Strange News -Your Astrological Sign May Not Be What You Think It Is

It's a great conversation starter: "What's your sign?"

But before you ask or answer that question, consider this: your zodiac sign corresponds to the position of the sun relative to constellations as they appeared over 2200 years ago!
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Unbeknownst to the ancient astrologers, the Earth continually wobbles around its axis in a 25,800-year cycle. This wobble—called precession—is caused by the gravitational attraction of the Moon on Earth's equatorial bulge.

Over the past two-and-a-half millennia, this wobble has caused the intersection point between the celestial equator and the ecliptic to move west along the ecliptic by 36 degrees, or almost exactly one-tenth of the way around. This means that the signs have slipped one-tenth—or almost one whole month—of the way around the sky to the west, relative to the stars beyond.
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Capricorn - Jan 20 to Feb 16
Aquarius - Feb 16 to Mar 11
Pisces - Mar 11 to Apr 18
Aries - Apr 18 to May 13
Taurus - May 13 to Jun 21
Gemini - Jun 21 to Jul 20
Cancer - Jul 20 to Aug 10
Leo - Aug 10 to Sep 16
Virgo - Sep 16 to Oct 30
Libra - Oct 30 to Nov 23
Scorpius - Nov 23 to Nov 29
Ophiuchus - Nov 29 to Dec 17
Sagittarius - Dec 17 to Jan 20

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/your-astronomical-sign.html

This has certaily been a screwy year!

BTW - I move from being a Virgo to being a Leo under the actual positions.

"Only pathetic materialists would accept this kind of crap rationale for discounting the Eteranal Science of the Stars. I pity the materialistic fools."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*


* Courageously channeled from the bowels of the vast republicon netherworld of occultism.

WTF is that?
And why does it only span 6 days? Oh well, I guess it makes me a novelty...

guess that is what my sign is now
they don't even have that in the comics section of my newspaper, how will I know if my horoscope is correct???

you're 73% more likely to have red hair while using the word Pa instead of dad.

You could have been born under Lupus. Not really, but it's close.

All that insulting stuff I read about Sagittarians.

About 2200 years, give or take. Astrologers simply ignore it.

But modern astrologers have forgotten about the precession of the equinoxes, which Ptolemy understood. They ignore atmospheric refraction, about which Ptolemy wrote. They pay almost no attention to all the moons and planets, asteroids and comets, quasars and pulsars, exploding galaxies, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables and X-ray sources that have been discovered since Ptolemy’s time. Astronomy is a science - the study of the universe as it is. Astrology is a pseudoscience - a claim, in the absence of good evidence, that the other planets affect our everyday lives. In Ptolemy’s time the distinction between astronomy and astrology was not clear. Today it is.” ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Mercury going in retrograde! Great changes, positive or negative coming next week! Venus rising, great pain for some and new love for others!

... where it will be properly torn apart.

nononononono! I ain't holding no snakes! I'll just lie and tell everyone I'm still a Sagg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiuchus#Mythology

I can't be a VIRGO!

I believe this is why sidereal astrology was developed, to account for this movement. This is nothing new.