Friday, January 14, 2011

So Now I'm A Taurus?

I went to bed a Gemini and I woke up a Taurus.  My life is a lie.
All kidding aside, I’ve always had an interest in the history of astrology and its uses in art and culture.  It goes back to the first time I visited the Beit Alfa synagogue in the Jezreel Valley.  Its mosaic floor zodiac is a masterpiece of cultural syncretism and even features the sun god, Helios, in its center.
As for the “science” of astrology, I’ll let Carl Sagan, of blessed memory, deal with that.  Since this was filmed, not much has changed.

1 comment:

  1. I seem to have gone from a Taurus to an Aries. But wouldn't the sign you were under *in your birth year* mean more that what you supposedly are now? ...Not that any of it is anything other than either (a) simple entertainment and/or (b) bovine excrement....

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