The Sheer Idiocy of the “Sun Sign” Horoscope
The word “horoscope” comes to us from Greek, the exact meaning being “the observation of the hour”. NOT the observation of the month, NOT the observation of the year, the observation of the HOUR. So, when pop astrology bases the horoscope on the month of the birth (as the Sun transits each Sign in about 30 days) obviously we have a problem. I am baffled by the wide acceptance of such “monthoscopes” because the word itself gives obvious clues “horo” is cognate with the French word “heure”, the Spanish word “hora”, the English word “hour”, and of course “scope”, the second part of the word horoscope is known to all of us alone and also as part of composite words such as telescope, microscope, etc. always meaning observing, looking at.
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