User blog:Swordzmanp236/Looking to the Stars

I've been thinking about this for a while now. Let's talk astrology for a moment.

I don't believe that the stars have power or influence over life apart from what modern science tells us about them. I don't read horoscopes much, either. Unless I'm bored out of my mind, that is.

But every real person, whether living or dead, is given a sun sign or star sign (or in Eastern astrology, a lunar sign). Animation can sometimes give the same to a character, particularly in Japan, where birthdates and blood types are also common fare.

Star signs are relatively easy to insert into the bio-tables we put out for every character. They're relatvely easy to compute in the Western method because the 12 signs occur in very specific periods of a single year.

That isn't the case with the Eastern method; though it also has 12 signs, they cycle in 12-year periods, with five base elements that also have a cycle to them. It looks very complex, thus I can't vouch for its use as data.

The question: should we add signs where they apply, since we already add age, DOB, and birthplace?

For the record, I'm an Aries.

--Swordzman