Random Astrology

I think my imagination wears me out. There appears to be a confident, super-successful wannabe inside somewhere and occasionally it comes out, in waves, before it is stretched thin and becomes waif-like. The energy is lost on some insignificant event or group and I'm back to square one to self-realization.

Anyway, I just found out that Koreans have two birthdays. My tutoree YeonJu said her birthdate is January 20 (which matches with her personality, being an Aquarius) and her "lunar" birthday is December 12th. I have heard of their collective birthday practice on January 1st, for they treat that day as the day everyone is a year older. Yes, if you are Korean and born on January 1st, you are considered a full year older even if you haven't reached a full year. In fact, when a Korean is born they consider the child to already be a year old, which kind of makes sense because of the 9-month gestation (which I've always thought to be a more accurate timeline to follow if you were to celebrate someone's life). However, I don't know if the Koreans consider the child to already be a year old because of the 9 months they have lived before birth, or if it is for some other matter. Anyway, YeonJu was definitely born on January 20th on the solar calendar and her second birthday, December 12th, is from the lunar calendar. Now I have to wonder what my lunar birthday is and what part it would play in my identity, if that astrology stuff is accurate. Since I am not experienced in following stars or memorizing astronomy (heck, I can barely keep up the days on our Gregorian calendar!) I should look it up somewhere...

While researching astrology and specifically the differences in the lunar and solar calendars, I came across this hilarious gem from yet another paranoid Christian source:

"The Zodiac and Astrology: Astrology is a false science designed to hide the truth of the Bible. The astrologer's claim that everyone is born under a sign of the Zodiac. They say your sign is determined by your birthday. The signs of the Zodiac have to do with the twelve tribes of Israel. If you are an Israelite*, your sign is determined not by your birthday, but by your racial tribe. For example Judah's sign is Leo the lion. The dates of the signs of the Zodiac as found in your newspaper do accurately mark the solar year months." -from http://www.moseshand.com/2cal/2cal2b.htm

Interesting. As for the asterisk, it refers to Caucasian, since those are the true Israelites... whatever. Oh, and I did run through the home page of this site. It scared me.

I've taken out my tarot cards again after several years and I find that it calms me to gaze on the drawings and feel different thoughts as I think about the possible meanings; sometimes I feel nothing or something vast and confounding, yet sometimes I feel a strong pull to interpret a card in some way, such as the King of Pentacles representing my boyfriend (and the intimidation of living up to him). I wonder how much of my interpretation is "spiritual" or if it will come and go when I can note the objective data in the picture.

I need to research this more- I would feel awfully ridiculous if I came to discover this whole practice was a game invented in the 1500s... oops.