What's Your Sign? You Might Be Wrong (But I'm Not!)

Desperate to have a story--any story--that doesn't even have a tangential relation to the one that has been dominating the last few days (I can relate), Rachel Maddow went for a little topical frivolity. But, she may have unwittingly stepped in it, and freaked a bunch of people out!  The story was about the Zodiac, and the recent discovery that we're wrong about the Zodiac signs. Apparently, there are supposed to be 13, not 12 Zodiac signs. Yep, I guess there's a new sign called Ophiuchus. But squeezing in the 13th throws off nearly everybody's sign.

Now, don't have a cow, Taurus. There are apparently two major understandings of the Zodiac, and the one we Americans typically follow is unchanged. We're the feet and inches group, and the metric system is the group that's affected. Or something. Anyway, it's all moot to me, since my birthday--April 19--falls under Aries in both! And don't gimme that jazz about "I don't follow astrology." Everybody has got a little affinity for their sign, and occasionally looks up their horoscope. Don't they?

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No, your zodiac sign hasn't changed




Tattoo parlor owners must be salivating. An assertion in a Minneapolis Star Tribune article that our understanding of the zodiac is off by about a month - and that therefore people have been identifying themselves with the wrong sign - caught fire on the internet Thursday, and many folks are in an absolute panic on social media. . .


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