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[Sakura Blossoms]

And sorry to double-post, but this good news deserves its own post:

Our Signs Don't Change! YAY!

[Derock]

And sorry to double-post, but this good news deserves its own post:

Our Signs Don't Change! YAY!

So basically we only follow the zodiac based on the Sun's positions?

[roninmedia]

Even Final Fantasy Tactics had this zodiac sign as part of the Zodiac Brave Story, but it was known as its other name, Serpentarius.

[Lid]

Yay, back in the Taurus camp!

[Broken Figurine]

This is all very confusing, but it begs the question of how astrologists are doing all this--why is it that certain people are certain things. Astrology says we are born under a constellation, then they say it's something with the planet's positions... I don't know. I've also always wondered if astrology really embodied people's personalities or if it's just the power of suggestion. Regardless, change isn't a bad thing so long as it makes sense. Many people were... upset... that Pluto is no longer a planet, but that's because we grew up believing it was. In this modern day and age we are used to believing what we are taught is correct. It's not the dark ages, right? Back when people just didn't know any better and thought the world was flat yaddy yadda... Maybe now we can start empathizing a little. This is what happens when investigations in the present contradict what we have been taught and known to be true in the past.

I'm probably less affected, mildly interested, but not outraged because my personality isn't shaped by a constellation. It just makes me ask more questions--which is normal. Who here can really say all the details of how something so... "accurate"... can explain why Libras are Libras and what makes a Taurus a Taurus? I noticed some similarities myself, but I've always heard about Cancers being shy and very nuturing... Which would not explain why I have no trouble laughing like I'm high on something in the middle of the street, talking with a loud volume, and that I can lose my temper around children.

The problem here is that it doesn't make sense and leave us confused. Do the constellations change or not? Why do we have a new one? How does that fit? Why, if this was known for 3000 years, has it not been brought up before? I remember hearing something about it from Bill Nye sometime back when he was on t.v, but astrologers who know their craft should perhaps better explain all this so that we can see why. I understood why Pluto is no longer a planet just as much as I understand the fact that information isn't perfect and defining what a planet was had left prompted the change, just like now trying to understand our astrology is leaving us confused.

[BlackLightning]

going from water to a ram... is that supposed to be a good thing? I dunno. what I know is I don't mind whichever my sign is ._.

[Insurrection]

Still a Picies, nothing's changed for me.

[Black Rose]

I am Taurus even with the new dates, so...

[Cloud]

I'm a Libra...?

..............

*throws out his old horoscope readings*

[Sakura Blossoms]

No, your dates or signs don't change:

"It's a huge point of confusion for the public," says Bing Quock, assistant director of Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. For those who follow Western astrology, "astrologers are not talking about the constellations at all. When an astrologer says the sun is in a certain sign, they're talking about the sign, the location relative to the equinox. They're not talking about the location of the constellations. "

In short, if you follow the Sidereal astrology, the Eastern branch, your sign may have shifted. (And most likely, no surprise to you at all: This news is hundreds of years old).

But for the rest of us, our horoscope, and our signs, are still the same.

[No WhereMan]

No, your dates or signs don't change:

So the sky isn't falling?

[Strangelove]

were talking about Zodiac Signs as if they are something serious.

[No WhereMan]

were talking about Zodiac Signs as if they are something serious.

Well to some people they take the Astrology stuff seriously. But to other people and I'm guessing most of the other people posting on this thread it's just something of hardly any importance. The thing is, if you were tag with something for most of your life, you've come to know it accept it, and it's kinda become apart of you, then some scientists come along and say, "Guess what, you're not what you think you are!" Then it can be slightly alarming.

Like I said, it's not the most earth shattering thing to happen, but it is something.

Edited by No WhereMan, 17 January 2011 - 09:50 PM.

[Zatren6]

(I'm not bashing or anything with this post - just stating my opinion.)

I was honestly very surprised with the whole reaction to the alleged zodiac change. I didn't know it was such a big part of peoples' lives - I myself considered it a bunch of hoo ha, albeit interesting hoo ha. Even if my "sign" described me perfectly, I hate being assigned to a certain group of characteristics based on the time that I was born. There are simply too many people born in the day for them all to be "shy, creative," and whatnot. So when I saw this, I was honestly wondering why people were making such a fuss, other than maybe an "Oh, bummer!" reaction. That's just my opinion. I'm didn't find myself affected at all when this news came out, and I find myself even less affected now that the notion has been revoked.

Just my opinion XD I don't think that this was, or should have been, big news.

Regardless, it appears I stay a Capricorn. Whatever that means.

[BlackLightning]

the thing is that I can't seem to find any concrete use of zodiac constellation anyway... except if you're a sailor or part of the saints protecting athena

PS: Yes, the saints thing was sarcasm in case you can't tell

[CodeHeaven]

the thing is that I can't seem to find any concrete use of zodiac constellation anyway... except if you're a sailor or part of the saints protecting athena

PS: Yes, the saints thing was sarcasm in case you can't tell

Athena should start doing job interviews in order to find the 13th golden saint.

[Whirlpool-Maelstrom]

So now I have an Aquarius to put my old Pisces?.... Way cool!

[Muffins?]

Still a Picies, nothing's changed for me.

Pisces all the way!