sign astrology

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The tropical zodiac is semiology, a genuine " sign " system. Physicists

beg the question when they point out the signs of the zodiac don't

line up with the real constellations. Try explaining by analogy with

a game. Any game is voluntary unlike the scientific search for laws

of nature. There are two sides to most games. Astrology's relation to

the real universe is analogous to the relation of the game of chess

to geopolitics. On the other side, tropical sign astrology is out of

bounds when it claims to be more than a semiology. (BH)

 

" The ecliptic is a circle, and the thing about a circle is that it

doesn't have a beginning or an end. if you want to be able to measure

something along a circle, you have to establish some sort of a

reference point. The Zodiac as we know it today was first used by the

Ancient Greeks over 2,000 years ago. Their year began with the Spring

Equinox, and so it made sense to pick that point;­ that is, the

point in the sky where the Sun appeared to be at the time of the

Spring Equinox, as the reference point, and divide the ecliptic into

12 equal segments from there. At the time, the Spring Equinox

occurred when the Sun was in the band of the ecliptic that also

included part of the Constellation of Aries. The first 30 degree

division of the ecliptic was named " Aries " , and the remaining 11

segments were likewise named after the well-known and

easily-recognized constellations that roughly corresponded in

sequence. The Greeks never used the actual constellations to measure

the positions of the planets, however, because the constellations did

not divide the ecliptic into equal segments. "

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