A person may be in Capricorn, but in reality, at the time of their birth, the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius!
Astrology and Astronomy are different concepts. Astrology is an ancient field that predicts a person’s fate and destiny based on the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. In those days, astrology and astronomy were equated – in fact, many ancient astronomers made scientific observations that are still valid today.
Many ancient astronomers made scientific observations that are still valid today.
But when Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo realized that the planets revolved around the Sun and not the Earth, and Newton discovered the laws of physics behind their operation, astrology and astronomy were “on the way.” Let’s go” , never reunited again.
And astronomy right now is in conflict with one of the fundamental principles that underlie astrology: the days of the zodiac.
In one year, the Sun will pass through a belt containing 12 constellations , or ancient groups of stars. They are grouped into zodiac signs and visualized as animals, such as antelope (Aries), crabs (Cancer), and lions (Leo). Many will be disappointed to learn that the actual shapes of these constellations look nothing like the animals they represent. How can that be, when they’re really just randomly scattered stars? They only act as representations, not representations.
Although the constellations of the zodiac, which have been proposed by astrologers since Mesopotamia or earlier, appear to be immutable, they are only a typical example of the concepts that have been developed. presented by many different cultures around the world – each with their own and often very different ideas about the structure of the sky. For example, the Incas drew constellations not from stars, but from dark areas of the galaxy.
The number of constellations in the Western zodiac is derived from the number of cycles of the Moon, which orbits the Earth 12.4 times per year. Each new Moon, the Sun faces a different constellation, and behind the Sun is another constellation. Although these stars are not visible during the day, you can tell the constellation in front of the Sun by looking up at the night sky. At this point, you will see the constellation opposite it.
The number of constellations in the Western zodiac is taken from the number of phases of the Moon.
Astrology says that each sign of the zodiac will fit within an interval of 30 degrees of the sky – a 360-degree sky will be evenly divided into 12 intervals, corresponding to 12 signs. In reality, things are not like that, because constellations have very different shapes and sizes. For example, the Sun passes through the constellation Scorpio in just 5 days, but it takes 38 days to pass through the constellation Taurus. That is one of the reasons that astrological signs do not coincide with the constellations of the zodiac.
Shapes of the zodiac.
The main reason astrological signs don’t coincide with the zodiac is a “shaking” on the Earth’s axis of rotation – called a ” precession” (or “precession”) . For some reason during rotation, the Earth bulges slightly at the equator. The gravity of the Moon and the Sun will create a pull on the Earth at this bulge, causing the Earth to shake like a gyroscope. This shaking causes the Earth’s axis – the central line around which the Earth orbits – to swing in a rather slow cycle, over 25,800 years!
This motion changes the angle of view of the zodiac signs from Earth, causing the constellations to slide eastward by nearly 1 degree over the course of a person’s life. Though slow, precession was discovered with the naked eye by Hipparchus of Nicaea around 150 BC.
The shaking of the Earth’s axis causes the dates in the zodiac to deviate from the original
In ancient times, the vernal equinox – or the first day of spring – was Aries. Because of precession, the date shifted to Pisces around 100 BC – its current position will continue until 2,700 AD, when it transitions to Aquarius and so on. customary. After more than 25,800 years, it will return to Aries and the cycle will begin again.
If viewed as a game, astrology and predictions about human fate and character can sound quite amusing. However, these have no scientific origin. The correlation between astrology and science, like the game “Billionaire Chess” and the real estate market – has no correlation at all!
Astrology makes us forget about the very real effects of the planets, mainly the effects of their gravity on another planet and causing changes in the shape, size, inclination of the planets. their rotational orbits. On Earth, such changes are more likely to have been responsible for previous ice ages. Direct collisions between Earth and extraterrestrial entities can cause very rapid changes, such as the event that a meteorite crashed into the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago leading to global effects, including the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammals.
Astronomical research can help us predict such events. What about astrology? It leads you nowhere.