New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy Latest news update about;New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy;An astrological controversy erupted online Thursday after a newspaper article erroneously suggested that the dates that determine the Zodiac signs had shifted by about a month, throwing millions of believers into self-doubt and panic.
Fear not: your sign remains the same.
PHOTOS: New Zodiac Signs?
New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy The tilt of the Earth's axis has gradually shifted since the ancient times when the Babylonians determined the dates of the Zodiac. The calendrical rejiggering also supposedly re-introduced a sign discarded by the Babylonians: Ophiuchus, alternatively called the much-cooler sounding Serpentarius.
Under this calculus your correspondent, an erstwhile Aquarius, is now a Capricorn.
Twitter, predictably, exploded with outrage and irony. One user, @pnuts_mama, tweeted, "it's our identity!! ahh!! existential crisis!! postmodernism defined!!" Time magazine's television critic James Poniewozik joked, "I'm not a Cancer? Suddenly all those bigoted anti-Gemini pamphlets I self-published look embarrassing."New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy
Fear not: your sign remains the same.
PHOTOS: New Zodiac Signs?
New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy The tilt of the Earth's axis has gradually shifted since the ancient times when the Babylonians determined the dates of the Zodiac. The calendrical rejiggering also supposedly re-introduced a sign discarded by the Babylonians: Ophiuchus, alternatively called the much-cooler sounding Serpentarius.
Under this calculus your correspondent, an erstwhile Aquarius, is now a Capricorn.
Twitter, predictably, exploded with outrage and irony. One user, @pnuts_mama, tweeted, "it's our identity!! ahh!! existential crisis!! postmodernism defined!!" Time magazine's television critic James Poniewozik joked, "I'm not a Cancer? Suddenly all those bigoted anti-Gemini pamphlets I self-published look embarrassing."New Zodiac Signs 2011: Debunking a Zodiac Controversy
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