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Please don't shoot the messenger, but Suncorp Metway, Ltd., a multi-faceted
Australian Financial Service, ranked car accident claimants by Sun sign
in a study of 160,000 accident claims over the previous three-year period.
This is what they found.
Restless
Geminis Behind the Wheel
The
number one worst drivers were Geminis, “typically described as restless,
easily bored and frustrated by things moving slowly,” explained Warren
Duke, Suncorp's national manager of personal insurance. “They had more
car accidents than any other sign.” No astrologer would argue with that description of the sign of the Twins
and probably this isn't very surprising news. But what about the other
signs?
According
to a news release dated February 10, 2002,
Duke said the study was carried out as part of Suncorp's annual review
of claims. "We always look for trends in claims to see if there
are ways to reduce our pricing, but there is no intention to introduce
astrology as a rating factor for motor insurance," he said.
Second and
third place holders for this dubious honor are Taurus and Pisces. “Taureans were thought to be obstinate and inflexible, “said
Duke, “while Pisceans could be risk-takers and dare devils.”
Your personal
astrologer would offer other explanations. First Taurus. Yes, Taureans
can be obstinate and inflexible, but they are also the most introverted
and self absorbed of all the signs. Their natural path in life is to
think about their own body—its immediate comfort and needs—and
to deal with only the most tangible and immediate of realities. Their
thinking as drivers may run like this. My stomach is full, the temperature
in the car is pretty good, the noise level is good, I'm riding right
at 60, I don't have to use the bathroom for at least another hour and
there's plenty of gas in the tank. At a very fundamental level, the world
outside the chassis of their car may not exist at all. Since freeway
driving requires spatial perception and processing of much abstract information
(speed, flow and distance), this is counter to their natural way of processing
the world around them.
Pisces the
Daredevil?
Pisces,
in the number three position, is the other sign that lives in a world
of its own. Duke describes them as potential risk takers and daredevils.
However, there are other signs we would nominate much more readily
for a description like this.
Pisceans are the gentle dreamers of the zodiac. They may spend many
hours a day in fantasy worlds, escaping the painful realities of life
on the physical plane and, more often than not, the pain of being in
a physical body. They often experience the whole manifest world as an
illusion and their presence in it as temporary and of little importance.
This Piscean detachment from the physical can lead to unconscious feelings
of invulnerability or invincibility, also to unconscious feelings of
victimization and sacrifice. If you are momentarily deluded into thinking
you don't have physical limits, and that your life is but a fleeting
moment in the eternal life of the soul, you can respond to situations
of physical danger in illogical ways. Or, at the very least, be slow
on the uptake.
Please don't take these descriptions as critical. The qualities of Taurus
and Pisces are invaluable in their proper spheres of influence. Astrology
is not a critical tool. It is a tool of enlightenment. Something you
read here and become conscious about may save your life.
Duke continues, “Capricornians
[ sic ], who
came last on the list, [are] typically described as patient and careful.”
No argument with that from the professional astrologer. It's no surprise
Caps are the safest behind the wheel. They're the safest at everything!
Their patience and sense of responsibility are legendary. Imagine the
thrill I felt in the passenger seat when I divorced my Gemini husband
and began dating a Capricorn.
The great middle ground of this survey is held by Sun signs in this
order:
Is this
what you would have expected? There is something else fascinating about
this list.
The
folks at SunCorp would have no way of knowing it, but Capricorn to
the side, the signs in the last two positions and first two positions are
the exact opposite. This tells us a great deal about polarities,
doesn't it? Scorpio is opposite Taurus and Sagittarius is opposite Gemini.
Sagittarians
may stay safe in their cars the same way they do in life, by having
superbly developed higher minds. Another name for this mind is intuition.
The highly developed sense of flow and good timing characteristic of
Sagittarians is what makes them the lucky sign. Furthermore, their
minds are right at home dealing with traffic patterns, flow and spatial
relations.
Scorpios,
on the other hand, may stay safe because they are intimately involved
with the inner lives of others in the same way their opposite sign
Taurus is defended against this information. Scorpios are sensitive
to energy— whether it is a foot away or thousands of miles away—and
can feel someone “ coming up from behind ” at many different levels.
Scorpios know if you ' ve had a fight with your wife the night before
or if you ' re thinking about embezzling or having an affair with
your best friend ' s husband. That ' s why we always feel like they
can see right through us. They can.
Scorpios
would be the drivers who would instinctively “ wake up ” in
time to let a cocaine addict pass them at 95 or give a wide berth to
a passive aggressive soccer mom hassling two kids in the back seat
and a phone conversation with her husband all at the same time.
Where
does your sign fall in this survey? Whatever your Sun
sign, let' s all learn from this survey and be safe on the road.
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