You know the feeling.

You're leafing casually through a magazine near the check-out stand and happen to see the horoscope section. So, just for fun, you read what's under your sign.

You laugh off the ominous statement about a stranger coming into your life, but as you count your groceries to make sure you have fewer than 10 items, you start to wonder if the guy in aisle one is looking pointedly at you.

As you continue with your day and head toward English class, you accidently drop your paper in the slush. As you pick it up to survey the damages, the words from the magazine play through your mind: "Take caution with important documents."

The words seemed so insignificant at the time.

Are these events pure coincidence, or is there truth to the seemingly innocent blurbs at the end of every trashy magazine?

Mikal Daly (freshman-premedicine) is a believer. After her sister turned her on to the wonders of astrology, Daly said she thinks there is truth to horoscopes.

"Basically it seems that everything that (my sister) read to me has come true," Daly said. "She follows her horoscope and believes that you can tell if you should marry a person by when they're born and what their horoscope sign is and that you can tell anything you want about a person just by knowing their date of birth."

Daly's roommate, Raquel Fruchter (freshman-English), is also into the mystic. When she reads descriptions about people born under her sign of Capricorn, she said sees similarities to herself.

"When they have descriptions about the people described under my sign, it's usually exactly accurate," Fruchter said. "They say, like, I'm ambitious, but my bad points are my bad points, too -- it's not just what I want to hear. And all my friends agree with the statements."

But others look at horoscopes and the occult as more fun, less fact. Trina Null (senior-English literature) said people can't put stock in what their horoscopes predict. But she does read her own casually in Cosmopoliton each month.

"You can make it come true if you think about it, but I just read it for fun," Null said. "My roommate last year swore by hers."

William Dwyer (sophomore-business management) said although he sometimes reads his horoscope, he thinks the accounts are generally written more for women.

"I know my sisters read them in their magazines like YM and Seventeen, and (the horoscopes are) always, like, talking to girls, but it might just be because the magazine is more for girls," Dwyer said.

But Brad Jenkins (freshman-engineering) doesn't read his horoscope at all, agreeing that the predictions are strictly female oriented.

"Males don't do that kind of thing," he said.