"The passion to explore is at the heart of being human," said Carl Sagan. "This impulse -- to go, to see, to know -- has found expression in every culture." But Steven Dutch, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, disagrees. He says there've been lots of societies that have had little interest in exploration. Africans never discovered Madagascar or the Cape Verde archipelago, for example. Few Asian cultures probed far and wide. During a thousand years of history, ancient Romans ignored Russia, Scandinavia, and the Baltic, and made only minimal forays to India and China. Where do you personally fit on the scale of the human exploratory urge, Virgo? Regardless of what you've done in the past, I bet you'll be on the move in the coming months. Your hunger for novelty and unfamiliarity should be waxing.

As I'd said in an earlier blog, I began using astrology as a short cut to character development when I am writing. Particularly when it comes to addressing conflict. Let's face it, certain personalities are less at ease with each other than others. Of course, saying someone is this sign or that is an over generalization but works when it comes to a template. Anyway, for me, it's just fun.