Why Your Zodiac Sign Is Probably Wrong

https://www.iflscience.com ^ | January 11, 2022 | James B. Kaler

[Scarlett156]

There’s a “house system” too, that determines how you divide up the space occupied by each sign, because each does not occupy the same area on the zodiac band.

[Political Junkie Too]

Due to precession, it moved into Pisces around 100 B.C., where it is now and will remain until A.D. 2700, when it will move into Aquarius

This is where the notion of "The Age of Aquarius" (like the song) comes from.

We are currently in "The Age Of Pisces," which is not as lyrical.

-PJ

[MtnClimber]

Is that like being a Taurus and wishing you were a S&W?

[Red Badger]

Sounds fishy......................

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe it should be The Age of Aquarium?"

-PJ

[Red Badger]

like being a Taurus and wishing you were a Ferrari..............

[dynachrome]

Here's a Pisces:

[Trillian]

This is more accurate.

[Red Badger]

H.P. Lovecraft wrote about her ‘people’................

[Trillian]

ewwww.. lol

[mad_as_he$$]

Geez. Eye burn. Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.

[SkyDancer]

What did these astrologers do before they found out about another four planets?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

No! I don’t want to be a Cancer crab. I’ve always been a Leo lion — Proud, Bold Ambitious!

This is horrible!

[Red Badger]

What they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them..............

[PIF]

But once Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo realized the planets orbit the Sun

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The the planets orbiting the Sun goes back to antiquity. the aforementioned Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo just rediscovered the knowledge lost with the fall of the Roman Empire, the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, and the Dark Ages - typified by the muslim invasion and their destruction of everything that was not found in the koran, hadiths or sunnahs, or was not useful in some way to them at different times and countries. Everything else they burned or destroyed in their murderous zeal to destroy classical western civilization and classical Christianity.

[Red Badger]

And crabby......................

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

According to this author, Ptolemy (who was most certainly aware of the precession of the equinoxes) set the relationship between the calendar or seasons and the signs, and explicitly did not allow them to change. Your astrological sign is the one determined by Ptolemy, and his masterwork, The Almagest, is the basis for western astrology. Boxer's book is well worth reading.

[Leep]

I saw that episode on Mystery Theater 3000!

[TexasM1A]

Sorry, I’m a Scorpio not a Libra.