Mystical Angels

How is it that horoscopes are so accurate?

I don't know how much of it I believe, but some stuff I can't help but believe. As far as descriptions of "who you are" personality wise, all the descriptions I find are extremely accurate. (I also checked for my family members just to see and it was right on). How is this possible? I'm a Scorpio, and a lot of the personality traits are very true. What is it about horoscopes that can define ones personality so well? Most detailed answer wins.

Public Comments

1. Alot of time and effort has gone into research.
2. I believe... that God created it all. Using the planets, stars and numbers. I just learned about all of this this past June and I'm hooked. It all connects with Numerology as well. Its amazing. I'm supposed to be a Christian and I hear its a sin, but this stuff seems like the only thing that hasn't lied to me. So, I really don't know.
3. Well, im not sure i'll win because i don't have details but i definately CONCUR! Im a scorpio too and i think that horoscopes are very accurate. I would say about 85% to 90% accurate in most cases. Have a nice day! ;)
4. I'm a sagittarius by birth but it is WRONG. I'm 100% Taurus by personality. Astrology is accurate because it is founded on the acausal reality of the universe whereas religion has no basis.
5. for some people they r very accurate but for some others they r not at all.to me my horoscope is like 90% accurate..especially the love one and personality
6. They are positive generalizations that apply to a wide base of people. It uses a competitive comparison system that plays on people's psychology, in this case the need of group superiority. That is to say that we naturally seek the success of any group in which we associate freely or otherwise. Once apart of a scope people will then isolate the qualities presented to them subconsciously deluding their grandeur. This coupled with group superiority makes it easy to concur with the written proposition. I'm not saying that a pieces feels their demographic is better than say scorpio, its more of a need to validate the group, follow suit, and in effect believe in the impossible. These horoscopes are written by men and thus contain all the fallacies of man. To believe in a horoscope is to believe men possess metaphysical power and are able to divine the vague future of a larger percentage of a specific population. Apply these same horoscopes to a Sudanese woman. Are they still compatible? I prefer my free will over any college graduate who writes for these horoscopes for a living.
7. I was wondering this last night, I was looking up on my "Taurus in Chrion in 10th House", apparently this relates to my emotional neglect/rejection growing up , and due too this I have an almost obsessive need to be seen as worthy by others now. What I can not rationalize in my brain is how can this be a feature which HAS occurred in my childhood, but it be known from my birth and time date before this actually happened, this implies to me, that there is something pre destined about Astrology, I already have conflicting feelings and thoughts about destiny/fate so...am really confused. I do have a belief in Astrology due too experiences that I have had and situations I have observed, saying this though, I do not really pay attention to a newspapers claim of "Today Leo's will meet an old flame" to general and vague for me, but the more in depth aspects like your own personal birth chart and such like I do have time and interest for. I also believe strongly in my Higher Power which can cause me much internal conflict as the two very possibly do not go together. Life events and environmental surroundings can and do also play a part on a human, very much so. When I read up on Sag, I smile then can frown I can be blunt, but am not shallow as we can be viewed by others, but then am aware you have to take the other aspects of your in your chart, so I think my Pisces/ Virgo elements may tone this down, who is too really say, what I do know is that there is truth in at least part of it, that I am sure. Oh, my Venus is Square Pluto, (which is said to mean most of my encounters with guys will be unhealthy intense, all my love meetings will be painful and almost karmic in nature, I may become a sex worker, sexually warped), this coupled with my Chiron/Taurus with it's Venusian energy ( possibility to be potentially really sexually kinky)did disturb me worry me, but ultimate know that I am in control (for the most part). I believe but also have a lot of questions, I doubt my answer has helped at all since I myself have a lot of questions, but wanted to contribute.
8. Which one out of the thousands that are in print and online do you mean? Here is how one person did horoscopes: The American conjuror James Randi recounts in his book Flim Flam how as a young man he briefly got the astrology job on a Montreal newspaper, making up the horoscopes under the name Zo-ran. His method was to cut out the forecasts from old astrology magazines, shuffle them in a hat, distribute them at random among the 12 zodiacal signs and print the results. This was very successful of course (because all astrology works on the "Barnum principle" of saying things so vague and general that all readers think it applies to them.) He describes how he overheard in a cafe a pair of office workers eagerly scanning Zo-ran's column in the paper. "They squealed with delight on seeing their future so well laid out, and in response to my query said that Zo-ran had been 'right smack on' last week. I did not identify myself as Zo-ran... Reaction in the mail to the column had been quite interesting, too, and sufficient for me to decide that many people will accept and rationalise almost any pronouncement made by someone they believe to be an authority with mystic powers. At this point, Zo-ran hung up his scissors, put away the paste pot, and went out of business." The Barnum effect is the name given to a type of subjective validation in which a person finds personal meaning in statements that could apply to many people. For example: You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. At times you have serious doubts whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. If these statements sound like they came from a newsstand astrology book, that may be because they did. Such statements are sometimes called Barnum statements and they are an effective element in the repertoire of anyone doing readings: astrologers, palm readers, psychics, rumpologists and so on. If the statements appear on a personality inventory that one believes has been especially prepared for you alone, one often validates the accuracy of such statements and thereby gives validity to the instrument used to arrive at them. If Barnum statements are validated when they have originated during a psychic reading, the validation is taken as also validating the psychic powers of the medium. "Barnum effect" is an expression that seems to have originated with psychologist Paul Meehl, in deference to circus man P. T. Barnum's reputation as a master psychological manipulator who is said to have claimed "we have something for everybody." (