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Astrologers Deem and Pass a New Zodiac Sign
The Looking Spoon ^ | 1-14-11 | Jared H. McAndersen

Posted on 01/15/2011 12:15:50 PM PST by The Looking Spoon

I've read a few things that it all may be a hoax, but as we all probably know by now there apparently is a new sign, I called it out...not that you wont be able to recognize it, ObamaCare is easier to read...

Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18
Aries: April 18 - May 13
Taurus: May 13 - June 21
Gemini: June 21 - July 20
Cancer: July 20 - Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 - Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 - Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 - Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 - Jan. 20

I'm not going to elaborate any further because I'm not a trained astrologist. I don't want to pontificate on these things because your astrological sign has a lot to do with your identity. Which is worrisome for me because Socrates said "know thyself," and that's a problem because my new sign is the new guy on the list. I can't even pronounce it, let alone know what it will do to my soul.

......I don't even know who I am anymore.

Another reason this stinks is if you thought Leos, for example, were douches because a certain sitting president - who shall remain nameless - was one, and you hit your knees praising God that you are a and still get to be a Cancer....after you explain to Him what a Zodiac is...following this change, do you think he'll answer your prayer to change it all back because said president is now a Cancer too?

People actually use this crap to determine their futures via horoscope and figure out their relationships with other people based on which sign they're most compatible with.

And now it's all about to change with the snap of a finger because of some sign nobody can even begin to pronounce, which is probably why they left it out in the first place.

For people who believe this stuff, this should put truth to the lie that it's totally meaningless. Not that most people needed to be told that in the first place, but a lot of people believe in its power.

Considering that astrologers are a typically liberal bunch, I wonder what they think this all means relative to they way they poop themselves over the so-called "war on science" conservatives wage against issues like global warming (My horoscope will tell me how much you hate science).

On a different note...Hey University of Arizona...what's your new sign?





TOPICS: Humor; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: astrology; ophiuchus; sign; zodiac
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1 posted on 01/15/2011 12:15:59 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon
On a different note...Hey University of Arizona...what's your new sign?

"We're With Stupid"

?

2 posted on 01/15/2011 12:20:40 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 725 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

I never knew that there was a constellation Ophrah.


3 posted on 01/15/2011 12:23:42 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: screaminsunshine

There is one but it covers about half the sky , so we don’t notice it that much.


4 posted on 01/15/2011 12:37:44 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: screaminsunshine

Just in time for the new Oprah network... :)


5 posted on 01/15/2011 12:39:41 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Next you’ll tell me that Pluto isn’t a planet!


6 posted on 01/15/2011 12:41:09 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Oh, the “deemed” it, did they. IF, and it’s a big IF, the stars have any influence on human births, changing the names and dates of the signs does not change where the stars were aligned on the day of one’s birth.


7 posted on 01/15/2011 12:41:47 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: ez
What gives them the right to declare a new astrological sign? (Not that I believe in that stuff)
8 posted on 01/15/2011 12:43:44 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: The Looking Spoon

New sign: Old hoax:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/101392/20110115/ophiuchus-an-old-hoax-zodiac-sign-13th-kunkle-astrology-astronomers-astrologers-tropical-zodiac-side.htm


9 posted on 01/15/2011 12:45:25 PM PST by NowApproachingMidnight (purple durple lips)
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To: The Looking Spoon
I was(?) an Aries now I move back one? Oh rat gas, there goes my

(had my future all set and now this).

10 posted on 01/15/2011 12:49:46 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
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To: The Looking Spoon

How does this affect the passing of the great year which has used 12 zodiac signs since well before the time of Ptolemy and Christ even? Are we actually in the age of Aquarius now or are we further back in the age of Pisces? I don’t think I care for this. It breaks with over 2,000 years of tradition.


11 posted on 01/15/2011 12:51:57 PM PST by RC one (What!!!!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

I’m a Taurus. Been a Taurus my whole life.

Now they tell me I’m an Aries. F em.
I’m a Taurus.

Maybe some of them wishy-washy signs don’t care if you jerk their chain, but I’m a Taurus.

And I ain’t changing!


12 posted on 01/15/2011 12:53:57 PM PST by djf (Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
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To: The Looking Spoon
And Mother Earth is tipped, rotating, wobbling...

No wonder I feel like throwing up sometimes.

13 posted on 01/15/2011 12:54:08 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: djf
Now they tell me I’m an Aries.

Hey, I used to be an Aries. Can I have your birth-sign and we'll see if we can't trade my Pisces to some Taurus guy somewhere.

14 posted on 01/15/2011 12:59:48 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: The Looking Spoon

I’ve been a Virgo for - well, many years. Now I’m suddenly a Leo? Leo is fine, but I just don’t feel like a Leo. What’s the story? The change probably applies to those born under the new Zodiac, say, in the last year. So I’m probably still Virgo. :-)


15 posted on 01/15/2011 1:24:39 PM PST by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... Iowa 61)
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To: The Looking Spoon
I lost my virginity to a girl last weekend.

Boy, She was a Lion!

16 posted on 01/15/2011 1:30:10 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: The Looking Spoon

I think it’s all a big fake.

Look at the new sign name.

Someone, somewhere is having one ROFLOMAO moment


17 posted on 01/15/2011 1:38:56 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: KosmicKitty

I smell a Kwanza and Festivus moment. Nobody will deny my Scorpio destiny!


18 posted on 01/15/2011 1:45:34 PM PST by minespacer
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To: RC one
Here's a screen shot from my Starry Night software showing the position of Ophiuchus in the sky this morning with the "daylight" option off, so the sun is shown as a yellow spot on the green line of the ecliptic. The bright spot between Ophiuchus's feet is Venus. You can see that the ecliptic passes through Ophiuchus's feet and by appearances it is as much "on the zodiac" as Scorpius. Ophiuchus means "serpent wrestler" and the head and tail of the serpent are the constellations Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda.

The ecliptic itself doesn't change its position in the sky. It is the celestial equator which precesses with the earth's axis, so this has nothing to do with the perennial controversy caused by the signs drifting away from the constellations as they appear in the sky.

I note that Ptolemy, in his astrological work TETRABIBLOS, attributes the significance of the signs to their correlation with the solstices and equinoxes, and separately mentions the influence of various stars in the zodiacal constellations and others, including Ophiuchus.

BTW, I noticed an astrology item on the TV news last night, and I suppose it was about this, although I didn't really catch it.


19 posted on 01/15/2011 1:47:32 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: The Looking Spoon; All

Sorry, I was born a Cancer and will always be a Cancer.

This new listing is a bunch of scatological nonsense.

Jack.


20 posted on 01/15/2011 1:54:03 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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