What's Your Sign?


It's a good thing I'm not on the dating scene any more, y'all. Because if a dude came up and asked me, "Hey baby, what's your sign?" I'd be like, "Virgo. No, wait, Leo."*

*Actually I'd be like, "Get away from me with your old-ass pickup line, creeper," but that doesn't fit in very well with today's blog theme.

I'm sure if you're on the Internet at all (which you obviously are) you've heard that the astrological signs have changed. I guess it's been this way for quite some time, and we're just now getting wind of it - but whatever. According to the "new" signs, I'm now a Leo instead of a Virgo like I previously thought.

I don't even know anything about Leos, but I do know that I am THE stereotypical Virgo. I was skeptical about astrology until I read the in-depth description of Virgo in this book as a teenager and was like, "OMG! That's totally me!" It's not like I ever took it so seriously that I, like, planned my life around my horoscope or anything, but I was honestly amazed at how well my personality matched the Virgo traits - and how much it didn't match the other signs'.

So being a Virgo has been part of my identity. For like YEARS now. In the following ridiculous photograph, for example - taken at a party circa 2003 or so (and cropped so you can't see what the other partygoers, or my hands, are doing) - the T-shirt I'm wearing had "VIRGO ♥ 's" emblazoned on the front, along with a list of traits:
  Photographic evidence that not only was I once a Virgo, I was also kind of tan.

Anyway, maybe it was a coincidence that I fit so snugly into the Virgo mold, but whatever. I'm having a mini identity crisis over here. The rug of "what was" is being yanked from beneath me, replaced by the carpet of "you're a Leo now." To go from a cautious and stodgy earth sign to an impassioned, extroverted fire sign is a big jump. 

I'm sure it's all psychological and we are who we are, regardless of what sign supposedly governs our personalities. But still. It's like suddenly being told that my name is not actually Rita, people have just been instructed to call me that. Weird.

Oh well. According to my preliminary reading on Leos, they're supposed to be flamboyant risk-takers. Maybe I'll incorporate a little bit of that into my 2011. I guess there's a little bit of Leo room in this Virgo girl.




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  1. Additional thoughts:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/new-astrological-signs-_n_808635.html#s223812&title=Maybe_Stop_Deferring


    -Baba-

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  2. I feel like such a tard. I'm all over the internet, as you know...all the time. And yet, have somehow managed to MISS this earth shattering news. Well, other than every person on the earth commenting about it on FB. So, I'm in the dark...am I still Aquarius or not, and WHY did the signs change?

    For the record, I think the pic of you is cute. You were clearly having a good time.

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  3. I went on a twitter rampage about this yesterday. I can be a leo I decided after reading up on it (despite what the TATTOO ON MY ANKLE SAYS!!!). to my surprise my husband was most mad that he was no longer a strong lion Leo but a cry baby cancer. hahahha! (his words, not mine). It is a total shell shock though. It troubles me that they changed something that has been the same for sooo long.

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  4. I went from an aquarius to a capricorn, I'm so confused as well. I think I had the same shirt but with Aquarius traits on it, unfortunately I don't seem to have a picture of it to contribute to your identity crisis post.
    Have a great day!

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  5. I had not heard this! I don't think I can stand not being an Ares anymore. Like you, this is completely who I am.

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  6. The sign switch is sooo strange. I like being a libra, my new sign says I'm organized. Ha, jokes on them!

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  7. I with you - class A pisces all the way. But hey, don't fret. Apparently it's not true: http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2011/01/no_your_astrological_sign_hasn.html. Actually it is true, but astrologers have known this for YEARS, like almost in BC times years.

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  8. I have all the shoes to prove that I am a Pisces... but I also can be an overzealous list maker.... hello? Aquarius. Either way, it is a good excuse for my multiple personalities...

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  9. I think your post I Yam What I Yam fits here as well. I am an Aquarius to the core. Sure I can identify with a different sign here or there but I hold strong to the fact that I think they are wrong, like most movie critics. I tend to follow what I know not what other people tell me I should think. Who'd a thought I would know myself better than random said person. :/
    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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  10. okay, I'm a little pissed to be left out of the whole new sign controversy because whether new system or old I'm still just a Sagittarius. And I still don't fit into that sign very well. Sigh. I miss all the fun.

    also, my response to the "what's your sign line" will always be "keep off the grass."

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  11. I'm SO Gemini, and had those traits long before I even knew there were Zodiac signs. They can change things all they want, but I'm still a Gemini at heart....and spirit. ;o)

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  12. I know right! I totally get this!...and now frightening that I even knew what you were talking about? How many people outside of the blogging world are aware that our horoscopes are changing?

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  13. I have heard something about this, but I'm an Aries through and through and I'm not about to change!

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  14. I am so confused!! I have not heard anything about this. I am supposed to be an aquarius! I will have to check this out! Thanks for the heads up. I may be crushed, but at least I will know the truth about my personality...for this week! But seriously, love this post! :)

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  15. I don't even know who I am anymore!

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  16. Hi, love your blog, I've been reading it since you were featured on SITS. Anwyay I was trying to grab your link to put on my blog and it wont let me copy and paste it (ya know the little icon linky thing) it keeps telling me to get my own damn content, lol.

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