So now that I have started my 1st blog with a fairly impressive title (that sounds French) and hooked your attention span at least till the end of this sentence, I would rather have you around for a while. Firstly I don't know French; (a language where 'thanks' is called 'merci'..woah!) and secondly the pun on the word 'piece de resistance' with 'Pisces' was a piece I couldn't resist! You know I'm the quintessential Pisces fish, born with rose colored spectacles, day dreamers, romantic..blah! blah! from any Linda Goodman's Sunsigns book. Born under a Water sign as they say. In fact my wife is a Piscean too, born on the Ides of March [Mar 15th]..anyways..point being I'm trying to demystify this entire Horoscope thing.

You know these sun signs, zodiac, ruling planets, traits, the works. Since a while we all are so attuned to go through the Horoscope section of any newspaper under the comic strip that we don't even give it a thought before reading it through..in fact after reading it too! None of us really do believe all the things given in there do we? 'Love is on the cards today' and you end up having a fight with your spouse, 'Finances will be good' on a day when you get pesky calls from credit card companies who remind you of the due dates in a irritatingly polite manner. Well you get the drift..more or less.

I am not averse to the entire horoscope thing though. I mean look at me, I was born under the Pisces sign and traits associated with the sign like creativity, sensitivity, spirituality, intuitive, artistic..well I agree to not disagree what with the likes of Aamir Khan to Einstein to support me. (But Pisceans are also fickle minded, escapists, unreliable...ahem! well you win some you lose some) However this entire discussion is not about why a Sagittarius girl always have a myopic view of people around her or a Virgo person is almost genetically challenged with an obsessive compulsive disorder, but  how do these things come about. 

I mean come to think of this  - the planet Saturn is 9 times the size of earth. This is enough reason to ponder why such a huge planet has the time and concern to meddle into the lives of us teeny lesser mortals. Yet 'Shani' hampers one's chances of getting a good job, a beautiful wife, a raise, a home...a life. As if the planet had nothing better to do in the solar system. People wear talismans, amulets, stones and rings to appease the representative God (come to think of it Saturn has enough rings himself). 

      

I am kinda looking at this as a physics student. Though not an authority on stellar physics nor astrology, my curiosity gets the better of me when I try to look at astrology through a scientific magnifying glass. Why do we educated Indians especially, so conveniently have a disjointed perspective towards both these subjects is beyond me. Does it all boil down to Newtonian laws? Does the gravitational pull of huge planet like Jupiter which is 318 times heavier than the earth (ok! ok! I confess I looked up in Wikipedia :P) determine whether some girl living in Dombivali falls for some guy from Ghatkopar(East)! Or does Earth's distant fiery cousin Mars meddles with the HR department of some company in Bengaluru where some keen, geek-eyed software professional loses out on an opportunity to land up a decent job? 

9 planets and other solar bodies thrown in for good measure control the trivial events in billions of lives residing on 30% on one of them?? Food for thought! I shall be really happy if I meet someone who can demystify this stuff for me. I shall thank my stars then...and those planets too! ;)