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Amazing Grace

A word of caution: This research paper was written by a toddler in astrology and its findings should on no account be taken seriously by bearers of the various sun signs mentioned herein.

Said toddler had noted that Saturn in his third house meant a constrained breadth of understanding of the world. However, with his Jupiter in opposition to his Saturn, he also had been thinking about how he could expand the breadth of his limited understanding.

And so, one day, as he was doodling on his keyboard (actually, he had always dreamt of becoming a concert pianist, but then found it more than a challenge he could handle to just wrap his clumsy crab claws around the keys of an electronic keyboard), he was zapped by a stroke of lightning from Uranus, trine his Jupiter. Eureka! he was going to ask bearers of the various sun signs a simple question (God loves simplicity!), which he believed everyone would be able to relate to in his or her own sun-kissed way. He was going to ask them:

“What’s so amazing about grace?”

Here is a selection of the responses he received:

Aries: “I don’t need any grace. I’ll deliver the job on time. I give you my word on that!”

Taurus: “Well, let me tell you, there is nothing amazing about this year’s grazing! If we don’t get any good rains this season, I don’t know how my cows will survive next year.”

Gemini: “We’ll have to give this question some thorough consideration. For a start, we need to understand that the word ‘grace’ has two vastly different meanings …”

Cancer: “You might well ask! I’ve noticed that everybody’s always huddling around Grace; but, if you ask me, there’s nothing amazing about her. I’m just as good as she is, but everyone’s always ignoring me … sniff!”

Leo: “If you REALLY want to know, just watch me!”

Virgo: “It’s an ideal of the mind, which we manifest on Earth.”

Libra: “Without grace, there could be no justice.”

Scorpio: “The amazing part is that those who get it, are the ones who least deserve it.”

Sagittarius: “There, by the grace of God, out into the world we go …”

Capricorn: “Please fill in this form here, write your question in the space provided here, and sign the form down here. Now, please hand the form in at the counter over there, and you will be provided with a response in due course.”

Aquarius: “I know exactly what you mean! It’s the dolphin kids. Yeah, right, I’m telling you – it’s the dolphin kids! They truly ARE amazing!”

Pisces: “If you’ve been through what I’ve been through, then nothing amazes you anymore. So, I don’t know – you tell me.”

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