Why are zodiacs accurate

Astrology is not a very scientific way to answer questions. The community of scientists evaluates its ideas against evidence from the natural world and rejects or modifies those ideas when evidence doesn't support them.

Astrologers do not take the same critical perspective on their own astrological ideas. Hence, the results did not support the validity of astrological explanations. A double-blind test of astrology. Nature Horoscope from www. Aims to explain the natural world? Astrology uses a set of rules about the relative positions and movements of heavenly bodies to generate predictions and explanations for events on Earth and human personality traits.

For example, some forms of astrology predict that a person born just after the spring equinox is particularly likely to become an entrepreneur. Stay cautious and focused, and go for it. For me, I feel that not everybody is exactly like their zodiac description… not enough for people to accurately guess what their sign is by observation anyway. But I do feel people are likely to have tendencies towards the personality descriptions based on their zodiac sign than others.

For me, I feel if I know their zodiac, I can have a little better idea of what I might expect in dealing with them and it's easier for me to accept their faults because I think of it as a nature they can't help.

Hmm, but then I just learned about "moon signs" and "rising signs" and that could affect things too. In the end, I really don't know if it is true or not, but have found it to be more or less accurate with my friends and family. However, I don't take it too seriously since there's no concrete evidence for it. The astrological calendar we use today was drawn out for the Roman calendar under the assumption that the world was flat and the seasons were equally long when we now know the earth's closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere's spring and summer but farther from the sun during its fall and winter.

No one knows how they knew there's only days a year, every 4 yours, and every years. When I was 16, my sister took me to the planetarium where I told a professional astrologer there I was born on October 20th and he told me I'm not really a Libra but really a Scorpio and explained to me just what I just explained to you. The horoscope, tarot cards, and "sun, moon, and planet signs" are just a perversion of astrology.

Sun's not in a sign. The earth is. The moon doesn't have signs. It has phases. It doesn't matter what sign the planets were in when we were born because we weren't born on planets. We were born on the earth where we belong. True astrology consists of astronomy and basic human psychology. Our signs naturally affect our personalities but no one's exactly like their sign. Mental and emotional disabilities obviously also affect our personalities. Personalities are also hereditary.

I started reading about this stuff just over 8 years ago. My girlfriend's an introverted, powerhoused, and sensual Taurus born under a waning crescent moon whereas I'm an introverted, powerhoused, and emotional Scorpio born under a waxing crescent moon. If you have enjoyed a young psychologist's blog please visit my new website DearHoopers. Travelers used the skies as a compass, following the stars to know where to go.

And many people used the skies as a source of mystical direction, too. But who first looked up at the sky to make sense of what was happening down on the ground and why their fellow humans were behaving in certain ways?

Exactly who came up with this way of thinking and when is unclear, but historians and astronomers do know a bit about how it got so popular today. The stars are just one of the many things in the natural world that human beings have turned to for answers over the years. That was taken over by the idea of divination, where you can actually look at things in nature and study them carefully, such as tea-leaf reading.

Odenwald points out that in societies where people in the lower classes had less control over their lives, divination could seem pointless. The Sumarians and Babylonians, by around the middle of the second millennium BC, appeared to have had many divination practices — they looked at spots on the liver and the entrails of animals, for example — and their idea that watching planets and stars was a way to keep track of where gods were in the sky can be traced to The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.

Imagine a straight line drawn from Earth through the Sun and out into space way beyond our solar system where the stars are. Then, picture Earth following its orbit around the Sun. This imaginary line would rotate, pointing to different stars throughout one complete trip around the Sun — or, one year. All the stars that lie close to the imaginary flat disk swept out by this imaginary line are said to be in the zodiac. The constellations in the zodiac are simply the constellations that this imaginary straight line points to in its year-long journey.

These Western, or tropical, zodiac signs were named after constellations and matched with dates based on the apparent relationship between their placement in the sky and the sun. The Babylonians had already divided the zodiac into 12 equal signs by BC — boasting similar constellation names to the ones familiar today, such as The Great Twins, The Lion, The Scales — and these were later incorporated into Greek divination. The astronomer Ptolemy, author of the Tetrabiblos, which became a core book in the history of Western astrology, helped popularize these 12 signs.