Unlucky for some

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By Daniel Bates-Daily Express updated 15 Jan 2011

Unlucky for some: How hitherto unknown 13th sign of zodiac "Ophiuchus" could be why your stars never
seem to be right.

Astronomers have called for the Zodiac signs to be overhauled because they are no longer accurate.
The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was 'in' on th day a person was
born.
But during the thousands of years since, the moon's gravitational pull has made the Earth to shift in it's
axsis and created a one-month shift in the stars alignment.

Astronomers are now proposing to move all the star signs back a month and introduce a 13th star sign,
Ophiuchus, to help readjust the zodiac calendar.
The change will come as a shock to many who wIll discover they have been reading the wrong star sign
their entire lives and will not necessarily be happy with their new ones.

Those under dominant creative Leo could now find themselves Cancer, which means they are moody and
sensitive.
A passionate Scorpio could become a more diplomatic and balanced Libra whilst if you were a Taurus, you
could now find yourself a stubborn Aries.

The change was suggested by Professor Parke Kunkle who teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community
and Texhnical College.
Astronomers study space and the stars from a scientific viewpoint whilst astrologers write horoscopes
and claim that celestial bodies can give clues to personality traits.

Professor Kunkle said that those who read their star signs could have been reading the wrong ones their
whole lives and should readjust according.

"When astrologers say that the sun is Pisces, it's really not in Pisces,' he said.
There are two major systems that control our zodiac - tropical astrology and sidereal astrology.

Topical astrology is based on Earth"s relationship with the sun and the four seasons.
Earth's precession.
If it preserves the seasonal associations of the star signs worked out by early astrologers by laying out new
horoscopes against new horoscopes against a first millennium sky.

So it is relevant that the solstical points (tropics) have drifted from one constellation to another over
time as the relationship is symbolic.
Tropical astrology is mainly practiced in North America and Europe.

The alternative is Sidereal astrology which is the Hindu system and is also practiced by some Western
astrologers.
It is based on Earth's relationship with the stars and therefore zodiac signs against the actual sky.

An adjustment is made for the 'precession of the vernal equinox.
This is the gradual shift in the orientation of Earth's axis of rotation, which traces out a cone once every
26,000 years.

Therefore the sates of the zodiac signs change.

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