Virgo, Leonine and some Astro Thotz..

Last night, I found a sudden curiosity in my mind to check out horoscopes and varshaphalas and all that for the year. It was a long gone craze.. But this sudden interest, well, I met it with a queer curiosity. And I started browsing.

Typically Virgoish, I keep lists and hence, had a long forgotten list of sites, I used to follow long back, somewhere in my comp. I started going to each, one by one. Some sites' links had been broken. and some others had taken Horoscope to 'Paid Services' [which meant I could not use them again] and the rest, yes, I checked out the rest. Incidentally, the free ones all had the same predictions for me. Sun sign, Moon sign, whatever. The same on every site - Funda : Gyan muft he, phir shikayath kyu?-.

Browsing around for long, with the usual questions ranging from things like love, marriage, career.. blah blah blah..! And good time, bad time.. You know... And needless to say, I met with endless number of fraud sites and pop up windows. But patience pays. :) I satisfied my curiosity.

I do not know if there is any scientific base really. But since most of the 'generalizations' about a sign turn out true, I do not know if I should turn it away just like that, completely.
And I do not know why our ancient scholars, so focused on knowledge and wisdom, would spend their whole life on something that they could not prove like a science. May be, they did have a way to do it. And I dont know whether all the branches of astrology are equally 'dependable'. But personally, I prefer Indian [Vedic] astro [which says I am a Leonine] to Western and others.. [Now dont ask me what is the difference. I dont know. For me,Vedic turns out truer than others. That is all.]

Then slowly I started thinking about the reason of why people go to find out future even if they wont be able to meet it a second before and even though they will not be able to do anything about it anyways.
It was hope. For a better tomorrow. For happiness. And since they claim it to be based on some 'planetary calculations', we tend to feel more secure about what is said. Something based on 'obscure sciences'. It also satisfied curiosity,[like it did to me] to a certain extent. It gives ego boost. May be, humans tend to go to fields like this, mostly when they feel insecure about lives? Yes, it is just a may be. :)