As some of you may have heard or read online, your zodiac signs are changing due to NASA's discovery of a new star. I am here to tell you all that your zodiac signs that you love so dearly are NOT changing.
After a week of confusion and people getting upset that after years of being a Leo they are now a Cancer, NASA responded with a post on the popular website Tumblr.com.
It was titled Constellations and the Calendar and explained everything that was going on.
Here at NASA, we study astronomy, not astrology. We didn’t change any zodiac signs, we just did the math. Here are the details:
First Things First: Astrology is NOT Astronomy…
Astronomy is the scientific study of everything in outer space. Astronomers and other scientists know that stars many light years away have no effect on the ordinary activities of humans on Earth.
Astrology is something else. It’s not science. No one has shown that astrology can be used to predict the future or describe what people are like based on their birth dates.
But even according to the Babylonians’ own ancient stories, there were 13 constellations in the zodiac. So they picked one, Ophiuchus, to leave out. Even then, some of the chosen 12 didn’t fit neatly into their assigned slice of the pie and crossed over into the next one.
When the Babylonians first invented the 12 signs of zodiac, a birthday between about July 23 and August 22 meant being born under the constellation Leo. Now, 3,000 years later, the sky has shifted because Earth’s axis (North Pole) doesn’t point in quite the same direction.
The constellations are different sizes and shapes, so the sun spends different lengths of time lined up with each one. The line from Earth through the sun points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points to Scorpius for only 7 days. To make a tidy match with their 12-month calendar, the Babylonians ignored the fact that the sun actually moves through 13 constellations, not 12. Then they assigned each of those 12 constellations equal amounts of time.
So, we didn’t change any zodiac signs…we just did the math.
There it is folks, you can rest easy knowing you will always and forever be Virgo's or Cancer's and that will never change. Hopefully, this will serve as a lesson and remind you to double check your sources before going into a frenzy.
The full article can be found here: http://nasa.tumblr.com/
