Why do horoscope dates move?

Question

Hi,

How come the dates the define each horoscope move? I'm born on the last day of Gemini, so sometimes when I open a magazine it says I'm a Cancerian. Is it just people using different dates or do they actually shift systematically, like once in every four years I'm a cancer?

Answer 1

Horoscopes are not an exact science... or a science at all. The dates are arbitrary and are completely wrong to start with. These magazines kind of just make up the dates. The ancient Greeks used a system of the stars and assigned dates. They say, if you were born around this time of the year, you are part of what zodiac.

However, this is all wrong. The way horoscopes were originally set is by where the constellations are in the sky with relation to the sun as the earth moved around. The zodiac is defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as it is projected on the sky. This projection is a line that circles the sky and is called the ecliptic. These change every year and are currently nothing close to the regularly perceived dates that were adopted from the Greeks.The Sun is in a given constellation do not line up with the astrological dates of the constellation. For example, my birthday is in September, but I am a Libra, not a Virgo. This is because the astrological zodiacal signs were invented about 3000 years ago, and since then, the precession of the Earth's axis (the change in the direction that the Earth's axis points) has shifted the constellations over.

In fact, there are actually between 13-24 constellations. Each taking a different amount of area. It was just decided to divide the sky into 12 equal sectors. Actually even the ancient astrologists used 13 zodiac signs. Ophiuchus, the thirteenth constellation, is positioned between Scorpius and Sagittarius.


To answer your question, the dates do change from year to year; however, they are nothing close to the commonly decided on dates. The astronomical science is completely wrong and has little backing.

You can believe astrology as you like (but then you cannot ask scientific questions as you have). If you believe in it, then just decide on one.. if not read both... I'm sure they both (or all) fit.

Answer 2

http://www.astrologyzine.com/signs-and-cusps.shtml#Moving.Averages

Moving Averages
The tables of dates used in horoscope columns and mass-market Sun Sign books are based on the average dates the Sun enters each Sign (i.e. when it crosses the Cusp point). In reality, the actual date can be a day earlier or later in any given year, because our human calendar does not exactly correspond to the actual movement of the Earth around the Sun. While our calendar shows a year as 365 days, it actually takes 365.25 days for the Earth to return to its original starting point after revolving once around the Sun.

We have a Leap Year every four years to bring the calendar back into line with reality and adjust for those four quarters of a day by adding one full day that year. Being born in a Leap Year does not really affect the "Cusp dates" or the real astrological Cusps in your horoscope chart - but what makes a Leap Year necessary is also the reason the so-called "Cusp dates" are not always the real date the Sun moves into the next Sign. Astrological calculations take Leap Years into account when they translate your own calendar birth date to "Universal Time"; so the Cusps or Signs in your personal horoscope chart are accurate even when you were born in a Leap Year.

Time Counts
Even when you are born on the actual day the Sun crosses into a new Sign; it depends on when you were born during that day. If the Sun entered the Sign near the end of the day, but you were born in the early hours of that same day, then your Sun might actually be in the previous Sign, even though the table of dates would lead you to believe that since you were born on the listed date, you should have your Sun in that next Sign. This is why you must know your actual hour and minute of birth, and get an accurate horoscope chart made for you, or learn how to do it yourself. Otherwise, you will never be certain you have the right Sign for your Sun; and of course you would not know all the details about your personal horoscope chart, and what they could tell you.

Today Here - Tomorrow There
The other thing people often overlook is that these kinds of date tables are based on an assumption that the dates they use are the ones which are applicable at the location (the geographical longitude and latitude) where they were made to be used. If it is January 1st in North America, it may already be January 2nd in Australia or Japan, depending on the time of day you were born. You have to adjust your day of birth to match up to the dates used in the particular table of so-called "Cusp Dates", or you might be referring to the wrong day.

Answer 3

It has to do with the planet alignments. You have to see what you fell under the year you were born (gemini or cancer) and then stick with that one regardless what the newspaper say.

But if your birthday falls right by the change of signs anyway then your on the cusp and you get some leniency to take traits from both signs.

Answer 4

It hasnt changed ... yes the constellations have changed but Astrology isnt based exactly on the constellations. based on the initial concepts of there is two forms of the zodiac ... the tropical zodiac which starts at the vernal equinox and the sidereal zodiac which starts when the sun enters the constellation of aries. but zodiacs have each sign take up exactly 30degrees of space, and is why Ophiuchus (the snake handler) rarely makes its way in as a 13th sign.

Answer 5

its cuz some people r retatred and some r not u get it yea



.... yea its cuz ur not mental

Answer 6

They don't move; at least mine don't.