This, a thing....

So one of my students shows up to class with a t-shirt declaring "September Girl: I was born with my heart on my sleeve, fire in my soul, and a mouth I can't control"

And I thought: huh. Is this a new version of horoscopes, maybe for people who think horoscopes are a not-good* thing?

(*Not just a "it's not real" thing, but an actively demonic thing. Some people do. I tend to side more with the "It's Barnum statements and maybe kind of silly fun, but don't read too much into it")

So I thought: I'll look up my birth month.

And apparently this is a thing
but many of the shirts use the SAME "heart on my sleeve...." thing.
There are a few others:

"Like a butterfly: hard to catch." (Well, I don't know. I don't know that I was so much hard to catch as not paying attention to the thought that some might be interested in "catching" me when I was of an age when being "caught" might have been a thing)

"Live in a crazy fantasy world with unrealistic expectations." Yeah, don't drag me. I want to live in a fantasy world nicer than this one, but I realize that's not possible, so I keep my expectations low

"I'm not always a (female dog), I'm just a February girl" Yeah, no. I try very hard to be kind and sweet even if I am squashing anger down into a hard little bitter pellet inside of me.

Similarly: "I can be the best thing in your life, or your worst nightmare. Choose wisely." Honestly? If someone ticks me off enough I might want to be their worst nightmare, I just wander off and get really indifferent to them, because I figure they're not worth my energy.

So yeah - these are a thing but frankly they seem worse (and considerably less fun) then the stereotyped zodiac signs.

Like:

Strengths: Compassionate, artistic, intuitive, gentle, wise, musical
Weaknesses: Fearful, overly trusting, sad, desire to escape reality, can be a victim or a martyr
Pisces likes: Being alone, sleeping, music, romance, visual media, swimming, spiritual themes
Pisces dislikes: Know-it-all, being criticized, the past coming back to haunt, cruelty of any kind

(I will cop to compassionate and gentle. Intuitive, perhaps. Musical and artistic, less so. I try but am not that talented. Yes, also to fearful, sad, tendency to play the victim. And I do like sleeping and music and if not necessarily swimming, being in the water...And oh yes, I hate being criticized more than almost anything except for cruelty.)

I don't know how the shirts became a thing; apparently they are the same regardless of the month when you were born....

And there's the old rhyme:

"Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay"


 Looking up for February 27, 1969: it was a Thursday. (Womp womp. So I don't get fair of face or even full of grace- I "have far to go," which I presume means I still have to do a lot to make the grade, kind of like getting an "unsatisfactory" in grade school. I don't think it's the same as "will go far," which is much more positive).

I guess I'm glad it's all bunk.