Literary success according to your star sign
A survey by Borders bookshop shows that if your Zodiac sign is Gemini, you are twice as likely to be a successful writer, reporting that “The 27 great writers born under the twins include Chaucer, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Drabble and Jodi Picoult”.
I’m a Gemini and I’m pleased to say that I’ve been moderately successful as a writer but by no means anywhere near the Greats. For me, the trouble about being a Gemini is that I tend to be changeable, easily bored and unable to easily buckle down for the long, hard slog it takes to be truly great at something. I’m much more successful at being a dilettante than a literati.
What star sign are you? Has it helped with your writing? Or hindered it?
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Fri, February 29th, 2008 - Author
Yang-May Ooi - Category
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March 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
There are 6 billions (and counting) of us and there are only twelve zodiac signs. Throw in the chinese ones as well, we get 24. The sheer number of people born under each zodiac sign is enough to convince even the most skeptical that the link between the ability to write and the zodiac sign one is born under is at best tenuous and at worst fortuitous.
Then again I think you are just saying that in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. But in short, it’s a non-factor in my case, not that I’m a writer of any repute at all, but merely a guy who likes to write, sometimes.
But I may be just a lone voice in the wilderness. Let’s hear from the others.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
The zodiac is something fun I read in the Sunday papers, Say Lee, and in articles such as the one about the Borders survey. Have you noticed that if you read any of the astrology predictions without knowing which star sign it is for, they can all equally apply to your own circumstance??
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 am
Exactly my point. But I must admit that we do need levity in life.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“Have you noticed that if you read any of the astrology predictions without knowing which star sign it is for, they can all equally apply to your own circumstance??”
Agree absolutely, have long ceased reading such stuff. But
palm reading?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
If it seems to apply it seems to apply - in my case the cusp of Aquarius and Pisces (a sort of twin of the Gemini twins), though there have been some studies that indicate that people born at the same time of year often have traits in common. Perhaps we should think in terms of the time of CONCEPTION, some people being born prematurely. Personally I depend on the year of the Pig, which seems to bring me luck (I imagine). There DOES seem to be something in palm-reading. I’ve several times had my suspicions confirmed by looking at lines. ‘All in the mind’?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hi David, I had my palm read years ago in Singapore: apparently I was going to get married and have lots of children - ha, ha, ha!