Your astrological sun sign is likely incorrect because the constellations are not equally distributed on the celestial sphere (e.g., the sun spends 45 days in Virgo but only 7 days in Scorpius), the Earth's axial precession causes the ecliptic to shift over 26,000 years, and Claudius Ptolemy's tropical astrology system artificially divided the sky into 12 equal 30° sectors regardless of actual constellation positions, meaning the constellation behind the sun at your birth may differ from your assigned zodiac sign.
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Why Your Astrological Sign is Mostly Likely Wrong ⛎Added:
Maybe I can share this with y'all. I suppose there are three main reasons why your astrological sign is most likely wrong. The one that y'all put on your IG bio.
The one y'all been basing your relationships on.
He's the one, huh?
your astrological sun sign is most likely wrong because of the fact that the constellations are not equally distributed on the celestial sphere.
For example, the constellation Virgo spans for more than a month. The Babylonians produced some of the earliest star cataloges. A star catalog is a structured compilation of information about stars, including their positions, brightness, spectral characteristics, and other relevant data. These cataloges help astronomers identify, classify, and study stars more efficiently. Run it forward with the creation of the Greek star cataloges that came after. Greek star catalog build upon what the Babylonians had started, except for the fact that they popularized their version of the sky into what is now known as western sky culture. The constellations we perceive today in Western culture were heavily influenced by the symbolism that already existed in ancient Babylonia and perhaps as far back as the Sumerians. The Babylonians knew the constellations weren't equal. Eventually, what they did was impose an abstract mathematical framework, 12 times 30° sectors on top of the irregular star groups. That's the birth of the zodiac as a symbolic and a system for calendar purposes, not just a sky map. This is a visual representation of what the zodiac belt is or the ecliptic. In this image, you can see the earth is supposed to be blue and then there's the sun. And so your sun sign is supposed to be whatever constellation was behind the apparent path of the sun at the time of your birth. And like I mentioned before, the constellations are not equally distributed on the celestial sphere. So here you actually have the approximate dates for how long the sun spends in each of these constellations.
You can see that the sun spends the most time in the constellation Virgo, spending around 45 days compared to only spending 7 days in the constellation Scorpius. And the sun also spends around 18 days in the constellation of Fucus.
Later we'll talk about Hipparus of Nika.
He's who is known as the father of trigonometry. He built upon the star cataloges of the Babylonians. But he made a pretty huge discovery that we're going to later talk about. Then came Claudius Tommy who learned a lot from Hippus of Nikus work. But yeah, he sort of gaslit us and we'll talk about that later as well.
So yeah, a lot of people don't know that. And by the way, the other constellation that the sun passes through in the zodiac belt or the ecliptic is a fucus. the serpent bearer.
The second reason why your astrological sign could be wrong has to do with the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere. It's actually wider at the equator. And because it's wider at the equator, we're actually spinning on our own axis.
Isn't that wild? And what that means is that every 26,000 years about every 26,000 years, the Earth does a full rotation on its axis. And so the people that came up with the symbolism that we know of in western astrology, those people were looking at different constellations at the time of their birth compared to the people that have the same birthdays today because of the fact that we are spinning on our axis.
So that means that what is projected out there is slightly different. Who discovered that we are wobbling on our own axis? That would be Hipparcus of Nika. He's honestly the star of the show, no pun intended. He's dubbed as the father of trigonometry. If you go to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, you'll see a monument of him. He's also known as the greatest astronomer of antiquity. The consensus amongst ancient authors who mentioned him is that he was born in Nika. Nika is in modernday Turkey in the city of Isnik. Now that you have a better picture of where he was from, you can estimate that he was relatively around the Babylonian region and hence why he was so close to the collection of Babylonian knowledge that he likely built upon. Hipparcus likely had accessibility to the knowledge the Babylonians acquired and studied over centuries. By comparing his observations with those made by earlier astronomers, he could have discerned the small but consistent changes in the positions of the stars over extended periods. This would have indicated a gradual shift in the orientation of the Earth's axis leading to changes in the positions of celestial objects over time. So there's about a onederee shift every 72 years.
And if you multiply that by 360, that makes up to a full rotation on our axis every 25,920 years. One of the implications is that Polaris will not always be the north star. And the next one, which is the most relevant to this presentation, is that the Earth's apparent path around the sun changes. So the ecliptic changes, too. Hence the constellations that us as earthlings see behind the sun also change.
The third reason has to do with Claudius Tommy. This guy who knew about the precision of the equinoxes what we just spoke about which is the wobbling on the earth's axis. Even though he knew about this he just totally gas lit that. He wrote these four books literally called tetra biblo in which he explains no guys it's because astrology is actually all about houses and you've got to divide it this way so that it's equally distributed and so that it fits this perfect it's just garbage you guys look I don't subscribe to astrology but if you do why do you care about tropical astrology you should be considering cidurial astrology which is what was actually up there at the time of your birth that makes the most sense not all birthdays are affected as a adult. Mine is though, a lot of people think that I'm a sun sign Scorpio, which is supposed to be that the sun lands on the constellation Scorpius on the celestial sphere, but that's not the case for my birthday. My son actually lands in between Libra and Virgo.
But plot twist, guys. Um, if the shoe doesn't fit, you can always find another shoe. And I say that because I recently learned that in the Jewish version of astrology, I guess I'm still a Scorpio.
Who cares? What does that mean?
Honestly, I think that means I'm like I'm like a water Pokemon.
I don't know. I'm like if Mewtwo and Mew came together and like created a baby.
The shoe doesn't fit. Just go find another shoe. I think it's funny though when people get tattoos of their Zodiac.
There was this one guy I met. He was really sweet. Couple years younger than I am. And he has like a a Scorpio tattoo. And I was like, "Let's do you want to actually check?" And so we checked Stellarium. And we found out that his son wasn't in Scorpio, but I was like, "Mate, it's okay. It's okay.
It's probably somewhere in your chart."
And thankfully, uh, he did have the planet Venus on the constellation Scorpius. So, I was like, "Oh, you could that's fine. You should tattoo Venus on the tattoo of Scorpius, the constellation.
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