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You’ve probably read the news this week that there’s a ‘new’ star sign, changing the dates and potentially rendering the ‘old’ zodiac moot.
I’m here to tell you, though, you don’t need to acknowledge Ophiuchus – and it’s certainly not anything new. NASA has a website for children called Space Place that does mention astrology, but otherwise have no stake in astrological practices beyond discovering new stars and planets if they have not yet been discovered.And, to reiterate, the constellation Ophiuchus was discovered thousands of years ago.The zodiac that we most commonly associate with horoscopes here in the western world is the tropical zodiac, which is fixed around the seasons.
If you imagine a hypothetical ‘line’ that starts at the earth, points to the sun, then extends out into space, this gives a basic idea of the ecliptic. As the earth orbits the sun, this line moves through different constellations.But not every constellation in this ecliptic is included in the tropical zodiac. The Babylonians initially split the year into 12 based on the twelve phases on the moon, which is where the twelve signs originated around the time of Ptolemy.
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