Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so

I presume everyone has heard about the new zodiac by now? I have to admit, I was rather surprised by the impact it has had -- most of my friends profess to be upset by it, with reactions varying from being a little thrown off to proclaiming to no longer know who they are anymore.

As for me, well, let's just say that I'm not much of a believer.

One of my friends from college is really into all that astrology stuff and used to talk about it all the time. Surprisingly enough, a lot of what she told me was really interesting and actually did seem to be right a large percentage of the time. However, just because I think it's interesting certainly doesn't mean I believe in it, at least completely. It's just something that's fun to play around with and think about.

So even if my sign had changed (which it has not -- I'm still a Virgo), it wouldn't really affect me because basically I agree with Edmund in King Lear:

"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star! My
father compounded with my mother under the
dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa
major; so that it follows, I am rough and
lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
had the maidenliest star in the firmament
twinkled on my bastardizing."

Or in other words, you are what you make of yourself and the stars have nothing to do with it, except as a convenient scapegoat to blame when things go wrong. And that I do believe.