Posted on 01/23/2011 4:36:46 PM PST by TaraP
WASHINGTON: All your horoscope predictions for the year 2011 are bound to be wrong. Why? Because the stars are not aligned as your astrologer thinks they are.
All zodiac signs – Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius or Pisces – were originally based on the constellation the sun was in the day you were born.
However, there is a major phenomenon that will disregard all this – the Earth wobbles, a phenomenon called precession.
Over the 2,500 years or so since the zodiac was established, your sign has moved about a month relative to the sun and stars, reports Live Science.
The ancient Babylonians based the zodiac on which constellation the sun appeared to be in when a person was born. Since then, the moon's has exerted a gravitation pull on Earth, causing a "wobble" on its axis that has shifted the stars' alignment by about a month.
"Because of this change in the tilt, the Earth is over here and the sun is in a different constellation than it was 3,000 years ago when this study of the stars began," astronomer Parke Kunkle said. So your New Year resolutions may belong to someone else.
Revelation 6:13-15and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.Isaiah 34:4
All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.....
Uhh. The stars aren't falling. The sky isn't rolling up like a scroll. If that's what you got out of the astrology thing, < sigh>. Read Wikipedia on axial precession. It's natural, it's been known for millenia, and this year isn't anything special.
Isaiah 24-27 is a very fruitful passage, if you're interested in eschatology. (Real eschatology, not the crack-fueled, "pin the tail on this week's antichrist candidate" version.) Read and be edified.
No wonder my horoscope has not helped me for years.....now you tell me :)
It’s really a Hollywood movie set. /s
12/21/12 & Cross at Hendaye explains it...
My understanding is that this is nothing new. This actually happened over 2,000 years ago and we’re just being told about it now.
So much for gardening by the moon, I guess.
The astrological constellation boundaries and those drawn by the IAU are not the same thing. The astrologers use a map where each zodiacal constellation covers an equal amount of sky(30 degrees) no matter how large or small the constellation appears to the eye. So part of the current boundary of the Serpent Bearer crosses the path of the sun, but for astrological purposes it is counted as being part of the Scorpion.
Psalm 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
>> “Sun Rises Day Early in Norway” <<
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Tara, get a grip!
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She isn’t kidding!
The frog is right; there were originally 13 divisions to the zodiac, and there are still 13 months on the lunar callendar.
The Hebrew, Buddhist, Hellenic, Hindu lunisolar, Burmese, Tibetan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and Korean calendars are all lunisolar, as was the Japanese calendar until 1873, the pre-Islamic calendar, the first century Gaulish Coligny calendar, and the Babylonian calendar. The Chinese, Coligny and Hebrew lunisolar calendars track more or less the tropical year whereas the Buddhist and Hindu lunisolar calendars track the sidereal year. Therefore, the first three give an idea of the seasons whereas the last two give an idea of the position among the constellations of the full moon. The Tibetan calendar was influenced by both the Chinese and Hindu calendars. The Germanic peoples also used a lunisolar calendar before their conversion to Christianity.
...And we all came from “dust”, or whatever.
That doesn’t explain how it physically happened.
More bogus prophecy nonsense. See Prophetic Speculation Out of Kilter and Hurting the Bible’s Authority.
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