[180/366] It was for the Lady Gaga part, so that's important!

[cosmolinguist]

Here's a story about how bad I am at astrology.

This morning diffrentcolours told me about one of those memes where the first letter of your name is one element and your star sign is another. This was to find out what we'd be doing at Glastonbury. His was something about portaloos and Billie Eilish.

So I asked what mine would be and when he asked my sign I was like ...oh, shit, what's it called and nearly said "the horsey!" but wait there's not a horse, and then I couldn't remember the word "goat" so was trying to think of how to describe a goat and the only thing I could think of was "not a sheep."

Apparently I'm more of a Sagittarius anyway.

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[jesse_the_k]

Snort

[mrs_leroy_brown]

My reading comprehension made me think this meant that you pick an element starting with the same letter as your first name, followed by your star sign. Said Radium Taurus.

[cosmolinguist]

I didn't explain it very well, it was just one of those things where if the first letter is A-D you were on the Pyramid stage, if it was something else you were backstage, etc. And the star signs were all people/bands; somebody got to be "backstage doing shots with Lizzo" which we agreed was the best outcome.

[otter]

Lizzo is f**king awesome.

[cosmolinguist]

Also Radium Taurus sounds like a band that'd play Glastonbury. :) I could just be Cosmo Capricorn really.

[mrs_leroy_brown]

It's on my list of Imaginary Indie Bands I Front ;)

*astronomy pretention alert*

[rugessnome]

my favorite part about the zodiac sign/s I was born under is that astrological tradition says I'm a Taurus (i.e. the bull) and the sun was actually in Aries (i.e. the ram), which are what I'd consider really the two very-decidedly-male things in the zodiac so uh... I'm saying that disagreement with my AGAB in my case portends my agenderness... ;)

(literally the only reason I know the zodiac signs is that for a while part of my job was telling people about what constellations were visible. Sagittarius is my favorite zodiacal constellation, but Orion is right by Taurus and is probably favorite constellation in general, so...)

Re: *astronomy pretention alert*

[cosmolinguist]

I'm saying that disagreement with my AGAB in my case portends my agenderness... ;)

That is so cool!

And Orion is a great choice for favorite constellation. :)

[purplecat]

Apparently I'm more of a Sagittarius anyway.

I was once told, by a friend who was/is deeply into astrology, that I was a typically sceptical Sagittarius (which I've always thought was a wonderfully unanswerable response).

[cosmolinguist]

Ha, yes like my friends teasing me about how much I like denying things.

I'm awfully skeptical about astrology too so many that's why I've been told I'm a Sagittarius. :)

[innerbrat]

I know that:

a) I'm the one that every decription ever starts with "ah, yes, the eccentric one.
b) It literally has "aqua" in the name but is an air sign.


It is super interesting how much we internalise all these things as being "like us" even though we're enlightened 21st century materialists.

[cosmolinguist]

I have the skepticism of a Sagittarius, as purplecat says above, but mostly I manage to remember the name of the damn thing regardless. :)

[silveradept]

Brains and memory are so unhelpful at those kinds of times, aren't they?

[tarasacon]

What I’m finding funny is that as soon as I read “the horsey!” I thought “Oh, a capricorn.”

I used to calculate astrological natal charts so I know there’s no horse, but I’m used to translating for people who struggle with nouns (mostly myself, some family members) and my weird brain files symbols similarly to how you do.

(It helps that there are only 3 quasi-hooved species in the zodiac. I suppose you could have meant the lion but horse is not as similar to lion as it is to goat or ram, even if capricorn is a sea goat and has a tail making it less horse like.) Anyway, the images for Capricorn usually focus on the head, and its head is the most horse-like of the options. :)

[cosmolinguist]

This is so great. I love that it made sense to you immediately.