each archetype) for producing a specific kind of character complex.

Although not much talked about – I can see how a system for such development could be crafted, which deals with invoking and evoking the zodiological archetypes to order their mature placement within, and expression through, one’s magickal personality.

Praxis, here's the real problem here, most people have no clue what they're really dealing with when they speak of astrology. There are numerous ways to combat this ignorance, I think the most effective is to learn enough for yourself to get by. Astrology is a highly effective magical aid as well, if you're interested in the occult it would greatly aid your endeavour to take up a basic study of astrology/astronomy.

Here's the crux of the dilemna, most people only think in terms of the sun sign. What nearly everyone doesn't know, and if you know this it will shock and stun almost everyone you tell, is that they're are two other major houses that you're born under. There's a person's moon sign (forget how you get to it) then, there's the critical ascendant (I think that's the name for it) sign, which is created from the hour you were born in. I'm not really into using houses for hours of the day, but such things do help categorize.

Other ways to impress people or reflect their idealistic knowledge is, so what's your star sign? So what does that sign mean on the medicine wheel (the psuedo new age native american astrological horoscope)?

Astrology shouldn't be overlooked, I would definitely urge you to get a copy of your own natal chart so that you can see what was where when you were born.