[ttwarrior1]

New zodiac sign

If you haven’t seen what’s buzzing around on the Internet today, you should check it out. The Earth’s alignment has decided to make a few changes. Because of this change, Astronomer Parke Kunkle used some... maths and decided... we need a 13th zodiac sign, along with changes to the time periods for other ...signs.

The new sign is called Ophiuchus. Because of the new sign, all previous zodiac signs have been changed. If you were a Capricorn, you may now be a Sagittarius.

I feel bad for the people that got tattoos of their sign when they turned 18.

Here’s a guide to the sign changes:

Capricorn: Jan. 20 – Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18
Aries: April 18- May 13
Taurus: May 13- June 21
Gemini: June 21- July 20
Cancer: July 20- Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10- Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16- Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30- Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23- Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29- Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17- Jan. 20

[ttwarrior1]

does this mean i should of been reading leo horiscopes for the last 20 years instead of virgo?

Does this mean those psychic readers that use your sign also frauds?

[chilidog]

only if you were born after 2009...

[ttwarrior1]

what do you mean if i was born after 2009? you just can't one day be a virgo then boom one day be a leo. Makes no sense

[doublej95]

good you was giving Virgos a bad name.

[stealthyburrito]

Yeah wtf is this about??

Im now a gemini.

[PDW]

This is fuking bullshit. I am a Leo now too.

[ttwarrior1]

alot of conflicting reports on what we can do

[chilidog]

what do you mean if i was born after 2009? you just can't one day be a virgo then boom one day be a leo. Makes no sense

Because it has to do with when you were born. Your sign isn't going to change, unless you were born after 2009.

[Snowball]

By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer / January 14, 2011
A newspaper interview with an astronomer has rocked the astrological world, leading some believers to worry that they've been referring to themselves as the "wrong" sign for all these years, and that instead of being, say, sensitive, dependable, and stubborn, they are now emotional, reliable, and obdurate.
In an interview with the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society explained something astronomers have known for millenia: that the sun doesn't actually rise and fall through the constellations on the dates that your horoscope says that it does, and that it actually passes through a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, the Snake Annoyer.
Can one man unilaterally change the zodiac? Just because Mr. Kunkle thinks you are now an Ophiuchus and not a Sagittarius, should we all just throw away our quivers and stomp our hooves in astrological outrage?
Actually, Kunkle didn’t change anything at all. All he did was explain what is actually happening in the night sky – which is sort of what astronomers do.
Here we, too, will try to explain the science behind the celestial kerfuffle. Just don’t get angry at us for slighting your favorite constellation.
Astronomically speaking, the zodiac is simply a way of plotting the movement of the sun against the stars behind it. When Babylonian sky-watchers thousands of years ago recorded the course of the sun in the sky for a year, they discovered that the sun moves through only a few of the dozens of charted constellations.
These constellations are the constellations of the zodiac.
But the astrological version of the zodiac was never astronomically accurate, and has become less so over time.
• The sun actually moves through 13 constellations, but the numerologically inclined Babylonians opted to go with a more auspicious 12. The constellation left out: Ophiuchus.
• The calendar for the zodiac was also set up for simplicity, not astronomical accuracy. So each of the 12 constellations of the zodiac was arbitrarily assigned a full month – one-twelfth of the sun’s yearly path – when, in fact, the path of the sun means it might only graze some constellations briefly while passing right through the middle of others.
• Finally, thanks to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun, the Earth wobbles on its axis a bit, meaning that the sun’s path through the stars over the course of a year appears slightly different from the way it did 3,000 years ago when the zodiac was devised, resulting in a one-month shift in the stars' alignments. The earth's axis takes about 26,000 years to go full circle.
All Kunkle was doing – as many astronomers have done before him – was telling people astronomy’s take on the zodiac. In other words, he was answering a very simple astronomical question: When is the sun in which constellation?
Given that astronomers have set up formal boundaries for every constellation in the sky, it is possible to answer this with perfect accuracy. The result is of this astronomical clarity, though, is astrological chaos.
All this is old news, but for some reason, the story went viral this time, leading millions to search for their "new" astrological sign. Kunkle, whose comments were not based on any new research, told the Star-Tribune that he was surprised at the sudden attention.
Astronomers have been telling the world that astrology is a load of tosh for centuries. Why are people suddenly listening this time? Perhaps the stars were aligned.
IN PICTURES: Little-known astrological signs

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[King Mayan]

I doesn't matter your still a fatass!!

[ttwarrior1]

this fat ass squatted 500 for 15 reps and did 7 miles on the bike and took a bunch of college kids to school on the basketball court an hour ago. Stay out of posts kid if your not gonna contribute.

Also not true about the 2009 thing

[Wreckloose]

Mine didn't even change.

[ttwarrior1]

i guess we've been playing the wrong lottery numbers