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Title: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Bill Peckham on January 15, 2011, 10:05:47 AM: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1347140/Horoscope-change-2011-Sidereal-astrology-reveals-13th-OPHIUCHUS-zodiac-sign.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1347140/Horoscope-change-2011-Sidereal-astrology-reveals-13th-OPHIUCHUS-zodiac-sign.html)

Turns out the Moon has been pushing us around since the Babylonians established the conventional zodiac signs we are all familiar with ... to the point where a new sign is needed. Adding a sign means all the others have to be adjusted so now I am supposedly a Leo instead of a Virgo.
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: MooseMom on January 15, 2011, 10:21:12 AM: So, this explains a lot!!! I've never felt like I fit in as a Leo but was instead more Cancerian, and this is why!! I'd like to be that new sign, though...that sounds way cooler.
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Zach on January 15, 2011, 10:25:20 AM: Most Western followers of the zodiac use the "Tropical Zodiac," which has had no change at all.
Just another media mash-up.

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Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: MooseMom on January 15, 2011, 10:26:57 AM: Now I'm having a self identity crisis...
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Riki on January 15, 2011, 08:57:37 PM: I've never fit as a Gemini anyway.. I'm far too introverted... I need to check out the characteristics of a Taurus... AND, with the new sign, Stephen Colbert is also a Taurus
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: billybags on January 16, 2011, 03:51:48 AM: I have now gone from a Capricorn to a Sagittarius, but I don't like keeping fit. I am definitely a Capricorn. Hard working, boring, does not like keep fitting and I hate sports. So there.I am stopping where I am.
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: kristina on January 16, 2011, 06:38:59 AM: Quote from: Bill Peckham on January 15, 2011, 10:05:47 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1347140/Horoscope-change-2011-Sidereal-astrology-reveals-13th-OPHIUCHUS-zodiac-sign.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1347140/Horoscope-change-2011-Sidereal-astrology-reveals-13th-OPHIUCHUS-zodiac-sign.html)

Turns out the Moon has been pushing us around since the Babylonians established the conventional zodiac signs we are all familiar with ... to the point where a new sign is needed. Adding a sign means all the others have to be adjusted so now I am supposedly a Leo instead of a Virgo.

These are our star-signs, until someone finds another one - or perhaps two? :waving;
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Stoday on January 16, 2011, 08:06:34 AM: If an extra constellation really is required, Ophiuchus is a bad choice. It lies where constellations in use lie close together (Saggitarius, Scorpius, Libra) and it's not on the ecliptic. So the sun's never in Ophiuchus.

A better choice would be Cancer, which is on the ecliptic and lies smack between Leo and Gemini.
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Riki on January 16, 2011, 02:40:39 PM: My mom says that she don't care what anyone says, she'll always be a scorpio.. *G*
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Poppylicious on January 16, 2011, 03:18:23 PM: Ha. According to the Daily Mail article I should now be Gemini. I am Cancer and have all the characteristics of Cancer. So I looked up the characteristics of Gemini and was interested to note that yes, I could be Gemini. If I had the inclination to keep researching I'd no doubt find that I also have many of the characteristics of many of the other signs.

Nope, I've never been much of a believer in the zodiac.

;D
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Zach on January 16, 2011, 03:49:05 PM: Here's an explanation of the whole misunderstanding:
http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/2011/01/13/your-zodiac-sign-is-not-wrong/

"... Here in the West, we use a zodiac that follows the seasons. It’s called the tropical zodiac. It’s based on the position of the Sun’s rays and the tropics — that’s why it’s called tropical. There is another one, based on the positions of the stars. It’s called the sidereal zodiac."

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Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Stoday on January 16, 2011, 09:52:32 PM: Quote from: Stoday on January 16, 2011, 08:06:34 AM
A better choice would be Cancer, which is on the ecliptic and lies smack between Leo and Gemini.

Oops! Cancer's already one of the 12.

Just goes to show how much I take account of horoscopes.
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: -Lady Noir- on February 01, 2011, 11:16:10 AM: Do adults really believe in Astrology? I suppose there are worse things though.. :laugh:
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Stoday on February 01, 2011, 06:18:57 PM: Quote from: -Lady Noir- on February 01, 2011, 11:16:10 AM
Do adults really believe in Astrology?

Of course many of us do.

It's better than the pundits in newspapers at forecasting what the stockmarket will do. :laugh:
Title: Re: Do you know your sign? Astrological signs need to change to include OPHIUCHUS
Post by: Ang on February 02, 2011, 03:46:32 AM: was a gemini - still a gemini