


Your sun sign does provide you with information about a core aspect of your psyche, for example your creative spark, but it does not do so in a vacuum.

However, what takes place in a session with a trained astrologer is a symphony orchestra compared to the third grade band concert of a horoscope column. And yes, hand in the air, I am an astrologer who writes horoscopes. Satire aside, simple sun sign astrology that you read in a horoscope is a grossly oversimplified caricature of the complexity of a person’s astrological signature. So, if you’re a devious, brooding, sex-obsessed Scorpio, that means you took your first breath as a human being when the sun was in the area of the sky that astrologers designate “Scorpio.” And that is why your emotions are so deep and you feel shunned like Quasimodo. This would-be-suitor really wants to know what part of the sky the sun was in when you were born. The next level of astro-knowledge is to understand that when someone who’s hitting on you in a bar asks, “What’s your sign?” they’re actually asking, “What’s your SUN sign?” whether they know it or not. This is the baseline astrological information most people know for a first-time conversation over a rum-drenched painkiller or to excuse behavior that frustrates their friend group. So you know you’re a, which means you are.
