I find horoscopes fascinating.
Mainly because while the vast majority of people think they’re a bunch of hocus-pocus, the moment you read one that says something complimentary about your future or character … suddenly you become a full-on believer.
It’s similar to how you act when you meet someone you’ve not met before and discover you share the same birth sign.
Regardless of who they are, where they’re from or what they believe … you suddenly feel some weird kinmanship with them.
It’s utterly bonkers.
OK, I get some people are really into it but I definitely subscribe to the ‘more fiction than Harry Potter’ school of thought … especially when they go all pseudo-science with their ‘Jupiter rising’ type stuff.
Or so I thought, until I was going through some stuff and found this:
Now I must admit I don’t know who sent me this.
And I don’t know if the person who did, is a Virgo or Capricorn.
But not only are they obviously competitive – seemingly with me – they seem to believe that thanks to some weird online horoscope thing, they have empirical evidence I’m the sort of person who’d stoop to cheating to win.
I bet they feel really smug with themselves … but on closer reading, the ‘evidence’ they are hanging their reputation on, ends up actually being in my favor.
First it states that my unknown nemesis has bought a more powerful car than mine.
Then it points out I sabotaged their engine before the final race.
The emphasis here is on ‘final race’ because that means there must have been prior races before we got to ‘the final’. And that suggests – at the very least – I won an equal amount of races as my competitor, even though they had a more powerful car.
Which is my way of pointing out that the horoscope is basically acknowledging my driving skills were superior to my opponents, so maybe there’s more to this mumbo jumbo than I originally thought … acknowledging this also proves my original point in this post. Damnit.
As you can tell by this post, I am in desperate need of some sleep so have a good weekend and hopefully the quality of posts next week is vastly superior to the barrel-scraping of today.