01-13-2011, 07:52 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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Attention Horoscope Crackpots: Your Zodiac sign may have changed
If you receive phone calls from aging relatives reading you your horoscope for the day (What? It's just me?), or you chart your own stars, get ready to have your mind blown.
Why Your Zodiac Sign Might Have Changed
Who knows - maybe you've gone from Virgo to Leo.
Or you might even be an Ophiuchus.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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01-13-2011, 08:06 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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My life is a complete and utter sham, I have tried hard to live as a Pisces should and am now told I am a wussy Aquarius? Where's the Whiskey and Blow!!!
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01-13-2011, 08:13 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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I guess i'm a Ophiuhus, sweet.
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01-13-2011, 08:32 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by worth
I guess i'm a Ophiuhus, sweet.
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me as well and for anyone that doesn't know what Ophiuhus is cause I sure didn't here is a wiki quote
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Ophiuchus is a large constellation located around the celestial equator. Its name is Greek (Ὀφιοῦχος) for 'serpent-bearer', and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It was formerly referred to as Serpentarius English pronunciation: /ˌsɜrpənˈtɛəriəs/, a Latin word meaning the same as its current name
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01-13-2011, 08:39 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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DAMNIT!
I used to be a Scorpio who are known for being studs, now I'm a stupid Virgo.
That's like getting traded from the Penguins to the Oilers!
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THE SHANTZ WILL RISE AGAIN.
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01-13-2011, 08:45 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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http://skepdic.com/astrology.html
In fact, there should be 13 signs, not 12. Precession of the equinox is caused by the fact that the axis of the Earth's rotation (which causes day and night) and the axis of the Earth's revolution around the Sun (which marks the passage of each year) are not parallel. They are 23 1/2 degrees away from lining up; that is, the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted. This tilt also causes our seasons, a fact that Ptolemy did understand but that many people do not understand even today. Ptolemy understood that the rotation axis of the Earth was slowly precessing, or moving in a circle, with an angular radius of 23 1/2 degrees with a period of around 26,000 years. He deduced this from comparisons of data taken by the ancient Sumerians 2,000 years before his time. He did not understand what was pushing the precession, but he did understand the motion. We now realize that the Sun is rotating with a period of around 30 days and that this causes the Sun to bulge at the equator, which causes a torque to be exerted on the top like motion of the Earth's day and night cycle. There is also a small 18.6-year variation caused by the Moon's orbit around the Earth, and the Moon also has a small effect on precession; however, the Sun's equatorial bulge is the main cause of the precession of the equinox, which is why your sign listed in the newspaper, by Sidney Omar for instance, in most cases is removed by one sign from the modern, actual position of the Sun at your birth.
The modern signs as listed here are further complicated when their boundaries are those of the current constellations. A neater way of dividing the signs would be to divide the ecliptic into 30-degree slices, as Ptolemy did, but to keep the slices centered on the star patterns. This would make the time interval for the signs more nearly 30 days each and eliminate the [13th] sign of Ophiuchus [off ee oo' kus], but your modern sign would still differ by one sign from the tradition designations.*
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01-13-2011, 08:46 AM
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Missed the bus
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Still a Taurus. I never really paid attention to this stuff though hahaha.
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01-13-2011, 09:00 AM
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Franchise Player
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me too Superflyer...I wont take it lying down! OK now I gotta stand up.
I refuse to change to that stupid fish.
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01-13-2011, 09:03 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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Too bad for you guys, even if someone asks you now and you lie and say you’re a ram, deep down you’re gonna know you’re a stupid gay fish.
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01-13-2011, 09:04 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Barthelona
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From Aries to Pisces
ouch
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01-13-2011, 09:07 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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I moved from Pisces to Aquarius. Does my theme song now have to be "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"?
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01-13-2011, 09:07 AM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Western Scientists should be fired! Can't even make a chart properly. What a sham!
Eastern Lunar calendar is the way to go. Or Chinese calendar! There's 12 animals and there's no doubt what animal you are. Plus in the future they can predict when the full moon will be. They already know when full moons will be in 2037!
http://kalender-365.de/lunar-calendar.php?yy=2037
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01-13-2011, 09:12 AM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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Ah man, now I'm a virgo and not a libra. But I was such a libra!
*reads virgo description*
Hey cool! I'm such a virgo! Isn't it strange that it worked out like that?
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01-13-2011, 09:15 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Moscow, ID
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I had a coworker who read his horoscope to see how his day went. Not in a joking way, he would mentally frame his day to fit with his horoscope.
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As you can see, I'm completely ridiculous.
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01-13-2011, 09:19 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: DeWinton, AB
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Horoscopes are so dumb.
I went from a Scorpio to a Virgo. Whatever that means.
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01-13-2011, 09:20 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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How does this affect Final Fantasy Tactics?
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01-13-2011, 09:22 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Still a Leo, which means I'd still kick all your asses in a horoscope mascot fight...I'm looking at you teeter totter scale thing. Watch your back.
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01-13-2011, 09:24 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Don't worry guys, you'll all still have to "face challenges with zeal today".
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