Over centuries, the mainstream western zodiac has shifted ~25 ° out of alignment with the constellations of the living sky. ![]() The stars seem to drift at a rate of 1 ° every 72 years, barely enough to notice but if you chart the position of sunrise at the equinoxes, you would see this change. This is due largely to the slow drift of the stars (relative to our seasons), or 'precession of the equinox'. Once known as "divination by means of astronomy" in ancient Greece, astrology today drifts ever-further out of alignment with the actual heavens. did you know that in ancient times and through its development, astrology was aligned precisely with the science of astronomy, but was de-coupled from science almost 2000 years ago, when most people thought that the Earth was the absolute center of a universe which rotated around it ? Astrology in the west hasn't lined up with the actual sky since then, even though all of the classic (Ptolemaic) ideas that we inherit about the qualities of the signs actually arose from scientific sky-watching! The story gets worse. that the classic zodiac signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc) are named after the constellations that the planets and luminaries pass through? Ok. ![]() Did you know that mainstream western astrology emerged directly from our ancestral star-watching roots?.
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