All six guesses are incorrect. That's half the zodiac right there.
This is why I have no patience with people who say things like, "Oh, I'm a Sagittarius, so I'm a very independent thinker!" and, "I'm a Gemini, so I can never make up my mind!" and, "I'm a Pisces, so I feel things more deeply!" The 30-day window one happens to have been born into has zero influence on one's personality. If it did, anyone even moderately informed about astrology and given three guesses ought to be able to peg my sign with nearly 100 percent accuracy, because I'm not at all what you'd call finely drawn. You folks certainly should have had a better than 50 percent chance to get it right. The fault, therefore, is not with you but with the theory. I am not my sign, and my sign is not me, and frankly I don't believe it's really true for anyone else either. Tell me you're a Capricorn, and I know no more about you than I did 30 seconds ago.
I started posing this brain-teaser about 10 years ago after enduring a particularly vapid conversation between two astrologically inclined coworkers. It always goes something like this:
Geenius: All right, you've known me for quite some time now, and you know what traits are associated with what signs. Tell me what my sign is. I'll give you three guesses.
Astrologically Inclined Person: [Makes first guess, which is usually Gemini.]
G: Nope.
AIP: [Makes second guess]
G: Nope.
AIP: [Makes third guess, seems to have to grope for it, because one of the first two should have been right!]
G: Nope, that's not it either.
And here's the kicker—this always happens next:
G: I'm actually a [my sign].
AIP: [gets thoughtful look, starts nodding] Ohhhhhh . . . yeah, I can see that!
No, no, NO. If you could see that, you would have gotten it one of the first three times.
At this point, die-hard devotees will start going on about how it's not my sun sign that really matters but rather my moon sign or rising sign or some such thing. OK, sure, if you choose to believe that—it still has no bearing on my assertion that sun signs don't mean jack and that categorizing oneself and others based on those signs is silly and should be stamped out.
Let the record show—for what it's worth, which is nothing—that Geenius at Wrok is a Pisces.
