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Today, The Watsons and The Grandma have continued studying their English for Sales course.
Today, they have been talking about the Future Simple and they have searched information about the horoscope, a good example of future predictions.
A horoscope is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth.
The word horoscope is derived from the Greek words ōra and scopos meaning time and observer, horoskopos, pl. horoskopoi, or marker(s) of the hour. Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart.
It is used as a method of divination regarding events relating to the point in time it represents, and it forms the basis of the horoscopic traditions of astrology.
In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of solar Sun sign astrology; based strictly on the position of the Sun at the time of birth, or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology.
More information: Future Simple I & II
In particular, many newspapers and magazines carry predictive columns, written in prose that may be written more for increasing readership than tied directly to the Sun or other aspects of the solar system, allegedly based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the month of birth, cusp -2 days before or after any particular sign, an overlap-, or decant -the month divided into 3 ten-day periods- of the person's month of birth, identifying the individual's Sun sign or star sign based on the tropical zodiac.
In Hindu astrology, birth charts are called Kundali which are very significant and are based on movement of stars and moon. All the auspicious things are started after checking the kundali of a person including the marriage in which the birth charts of the boy and girl are matched.
There are no scientific studies that have shown support for the accuracy of horoscopes, and the methods used to make interpretations are pseudo-scientific. In modern scientific framework no known interaction exists that could be responsible for the transmission of the alleged influence between a person and the position of stars in the sky at the moment of birth.
In all tests completed, keeping strict methods to include a control group and proper blinding between experimenters and subjects, horoscopes have shown no effect beyond pure chance. Furthermore, some psychological tests have shown that it is possible to construct personality descriptions and foretelling generic enough to satisfy most members of a large audience simultaneously, referred to as the Forer or Barnum effect.
More information: Smithsonian
The horoscope serves as a stylized map of the heavens over a specific location at a particular moment in time. In most applications the perspective is geocentric -heliocentric astrology being one exception.
The positions of the actual planets -including Sun and Moon- are placed in the chart, along with those of purely calculated factors such as the lunar nodes, the house cusps including the midheaven and the ascendant, zodiac signs, fixed stars and the lots.
Angular relationships between the planets themselves and other points, called aspects, are typically determined. The emphasis and interpretation of these factors varies with tradition. This means however the stars were placed at the time of birth for a person shows their characteristics and personality, including weakness. It is very similar to the Chinese Zodiac.
The Latin word horoscopus, ultimately from Greek ὡρόσκοπος nativity, horoscope, observer of the hour of birth, from ὥρα time, hour and σκόπος observer, watcher.
In Middle English texts from the 11th century, the word appears in the Latin form and is anglicized to horoscope in Early Modern English.
The noun horoscopy for casting of horoscopes has been in use since the 17th century (OED). In Greek, ὡρόσκοπος in the sense of ascendant and ὡροσκοπία observation of the ascendant is in use since Ptolemy.
More information: Time
If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo,
so I'm very controlling;
I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.
Trisha Yearwood
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