Astrology, tarot and Hugh as Gilderoy

[Tabouli]

I briefly poke my head around the door at the sound of Chinese astrology and
tarot (both interests of mine!) and suggest that people take a look at
Master Rao's Chinese Astrology site.  Can't remember the url, but you can
access it through www.astrosonia.com.  Although I wasn't at all pleased with
his analysis of Gemini Rats like myself: apparently we're bad, bad news!

Actually, much as my left brain wants to sneer astrology aside, I can't deny
that the profiles of both Gemini with Virgo rising and Water Rat are eerily
accurate for me, to the extent that one friend of mine was witnessed rolling
about with laughter as she read out the Gemini section of her astrology book
("They're following you around with a camera!").  In fact, multiplicity and
conflict are positively teeming in both my Chinese and Western astrology
charts.  OK, so the theory is that you get along well with people 4 years
either side of you (for me, Dragon and Monkey) and shockingly with people 6
years either side of you (Horse).  Well, I'm born in the year of the Rat,
but the moon *and* the hour of the Horse!  Inner conflicts indeed.  Then add
in the Gemini factor with Virgo rising (the scattered double agent jack of
all trades vs the finicky perfectionist), the half-Chinese half-Western
cultural conundrum, and I'm a very mixed up character indeed.

As for tarot, I have the Hallowquest King Arthur tarot deck, which is rather
pretty, though I hanker after the simplicity of the Mythic deck when it
comes to remembering what the minor arcana cards mean!  Hey, what do you
people think about a light-hearted Harry Potter tarot??  Ahaaaa!  We could
have Voldemort as The Devil (hey, Harry facing his inner Slytherin!)  Harry
as The Fool, each house representing one of the suits, with the Hufflepuffs
as Pentacles, Gryffindors as Wands, Ravenclaws as Swords and Slytherins as
Cups (?).  Hermione as Justice, perhaps, and Ron as the Knight of Wands?
Um, my tarot knowledge is running dry here... help anyone?... Sirius as The
Hermit, James and Lily as The Lovers, Remus as the Hanged Man, Dumbledore as
Emperor...

I reckon this could be a goer (she says Aussiely), but it'd have to wait
until she's finished all of the series.

Another thing... I read that Hugh Grant is going to play Lockhart!  Hmm.  I
have my reservations.  They'd better put blond hair on him, for a start.

Tabouli