I was born on July 2, 1973.
First of all, I've never been big on astrology and horoscopes (no offense meant to the other Zodiac people); my ruling planet is the Moon (which is technically a natural satellite of Earth, and not an actual planet), and back in the days of superstition, people believed the moon to be an influential sphere of madness, since the moon has its monthly lunar cycle of new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter, etc.
Words such as
moonstruck, moony, moonish, lunatic, lunacy, looney (an informal derivative of lunatic) et al., have come about because people once believed that someone who was influenced by the moon was crazy, moody, changeable, etc.
If anybody out there has ever watched old cartoons, they might throw in an occasional episode where someone turns into a werewolf under a full moon, only to revert back to human form when the clouds cover the full moon.....
Lunacy - Television Tropes & Idioms
As for Chinese astrological signs, they have a 12-year cycle; I was born in 1973, which at that time was designated the Year of the Ox.
My birthstone is a ruby, since I was born in July, and people whose birthdays range from June 21st to June 30th may have moonstone as their birth stone; June's other birthstones are pearl, alexandrite, and agate, but I don't know which ones belong to Gemini and which ones are for June Cancerians....
Even though my "ruling sphere" is the Moon, I wouldn't exactly think of myself as having any resemblance to Crazy Harry
, since I'm usually pretty mild-mannered.....
A strange idea just occurred to me: what if there was a horoscope that had Muppets as alternative astrological designations?