In a message dated 11/26/2000 4:06:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, raphiem@onebox.com writes: << Subj: [M-I] zodiac wrong ?? what about vaquarius ;o) Date: 11/26/2000 4:06:05 AM Pacific Standard Time From: raphiem@onebox.com (Raphiem) Reply-to: mission-ignition@topica.com To: mission-ignition@topica.com http://aquarian-age.net/Age-of-Aquarius.htm the above is an intersting page about the supposed age of aquarius!!! also below was digging thru an oz old alternative magazine dated 1995 and found the below ... "All the dates used for Zodiac signs are wrong and a 13th constellation is missing from astologer's charts says a British astronomer Mitton. Star signs are approximately one month off and most people who thought their sign was Sagittarius were actually born under the little known constellation of Ophiuchus, the "god" of Healing. "The Zodiac is constantly changing," Dr. Jacqueline Mitton of the Royal Astronomical Society said of the ancient star chart that helps astrologers track the sun's movement in the sky. She said: "The sun passes through one constellation in addition to the traditional 12, and the time when the sun passes through the traditional 12 is different from what the horoscopes say." The dates for each star sign were drawn up over 2,000 years ago by astrologers who divided the sky into 12 parts, giving each star cluster an equal proportion. But constellations cover areas of varying size, and the sun's time in each constellation differs, Mitton said. According to the astronomers, the sun's move through the sign Scorpio lasts only seven days, while it spends over a month each under Virgo, Taurus and Pisces. Also, the dates fixed thousands of years ago are no longer accurate as the earth's axis has moved, shifting the alignment of our calendar with the stars. The signs of the Zodiac shift by about one constellation every 2,000 years. Mitton said that although astronomers have known of the Zodiac's inaccuracies for a long time, they have failed to convince astrologers. Miffed astrologer Robert Hyde of Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper said Mitton and her colleagues were being unscientific and did not know what they were talking about - Reuter http://mission-ignition.tripod.com http://www.topica.com/lists/mission-ignition/ >> See my posts on this subject. The Sidereal Zodiac is adjusted to current Earth precession, and to current ecliptic position. The "Tropical Zodiac" is .. really is ... off by about 25 arc-degrees. We are now, circa 2000 A.D. .. on the northern vernal equinox/southern autumnal equinox ... about 25 degrees_precessed_from zero-degrees Aries. Zero-degrees-Aries (at the above equinox position) .. was apparently .. 00 A.D./B.C. .. 7 years after the birth of Jesus Christ in 07 B.C. As I have posted ... apparently (according to the numbers I've found in my own research) .. 2368 A.D. is the actual beginning of Aquarius. So .. apparently Pisces is actually 33 degrees in length .. as we are now 25 arc-degrees precessed from zero-degrees Aries. So .. 2376 would be the total "actual" length of Pisces, in years ... 2376 / 72 = 33. It takes about 72 years to precess through one degree of the 25920-year Earth precession cycle. Year One is technically "1 A.D." ... although the 00 A.D./B.C. point is_ retroactively_used to measure the time distance 'til now. That's why 8 years is added to 2368 .. to get 2376. 07 B.C. to 01 A.D. is 8 years. So ... the birth of Jesus Christ is a time marker .. regarding the zodiac, and Earth precession. -- Michael Lawrence Morton (c) 2000
-- Michael Lawrence Morton
http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/mlmindex.htm
http://www.greatdreams.com/gem1.htm
http://mission-ignition.tripod.com