Friday, October 01, 2004
I remember back in high school, when my sister brought home a copy of Linda Goodman's Sun Signs for the first time. Linda Goodman is a well-known American astrologer, and her book Sun Signs deals with how the position of the heavenly bodies during the time of your birth have an effect and influence on your personality... in other words, this is the book version of your daily newspaper zodiac reading.
The first time I read my sign's description, I couldn't believe my eyes. This is SO me! Sentimental. Social. Born to lead. May be egotistical at times. It was like reading a copy of... me.
If this is an accurate description of what I am, then maybe this book is the key to understanding other people's personalities too! For years, this was my bible, always checking the signs of people I meet. I then found out why my Virgo friends are all perfectionists, and that Sagittarians are more often than not clumsy. Cancers are very crabby, people born under the sign of Aries tend to be very blunt, and that my most ideal love match would be a Libra. If someone interested or annoyed me, I would find out what his sign is and whip out Linda Goodman. It was like having a secret weapon... the satisfaction of knowing something others didn't.
A few years back, when I started my previous job, I met a very interesting fellow. What intrigued me the most about him was that we had the same sign, but we were somewhat opposites. I was the "typical" Leo... outgoing, very social, opinionated. He was the type who aften kept to himself, and was not flashy at all. He was soft-spoken, didn't like to go out and did not seem to relish in attention (not that I do. Haha.). Once more, I consulted Linda Goodman. Voila! There it was. There are two types of Leos; the extrovert and the introvert. They seem like total opposites, but they have one thing in common: pride. She was right again! Damn, she was good.
I wanted to show this book to my friend, so I brought it to work one day. When I showed it to him, he said, "Galeng ha, but you know what, I try not to read books like those. Kase they tend to box you up, and unconsciously, you start following what is written in the book." That was a very interesting point. I looked at the people who I knew were into the book as much as, and even more than I was... they were text book definitions of their signs, almost too perfectly fitting the description written in the book. Sometimes, they even made this an excuse for being the way they are... "You know naman I'm very emotional eh, kaya I will always react that way!" It was like having permission to act rudely, since your sign says that you are "very emotional" or "highly opinionated" by nature, and people should understand that. It was like a truism and it was unbreakable.
It got me thinking... how do you draw the line between being who you are and letting a zodiac sign define your being?
I stopped reading this book almost a year ago. Thinking about it right now amuses me, because I don't even totally remember what I am supposed to be according to Miss Goodman. It is very liberating, actually, considering the fact that I no longer stop myself from doing, saying or even thinking something that is presumed to be un-leo-like. Besides, I don't want people to be able to read about my sign in one chapter of a book and already know me inside-out. Where's the fun in that?
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