Sasha Fenton - Unexplained Zodiac: The Inside Story to Your Sign

For Charles Nurnberg

An Imagine Book
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It makes sense for an inside story to come from an insider, and as far as checking out real people in light of their Sun signs, that has to be meif for no other reason than the sheer length of time Ive spent working in the field. Also, this introduction shows my own personal inside story.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I became fascinated with astrology, especially psychological astrology, but in those days, it was hard to locate information.

At that time, I worked as a secretary to a pleasant man in his late sixties, and when he heard of my interest in astrology, he tried to help. He gave me the phone number of a friend of his who worked as an herbalist and astrologer, and suggested that I call the man and ask him for advice. I rang the number and found myself talking to a bad-tempered old guy who had no intention whatsoever of helping me, butpresumably because I was connected to his friendhe deigned to give me a piece of advice. He asked if I knew how to erect an astrological chart. It wasnt a silly question, because in those pre-computer days, horoscope charts involved a good deal of hand calculations. On hearing that I could cope with the technical stuff, the grumpy man advised me to do five hundred charts free of charge for total strangers, and that way, I would end up knowing my job!

That advice would have finished most people, but if hed taken a look at my horoscope hed have seen that I have massive amounts of patience for those things that I consider worth doing. I followed his advice to the letter and discovered that he was right. In effect, the road I was forced to take meant that I learned my craft in a totally hands-on way, by doing charts, talking to clients, and spotting patterns in personality, behavior, and lifestyle. In the meantime, I read everything I could get my hands on about psychology, and when decent astrology books started to come to the UK market, I read all those as well.

In time, I obtained full qualifications as an astrologer, and I also spent many years serving on prestigious astrological committees. The longer I worked in the field, the more I questioned the established views on Sun sign astrology, and it struck me that there was a considerable gap between the received wisdom that was copied from one astrology book to the next and the reality of the clients who I dealt with on a daily basis. I realized that most people are like their Sun signs to an extent, but that the Sun sign information itself doesnt match up to reality. In time, I built up a mental body of knowledge, some of which matched standard astrological opinion and some did notand thats what youll see in this book.

The only real people who appear in this book are several wonderful friends whom I have used to illustrate the best aspects of their respective Sun signs. Other than these individuals, the personalities described in the book are amalgams of groups of people. Ive blended and combined their stories to show the true natures of the Sun signs, and to bring them to life in a way that lengthy descriptions cannot do.

I have pointed out the unexpected niceness of those signs that suffer from bad press and the unexpected hardness of those that are often described as soft and sweet, along with the particular small faults of all of the signs. Get ready for the inside story, as that will help you to understand the bizarre nature of the Sun signs and the ways you and I fit within them.

The bizarre thing about astrology is that it works, and nobody can fully explain why it works!

Astrologers come from every walk of life, some of them top-class scientists and mathematicians, yet none have been able to come up with a valid explanation. Many highly intelligent skeptics have decided to take a look at astrology in order to prove that it is nothing more than superstition, and in many cases end up becoming astrologers themselves! For instance, in the mid-1950s, two French psychologists, Michel Gauquelin and his wife, Franoise Schneider-Gauquelin, set out by means of statistical studies to prove whether astrology could possibly work. Their work showed that the position of the planets at birth did in fact lay down the basis of character, aptitudes, and destiny.

There is a world of difference between the astrology of newspaper columns and real astrology, which requires a full birth chart and an astrologer who knows how to interpret it. Im sure everyone is aware of this by now. However, the Sun sign is the only piece that we all know from our date of birth alone, so this book can only focus on the inside story of the Sun signs.

If you have no idea of your Sun sign, you can look it up right here. The precise dates for the Sun signs alter slightly from year to year, so if you were born on the cusp of two signs (on the days at the very beginning or very end of a signs range), please consult an astrologer, as he or she will be able to tell you your Sun sign in a matter of minutes. In the meantime, here are the average dates:

Average Sun Sign Dates

It should also be clear that a book of this kind can only reflect generalities for a subject as involved as astrology. Please keep in mind that you may not entirely fit the descriptions within, because your Moon sign, Rising sign, planets, houses, and much more will have an effect on your personality and your life. Even two people born on the same day will have some differencesalthough they will also have many similarities.

Some people think there are weak-minded folk who can hardly take a breath without consulting an astrologer, but after forty years in the field, I havent met any of them. If people get into astrology to any extent, they inevitably end up studying it for themselves, and then it slips into being an occasional pleasure rather than a daily obsession. Fortunately, astrology is easy to learn, and nowadays theres plenty of inexpensive software that takes the pain out of chart calculation.