FFR: Astronomically-correct horoscopes

The newspaper says I’m a “Virgo,” which implies that the sun was in the constellation Virgo at the moment of my birth. It wasn’t. It was actually in Leo. This isn’t a small error: it’s off by nearly two weeks.

It turns out most people’s “star sign” is similarly wrong. There are, in fact, thirteen constellations on the ecliptic (the path traced by the sun through the stars.) And they are very different sizes! For example: the sun is in Scorpius for all of seven days. But it’s in Virgo for almost six weeks.

If you ever need proof that astrology is a fat load of hooey, remember this: Astrologers are consistently wrong about the one thing in their world that is instantly, observationally verifiable. And they’ve been wrong about it since the second century AD.

Anyhoo, for future reference: Astronomically-correct horoscopes