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The problem with animals of the zodiac

Being a Mouse in the Chinese zodiac and a Virgo in the Western one, I don't know what problems I could encounter this year with, say, Gemini-Tigers or Scorpio-Tigers. Horoscopes are a form of superstition, but everybody will agree they are not so noxious to society, because they are generally read in a superficial way only by white-collar workers, and used innocently as a simple means to find some comfort on sad days, or an inspiring source when one feels really optimistic.

Animals in the Chinese zodiac, even the elusive Dragon, which is a hybrid of reptiles, birds, are down to earth, which do not pose complicated and embarrassing problems with supernatural creatures created by human fantasy such as Virgo confronting Sagittarius.