AFN: Judge Shred
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Wanted to change his doohicky.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jan 13, 2011 22:53:48 GMT -5
So I'm a Leo? Hecks to the no Virgo 4 life! and to all the doubters... you may find it inconceivable or rather at least a bit unlikely that the relative position of the planets and the stars can have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusivly applies to only you... but let me give you my assurance that all forecasts and predictions are based on solid scientific evidence so you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them are absolutely true! I love that song and was so psyched to hear Al do a ska number.
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Post by forgottensinpwf on Jan 13, 2011 22:55:54 GMT -5
I'm a Libra Now?
Ehhhhh...
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Jan 13, 2011 23:17:21 GMT -5
Screw this I'm sticking to the Chinese Zodiac. Snakes for the win, biatches!
*does the you can't see me hand gesture while exiting the thread, trips and falls*
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 13, 2011 23:19:30 GMT -5
Looks like I'm Capricorn now instead of Aquarius.
Not that I pay attention to that horoscope malarkey.
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Jan 13, 2011 23:22:13 GMT -5
Screw this I'm sticking to the Chinese Zodiac. Snakes for the win, biatches! *does the you can't see me hand gesture while exiting the thread, trips and falls* How can you trip if you're a snake?
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Jan 13, 2011 23:29:17 GMT -5
Screw this I'm sticking to the Chinese Zodiac. Snakes for the win, biatches! *does the you can't see me hand gesture while exiting the thread, trips and falls* How can you trip if you're a snake? The same way I did the you can't see me hand gesture! Awkwardly.
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Post by SassovsHart on Jan 13, 2011 23:30:10 GMT -5
From CNN, says no your signs didn't change ...
Tattoo parlor owners must be salivating. An assertion in a Minneapolis Star Tribune article that our understanding of the zodiac is off by about a month - and that therefore people have been identifying themselves with the wrong sign - caught fire on the internet Thursday, and many folks are in an absolute panic on social media.
"If my zodiac symbol has been changed to a Libra, what am I supposed to do with my Scorpio tattoo?!?!," read one tweet Thursday.
Some vowed to get their tats removed. Others groaned about losing the sign with which they’ve identified themselves for years. The zodiac and related terms - including Ophiuchus, a supposedly 13th and neglected sign mentioned in the article's info box – were trending Twitter topics much of Thursday.
But before astrology fans scrape the ink from their arms because they think they're now a Virgo instead of a Libra, they should consider this: If they adhered to the tropical zodiac - which, if they're a Westerner, they probably did – absolutely nothing has changed for them.
That's worth rephrasing: If you considered yourself a Cancer under the tropical zodiac last week, you're still a Cancer under the same zodiac this week.
That's because the tropical zodiac – which is fixed to seasons, and which Western astrology adheres to – differs from the sidereal zodiac – which is fixed to constellations and is followed more in the East, and is the type of zodiac to which the Star Tribune article ultimately refers.
Two zodiacs. That's nothing new.
"This story is born periodically as if someone has discovered some truth. It's not news," said Jeff Jawer, astrologer with Tarot.com.
The hubbub was started by the article in Sunday's Star Tribune, which said the following: "The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was 'in' on the day a person was born. During the ensuing millenniums, the moon’s gravitational pull has made the Earth 'wobble' around its axis, creating about a one-month bump in the stars' alignment."
"When [astrologers] say that the sun is in Pisces, it’s really not in Pisces," Parke Kunkle, a board member of the Minnesota Planetarium Society, told the Star Tribune.
"Indeed," the article’s author continued, "most horoscope readers who consider themselves Pisces are actually Aquarians." The article also asserts Scorpio's window lasts only seven days, and that a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, used to be counted between Scorpio and Sagittarius but was discarded by the Babylonians "because they wanted 12 signs per year."
True enough, Jawer says, the Earth's axis wobbles, and the sun doesn't align with constellations at the same time of year that it did millennia ago. But that’s irrelevant for the tropical zodiac, codified for Western astrology by Ptolemy in the second century, he says.
In the tropical zodiac, the start of Aries is fixed to one equinox, and Capricorn the other.
"When we look at the astrology used in the Western world, the seasonally based astrology has not changed, was never oriented to the constellations, and stands as … has been stated for two millenniums," Jawer said.
People who put stock in astrology can ask whether they should adhere to the tropical zodiac or the sidereal zodiac. Jawer argues for the tropical.
"Astrology is geocentric. It relates life on Earth to the Earth’s environment, and seasons are the most dramatic effect, which is why we use the tropical zodiac," he said.
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Jan 13, 2011 23:30:30 GMT -5
How can you trip if you're a snake? The same way I did the you can't see me hand gesture! Awkwardly. I just figured you used your tail for that.
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BearDogg-X
Vegeta
Still lurking in the shadows....
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Post by BearDogg-X on Jan 13, 2011 23:36:21 GMT -5
I'm a Scorpio, but these people say I'm a Libra, but I'm still a Scorpio.
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hassanchop
Grimlock
Who are you to doubt Belldandy?
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Post by hassanchop on Jan 13, 2011 23:41:16 GMT -5
No
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Jan 13, 2011 23:52:47 GMT -5
I'm a Scorpio, but these people say I'm a Libra, but I'm still a Scorpio. Same, DON'TKNOWWHATSGOINGON! lol
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Post by Ash Kingston on Jan 13, 2011 23:53:15 GMT -5
...I went from being a Scorpio to a Libra according to that eastern Zodiac thingy. ._.
**** THAT!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2011 23:53:41 GMT -5
According to this, I should now be a Virgo. Screw that, I'm staying a Libra.
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FHgrad99
Vegeta
Never mind that s***, here comes Mongo!
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Post by FHgrad99 on Jan 13, 2011 23:55:33 GMT -5
I went from Aquarius to Capricorn. I don't know what to think about that.
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Demented
Grimlock
Puddin'
Quinn in a box.
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Post by Demented on Jan 13, 2011 23:56:31 GMT -5
I went from Taurus to Aries.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 13, 2011 23:59:48 GMT -5
Great, now I'm a Virgo. I liked being a Libra, though....
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 14, 2011 0:01:03 GMT -5
YEAH! Still Pisces!
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 14, 2011 0:26:48 GMT -5
I was a Sagitarius, but now apparently I'm a Libra-Scorpio cusp.
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Post by woowoowoox on Jan 14, 2011 0:29:10 GMT -5
So.....I'm a cancer now?? I'll stick to being a leo thanks.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 14, 2011 0:31:09 GMT -5
So never mind that then... hooray for Star Tropics!
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