“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”. – Cassius from William Shakespeare's Julius CaesarThe earth’s axis wobbles; its position under the constellations that govern our lives has changed. The gravitational pull of the moon and the earth’s equatorial bulge cause this wobble. Looks like terra isn’t so firma. To lose that bulge, the earth needs to do something other than sit around on Atlas’s shoulders. Maybe get an Ab-Coaster, or a Crunch-Pro.
So, Cancer’s are really Gemini’s and Gemini’s are really influenced by Taurus. Or is that a lot of bull? This star-shattering news is shooting across the Internet sky, but why? It’s nothing new. Scientific publications have written about this for years. Slow Farmville day, I guess.
The discrepancy goes back to those Mesopotamian mischief-makers, the Babylonians. They formulated the original zodiac on the position of constellations. This is the sidereal zodiac, which originally had 13 signs including Ophiuchus. The Babylonians didn’t like that number, so they fudged the figures and viola – 12 signs.
Cover-ups and conspiracies embroiled the entire administration in Stargate. (Not the TV series with MacGyver) No surprise as Hammurabi was a reprobate. He sent dirty cuneiform to many of his female staff, history’s first sexting scandal, but I digress.
Along comes the Greek, Ptolemy, who revised the zodiac based on seasonal equinoxes, or the tropical zodiac. Western astrology bases its signs on this and that hasn’t changed. Or am I being a starry-eyed optimist? Living in the 2nd Century AD, his calendar was different that ours. Are the dates the same? What about the figs?
It’s enough to make this stargazer bang his head against an astrolabe. The ensuing swelling affects my cytoarchitecture. I should have it checked out, but the relationship with my phrenologist is kind of bumpy. As ever – BB“I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.” ~Arthur C. Clarke
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