Changing your stars

[l_stboy]

A story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune has gone viral yesterday and today, saying that because of a wobble of the earth over the last thousand years, the dates associated with zodiac signs have changed, and a new zodiac sign needs to be added because the sun spends almost no time in Scorpio anymore, and between November 29-December 17 the sun

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[thewronghands]

I don't like my new sign (Cancer) any more than I liked my old sign (Leo). Therefore, pfft anyway. One of these cosmic realignments, I'll get a good one, and then I'll be more supportive.

[warlord_mit]

Hmm, I went from Picses:

Pisceans possess a gentle, patient, malleable nature. They have many generous qualities and are friendly, good natured, kind and compassionate, sensitive to the feelings of those around them, and respond with the utmost sympathy and tact to any suffering they encounter. They are deservedly popular with all kinds of people, partly because their easygoing, affectionate, submissive natures offer no threat or challenge to stronger and more exuberant characters. They accept the people around them and the circumstances in which they find themselves rather than trying to adapt them to suit themselves, and they patiently wait for problems to sort themselves out rather than take the initiative in solving them. They are more readily concerned with the problems of others than with their own.

to Aquarius... Hmm... Perhaps there is something to this shift? ;)

[fyfer]

Last night someone asked me my sign as an apparent non-ironic pickup line. I should've said Ophiuchus.

[tyratae]

if there's anything to it at all, it's about shifts in gravities and other forces that differ throughout the year and pull on our bodies--perhaps the pull is noticeable enough to make a difference when one's whole body is only the few cells of getting started. (perhaps not, of course, but perhaps.) the zoomorphism of the characteristics seems like a convenient way to help the predictors remember the attributes--like the stories that go with the pictures on common tarot decks. i don't see any reason the physics that might touch the biology involved would be changed or determined by the apparent location of a handful of stars that someone thought, long ago, happened to look like some particular animal rather than another, though. those stars, after all, are nowhere near each other and have no relation to one another except for the particular angle of perspective of this rock... so what difference would wedging another interpreted image between them make?

plus, i am so not a gemini.