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"The astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society found that because of the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars was pushed by about a month."
Read more: newsfeed.time.com...
Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne
Nobody else finds this strange? Why all of a sudden do they make this determination and how did they arrive at it?
~Namaste
Professional astrology and author Matthew Currie contacted Salon to point out the fact that this kind of story is nothing new. Apparently, the Minnesota Planetarium Society is engaging in what Currie quickly called a "straw man argument" constructed to debunk the field of astrology.
Currie makes this basic distinction. Astrology is NOT astronomy and vice versa. The two fields diverged a long time ago and today, the very term "Zodiac" is used differently within each discipline. Currie explains the two meanings of the Zodiac:
The Zodiac, the twelve divisions of the sky made up of the horoscope signs, and the Zodiac, the band of constellations in the sky, are two different things. This is how a lot of skeptics of astrolgoy trick people to convince themselves and others that there's nothing to astrology. But in reality, we're talking about two different things.
So it might be safe to assume that the ASTRONOMERS in Minnesota recalibrated the Zodiac made up of the constellations while the ASTOLOGERS actually all agree on the twelve divisions.
Originally posted by Wildeagle
This is only true to those born after 2009.
Lucky enough, because I seriously don't think anyone would actually really change their starsign and follow the new chart.
(....and let's pause right here and ask ourselves if the "10 degrees off" is only coincidentally numerically identical to the reported 10 degree shift in magnetic pole causing the airports in Tampa to re-paint areas of the landing strip...)
It all comes down to the 26,000-year precession of the planets through space, he said, noting that a variety of gravitational forces have changed the position of the planets in the sky over time. Bottom line, the astrological forecasts we've all been turning to may -- gasp! -- not be accurate at all, or at least they may be intended for other readers. "We're off by about 10 degrees or so, a twelfth of the way around," Kunkle said.
Board Member Parke Kunkle and Horoscopes If you are visiting the Minnesota Planetarium Society website because of the recent news, here is the link: Star Tribune Article
The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was "in" on the day a person was born. During the ensuing millenniums, the moon's gravitational pull has made the Earth "wobble" around its axis, creating about a one-month bump in the stars' alignment.
YES, I am with you completely and totally on this freak-out moment. Your second sentence puts my exact questions into words.
Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne
Nobody else finds this strange? Why all of a sudden do they make this determination and how did they arrive at it?
See, that entire concept was gnawing at the edge of my thoughts. Thank you for posting it. This is so true. True, true, true. and all he could do in the article is poke fun at astrology to take attention away from the REAL issue at hand which is...
In astrology, sidereal zodiac and the constellation zodiac aren't the same anyway...
Well, that's just the thing. They really didn't tell us anything of any real import. There's something bigger to this than the fact I may not be a Taurus anymore. The articles I've read raise more questions than they answer.
...so I'm confused at what it is they are trying to tell us.
Is this an admittance that our calculation of time is off?
The wobble of the Earth's axis would not change what is opposite the Sun in relation to the Earth's location in space. The speed of the Earth around the sun, maybe. Or the movement of the constellations themselves. Speaking of which, how does the earlier news of the Milky Way 'gobbling up' our real home galaxy relate to this? This is all just bizarre, isn't it?
Originally posted by Jadette
The astrological signs that modern astrologers use, are based on the charts of the skies in ancient Babylon. The way of determining your 'sign' is this: imagine the sun, and the earth circling it. And beyond that, a 'circle' of the various regions of the sky that depict each sign. Whatever sign that the earth is directly opposite the sun of, is the sign of that period of time of the year. It changes as the earth circles about the sun of course. And, because of the wobble of the axis of the earth, these positions have drifted over the 4000 years since these charts were established.
Originally posted by Raider of Truth
I'm a goddamn Aries!
Not a goddamn Pisces.
Bloody annoyed not to mention the fact my famil buy commertion gifts at birth,weddings etc of star signs.
I don't care what this one group says, i'm an Aries and always will be.
Originally posted by SlyFox_79
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Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17. (Yep, this one is new)