Zodiac signs by the slice: What pie are you, as per an astrologer?

Happy National Pie Day (not to be confused with National Pi Day).In his post-apocalyptic debut novel, “The Gone-Away World,” Nick Harkaway writes, “Pie is ..

.ephemeral.

From the moment it emerges from the oven, it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to moldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food.The pie is a parable of human life.”In honor of the ephemeral nature of the humble pie and in honor of National Pie Day on January 23, we have curated a list of the zodiac signs as pie slices because why the hell not?Pie can trace its crumbs back to the ancient Egyptians who routinely ate a honey-laced version of the pastry and committed the recipe on tablets and the process on tomb walls, according to the accented academics at the BBC.

The Greeks, likely taking a cue and crust from Egyptian meat pies, served theirs in an open pastry shell, bringing a bit of a Mazda Miata convertible energy.As pillagers and pie makers, the Romans prioritized topping and are alleged to have been the first to craft a pie with a top and bottom crust.

Fun fact: the top part of the pie wasn’t meant to be eaten, laying waste and making waste those Romans.The same proverbial roads that led to Rome led away from it, and the empire became a nation-state of pie-eaters.From there to here and then to now, from chicken pot pie to lemon meringue, read on to learn more about the piece of pie for each zodiac sign.Aries folk are an impulsive lot, prone to betting big, spending large and apologizing often.In-kind, the coconut cream pie was born from a debt owed and curiously repaid.

Legend has it that in the 19th century, a Caribbean businessman sent a shipment of coconuts to a Philadelphia flour miller to settle the score between them.The miller took to shredding, drying, and selling the coconut meat to bakers and homemakers, and before long, the people of this fledgling nation were screaming for coconut ...