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- From: rigking@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (GAVIN KING)
- Subject: StarSigns??
- Message-ID: <rigking.1.727962487@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Halls of Residence, Monash University
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:48:07 GMT
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- A question for all you astrologers: do you think that the predictive power
- of astrology has been harmed by the fact that, due to the precession of the
- Earth about its axis, the Sun is no longer positioned in the constellation
- which is assigned to a person when they are born, on their date of birth. (a
- bit of background for non-astrologers: in ancient times a person's star sign
- was chosen on the basis of the constellation in which the Sun was positioned
- at a person's birth. Since then, precession has altered the date at which
- the Sun moves into each constellation, but no attempt has been made by
- astrologers to alter the star signs of people born between the ancient and
- present dates.
-
- Gav.
-