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What's your sign?

atanu

atanu

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Mestemia said:
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The write up says this:

"Your hips didn't move," Miller said. "You're still the same person."
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But what about the effect very vivid desriptions of various sun sign personalities that money spinners like Linda Goodman et al. created and that many took as Bible truth?

I remember reading Linda Goodman and wondered how this woman knew more about me than i knew about myself. And she wrote so confidently.

And the fact is that the whole Sun Sign personality theory is fundamentally flawed because the houses were off by many degrees.

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Willamena

Willamena

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rakhel said:
And did you notice that Scorpio only has 6 days in it? While is, like, a month and a half?

My husband went from being a Sag to being an Oph. LOL I just saw that. An Oph.
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Honey, this isn't astrology. The signs haven't changed, and if you heard otherwise you're being mislead.

The signs of Western astrology aren't related to the actual size of the constellations. They never wrere (or they'd have been set up that way in the first place).
 
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Willamena

Willamena

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atanu said:
But what about the effect very vivid desriptions of various sun sign personalities that money spinners like Linda Goodman et al. created and that many took as Bible truth?

I remember reading Linda Goodman and wondered how this woman knew more about me than i knew about myself. And she wrote so confidently.

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One good answer, that I read about, lies in significance. If you would agree that while a majority of those things might be significant about you, they are not all that's significant about you, you may see what I mean. Similarly, what you find significant about you in the description of the sign may be a majority of what a majority of others also find significant about themseleves in the same sign. If you grant that, you begin to see how astrology may "work" for everyone.
 
atanu

atanu

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Willamena said:
The signs of Western astrology aren't related to the actual size of the constellations. They never wrere (or they'd have been set up that way in the first place).
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I cannot fully agree here since otherwise the sign names would not be so.

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atanu

atanu

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The following gives a more detailed account of the issue. Naturally the article favours the present system of calling a Zodiac sector as Aries, when actually the fixed star Pisces is on the horizon -- and so on.

Precession and Zodiac - Astrodienst

The relevant portion is:

Western astrology no longer uses the background of fixed stars as a point of reference. Modern western astrology uses the same system of reference as that of astronomy, i.e. it divides the ecliptic into segments starting at the vernal equinox. Although these segments have been given the same names as the fixed star constellations, the earth's precession means that they are no longer in line with the constellations of the same name. It is only in certain specialist areas of astrology - such as mundane astrology when studying larger epochal changes - that the relationship between these constellations of fixed stars and the ecliptic has any significance. References are then made to the "Ages" of Pisces, Aquarius etc. Other non-western systems of astrology still work to some extent with alternative systems to the ecliptical equinoctial coordinate system used by western astrologers. Indian astrology uses a system which refers to the fixed stars as its method of measurement, leading to a situation in which the position of the zero-point has become a matter for dispute. This is because different astrological schools in Indian astrology refer to different zero-points.
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Rakhel

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Willamena said:
Honey, this isn't astrology. The signs haven't changed, and if you heard otherwise you're being mislead.

The signs of Western astrology aren't related to the actual size of the constellations. They never wrere (or they'd have been set up that way in the first place).
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Right. I'm not allowed to have a little fun. ok mom i'll be quiet now
 
Father Heathen

Father Heathen

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Still a Capricorn, but while it was just random nonsense before, it's definately even more so now. Why add a completely new sign while shrinking a preexisting one down to just 6 days?
 
dyanaprajna2011

dyanaprajna2011

Dharmapala
I read that the shift in the earth's poles only affected the eastern signs, but not the western, because the eastern signs are based on the position of the earth to the constellations, while the western signs are based on the position of the sun to the constellations. Or something like that. Anyway, if those charts are right, I went from Libra to Virgo. But I could really care less either way.
 
Primordial Annihilator

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rakhel said:
So what was your sign? has it changed? and, most importantly, do you care?
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It was Gemini and is now supposedly Taurus...but then these are Sun signs and are complete and utter nonsense.

So I guess I do not care.

In the Chinese zodiac I am a Fire Dragon...which is a far more accurate description.
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Once an Aquarian, always an Aquarian - for me, anyway. None of this new fangled foolishness!

And I'm an Ox too.

Quite pleased with my signs - leave them be!
 
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