Precession and Horoscopes
When the traditional
Babylonians first began tracking the motions of your heavens, they
divided the sky into 30 degree increments and gave every section
over to the rule of a constellation. That is the Zodiac, the band of
the sky that your entire heavenly bodies transfer through. It is a
strip of sky about seven degrees across. But they didn't count on
precession.
The Earth is slightly
tilted on it's axis. Because of this, the constellations do not stay
in the identical place. Over time, the North Pole slowly factors to
a special star, and as this happens, the circle of the Zodiac slowly
spins across the planet.
In a nutshell, the
constellations transfer, however astrology doesn't. Astrologers
measure the sky based on their positions on the Vernal Equinox, and
not by what stars are in actual fact within the sky. So, they could
say "the Sun was in Aries for those who had been born," knowing full
effectively that the sun was really in Pisces.
This has induced quite a
stir within the astrology community. On one side, you have got the
astrologers who have adjusted their charts to account for the
drifting constellations. A few of them have even corrected an
ancient mistake and added a thirteenth sign, Ophiuchus, to their
Zodiac, who shares his slice of the sky with Scorpio. These
astrologers observe what's known as a Sidereal system, focusing on
the positions of the stars themselves.
On the other facet, you've
gotten the Tropical astrologers. They consider that the
constellations are irrelevant, as a result of they have been merely
place-holders or handy symbols that were used to mark the divisions
within the authentic system. Their view is that the horoscope is
designed to measure the affect of the planets in regards to earth,
and never the influence of the celebrities behind the planets. The
horoscope is built from the Vernal Equinox, in any case, and not
from one of the stars in Aries.
