I was looking up various personality indices — the one from Galen, the MBTI, the five love languages, the Big Five, etc. — and I suddenly remembered a scene from “Kim’s Convenience” where Janet is dating some weird guy who’s into astrology. He mentions how absurd it was for him (being whatever sign he was) to be dating some other woman (being whatever sign she was), which got me wondering — what do the astrological signs say about personality? <\/p>\n
So I looked it up<\/a>. It’s actually quite interesting. <\/p>\n I’m not claiming this site has everything right (whatever that would mean, in this context), and I’m certainly not endorsing astrology in any way, but when you click through the various signs on this page<\/a> and read the descriptions, they sound like great models from which to design a character in a novel. And they do describe some interesting character types. <\/p>\n For example … <\/p>\n Aries — No filter; Gets angry, then forgets why they were angry; Thinks everything is a game they can win; Will do anything on a dare; Easily bored<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is absurd to believe that everyone born between March 20 and April 19 has these personality characteristics, but … it is a nice picture of a type of person. I could see the utility in memorizing all these and saying, “Oh, he’s an Aries” — not referring to when he was born, but to what kind of a person he is, very generally speaking. <\/p>\n Having said that, I probably won’t do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was looking up various personality indices — the one from Galen, the MBTI, the five love languages, the Big Five, etc. — and I suddenly remembered a scene from “Kim’s Convenience” where Janet is dating some weird guy who’s into astrology. He mentions how absurd it was for him (being whatever sign he was) … Continue reading “Astrological signs are surprisingly interesting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}