New Star Sign throws Horoscope into disarray

The discovery of a new star sign has thrown the horoscope into disarray. Now with 13 signs, many people have changed their house, gaining traits they never imagined. At least, that's the hysteria flying round the Net. But is it true? Or is everyone worrying about nothing?

Actually, you do not change your star sign because the one you were born with is the one you will always have under the Tropical Zodiac which we have always used. In fact, there are two Zodiac charts, the Tropical and the Sidereal. The Tropical Zodiac is the one that we have always been using, so there is no need for anyone to change their sign unless they want to shift between the two systems, which have always co-existed.

The Tropical Zodiac is fixed because it is tied to the date of the Spring Equinox. This is the zodiac chart used in western astrology. The other zodiac is the Sidereal, used by astronomers and Vedic astrologers from east India. This zodiac is constantly changing and always has been changing.

So this talk about a new star sign is nothing new. In fact the Ancient Babylonians had 13 signs but wanted only 12 (for reasons of perfection) and therefore discounted the first, Ophiuchus, the Snake Holder. Where did it come from?

The US astronomer Parke Kunkle gave an interview to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which he claimed that due to the gravitational pull of the Moon, the star signs were one month out of orbit, meaning that the time periods for the signs of the zodiac would have to change.

The Internet did the rest. What people are not explaining is the fact that the western Tropical Zodiac has always been the same and always will be, therefore nobody has to change their star sign. In a word, hype.

Comments

Reasons Why Your Hips Hurt

Hips Don't lie Inside the Joint Each hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The ball is the top of your thighbone (femoral head). The socket (acetabulum) is in your pelvic bone. Smooth, slippery tissue called cartilage lets the ball and socket glide against each other when you move. A thin lining (synovium) tops the cartilage and makes a bit of synovial fluid, which further eases rubbing. Tendons, ligaments, and muscles complete the joint. Osteoarthritis It’s the “wear and tear” type of arthritis that many people get in middle age. Cartilage on the ball end of the thighbone and in the hip socket slowly breaks down and causes grinding between bones. You’ll have stiffness, and you might feel pain in your crotch and at the front of your thigh that radiates to your knee and behind. It’s often worse after a hard workout or when you don’t move for a while. Rheumatoid Arthritis With RA, your immune system attacks parts of your body, which can include the syn...

Have Flu-Like Symptoms? Could Be a Semen Allergy

A mysterious syndrome in which men come down with a flu-like illness after an orgasm may be caused by an allergy to semen, Dutch scientists said Monday. Men with the condition, known as post orgasmic illness syndrome or POIS and documented in medical journals since 2002, get flu-like symptoms such as feverishness, runny nose, extreme fatigue and burning eyes immediately after they ejaculate. Symptoms can last for up to week. Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, published two studies which suggest that men with POIS have an allergy to their own semen, and that a treatment known as hyposensitisation therapy can help reduce its impact. "These results are a very important breakthrough in the research of this syndrome," Waldinger said in a telephone interview. He said the findings "contradict the idea that the complaints have a psychological cause" and show that an auto-allergic reaction to semen is th...

New, Noninvasive Paternity Test Developed

Identify the father of a baby as early as the eighth week of pregnancy . The new method, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine , uses fetal DNA isolated from the mother's blood. The test has already been used to prove an affair in a murder trial, and experts say it has other significant medical and legal applications. "The technology is extremely important and really a very, very significant step forward for medical prenatal diagnosis," says Peter Benn, PhD, director of the diagnostic medical genetics laboratories at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. He was not involved in the research. A previous study by the same researchers showed how the test could be used early in pregnancy to determine whether a fetus has Down syndrome , for example. "That technology will allow genetic disorders to be identified without going through amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling . That's a very important and useful step forward b...

Life, Health and Enjoyment

Search This Blog