New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for January 18, 2011

I wus robbed! Went from a might lion to a disease.

I was a Virgo for 54 years, sweet and innocent. Now I am a Leo. Grrr!

I’ve decided if they can change my sign by saying so, I can change it back by saying so. I’m a Gemini, and to Pluto with anyone who says different.

Your sign is the sign under which you were born, so it hasn’t changed.

And here’s from cnn.com that the signs haven’t changed at all: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13/no-your-zodiac-sign-hasnt-changed/

Navigationally, the vernal equinox is known as the “First Point of Aries”; however, due to precession, it is no longer in Aries but in Pisces. But we’re a bunch of traditionalists.

I would have preferred Kepler as the astro(nom/log)er in the know.

Still, Nostrildamus nose all!

Here’s how bad it is. I have no idea what they switched me to. The other forecasts were so exacting, I will miss them dearly. (Sarcasm)

Don’t know about you, but I was born under the sign “Hospital”……☻

It’s old news. Isaac Asimov’s science column in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ran an article on this thirty-five years ago.

I pointed this out the first time I saw an actual map of the stars. The horoscopes start the cycle at the equinox on the first day of Aries. The zero point on the map is where the ecliptic crosses the equator. This has drifted from Aries most of the way through Pisces toward “the dawning of the age of Aquarius.” People most noticably started to tie their fate to the stars when the bull ruled the rites of spring. Most astrologers just nailed the signs to the time of the season because spherical geometry is a bitch. Pardon my tangent. Do we sacrifice a water carrier this time?

Who is this Horace Cope everyone keeps talking about?

Don’t worry about it, Pab. Asimov probably wrote about the astronomical aspect only, decades before naming rights were invented. Besides, since when does a joke have to be original?

@pschearer I’ll take you one step further.

Since when does a joke have to be funny? See: Prickly City.

Pab, the article was debunking astrology on the basis of the fact that the traditional signs neither matched up with the actual constellations that lie on the ecliptic or the presence of the thirteenth constellation (Ophiucus). He also pointed out that the sun is in Scorpius for only six days while it’s in Virgo for forty-five. His concluding sentence was something like “Astrology is worthless if it’s based on the sky from 5,000 years ago and not worth one whit more if the current situation is taken to account.”

I subscribed to F&SF from about 1972 through 1978, and the column appeared sometime in that period. Since Asimov died in 1992, I don’t think his ghost is going to haunt you. Having met him on a number of occasions, I can confidently say that he probably would find you, NAQV and this story line quite amusing.

Since the constellations of the Zodiac go back to ancient times, I think it’s safe to assume they’re in public domain.

vedic astrology already figures it this way

HA!

I was born on the 20th of September … and according to the new star sign calendar, I am still a Virgo!

No sign changes affecting me here!