posted November 01, 2004 07:34 AM              

When I first met them, the Cancerian was 2 years old and the Libran was 4. The Cancerian didn't speak much, he knew words like "help" and "Mummy" and he'd pretend to be a scary ghost - sooo cute! The Libran spoke quite well, with a little pom accent (they were brought up in England).

The next time I saw them, the blue saucer-eyed Cancerian was 4, and the Libran 6. He had already begun school.
I asked them if they remembered me. The Cancerian shyly nodded, with his wide cheeky little smile. The Libran said bluntly, "No, I don't remember you", but still flashed me a dazzling smile.

I found it quite curious, seeing as the Cancerian was so young he could barely speak when he saw me previously, yet he remembered me. I instantly put it down to the notorious Cancerian memory.. compared with that of a blustery air sign... !!

posted November 01, 2004 10:48 AM              

Aquas and Gems are excellant at remembering data, symbols and information, but b-days, anniversaries or that they promised five minutes ago to call you later than evening....forget it. As my brother once griped about me "You can remember every bit of minutia you heard on the Discovery channel, but you can't remember a converstion we had last week." LOL. I have photographic memeory for things like maps and charts, but have trouble recalling people's names. We have object-oriented memory, not people-oriented. Libras have the worst memory of the air signs, easily.

Virgos usually have good memory for systems and processes, as they tend to retain a lot of intricate details, which is why they're good at remembering every little thing you've ever done that annoyed them when a fight breaks out.

Cancer does have very good long-term memory, normally, but it's also highly subjective, meaning it get infused with their personal emotional response, which is usually intense. Which means if they remember something good, it's wonderful. If's they remember something bad, it's traumatic. Capricorn, Cancer's polarity, has a pretty good memory too, but tends to recall things in over-simplified terms, because they tend to think only the basic really matter in every situation.

Pisces tend to have excellant musical memory. Taurus tend to have good tactile and olfactory memory. I once knew a guy with heavy Taurus influence, and he could remember the smell of nearly any popular perfume. We'd be walking through a crowd,a ndhe's suddenly go, "OMG, *someone's* wwearing Tuscany!" or something. It was funny, cos I have horrible olfactory memory and could never pick up on what he was smelling.

posted November 02, 2004 10:13 PM              

But seriously, I have an excellent memory. Particularly for faces. I can remember where I have met people and other circumstances surrounding it. Like for example:

Last year, when I met my son's kindergarten assistant, I took one look at her and said, did you used to play basketball in Melbourne. She looked at me quizzingly and said yes. I used to play against her and I remembered not only her but a whole stack of other members in her team and the colour of their uniforms and their numbers etc. She was amazed as this was going back at least fifteen years.

Coincidentally (chuckle, chuckle), I was on the panel that appointed the kindergarten teacher (the lady she assisted) and after the interview I said to this interviewee, did you used to live on such a such a road? And I got the quizzing look again (squinted look through one closed eye). Yes, why? And I told her that I used to live next door to her. She remembered my ex but not so much me (cos I spent a lot of time at work )

So, it pays to have a good memory, you never know when you are going to bump into somebody that you know. Also means that you can't play up much too .

posted November 03, 2004 01:51 AM            

Working with different people, I pick up their perfumes and body smells (which isn't always so great) but the strangest thing is picking up changing scents from close family/friends bodies.

Like pheremones or how they say dogs can sense fear because it is an odor, I can detect subtle changes in my bf's smell depending on how he's feeling (or anybody else I'm close with on a regular basis.)

posted November 03, 2004 03:07 AM              

It's just a 69

sassy -

You know how everyone dreads growing old, like, you're worried about what starts to happen to you physically, and you have no control (except lots of skin lotion & sunblock) ...

Well, there's a switch off. I lose a little of this as I grow old, and I gain the beautiful power of having selective amnesia. And you're like, HEY, this is cool!

Ignorance can be bliss.