Are zodiac signs really important?

Astrology is founded on understanding the positions of the stars, which seems like a scientific enough pursuit in itself. But is there any science to back up whether astrology impacts our personality and our lives? Here's the short Answer: No. None whatsoever.

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As many as 70 million Americans read their horoscopes daily. Well, that’s at least according to the American Federation of Astrologers. According to a study done twenty years ago by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 25 percent of Americans believed that the positions of the stars and the planets affect our daily lives. In 2012, the General Social Survey found that 34 percent of Americans surveyed consider astrology to be "very" or "sort of scientific" and also reported a decrease—from two-thirds to around one-half—in the fraction of people who consider astrology "not at all scientific." Astrology is generally defined as the belief that astronomical phenomena, like the stars overhead when you were born or the fact that Mercury is in retrograde, have the power to influence the daily events in our lives and our personality traits. This is, of course, very different from the study of astronomy, which is the scientific study of celestial objects, space, and the physics of the universe. A specific aspect of astrology—the forecasting of a person’s future or the offering of advice on daily activities via horoscopes—is particularly growing in popularity. Magazines like The Cut reported an increase of 150 percent more hits on horoscope pages in 2017 than in 2016.

Clearly, lots of people are looking for ways to interpret the stars for advice. Astrology is founded on understanding the positions of the stars, which seems like a scientific enough pursuit in itself. But is there any science to back up whether astrology impacts our personality and our lives?

Here's the short Answer: No. None whatsoever.

But since I have you for five more minutes of this six-minute-or-so podcast to fill, let’s look at exactly how astrology has been tested.

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When it comes to getting things done, there are two types of people in this world. The first lot is the one who tackles the situation head-on and gets the work done right away and then there is this other type who pushes the work to a later date. While there are a lot of reasons why people tend to procrastinate, not being motivated enough and other physical and mental blocks also have a role to play. A lot of people may also feel overwhelmed and anxious which may directly impact their ability to get on with the task at hand. If there is a motto that procrastinators live by, it may read something like, “I will certainly do it, but later.” If you are familiar with this dilemma of wanting to tick-off your to-do list, but getting distracted by something frivolous, you may also blame your zodiac sign a tiny bit too. Yes, in addition to your behaviour and personality traits, your placement in the astrology may have something to do with your tendency to put off things till tomorrow or day after tomorrow. We present the list of six zodiac signs who are the biggest procrastinators of the astrology cosmos.

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