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“Oh nothing ever changes, don’t worry, it is Makar Sankranti, cheer up!” I said. But I couldn’t hide my curiosity about this Ophi-whatever.
Did an alien find its way to earth or was it some creature formed by evolution that would claim us homo sapiens to be the lesser mortal?
“I am no more a Virgo, Dad, I am now a Leo! How can it be? I am just the way Linda Goodman describes a typical Virgo – and wait - You are no more a Libran, which you typically are, but a Virgo, which I deeply believe, you aren’t one bit! We couldn’t change our traits overnight, could we?” she asked excitedly
“Of course, not, my dear! I am not going to change the way I think or behave whether Pluto is a planet or a meteor or a galactic mirage. I am going to write my whatnonsanz every now and then, forget all my house-hold chores, cut my nails only when someone is hurt and all that - you know, don’t you? So nothing is going to change if I am a Virgo instead of a Libran” I assured her.
“It’s not that, it’s the charasteristics!
A Libra is known for being good natured, pleasant, people loving – but hate crowds, extremely intelligent and naïve and gullible at the same time, talkative and good listeners all at the same time, obsessed with being logical and being just to one and all - so as not to tilt the scales - and insisting on being justly treated too.
While a Virgo is known for being none of this but extremely competent, powerful in top positions, and resorting to deceitful ways to protect senior positions – all that you aren’t! You couldn’t be A Virgo and be what they’ve been saying a Virgo is all about, all of a sudden now, can you?”, she stressed.
“Certainly not, dear! I will continue to be all that a Libra has been said to be, like frustatingly inconsistent – no cause to worry. Just because some astronomer gives a pink slip to a planet for some flimsy reason of not showing up on his telescope for one night or finds some new stars and galaxies with his incessant gazing obsession, it should not change our lives, should it? We are just the same as we believe we are supposed to be as, who is it…- Linda Goodman, who told us how we are supposed to be, so just relax!”, I tried.
“So we must not miss reading last line of this news item here which says some believed that the new Zodiac system applies only to those born after 2009!”
Hurray! We immediately resolved to stick to our own Sun Signs – me, a Libran not a Virgo and she, a Virgo and not a Leo!
Ok, so that is how the introduction of the 13th Zodiac Sign, Ophiuchus, which we learnt about today, became the topic of our morning discussion today.
Btw, while I read the newspaper to learn what happened, my daughter picks it up to read what will happen! She usually heads straight to the columns that tell you what the stars foretell for the day, week or year! Let me tell you, even on days when she had to leave home earlier than the newspaper vendor arrived and dropped the newspaper – and ended up as late as 10 at night – she does the same thing! “To find out what will happen today?” I ask her. To which, she replies, “There is always some part of the prediction that works out true – it is just to find out which one turned out to be spot on”.
As for me, I have never believed that the position of the celestial bodies has anything to do with what happens to me! The position of my bosses, well, maybe – on tour? Great time! Many of my friends and colleagues ask me, “did you not have a good time or a particular patch of bad time?”, to which my usual reply is “Of course, i have, but what has it got to do with whether Jupiter is in my 4th House – and by the way I don’t have 4 houses!
Well, I have been reading these columns (at times)- but only for fun!
So also my daughter, I am sure!
Bloggers' Post-Script:
1. Is this guy, Parke Kunkle, who shocked the world with the 13th Zodiac Sign, a Maharastrian by any chance?
2. Whoever named the new zodiac Ophiuchus - was it this Kunkle guy? Did he not have some pity on prospective Ophiuchusians?
