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   From: stargazer@kilolaniDOT.net   
      
   "Mike"  wrote in message   
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   > And what this proves more than anything (and probably explains why in 2   
   > months no-one has posted an answer) is that astrology is fake.   
   >   
   > I am suppsoed to be a Gemini and yet the Sun was in Taurus the day i was   
   > born. Showing that Astrology is based on old fashioned, out of date annd   
   > incorrect astronomical data.   
      
   Just in case you weren't paying attention, astrologers don't care about the   
   actual position of the sun relative to modern constellations. They divide   
   the sky into 12 equal parts which are "named for" the constellations of the   
   zodiac, but they don't care about actual position or modern astronomy's   
   "redrawing" of constellation boundaries. So, no, although I agree with you   
   that it is,  it doesn't "prove" astrology is fake.   
      
   > > Since this schism, astronomers have changed their ways   
   > > of measuring the sky such that "constellations" became   
   > > synonymous with unequal boundaries associated with the   
   > > asterisms or some 88 familiar groups of brighter stars   
   > > instead of the ancient method which divides the entire   
   > > caelestial sphere into twelve equal meridians as signs   
   > > with meridians of latitude from the caelestial equator.   
      
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