HOW CAN 12 ZODIAC SIGNS FIT EVERYONE?

HOW CAN 12 ZODIAC SIGNS FIT EVERYONE?
Actually everyone is a combination of all twelve signs. Also the planets, sun and moon and their sky-sector locations must be factored in as well. The zodiac columns in newspapers and magazines are pretty generalized. They can be rather accurate for those born at sunrise because astrologers use a solar chart system to write those predictions. Many periodicals are guilty of recycling old years of predictions, so they can be very inaccurate besides... don't count on them.

WHY DOESN'T MY SUNSIGN FIT ME ?
We all start out with these same 34 factors but they get emphasized differently. The three main signs are the Sun Sign (how you act), the Moon Sign (how you feel) and the Rising Sign (how you look). These three different signs taken together give a 'thumbnail sketch’ of what a person is like. The rising sign in particular is often more accurate as to what a person thinks of him/herself. I often am asked "can you guess my sign?" but I hesitate - because what I am able to guess with any accuracy is their rising sign (how they appear), not their sun-sign (how they behave).

WHICH IS TRUE - FATE OR FREE-WILL ?
The idea of predicting the future both fascinates and frightens most of us. It is helpful to remember that predicting the future is a bit like trying to forecast the weather, with about as much room for error! The random element that can always change the future picture is Free Will. The reason that the future is relatively easy to predict is because Free Will is rarely exercised, because most of the choices and decisions we humans make are out of habit or half-conscious thinking.
We tend to think of the future as not having happened yet, because our concept of time is linear, that is, past-present-future. It seems to take "time" to get from point A to point B in this linear way of thinking. But I believe our understanding of time is limited; I like to think of time as being spherical. It's like we are in the center of a sphere (in a sense we are, the earth in the middle of all the stars and planets), and everything is really happening all around us at once, in the now. This would make future or past events accessible at any point from within the sphere (even though that's not easy to do), and could explain things like accurate prophesy or past-life recall. If it is correct that all time is happening at once, then it would mean that in any given moment we have a multitude of choices. If we have so many choices available to us in each moment, then Free Will is the rule rather than the exception. I believe it is important to become conscious of all our options rather than blindly accept our "fate". Astrology can be extremely helpful in pinpointing what some of those options might be.

WHY DO SCIENTISTS SAY ASTROLOGY IS ONE SIGN OFF?
The difference between a sign and a constellation is this: some constellations are huge - like Pisces and Virgo - and some are tiny like Aries which has only 3 bright stars. So to make things easier, we divide the constellation belt into 12 equal sections called signs. It so happened about 4,000 years ago, when Astrology came into use, that the Sign of Aries and the Constellation of Aries lined up perfectly. This is not so currently, as we now line up (at Springtime) to the constellation of Pisces, about to move into the constellation of Aquarius over the next 400 or so years. This is called Precession of the Equinoxes, and happens because of a backward wobble in the earth's turning axis. This wobble creates a 26,000 year cycle known as the Great Year, with 12 "months" called 'Ages' lasting about 2160 years each. To confuse us even further, the great-year "months" are named after the Zodiac Signs... you can see why this is all so difficult to grasp! There is much debate over which system - sign or constellation - to use for horoscopes. There is no easy or right answer to the dilemma either. I feel that the sign system works very well, perhaps because it follows the seasons more closely than the constellation system does. Some Astrologers use the constellation system (called sidereal) and it seems to work for them. So both ways work somehow!