Horoscopes

Warning: horoscopes reader and believer may want to skip this entry or risk having your dream shattered. No, seriously.

According to Cecelia Ahern, the author of PS, I Love You (the novel, that is, not the brutally modified movie version), this is how horoscopes are written.

Not a horoscopes reader myself so I got a good chuckle out of it, but I am convinced it is the truth.

So are you ready to find out the secret of horoscopes?

Okay, a second chance here, stop reading now if you enjoy reading horoscopes. Seriously, there is no turning back after this.




This is the section from the novel describing a face to face meeting of the employees in a magazine company, I abbreviated to cut down the irrelevant stuff.

'Let Holly go first.'

'But I don't have a clue what's going on.'

'Well, what star sign are you?'

'Taurus.'

'Ooh, great, we've never had a Taurus before. OK, so are you married or seeing anyone or single or anything?'

'Em... no, I'm not really seeing anyone but...'

'OK then,' Tracey said, starting to write. 'This month Taurus shall look out for someone tall, dark and handsome and...' she shrugged and looked up, 'anybody?'

'Because he will have a big impact on her future,' Alice helped out.

'OK, the career stuff is easy. So Taurus will be occupied and satisfied by a new workload that comes their way. Lucky day will be a...' she thought for a while, 'Tuesday, and lucky colour is... blue,' she decided, looking at the colour of Holly's top. 'Right, who's next?'

'Hold on a minute, is this my horoscope for next month?' Holly interrupted, shocked.

'Have we shattered you dreams?'

'Completely. I love reading my horoscopes. Please tell me this isn't what all magazines do?'

Chris shook his head, 'No, not all magazines do it like this, Holly. Some of them just hire people who have the talent to make it up themselves without involving the rest of the office.'



Did I just hear the sound of dreams shattering? =P