Earth actually travels through 13 signs, including Capricorn, Aries, and, yes, Ophiuchus, but some 3, years ago the Babylonians—not NASA—decided 12 was neater than 13, so excluded the 13th zodiac sign and divided the zodiac into 12 parts based on the 12 months of their calendar, according to NASA.
To make a tidy match with their month calendar, the Babylonians ignored the fact that the sun actually moves through 13 constellations, not That post was originally written in , but as the story of a shifting zodiac circulates once again, NASA has retweeted it again. While the Tumblr post it linked too is fairly straight forward, the staid space agency gets a little spicier in its take on astronomy on its early education site.
Contact us at letters time. As always, lead with compassion, sensitivity, and care. This ties in nicely or not, as the case may be to the fact that Venus is set to enter Sagittarius on 7 October, which may leave you feeling feel stuck, unsupported, and lovesick.
Well, astrology, on the surface, may be based on the position of the sun relative to certain constellations — and it may be influenced by the movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars, too. Despite this, there are many people who put great stock in what their horoscope says each morning.
They carefully scan the pages of their morning newspaper, searching for their own zodiac sign, and drink in everything that the astrologer has written for them that day. Even after the thoroughly unpredictable events of the last 12 months! As reported on 24 July Even those of us who dismiss astrology as a load of absolute nonsense know which star sign we are. Or have we? NASA — as in, yes, actual NASA — have confirmed that the sky today is completely different to how it was almost 3, years ago , when the Babylonians first invented the 12 signs of the zodiac.
However, astrologers have a word of warning to all those frantically casting the old zodiac aside. Eastern astrology sidereal reads the planets against the current view of the constellations. Western astrology tropical sticks with the unchanging positions and accounts for the apparent shift via the great ages around 2, years in each sign. Hence the move from Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. Bugbee, the editor-in-chief of The Cut , noticed this shift a couple years ago. They may like to read their horoscope, but not change their behavior based on what it says.
There is more nuance than this statistic allows for. Many mainstream examinations of astrology as a trend are deeply concerned with debunking. The people I spoke to for this piece often referred to astrology as a tool, or a kind of language—one that, for many, is more metaphorical than literal.
Michael Stevens, a year-old who lives in Brooklyn, was in the quarter-life crisis season of life around the time of the total solar eclipse in August this year. And then shit started to happen in life. She was annoyed, he says, that he called her at the end of the month, which is when she writes her famously lengthy horoscopes. But then she asked him for his sign—Sagittarius.
It sounds totally like me. Still, he says the conversation made him feel better; it spurred him to take action. In the months between his call with Miller and our conversation in October, Stevens left his advertising job and found a new one in staffing. Shortly before we spoke, he and his girlfriend broke up. Beusman, who hired Gat at Broadly, shares her philosophy. And of course they were. That was the point after all. Digital natives are narcissistic, some suggested, and astrology is a navel-gazing obsession.
It feels simultaneously cosmic and personal; spiritual and logical; ineffable and concrete; real and unreal. It can be a relief, in a time of division, not to have to choose.
It can be freeing, in a time that values black and white, ones and zeros, to look for answers in the gray. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword.
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