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Zodiac Sign Changes and New Sign Ophiuchus
New Zodiac sign chart and addition of Ophiuchus
report by Tom Lyden / FOX 9 News
MINNEAPOLIS - It's a new year, and there's new Zodiac signs for many in 2011. Professor Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society says the Zodiac has a date problem. If you imagine the Earth as a spinning top, the axis changes as it wobbles.
5,000 years later, it means the stars are not aligned, so those with a Libra horoscope are really a Virgo, and many others have a new Zodiac sign too.
“Right now its pointing this way, the North Star, but 3000 BC it was pointing differently,” Kunkle said. “Now things have moved and the sun is in a different constellation. We're about a whole constellation off.“
And don’t forget Ophiuchus, astrology’s orphan.
”Ophiuchus has been a constellation for years and it just gets left out,” Kunkle said.
NEW ZODIAC SIGN CHART
Capricorn
January 20- to February 16
Aquarius
February 16 to March 11
Pisces
March 11 to April 18.
Aries
April 18 to May 13
Taurus
May 13 to June 21.
Gemini
June 21 to July 20
Cancer
July 20 to August 10
Leo
August 10 to September 16
Virgo
September 16 to October 30
Libra
October 30 to November 23
Scorpio
November 23 to November 29
Ophiuchus
November 29 to December 17
Sagittarius
December 17 to January 20
Betsy Blumenfeld of Mendota Heights, Minn. has been studying astrology for 30 years, and says most of the charting these days is done by computer. She also says most Western astrologers look not to the stars, but to the Earth.
For the astrologer and the astronomer, it seems the stars will never align -- the age-old battle between science and mysticism, and yet both keep looking.
"I'm having a blast,” Kunkle said. “among other things it calls attention to astronomy."
Statement from Prof. Parke Kunkle, Minneapolis Community and Technical College and Minnesota Planetarium Society board member:
”In science we deal with a long tradition of fact based investigation. We are not in the business of interpreting the purported relation between the positions of planets and human affairs.
“The Earth spins and, like a toy top, the spin axis moves around, pointing in different directions. Today, Earth's spin axis points toward the pole star, Polaris. Around 3000 BC Earth's spin axis pointed toward Thuban. Wait 26,000 years and the north star will again be Thuban. Astronomers call this motion of the spin axis precession. About 130 BC, Hipparchus noticed that the Earth's spin axis had changed directions, so astronomers and astrologers have known about the Earth's precession for over 2000 years.
“But this means that if the sun was "in" a certain constellation on a particular date, it is in a different constellation on that date today. For example, the sun was in Pisces on March 1, 2000 BC but it is in Aquarius on March 1, 2011 AD.”
So... what do you guys think about these changes? I have always been a Scorpio and now they say I am a Virgo, from what I've read about the 2, it makes no sense. Is this a big deal, are we catching up to the correct Zodiac?
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Permalink Reply by Jaefar S.A.B.N.W. on -
The correct astrology would be exactly upon the astronomy in one way.
In another way, it is just poetry and story telling and it doesn't matter.
We can not justify lying. We have to be honest about what is literally true and not pretend other wise. Take it from someone who has read atleast a couple thousand pages on Vedic astrology, every arrangement has multiple interpretations and the more obscure the more accurate. There is always one that is correct. That is the trick. The constallations vary. Orion in the Nasca alignment is a spider. Scorpio to my blonde and red headed ancestors was usually an eagle. Free association as much as anything is where the true astrology rest. Scientifically minded people can no longer attribute anything other than the standard solar and lunar cycles as effecting life. If we exaggerate we end up doing things like waiting or delaying our lives.
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Permalink Reply by EL*CHI*MA on -
Not sure what the astrologers are so cocky about, obviously we know the pyramids used to align to a different constellation and it is common knowlege that tjhe precession of the equinoxes are well understood by astrology. Prof. Kunkle has his telescope in one position and sees one picture. Astrologers base calculations on particular place so the "view point" is different. I am not convinced that what way the Earths miniscule axial wobble has to do with the travel of the Sun through stellar consellations. the earth has always wobbled and every one knew it and compensated. Still I am not a star gazer I am sure some one here will set us straight. maybe Claire can help here she has astrology connections.
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