Horoscopes are for fun!

Daily horoscopes are meant to be a fun and entertaining way to see how your day will turn out.  If your horoscope said that today is your lucky day and you end up purchasing a winning lottery ticket, that is great but merely a coincidence, albeit, a very pleasant and exciting one.  The content on this website relies solely on unscientific, subjective interpretations and therefore should never be used as a replacement for licensed professional doctors, lawyers, financial advisors, or therapists.  Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist Carl Jung who founded the school of analytic psychology referred to horoscopes as “meaningful coincidences” and that is about as close to an explanation for why horoscopes sometimes seem to predict the future.  The horoscope is similar to a Chinese fortune cookie.  If a forecast comes true, it should not be given any more relevance or importance than receiving financial advice from a stranger you had just met at a bus stop.  Remember to always seek professional advice for critical life choices.

Can The Earth’s Wobble Change Your Sun Sign?

The earth’s wobble would cause your sun sign to change if the zodiac constellations moved in the night sky. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how much you like your sun sign and according to horoscopic astrology, the constellations don’t move. Therefore, the horoscope dates never change and neither will your sun sign. The planets, stars and constellations are merely symbolic but are not meant to be taken literally in the astronomical sense.

Horoscopic astrology first appeared in Egypt nearly 3,000 years ago. Those that say the sun signs change over time are referring to the “precession of the equinox” which is the gradual change in the Earth’s axis of rotation. This change in rotation would seem to move the dates of the zodiac.

Vedic astrologers take into consideration the earth’s wobble and is different from horoscopic astrology by almost one sun sign. However, Vedic astrology does not account for the differences in size of the different constellations. Some constellations occupy a much greater space in the night sky than 30 degrees or one-twelfth of a 360 degree circle. Therefore, Vedic astrology or any other astrological system based on the earth’s wobble cannot be used to determine what are traditionally known as the twelve signs of the zodiac.

Can Astrology Be Proven (updated)

I took a pseudoscience university course a number of years ago and did a paper on Michel Gauquelin, a psychologist and statistician who attempted to demonstrate the validity of astrology for more than 40 years. He was not an astrologer and actually opposed the practice of it.

He set out to prove a correlation between the positions of the planets at the time of birth and certain human characteristics. After going over thousands of birth charts, there appeared to be statistical positions of the planet Mars in the charts of athletes (called the Mars Effect), with similar placings of the planet Jupiter for actors, and with Saturn for scientists. His calculations and assumptions were verified by a third party in 1960 by the Belgian Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of Paranormal Phenomenon.  This same committee later changed its mind and to save face, set out to disprove Gauquelin’s findings. If you ever have a chance to do the research, the reasons for this reversal become fairly obvious. It is similar to the stories that you read or even some of the things you have experienced first hand when an organization or individual approves something and then withdraws their support when they come to realize all the negative press they receive.

Update:  after reading numerous journals and accounts both for and against his findings and taking into account all the political wrangling that was occurring to try and disprove his studies, I came to the conclusion that Gauquelin had not proven a causal relationship but only a correlation between sports champions and positions of the planet Mars in the sky at the time of their births. While this is an interesting finding, it did not conclusively prove that astrology is anything but a pseudoscience.