Sidereal Astrology
When I first started this section on astrology, I mentioned that there is a slight problem with today’s zodiac. Some people fit their sun sign while more and more others are drifting slightly away from their sign and identify more with other signs.
Why is that? The universe we live in is a moving thing. The moon moves around the earth, which moves around the sun, which effects the rotation of the other planets. Galaxies effect other galaxies, so on and so forth. Even though we don’t feel it, we on this planet are constantly in motion through space.
However, that certainly doesn’t mean that we stay on a steady course forever and ever. We have ‘blips’ on the radar and other things that change the relationships of positions.
As you can see from the picture (you can find a bigger version here) the star positions in the sky have shifted over the centuries. The precession of the equinoxes has sparked the debate between those tropical astrologers and sidereal astrologers.
The tropical zodiac is the zodiac most popularly used by astrologers today. They are the signs and sign dates you know and read about in magazines and newspapers.
The sidereal zodiac takes into account the precession of the equinoxes. Because of that, sidereal astrology might show that you really were following the wrong sign all along.
I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about sidereal astrology and found that I identified more with the sign I was born under according to sidereal astrology than I did with the sign I was born under. I then sent the sign descriptions of both signs (without the names of the signs) and asked the person who knows me best and he picked in favor of the sidereal sign.
Use the links in this post to do some research and find out if maybe you have been following the wrong sign…
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