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This week, it’s in the stars. It’s strange how some of humanity’s oldest superstitions have stuck with us and translated easily to the information age – like the horoscope. They’re all over the place and there’s no “sign” of astrology going away. By which I mean star sign of course!!!A cynic might say this is thanks to astrology’s vagueness, its followers picking up on advice that relates to their lives and rarely being confronted with anything too specific. They might point out that, despite its long history, astrology is a pseudoscience. But there’s such a vast choice of horoscopes to browse online, even a grey-faced sceptic could probably find one that matches their profile. Why, if standard newspaper astrology doesn’t do it for them, they could always try out ye olde Egyptian system - or even dump astrological signs entirely and make like a tree instead. Some people take it all a bit more seriously of course. People like The National Council For Geocosmic Research (Inc). Amongst a great deal of resources their extensive site includes a useful article on Objectivity In Astrology, although not from the perspective you might expect: “Could the planet of power and obsession, as it takes on the cause of ‘ultimate truth’, have created an atmosphere that allows facts to be twisted and distorted so they fit into a person's personal idea of what ‘truth’ is?” Quite. But whatever your views on the validity (or otherwise) of astrology, you're likely to share the astrologer’s fundamental fascination with the night sky. And why go outside into the fresh air, or even pop your head out of the window, when you can download a full, free planetarium straight to your computer's desktop? That’s the Webslinky way! If you've been looking for an excuse to dust down that old planetarium projector, now you've got one. There’s plenty more fun to be had with astrology too. Why, even the Wiccans like to have a laugh about it. And once, infamously, tongue-in-cheek astro-numerology dating site Astromance went so far as to publish a disclaimer (now removed) saying how silly it was. But I’ve been saving the best until last: out of Astrology’s rich heritage came Harvey Sid Fisher’s twelve Astrology Songs, accompanied by interpretive dance. And that’s something we can all believe in.
David Thair
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