Love and flirt horoscope for every star sign: how to read it

A love and flirt horoscope for every star sign is a text in twelve portions. You look for yours, you read it, and then one of two things usually happens: you nod, or you shrug. Neither one gets you a step further. What follows is what there is to take from a paragraph like that, if you do more than skim it. Series of this kind appear under the name of an astrologer, in this case Jenny Lynch; what matters in the reading, though, does not hang on the name but on the form.

Write down your question before you read

Most people open a text like this without a question. The text then supplies the question, and it is almost always the same one: is what it says here about me true? That is the least productive question of all, because the answer can only be yes or no, and afterwards you are none the wiser.

Note down beforehand, in one sentence, what you actually want to know. Not “when will somebody come along” — no honest text answers that. More like this: why do I get in touch less often after the third date? Why do I find starting easy and staying hard? With a note like that in your hand, the same paragraph reads differently. You are no longer looking for confirmation, you are looking for one usable sentence.

Turning a sentence into an observation

Interpretation texts are worded in general terms, and that is not a trick, it follows from the form: one sentence has to fit many different lives. Your work is to make it concrete again.

The text says: you need closeness, but you keep your own space. Translated, that becomes: how often in the past month have I cancelled a date I had been looking forward to? Or: you would rather show affection by doing a favour than by saying something. Translated: when did I last tell someone I liked them without first getting something done for them? By this route a trait turns into a number or a memory. Traits can be talked about endlessly. A cancelled date cannot.

The sentence that flatters and the sentence that lands

Every paragraph holds two kinds of sentence, and both are handled badly. The flattering one slips through: warm-hearted, loyal, good-humoured — nobody reads that twice. The uncomfortable one is denied on the spot, a counter-example takes two seconds to find. Treat both the same way and turn both into an observation. Experience says that the friendly sentence holds up under scrutiny less often than people think, and the annoying one more often.

Read the other eleven

Take a few minutes and go through the remaining paragraphs, all of them, and mark in each one whatever applies to you. If something is marked in half the texts at the end, the text has told you nothing about your sign, it has told you something about people in general. That is no reason to throw it away — what is general can be true, it is simply not a result. If, on the other hand, two sentences are left in your paragraph that appear in none of the other eleven and still sound familiar, then the next step is worth taking.

Two weeks, three notes

Take a single translated sentence into everyday life with you, not five. For two weeks record three situations in which it showed up, or pointedly did not: the date and two lines about it. After that you know whether the description fits, how often, and where it tips over. Many people notice at that point that a supposed character trait hangs on particular people: with one person you speak freely, with another you go monosyllabic.

Where the Sun sign stops

A text sorted by sign gets by on the date of birth, it has nothing else at its disposal, and for questions of affection that is the coarsest division there is. What a complete birth chart holds beyond it you can see under Horoscopes, and the twelve signs with their elements and rulers are under Zodiac signs. And if after two weeks it turns out that the sentence does not fit: so much the better. Then you have an observation that comes from your own everyday life and not from a paragraph.