The New York Times This week, he was conducting an article in which my group of astrologers blew up. Headline? Your zodiac sign is 2000 outdated. A wonderful attempt at Gotcha journalists. But reality? No, that’s not the case. You do not need to read a different horoscope. And I, as an astrologer, can tell you why.
About once a year panic occurs when an article appears – from respected sources such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal– to “reveal” that the orbit of the Earth is actually one sign of the Zodiac and is more behind every day. The 13th Zodiac sign, named Ophiuchius, is also always mentioned.
This week’s work The New York Times Was actually the best piece I read in this genre. Someone actually conducted his research and correctly reported the astrological history. He even mentioned a well -known concert by scientist Galileo as an astrologer for his guardians. But, of course, there was still a calculator to find out your new sign I have to repeat There is no thing. The interpretation of astrology is designed to move to time, but the system must remain stable.
Let’s talk about the symbolism of all this
The Zodiac came when the ancient star players noticed that the sun, the moon and planets were traveling through a specific way of heaven (known as eclipse). They started using the positions of those constellation planets to interpret signs and predict about life on Earth.
About 2500 years ago, the Zodiac was standardized because astrologers divided the ecliptic into 12 equal parts. Those 12 equivalent parts (30º each 360º in a circle) were named 12 star constellations along the ecliptics. Are these constellations ever arranged in a perfect circle in equal parts? Not, of course, not. At the time, all this was created, the general knowledge was that the Earth was the center of the universe. It was never “scientifically accurate”. It was supposed to be a symbol!
And yes, thousands of years ago, the Spring Equinox, the sun appeared in the sky along with the stars in the constellation of the rams. Now, in the spring equinox, it appears in the sky along with the stars in the fish constellation. But that doesn’t mean Aries is now fish. When astrology was first developed and codified, the features of each brand were based on the season more than the constellation. In many ways, Aries is Spring. Even the lateral zodiac (primarily used in Vedic astrology, originated in India), which correlates signs with stars positions, not seasons, are still “off” from what is happening in the real sky. They also use only 12 characters.
What about the 13th sign, the Ophiuchius?
Though New York Times The focus was on Earth’s orbital precession and how it changes the sign of everyone, they could not help either, but to raise Ophiuchus (supposedly “OH-FEW-KUSS”). Long mythologized “13th zodiac sign”. The ancient Greeks, originally called serpentaries, believed that this constellation was portrayed as AsClepius, a medical god – by restraining a giant snake. So why is Ophiuchius – which is still not very visible in many parts of the world – left?
“We really don’t know why the Babylonians left Ophiuchius out of his zodiac signs,” he writes. Times; They mention that the Babylonians want 12 marks to meet their 12 months of their calendar, but not to mention that people were obsessed with number 12 in history. The number 12 has long wore spiritual, mythological and magical symbolism. Octave has 12 seminotal and 12 days Christmas and 12 full moon a year. This is even displayed in our practical systems, such as a 12 -inch foot. The main time units – 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours – are divided by 12.
The 13th sign was not included in the original foundation for the same reason the ancient Stargazers divided the unexpected sky into equal parts: to make things simple. Like music, astrology acts as a whole due to the simplicity of its parts. Astrology is about finding ourselves in the stars, correlating our actions with the planets movement. It’s a tool! And while there is a lot of information, the key is not in the data itself, but when interpreting.
So no, your zodiac sign is not outdated in 2000. The system is established. We are the ones that change.
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