Writing Challenge Day 21

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Your zodiac/horoscope and whether it fits you:

It depends on whether you mean the Western Zodiacs or the Chinese Zodiacs, though I’m of the opinion that most of these are generic enough that you can relate to them in some form or fashion.

I do think I’m a fairly typical Aquarian. They’re described as being big on ideas but not on details, loving new things and adventures, caring about the world, and sometimes coming off flakey or cold because their attention is elsewhere. I don’t think I’ve ever come off as “cold” or (as I’ve seen a lot in descriptions) “aloof” but I am a bit flakey and with a tendency to do better with big picture thinking than small details.

I’m an Ox by Chinese horoscope standards if you go by the Chinese New Year which if you read the description is almost the opposite of an Aquarian: steady, responsible, uninterested in change. I think I’m a little that way too sometimes. I think most people are. It’s one of those things where most of the stuff they talk about is generic enough that you can find yourself in almost anything.

When you look at the Aquarian Ox description though, the first word is “they tend to be shy” and I don’t think that word has ever, in my entire life, been applied to me. Sure, I have social anxiety and I often feel awkward as hell, but never, have I ever, found that I don’t talk to people. I’m all about talking to people and I have to, typically, wall myself off from them in order to stop talking to them. Yeah, not shy. One of the other traits however, is that the combination tempers the dislike of change with the love of variety from the Aquarian into someone who is more balanced. It also, according to the websites I’ve seen, create a lot of patience in a person and patience is something I typically have in droves. My patience is what got me the job I love.

So yeah, like most people, I can find myself in my zodiac descriptions even if they’re not 100% accurate.