I'm learning about my moon sign today:
You may be familiar with your 'Sun Sign', but what is a 'Moon Sign'? The Moon is said to rule your personality, while the Sun rules your individuality, while the Ascendant Sun dictates our outer appearance and mannerisms (learn more about the Ascendant by clicking on its icon in the horoscope main menu).
You may be surprised to learn that you may illustrate more of your Moon Sign qualities than your Sun Sign (it should be noted though that the vast majority of the populous manifest their Sun Signs). By reading the description of your Moon Sign you will be able to judge how much the Moon affects your personality. The descriptions are quite general, but may ring true nonetheless.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
To answer the original question, the order of acceptability in the Western world seems to be something like:
Luck > deities that are intangible and don't affect people's everyday affairs > destiny/fate/horoscopes > ghosts, angels and other intangible spirits that may momentarily affect people's everyday affairs, but generally stay out of the way > paranormal powers in humans > deities in physical form > demons and other monsters in physical form.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, add "reincarnation" after destiny/fate.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
> safe investments > talking cars
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
> animals wearing people clothes
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
> the legitimacy of sock puppets
― nerds being macho (remy bean), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
you can take away my everything but don't take away my supernatural beliefs
― chris paul george hill (dayo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
My wife has a great many supernatural beliefs, but over a period of many years I have persuaded her to be self-skeptical enough that she does not use these beliefs as the basis for practical decision-making, and when she meets others who share her beliefs and set themselves up as teachers or gurus, she is very sensitive to whether these people have ulterior motives, such as money-making or power-seeking.
Under these conditions, I am very content not to directly challenge her beliefs in spirits and mysterious powers. If you treat them merely as interesting hypotheses that might have some explanatory power, but it is not clear whether other explanantions might not be stronger, then these become much more like intellectual exercises than belief systems.
― Aimless, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:40 (11 months ago) Permalink