Newspapers, magazines, internet sites, even radio shows have them: zodiacal advice about your love life, finances and health.
For astrologer Paul Six, the study of the planets is not about fortune-telling. It is a system that unravels a person's potential; a code that doesn't set out to provide absolute answers (such as the winning lottery numbers or whether your car will break down), but one that allows people to gain a deeper understanding of who they are.
'There are limits to what astrology can tell you,' he says. 'I don't want to criticise any astrologer, but I believe that astrology is presented to the world in a way that leads to false impressions - that it can offer more than it actually can.
'How can the blurbs in the newspapers mean the same thing to hundreds of millions of people, and how can anyone believe that they could?' asks the 61-year-old American who has spent the past 29 years interpreting movements in the stars.
Six defines astrology as the study of the energies that constitute the 'constellation of fields' that is the human body. There are subtle energies all around us that change in relationship to time and space, which is why the time, date, year and place of birth must be known to draw a person's astrological chart, he says.
A horoscope is a map of the solar system's appearance at the precise moment of a person's, or an event's, birth. Its interpretation is a gift that Six says gives us the tools to develop our identity.
Looking at Hong Kong's chart at the time of its 'birth', 12.01am on July 1, 1997, the day of the handover from British rule to Chinese rule - Six says Hong Kong's sun sign moved from being in Capricorn, under British rule, to Cancer.
