Yes I’d admit to that.

But it’s a fine line between being ‘prejudiced from my experience’ and *learning* from my experience, or taking examples from my experience.

For example, I’ve had almost exclusively poor experiences of Scorpios, some very negative indeed. But I don’t ‘hate Scorpios’ – I’ve met a couple who were/are sterling friends, among the myriad Scorp betrayals.

I deduce rather, that the make-up of my chart is not conducive to positive connections with Scorps, and something about me (all my mega-Cardinal maybe) rubs them up the wrong way. I’ve seen this over and over, and it’s best to be aware of it.

I feel it’s human nature to judge things based on our experiences. Becoming more self aware is what can break that cycle. I personally have been trying to pay attention and not live on auto pilot because I feel that it’s very limiting.

You asked.. ‘how does this work?’.. For me, if I feel myself ‘resisting’ something or ‘judging’, it’s a signal to me that I’ve most likely got some kind of limiting belief based on an experience I had in the past.

I think back and very often I can recall what that experience was. I try to look at it with new eyes, question whether that belief is really ‘true’ now. It’s surprising how often a belief I’ve had for years can be so ‘untrue’ now, and how freeing it is to release it.

It’s still a like dislike thing for me. I don’t like Lima beans, Liver, Bowling or Nascar. Not my thing.If you like it golly good for you!

People.. well I don’t think I pigeon hole anyone but I do understand cultural differences and I am open to varied rituals.

I am inpatient with mean spirited folks who have no integrity or character. It’s not a sign nor where you live it is who you are. I guess you have to know bad to see the good. So-so has it’s place as well.

at points in my life i’ve tried so hard to be “non-judgemental” that i’ve screwed myself over by not trusting my instincts. it’s a balance.
more to the point, it requires awareness of where assumptions can color our perceptions, and when they get in the way of seeing things as they truly are. i’ve found a lot of buddhist philosophy really helpful in disconnecting assumptions from instincts from learned experience from perception filters et cetera…

I’m not!

And actually I have had things happen to me which could have made me prejudice.

I’m just good at seperating thought from feeling.

I think BP said it well. Yes, I’m prejudiced, but not because I’m inclined to be discriminatory, but rather because I’ve had to learn from my experiences.

I think I’ve witnessed a lot of “exceptions” in terms of people/things not being what they’re supposed to be on a conventional level, and that’s helped me to maintain an open mind.

I think people don’t know what the word “prejudiced” means any more. Racism, discrimination and prejudice are all rolled into one when they each have a specific meaning.

Agree, Sagittarian and much more to come on this topic, I hope! I have a post for tomorrow and hope to continue writing because it’s a very important topic to me. One of mt great passionate interests actually.

I think I am more prejudicied when it comes to the signs based on TYPE of relationships I have.

On the romance end, NO air signs – I can’t tell you how awful they have been in that sort of relationship department. For friends, I can deal but I just know it probably won’t be deep so I just know I will just take the relationship for what it is – a “surface” relationship.

On the friendship end, I attract Scorpios and water signs and I tend to STAY friends with THEM and THEM with ME. Air and Fire signs just don’t tend to stay around. And I don’t HATE them for that – that is just the way some of them are.

I have a lot of fire in my chart and some air so I can’t really be prejudicied – but like some said our past (bad) experiences with certain kinds of people (astrology or not) tends to put us on the guard when we meet new ones because well, who WANTS to go through “that” again – can’t really blame them.

I once had a great Aries friends whom I lost touch with who got hit by a car (no not seriously injured) and was supposed to help me move the next day I only knew this person for a few months but he STILL showed up and helped me moved the day after he got hit by a car (even though he was supposed to be resting)! Whereas, my apparently “best” friend of the time whom I had known for over 15 years (one of the most selfish persons I ever knew – Sag/Capricorn cusp) tried to bale on me because she and her husband just didn’t “feel” like coming – even though I help HER all the time. They were the only ones helping me that day – I had no one else to help me. So just goes to show you that you can never tell about people based on their sun signs. But than I have another friend who is an Aries who is the most unreliable person EVER. I don’t think it is JUST sun signs – it is other stuff in their charts that makes people who are they are. So you got to wait and see what happens…

I tend to avoid relationships with any signs squared to mine…which is Leo and Aquarius. They are all right as friends, but arguments tend to become fixed.

And scorpios. I have tons of female friends, the males scare the shit out of me.

I don’t have anything against these signs, but our energies just don’t mesh and why wouldn’t I look for something a little less fraught?

yo — we are astrologers — someone doesn’t like scorpios — how does scorpio aspect chart????

that’s the whole idea of compatibilities — ooo he said, I’m an aries, what kind of girl should i look for? simple ass, but nevertheless, we encourage people to form preconceived opinions of various groups of people by astrological definitions and synastric rules

I don’t think so. I was raised to look at people as individuals so that might be influencing me.