Holy heck! They got it wrong! I'm not a Libra!

[BlackSnake]

The Full Story

I wonder how many people have a zodiac sign tattoo, and now to find out that it's not what they thought it to be?

 

[Guest]

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[oggbashan]

This isn't new.

The dates for the Zodiac signs have been out of synch for hundreds of years.

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

This isn't new.

The dates for the Zodiac signs have been out of synch for hundreds of years.

Og

I wonder how long it will take for the pronunciation of Ophiucus settles out as "Oh FUCK Us"

 

[michchick98]

The Full Story

I wonder how many people have a zodiac sign tattoo, and now to find out that it's not what they thought it to be?

One of the girls I worked with was all in a panic about this yesterday. "I don't wanna be a Virgo!" she cried, all friggin' day. I just rolled my eyes. It's not like she lives her life by her zodiac sign. She even admitted she doesn't even think about her zodiac sign unless someone mentions it, but she's been in a tizzy for two days about it.

I say: who cares?

 

[BlackSnake]

The are people who believe in this stuff, inking their bodies with their believed zodiac sign. Figuring out that the tattoo on their bodies are wrong, could be jarring. New or Old News, matters little....

One of the girls I worked with was all in a panic about this yesterday. "I don't wanna be a Virgo!" she cried, all friggin' day. I just rolled my eyes. It's not like she lives her life by her zodiac sign. She even admitted she doesn't even think about her zodiac sign unless someone mentions it, but she's been in a tizzy for two days about it.

I say: who cares?

 

[michchick98]

The are people who believe in this stuff, inking their bodies with their believed zodiac sign. Figuring out that the tattoo on their bodies are wrong, could be jarring. New or Old News, matters little....

I never said there wasn't people who believe in this stuff, buy my co-worker isn't one of those people. She freaks out about everything, including the end of the world stuff about 2012.

Why freak out or worry about something you have no control over? Personally, I have more important things to worry about.

 

[Zobor]

Wow I am now a Leo. after being a vergo all these year... I am so confused

 

[oggbashan]

It shouldn't make any difference.

The predictions should have been made on the dates of your birth, not on the apparent zodiacal sign, so if you were a Virgo, the predictions for Virgo still apply and the characteristics of Virgo are still valid for you.

Unless, of course, this astrological methodology is a load of useless crap!

Og

 

[Liar]

Unless, of course, this astrological methodology is a load of useless crap!

Oh say it ain't so.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

I wonder how long it will take for the pronunciation of Ophiucus settles out as "Oh FUCK Us"

LOL that made my night!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What fun! HM and I are now Pisces, all wet and slippery.

 

[TE999]

Hmmm...I'm still a Cancer...barely. Some older Horoscopes list me as a Leo and some have me on the 'cusp' between the two.

I'll have my crabs on the beach, not on my skin.

(No, not those kinds of crabs. Grow up, willya?)

 

[glynndah]

And only a week for Scorpios. I knew our bad reputation was going to catch up with us eventually.

 

[TE999]

And only a week for Scorpios. I knew our bad reputation was going to catch up with us eventually.

I cannot believe you share the same sign with my (now deceased) MIL. That woman made the Wicked Witch of the West look like a Campfire Girl.

 

[glynndah]

I cannot believe you share the same sign with my (now deceased) MIL. That woman made the Wicked Witch of the West look like a Campfire Girl.

I'm quite wicked in real life. Here, I aspire to the other symbol of the Scorpio personality, the Eagle.

 

[TE999]

I'm quite wicked in real life. Here, I aspire to the other symbol of the Scorpio personality, the Eagle.

You? Wicked? Nahhh...mischievous and adventurous maybe...not wicked. You were the one who discovered all those sex toys in Wal-Mart.

 

[R. Richard]

Does this mean that, "What's your sign?" is now back as a pick up line?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Does this mean that, "What's your sign?" is now back as a pick up line?

I think it's now more of an indication of confusion.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I used to be Aries now I'm Pisces. WOW THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Damn I spent my whole life believing I was an Aquarius...now I come to find out I'm really a Capricorn, what is the world coming too!

 

[stephen55]

astrology is as astrology does...

Several years ago, following my own advice to take up a new hobby every now and then, I took up amateur astronomy. An acquaintance asked me how my new interest in astrology was coming along. I started to explain the difference between the two (astronomy being a science and astrology being a load of hooey for those who prefer to let someone else run their lives).

One of the things I learned in my introductory astronomy class was about how the Earth's axis (the north axis now pointing towards the North Star) slowly swings around in a circle, roughly every twenty-six thousand years. Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, was the northern pole star about 12,000BC and will be so again around 13, 700 AD.

So, on a cycle lasting about twenty-six thousand years, the Sun's "House" at the spring equinox goes through all the signs of the Zodiac. (BTW, there are thirteen constellations of the Zodiac, not twelve, but please don't mention that to an astrologer. It just gets them upset.)

So, yes, the dates of the various "signs" are always changing. Of course, these dates have always been arbitrary because the boundaries of the various constellations are man made and various astrological systems have always been a bit arbitrary on how they choose these boundaries.

When the people at the Minnesota Planetarium Society announced (tongue in cheek) that the dates of the Zodiacal Signs should be changed, they were merely saying something that any amateur astronomer could also have said.

What I found interesting is how quickly (and loudly) the astrology types fell all over themselves putting this aside. The gist of all their comments was, "We don't give a rat's ass about where the Sun actually was when you were born. Astrology is far too important to be muddled up with such details."

 

[oggbashan]

...

So, on a cycle lasting about twenty-six thousand years, the Sun's "House" at the spring equinox goes through all the signs of the Zodiac. (BTW, there are thirteen constellations of the Zodiac, not twelve, but please don't mention that to an astrologer. It just gets them upset.)

So, yes, the dates of the various "signs" are always changing. Of course, these dates have always been arbitrary because the boundaries of the various constellations are man made and various astrological systems have always been a bit arbitrary on how they choose these boundaries.

When the people at the Minnesota Planetarium Society announced (tongue in cheek) that the dates of the Zodiacal Signs should be changed, they were merely saying something that any amateur astronomer could also have said.

What I found interesting is how quickly (and loudly) the astrology types fell all over themselves putting this aside. The gist of all their comments was, "We don't give a rat's ass about where the Sun actually was when you were born. Astrology is far too important to be muddled up with such details."

Just as I said in the last sentence of my post #9 above.

Og

 

[Lady_Fiona]

I'm a Taurean now apparently. I am NOT bullheaded damnit

 

[stephen55]

I'm a Taurean now apparently. I am NOT bullheaded damnit

When it comes to being "bullish" on science and reality (thus disdaining things like astrology), perhaps I am bullheaded. But that's just because I am a Taurus.

No...wait...I'm an Aires now.