Snape and Slytherin as the House of Water (Was: Snape as Scorpio)

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 154195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol earlier:
> > > It may be relevant that both Tom Riddle (born December 31 or
> possibly January 1) and Severus Snape (born January 9, according to
> JKR's  website) are Scorpios. (Please note that I don't have any
> actual interest in astrology and am only following up this idea to 
see
> where it leads.)
> > <snip-o-rama>
> > 
> > akh quips:
> > There's one small problem: astrologically speaking, they're
> Capricorns. > 
> Carol responds:
> 
> Oops! <Blush!> Told you I wasn't into astrology. 
> 
> . And since
> Slytherin House is definitively associated with water, the idea 
still
> applies, whether Snape himself is a Scorpio or a Capricorn. Any
> comments on those thoughts, which can be found upthread?
> 
> Carol, blushing for her error and hoping that it hasn't caused her
> main point to be disregarded

Leah:

I found this interesting article on wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn

which states that Capricorn was orginally a water sign.  You can see 
from the article that the sun was considered to be 'stabled' in 
Capricorn during the winter solstice, and the article also 
references the cleaning of the Augean stables- Aquarius following 
Capricorn. 

Leah