Not sure if this is the right place to post, but herego's...
I've been looking all over and I can't seem to find where the symbol for a woman (you know, the circle with the cross at the bottom) came from. I want to know what it means, and why is it that, why do guy's have the arrow on the "corner" of a circle for their sign?
Posts: 7 | Location: Pleasantville, Iowa, USA | Registered: 08-25-03
From what I've heard they're astrological signs and the female sign represents passivity and the male symbol, activity or something. How close am I? Anybody?
Posts: 6470 | Location: Grayson, Georgia, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
I seem to remember from the hinterlands of my mind I heard this long ago: The symbol for a man represents a spear and shield (symbolic of a warrior) and the woman's represents a mirror and comb. Don't know when or where I heard that, though.
Posts: 3476 | Location: Colfax, WA--the home of the world's largest chain-saw sculpture!! | Registered: 06-03-02
Mars, as the god of war, has the arrow as a symbol. There may be a phallic allusion also. The mirror of Venus is a symbol of her beauty, the Greek idea of outward appearance being a reflection of inward appearance.
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