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"  How telling is your sign to your personality? Think of your birth sign as the character or role you&amp;#039;re playing in the great drama of life. It doesn&amp;#039;t define your true inner self, but it&amp;#039;s the traits people see in you and how you act. Your Moon sign plays into your personality as well, but your Sun\u2014or birth sign\u2014is stronger.  Is it important to know your rising sign? Knowing your rising sign or ascendant is important if you really want to understand your birth chart. Sun sign astrology\u2014based just on your birth sign\u2014is very general but it still can be accurate in its own way. Your rising sign is based on your exact birth time and it effects everything about the way you view life.  How should one approach life through their horoscope? I think the best way to use horoscopes and astrology is to gain insight into ourselves. Predictions are useful too because they&amp;#039;re very much like a kind of weather report about the conditions we&amp;#039;re going to encounter. But as one renowned astrologer once put it, &amp;quot;Events do not happen, we happen to them.&amp;quot;  How much more successful are relationships when you are dating a compatible sign? Birth sign compatibility does make a difference\u2014really quite a strong one. Some signs are naturally harmonious and some just clash. But you need to remember that there&amp;#039;s more to the story, like the placements of Venus and Mars based on your birth time and there are even charts called composites which combine two people&amp;#039;s charts and describe how they interact.  If you could be any other sign than your own, what would you be and why? I&amp;#039;m a Libra and I&amp;#039;m pretty comfortable about being born under the sign of balance although sometimes it&amp;#039;s been a bit of a struggle dealing with my need to keep everyone around me happy and content. Of all the signs, though, I think Scorpio is my favorite. Not that I&amp;#039;d necessarily want to be one because Scorpios have lots of challenges to deal with too! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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