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TSD - Your reaction to today's big astrology news?
As our resident astrology aficionado, what do you think?
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Re: TSD - Your reaction to today's big astrology news?
Lindsay- I saw a million posts on FB about it but I didn't get to read it yet. Considering it makes me a Cancer I'm inclined to call BS. I would also like to go with if it's true, it must be for people born from now on, not prior.
But I will read it tomorrow and edit this- too much great tv tonight. Jersey Shore, RHOBH and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Did you see this saying it is not true?
Here We Go Again with the Ophiucus Scam
by Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 12:32am
Every year or so, another astronomer erupts into the mainstream media with a portentous announcement about how the astrological signs aren't aligned with the actual constellations. Often the supposed 13th sign, Ophiuchus, is also invoked as a further proof of how delusional astrologers are.
What it means, according to the astronomers, is that astrology is invalid. Most of the people who think they're Tauruses are actually Aries. Most Scorpios are really Libras. And so on.
That latest misguided authority is Parke Kunkle, a board member of the Minnesota Planetarium Society. "When [astrologers] say that the sun is in Pisces," he intoned, "it's really not in Pisces." His ravings hit the Internet yesterday, on Gawker (http://bit.ly/i1VxqE) and the Minneapolis Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/f7hWwW), among other places.
I understand that scientists like him don't like to lower themselves to the task of actually doing research about how astrology works. But if they're going to snidely cast aspersion against it, they should at least learn it well enough to know what they're talking about.
Here, briefly, is the lowdown on what certain astronomers are too lazy to find out for themselves.
Thousands of years ago, when astrological and astronomical thinking were based on insufficient data, the names of the constellations happened to be paired with the astrological signs. Today, those pairings are no longer in sync: Due to the precession the equinoxes, astrological signs do not line up with the constellations in the same way they did way back then.
But that 's irrelevant to the majority of modern Western astrologers. In our work, the astrological signs are not defined by, nor do they have anything to do with, the stars or constellations. We're completely focused on what happens in our own solar system. Our relevant data are the movements of the planets within a zone defined by the relationship between the Earth and Sun.
The key demarcation points in that relationship are the equinoxes and solstices. At the Northern Hemisphere's vernal equinox, which occurs on about March 20th of each year, the Sun enters into the sign of Aries. At the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, the sun enters into the sign of Cancer. The locations of the constellations are irrelevant; the "influence of the stars" isn't considered at all.
When Parke Kunkle triumphantly says, "There is no physical connection between constellations and personality traits," as if he has finally stamped out the delusions of us astrologers, he doesn't realize that we agree with him completely.
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Also, I'd like to call BS on the entire change because every time I look at that possible 13th sign I say it as "oh-fvck-us" in my head
ETA: and also because now I have that Age of Aquarius song stuck in my head
Interesting. Who knew? Thanks J&J!
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I don't know if this is the same thing J&J posted but here is another article to quell fears. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13/no-your-zodiac-sign-hasnt-changed/
Sam- I have to go to class but I'll be back later. To much to get into now.
Cancer's are usually very private, moody people. Pisces and Libra can deal with pretty much anything- that's their nature. Virgo not so accomodating. They like things their way and in a certain order so Virgo is going to have a bit of an adjustment. Cancer is also VERY sensitive. But, as a general rule, all of those signs are compatible. Like, I doubt you'd hear "Oh, that's going to be a bad scene with ________ (any of those other signs)!" Like, having Leo and Aries in the house is rough- you just know that going in. If those were siblings, it would be SO competitive. You have a more "well rounded" astrological household. Some signs tougher than others for different reasons but as a unit, a nice group. A little bit of opposites and the Libra to balance it all out.