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32 Astrologers Are Reading Wrong Star Sign

Astrology Fans, You’ve Here are the correct dates for the star scientist who seeks higher education and
signs: enlightenment. He’s also an interpreter
Been Reading the Wrong
of dreams, favoured by his father and
Star Sign Capricorn: other authority figures, and expected to
Jan 20 - Feb 16 achieve a high position in life.
Aquarius:
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Feb 16 – March 11 Not too shabby, eh?
Pisces:
March 11 – April 18 If you’re still not sure that your
“The constellations are different sizes
Aries: personality fits your new star sign, of
and shapes, so the Sun spends different
April 18 – May 13 course, it doesn’t matter too much; after
lengths of time lined up with each one,” a
Taurus: all, there’s nobody to stop you reading
spokesperson explained.
May 13 – June 21 your old horoscope.
Gemini:
“The line from Earth through the Sun
June 21 – July 20 As Nasa explains, no one has shown that
points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points
Cancer: astrology can be used to predict the future
to Scorpius for only 7 days. To make a
July 20 – Aug 10 or describe what people are like based
tidy match with their 12-month calendar,
Leo: only on their birth date.”
the Babylonians ignored the fact that the
Aug 10 – Sept 16
Sun actually moves through 13
Virgo: They add that the zodiac is “not science”
constellations, not 12.
Sept 16 – Oct 30 and that it simply offers comfort in a
Libra: similar manner to “reading fantasy
“Then they assigned each of those 12
Oct 30 – Nov 23 stories”. []
constellations equal amounts of time.
Scorpio:
Besides the 12 familiar constellations of
Nov 23 – Nov 29
the zodiac, the Sun is also aligned with
Ophiuchus:
Ophiuchus for about 18 days each year.”
Nov 29 – Dec 17
Sagittarius:
The constellation, which comes from
Dec 17 – Jan 20
Greek words meaning “serpent bearing”
is commonly represented by a man
The BBC previously speculated that
wrestling a snake.
ancient astrologers perhaps ignored
Ophiuchus because they wanted to chart
Unsurprisingly, Ophiuchus shares many
the 360 degree path of the Sun in a
of the same characteristics as Sagittarius,
mathematically pleasing way of 12 equal
and people with its sign are described as
parts, each one of 30 degrees. Whatever
healers and light-bearers.
the reason, the unfamiliar constellation
represents a man wrestling a serpent,
However, astrologers have a word of
dividing the snake’s body in two parts.
caution for all those assuming their star
sign has changed.
As such, Ophiuchus is considered a
healer of men, a doctor of medicine, or a