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Posted: Jan 14 2011 03:42 pm

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13/no-your-zodiac-sign-hasnt-changed/?hpt=P1&iref=NS1

I'm just tired of hearing people bitch about it on Facebook.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 03:48 pm

can you make a summary of it. i'am not in the mood to waste my time reading a possibly boring ass article about astrology.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 03:52 pm

Posted: Jan 14 2011 04:35 pm

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

can you make a summary of it. i'am not in the mood to waste my time reading a possibly boring ass article about astrology.

Some scientists decided that since the earth is not in the same place it was 3,000 years ago, the dates for each zodiac sign were outdated and needed to be adjusted/updated. They also decided to add Serpentarius (aka Ophiuchus) to the set as the 13th zodiac, since the sun does, in fact, pass through it; in fact, the sun is in Serpentarius longer than it is in Scorpio.

So, lots of people are now suddenly being told that they're not the sign they thought they were; that is, that the sun was actually in a different sign of the zodiac when they were born than they thought.

Incidentally, I am still a Leo. Very Happy

Posted: Jan 14 2011 04:39 pm

That's not a summary of the article, though.

The article talks about why the new Zodiacs are incorrect. Western Astrology is based on seasons, not position of the stars, so the repositioning was a complete waste of time. Eastern Astrology uses the stars, and in fact, their time frames are different from ours.

Look up any astrological sign on Wikipedia and you can see both.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 04:43 pm

Oops, you're right. I was assuming it was the same article that I was linked to yesterday. Oh well, it's a summary of why people are freaking out, then. Embarrassed

Still, the new zodiacs are not incorrect, they're just not necessarily relevant to traditional Western Astrology.

Title: The Self-Titler Joined: Aug 14 2010 Posts: 598

I got kicked off the computer yesterday when my wife heard about it. I just walked in from work and she is on the phone talking about it. STILL TALKING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 06:43 pm

I saw this and decided that I would refuse to accept it either way. I fucking hate snakes and I refuse to have one as my sign. I'll stick with my awesome centaur thank you very much.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 07:12 pm

Astrology is bullshit. There, I fixed it for everybody.

Title: The Self-Titler Joined: Aug 14 2010 Posts: 598

I proposed that idea to my wife a few years ago. She didn't take it well. I should have known considering she has about 8 Gemini signs tattooed on her. Plus all 12 going down the forearm.

Posted: Jan 14 2011 08:09 pm

One time my car broke down in the middle of nowhere and I was stranded on the side of the road for about 30 minutes until these 2 hot girls picked me up (this was in 97 before I had a cell phone). They're both wearing short skirts and skimpy tops and I'm thinking my luck had turned around. I also notice they both have zodiac earrings and necklaces and tattoos and stuff.

One of the first things they say is "We're really big into astrology. Maybe we were meant to meet you. What's your sign?"

So I tell them I'm an aries and they both say "Awww. You're not compatible with us. Too bad Sad

" And they dropped me off at home.

To this day I wonder how that night might've gone if I had been compatible with them. Maybe I should try to find them and see if we're compatible under this alternate system.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

meh.

Posted: Jan 15 2011 12:14 am

Sarge wrote:

I proposed that idea to my wife a few years ago. She didn't take it well.

I have a mind to show your wife this article.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=astrology

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

I couldn't care less. Astrology is simply a pass-time and fun to think about. Besides, after reading a horoscope, it's perfectly legitimate for an idea to have been spurned in your mind and perhaps cause yourself to make the horoscope come true.

This stuff is true, but only on a subliminal level. If that makes sense.

Also, GO LEO WHOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Posted: Jan 15 2011 01:52 pm

Yea, I am now Ophiuchus. I miss Sagittarius. Everything is happening so fast...

Posted: Jan 15 2011 03:33 pm

No. You're Sagittarius.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

Who gives a fuck?

Astrology is pseudoscience.

Posted: Jan 16 2011 01:58 am

Astrology is bullshit.

Posted: Jan 16 2011 06:36 am

I've never believed in astrology, but it make sense that I'm a Sagittarius cause I like to shoot things and I'm hung like a horse.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

That is hilarious.

Posted: Jan 16 2011 12:02 pm

That article gave me Cancer.

Posted: Jan 16 2011 01:08 pm

Alowishus wrote:

Who gives a fuck?

Astrology is pseudoscience.

The entire focus of the world wouldn't have been intentionally placed on this one bullshit story if it was pseudo. This is sorcery, affecting the mass consciousness of humanity for one's own goals.

Kind of like the Tucson shooter, a nutjob killing a little girl who oh-so-conveniently happened to be born on 9/11, on 1/8/11. I realize it's easy to lose yourself in the madness, but that's just a little bit fucking odd to me.