If someone playfully or kindly asks you what your zodiac sign is how should you answer?

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If you know your birth sign and are asked, just tell them. There is no issue, and there is no sin.

One’s birth sign is simply the zodiac constellation in which the sun is at that time of the year. It’s simply a matter of fact and has no superstitious implications whatsoever. Knowing your zodiac sign is not an implication that you buy into the horoscope nonsense.

Qualified and “pious” retorts are not necessary.
 
on_the_hill said:
I tell them I’m an Aquarius. Born at the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
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More likely, false. From a strict IAU/astronomical standpoint, we’re still in the age of Pisces; the age of Aquarius begins around 2597.

Astrologers may claim differently, but I put no stock in astrologers’ opinions.
 
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No one has asked “What’s your sign?” since the 1980s, unless it’s some new age website.

I don’t mind telling my sign. I’ve seen the whole Zodiac on the floor of a church in Rome and on the ceiling of one church at home. The Lord made the constellations and set them in the sky.
But if they start trying to predict my future with my sign I will tell them to git.
 
I tell them that I don’t have a zodiac; instead I have a Hobie kayak. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
on_the_hill said:
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HomeschoolDad:
Oddly enough, there is a synagogue in Poland where the zodiac signs are displayed on the walls. Don’t know what the reasoning behind that was.
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Our church has them painted on the ceiling above the altar. Taurus, Aquarius, Capricorn (which is an eagle, as depicted in ‘Biblical’ times), and Leo. At the top there’s a Lamb.

They represent the Four Gospels. Supposedly, in the early days of the Church, people were taught that the Gospels are timeless and unchanging, as were the stars in the sky.
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The lamb of course represents a fifth sign - Aries.

And an eagle ain’t Capricorn, Cspricorn is a goat.
 
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I say “ I don’t know”. Then they immediately follow up with asking when my birthday is and then I point out that if astrology had any truth to it then my conception day would really be the indicator not the day I appeared out of the womb which could be up to three months from the day I might have been born, so then I make up some story about Valentine’s Day, my mom and my dad, some strawberries and whip cream, and by then the person has usually moved on from a very uncomfortable conversation they don’t want to have.
 
But I think Capricorn used to be depicted as an eagle 2,000 years ago.

The Lamb, of course, is Christ.
 
As a Capricorn, I much prefer the eagle over a goat.

I have little interest in astrology and horoscopes. My cousin is super into it and reads the charts and everything, and when it comes up I never act negatively. He really is more into the astronomy aspects and in understanding human nature, and I am very interested in astronomy, although I know very little on the subject.
 
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