People have been freaking out over the last few days over the " news " that their hotshot sign has been " changed by NASA " – as if it would have any notable impact on their lives whatsoever .
Astrology sports fan – not experience for their skepticism – have been partake in data online along the line of " NASA discovered a Modern star foretoken . That means my newfangled sign is Capricorn and not Aquarius jsjsjsj wbu ? "
The posts claim that NASA has " discover " a Modern configuration and it mean all your headliner sign are going to have to shift themselves around to make room for the newcomer , Ophiuchus , represent as a serviceman have a snake . Several news site have picked up the story , reporting it as if NASA has just foretell the discovery of a newfangled star mark , result in raging reactions from mass who conceive that stars thousands of clean - years aside are shitting all over your Thursday , or causing you to break up with Greg .
The proposed " young " zodiac now goes :
Capricorn : January 20 to February 15
Aquarius : February 16 to March 11
Pisces the Fishes : March 11 to April 18
Aries : April 18 to May 13
Taurus : 13 May to 21 June
Gemini : June 21 to July 20
Cancer : July 20 to August 10
Leo : August 10 to September 16
Virgo the Virgin : September 16 to October 30
Libra : October 30 to November 23
Scorpio : November 23 to November 29
Ophiuchus : November 19 to December 17
Sagittarius : December 17 to January 20
So there you go . Perhaps you thought you were a passionate Scorpio ? Well sorry to break it to you but you ’re actually a ( * think of a random trait * ) underhand snake , as dictated by your new sign of Ophiuchus .
So , where did all this arrive from ? First off , nobody at NASA has suddenly reckon up and gone " Holy shit there ’s a whole fresh constellation we ’ve never point out before , well call up Mystic Meg " . Ophiuchus has been known about for K of years . The recent billet appear to have been inspired by a 2016NASA web log explicate configuration for children(which we alreadydebunked four years ago ) . How does that feel , astrology fans ?
As the blog explain , when ancient Babylonians created the zodiac they wanted to divide it into 12 , to fit in with their 12 - calendar month calendar based on the phases of the Moon . The problem was that the constellation do n’t quite neatly line up like that . As the Earth rotate around the Sun , the imaginary dividing line drawn from Earth to the Sun and beyond was point at more than 12 constellations .
So they had a answer : They would just ignore Ophiuchus , separate up the zodiac like a 12 - slicing pizza . They also ignore that the star signs overlap and bled into each other , selecting one constellation for each " slice " . And so too would astrologers ignore these facts for centuries while they drop a line about how the Sun pass off through Capricorn means that Aries should avert oregano or suffer fearsome aftermath . ( I agnise that ’s not quite how horoscopes work , but is it any less crap than real horoscopes ? ) .
Since the Babylonians make the zodiac some 3,000 years ago , the inclination of the Earth has shifted some more , further messing with the calendar for anybody concerned in truth ( which , let ’s face it , astrologist are not ) .
" When the Babylonians first manufacture the 12 foretoken of zodiac , a birthday between about July 23 and August 22 mean being born under the constellation Leo . Now , 3,000 years later on , the sky has shifted because Earth ’s axis of rotation ( North Pole ) does n’t point in quite the same direction , " says NASA ’s web log post , which I really must punctuate is for children . " Now Mimi ’s August 4 birthday would think of she was born " under the star sign " of Cancer ( one constellation " earlier " ) , not Leo . "
Fortunately , this has no bearing on Mimi ’s life as astrology was hokum 3,000 twelvemonth ago and it continued to be meaninglessness to this Clarence Day .
As NASA pointed out toGizmodo back in 2016 : “ NASA examine astronomy not astrology . We did n’t change any zodiac signs , we just did the math . ”
