Back to the stars for the chapter headings in He’s Got to Go, only this time astrology instead of astronomy. As I mention in the foreword, I’ve always considered myself to be an Aries, but according to some research, the shifting skies has changed the boundaries for Zodiac signs. And so if you’re born on the cusp, as it were, you may not be the sign you think. I usen’t to think I was a very Aries type of character at all, but now I do – I can be impatient and I love doing new things which are Arian traits. However I’m also quite dreamy and introspective which is a bit Piscean. I prefer heat to water though!

The funny thing about this book was that as I wrote it the characters themselves seemed to take on the quality of their star signs. They would make a comment which I would suddenly think was very Scorpio or very Cancer! I know that I was the one writing it and so, theoretically, in charge of what they were saying but I can’t help thinking that there were other forces involved too.

Nessa is very much a Cancerian with her love for her home and family

http://www.elore.com/Astrology/Study/cancer.htm

Cate, like me, is an Aries. I didn’t set out to make her Aries on purpose, she just developed that way!

http://www.elore.com/Astrology/Study/aries.htm

Bree is a Sagittarian with her positive, active approach to life

http://www.elore.com/Astrology/Study/sagittarius.htm

I do think that people’s personalities may be defined by the time of the year that they’re born. But I’m not sure that it has anything to do with the stars. I’m sure if you’re born in the summer you’re just generally a brighter, more outgoing person because you’ve been born at a bright time of the year. Still, I’ll keep on reading the horoscopes in the hairdresser’s, just in case they tell me something worthwhile.