Western Zodiac/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

== That the [[Western Zodiac]] is not really good with [[Elemental Powers|Elemental Themes]] ==

* You have Aquarius, the '''Water''' Bearer, represented as two wavy lines, as an Air sign. Then there's Capricorn, a goat with the tail end of a fish, as an ''Earth'' sign. Lastly, you have Scorpio, a friggin' landbound arthropod, as a Water Sign when it [[The Farmer and the Viper|has a history of not getting on well with water]]. Granted, fixing it would throw the "balance" of the elemental cycle out the window, but you have to wonder what they were smoking to think two signs that are already ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|swimming]]'' in water symbolism should be aligned with other elements, while one that shouldn't be associated with water, ''is''. At least they didn't make Pisces a Fire element or something.

*** Shouldn't the cup holder be Aries, Taurus or one of the other car signs?

** If you're bearing water, you are pulling it out of the water into the air.

** The original greek word for the planets was planetes aster, which means "wandering star". The planets that we know of today are not stars, but back before telescopic observations were possible, the planets were simply stars that moved. Aside from that there is a rich system of symbolism for the "fixed stars" (essentially, all the other visible stars that aren't planets)that is still alive in more traditional forms of astrology today, though mostly forgotten in mainstream modern astrology.

 

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