Why your zodiac sign is probably wrong
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Published 1 min ago on January 25, 2020
By The Conversation
I was born a Capricorn (please don’t judge me), but the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius when I was born.
As a professor emeritus of astronomy, I am often asked about the difference between astrology and astronomy. The practice of astrology, which predicts one’s fate and fortune based on the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets, dates back to ancient times. It was intermingled with the science of astronomy back then – in fact, many astronomers of old made scientific observations that are valuable even today. But once Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo realized the planets orbit the Sun, rather than the Earth, and Newton discovered the physical laws behind their behavior, astrology and astronomy split, never to be reunited.
The science of astronomy is now at odds with one of the basic organizing principles in astrology – the dates of the zodiac.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/why-your-zodiac-sign-is-probably-wrong/
I was born in the year of the rabbit aligned to stars of Capricorn.......................
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I'm on my first cup and I haven't seen LOL Sunday Cats yet so I'll give it a shot now and maybe make corrections later... 
Astrology gets it's woo labeling because it also includes a dialogue of energy which I suspect might be more in the realm of magnetics but I'm sure there's a more precise description and I have some unusual personal speculations on why that might be so that is based in geology but that's way more than I can get into here.
As the ancient beings who devised this system of observation of the sky and applying it to the mundane world they identified constants with things within their knowledge base which were constant yet ever-changing. Notice the naming of many things relate to animals and figures within their cultural knowledge regarding unseen powers and their origin/location.
Copernicus didn't destroy astrology btw, he identified the concept of geo-centric vs heliocentric observations.
So the energy portion of astrology seems to bear out and really whether things "work out like they said it would" is really based on how one interprets the configurations. It's funny, I just described this to a sibling last night. To put it very simply each sign and heavenly body were given names and assigned "stations in life" attributes. Interestingly, they were pretty good at assigning these attributes because they still can be interpreted to current and future times since one can make progressed maps/charts of the configurations yet to come.
Which brings us to the future possibilities part. Since one can plot the motions of even just the visible planets as the ancients did, they can be projected to be in a given area of they sky in a future time. When the attributes of the planets and figures with names all align in a circular geometric configuration they are said to "spark" or activate the energies of the bodies and the signs they are found in at the time and the angle at which this alignment occurred along with other finer details like the speed at which a planet traverses the circle for finer detail of the "meaning" implied by the event. When an observation is made, aka casting a chart, it is like a freeze frame of a particular point in time. Since there solar system bodies are always in motion, every chart cast will be and is different. Since it is based on time, charts are cast for events. A chart can be cast for the time, date, and location you were in when you thought of something, or something that happened like meeting someone or a scientific breakthrough or something you are planning to do in the future like buy a car or get married or have a job interview. You can look at how the energies of the planetary system were configured at the moment of the event and see what you might expect to come of it or how it might go while it is taking place.
Back a couple weeks ago I told DU that this would be an earth shaking month and it's just the start of the year and to expect the unexpected. Why would I think that? Because I looked at what was happening over the first week of the month/year/decade. Some of the slower planets, the outer planets that take a long time to go around the circle, were activated and other bodies that move faster were interacting with them during a very short time indicating, by their assigned stations in life energies, that events on earth affecting the masses (as the outer planet are said to do) would be thus. I don't believe in any thing or anything, I know a lot of stuff, I understand a lot more than that and am willing to entertain other things whether I end up agreeing with them or not. Astrology makes sense to me, my life is unusual and I think I would not have been able to survive it relatively intact without having it as a tool to navigate given times where it was going to and ended up being really tough. I had time to prepare myself with education and other life knowledge that has served me well through those times. So i don't care if others don't understand it or think it's woo, it works for me and many others, it wouldn't have lasted this long if it was just bs.
I hope that helps, feel free to ask questions. I'm not an astrologer, just a traveler on the planet trying to read the map. I need more coffee, where's the cats! 
I hope I didn't sound like I was copping an attitude, I was just trying to make a complex topic somewhat understandable to someone who isn't well acquainted with it.
The reason I think it does have an effect/affect on humans has to do with the ferrous nature of most things in and on the planet and magnetic energy that surrounds and passes by the planet from elsewhere. But it is far more complex than that though that's the basic premise, it's physics that I think can be interpreted in the way that astrology addresses.
I like that! 
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