You seem to keep forgetting that EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG when it comes to the birth signs. We've been over this. Precession. You weren't born under the sign you think you were. All this time you have thought you fit under one sign and it turns out YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN UNDER IT!
Now you keep interjecting in every thread what sign you think someone is BASED ON THE WRONG DATES. It's silly to continue with it once you know it's blatantly FALSE.
You seem to keep forgetting that EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG when it comes to the birth signs. We've been over this. Precession. You weren't born under the sign you think you were. All this time you have thought you fit under one sign and it turns out YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN UNDER IT!
Now you keep interjecting in every thread what sign you think someone is BASED ON THE WRONG DATES. It's silly to continue with it once you know it's blatantly FALSE.
You have every right to post here. Who am I to ask someone to leave? I have no idea what you're talking about, and no one is asking you to leave. But if you're looking for pity, you won't find it from me or anyone else you ask that question to.
For fuck's sake Carol, don't get so defensive --no one is asking you to leave. I was just voicing my opinion about how all of this saccharine-drenched god forsaken flirtation between these apparently blueballed-loner tech industry professionals and the "new girl that's a super model-ninja-schoolteacher that wears miniskirts" was driving me mad. And it's not your fault, you're merely the catalyst (and a damn good one).
I don't mind having you around, but this flirty bullshit drives me up the wall...
Hey Carol A, we could do a little online experiment. You could guess people's astrological signs based on their posts. Maybe you could even ask them questions or something. Then we could check your accuracy. Are you game?
I loved this special on the Science Channel when this guy picked a random horoscope then walked around the city asking people's signs and giving them the same exact one. They all believed it. That kind of stupidity is both funny and scary.
I'm not asking you to leave. I'm simply asking you to confront the reality that all this time you have spent learning about what different signs mean and linking up your attributes to your birth sign and doing similar things with others has been for naught because you and everyone else who you examined are not the sign you thought you and everyone else was.
You spent time linking up your personality to Sign X. In reality you are Sign Y. When confronted with the truth you have ignored it and still go on insisting you are Sign X and still operate from the incorrect frame of reference. That is all I am saying.
What is the difference between tropical and sidereal astrology and which is better?
When our astrology was formalized in the Hellenistic era after Alexander conquered so much of the civilized world, there was no significant difference between tropical and sidereal astrology. The reason why they have diverged since then is because of a long cycle called the precession of the equinox. Equinox meaning equal night is the time of the year when the day is equal to night, marking the first day of spring and the first day of autumn.
Because of a very gradual cycle of change involving the orbit of the earth around the sun and where its tilt which gives us uneven seasons of light, the relative position of the sun and earth in relation to the stars on this equinoctial days moves backward at the rate of 25,868 years on average. This was apparently known to the Egyptians, as a number very close to this was inscribed in the pyramids. Plato also mentioned it. This means that about every 2,156 years the sun will appear to be in a different constellation on the day of the equinox.
Since the vernal or spring equinox is used as the usual beginning of the year, this means that whereas the sun was at the beginning of Aries when this system was established, in the last 22 or 23 centuries the equinoctial point has moved at least one sign back through the sign of Pisces to the last part of the sign Aquarius. What this means is that the twelve signs of the zodiac that have been used to divide the entire circle into twelve equal parts are no longer lined up with their actual constellations of stars, but they are about a sign off.
Sidereal astrology corrects this and calculates the sign positions according to the actual stars. The word "sidereal" relates to star. Tropical astrology, on the other hand, is based on the idea that the more significant relationship is that between the sun and earth which gives us the regular seasons of the year and thus continues to base the signs on these twelve equal divisions of the seasonal year.
Astronomers have discovered that the electromagnetic field around the earth is primarily influenced by the sun and in particular the energy patterns erupting out of the surface of the sun called the corona. They have also found that the patterns of these solar energies are influenced by the relative position of the various planets in this solar system. Thus tropical astrology believes that these relationships which include the relative position of the planets to the sun are more important than the distant stars which do not impact the earth except as symbols. Most astrologers, including myself, use tropical astrology.
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Now you keep interjecting in every thread what sign you think someone is BASED ON THE WRONG DATES. It's silly to continue with it once you know it's blatantly FALSE.
Originally posted by Ganondorf
It makes me sick too.
Are you inviting me to leave?
Originally posted by BR
You seem to keep forgetting that EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG when it comes to the birth signs. We've been over this. Precession. You weren't born under the sign you think you were. All this time you have thought you fit under one sign and it turns out YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN UNDER IT!
Now you keep interjecting in every thread what sign you think someone is BASED ON THE WRONG DATES. It's silly to continue with it once you know it's blatantly FALSE.
Are you inviting me to leave?
This is a thread about astrology. Please discuss astrology. Take personal issues to a motel room somewhere.
Originally posted by Ganondorf
I have no idea what you're talking about
You said the flirting makes you sick.
That's a fairly definitive statement.
Originally posted by Amorph
Take personal issues to a motel room somewhere.
What personal issues?
Some digression is inevitable, but I'm reacting to what looks a lot like thread degeneration.
I don't mind having you around, but this flirty bullshit drives me up the wall...
Or we could list some of our attributes and have her guess our signs.
Originally posted by DiscoCow
That's a great idea.
Or we could list some of our attributes and have her guess our signs.
that wouldn't work because my attributes are as follows:
Charisma 10
Strength 10
Intelligence 10
Endurance 10
Perception 10
Luck 8
Agility 10
Originally posted by DiscoCow
Okay, I think I've got this one pinned down. What's the sign for compulsive liars?
I saw lots of those signs stuck in people's front yards during the recent primary.
Originally posted by BR
I loved this special on the Science Channel when this guy picked a random horoscope then walked around the city asking people's signs and giving them the same exact one. They all believed it. That kind of stupidity is both funny and scary.
Come to think of it, it's just damn scary
Originally posted by DiscoCow
Okay, I think I've got this one pinned down. What's the sign for compulsive liars?
close, but replace compulsive liar with denizen of the internet
I was born under the sign of the Naked Mole-Rat.
Originally posted by Carol A
Are you inviting me to leave?
I'm not asking you to leave. I'm simply asking you to confront the reality that all this time you have spent learning about what different signs mean and linking up your attributes to your birth sign and doing similar things with others has been for naught because you and everyone else who you examined are not the sign you thought you and everyone else was.
You spent time linking up your personality to Sign X. In reality you are Sign Y. When confronted with the truth you have ignored it and still go on insisting you are Sign X and still operate from the incorrect frame of reference. That is all I am saying.
(from an astrology faq)
What is the difference between tropical and sidereal astrology and which is better?
When our astrology was formalized in the Hellenistic era after Alexander conquered so much of the civilized world, there was no significant difference between tropical and sidereal astrology. The reason why they have diverged since then is because of a long cycle called the precession of the equinox. Equinox meaning equal night is the time of the year when the day is equal to night, marking the first day of spring and the first day of autumn.
Because of a very gradual cycle of change involving the orbit of the earth around the sun and where its tilt which gives us uneven seasons of light, the relative position of the sun and earth in relation to the stars on this equinoctial days moves backward at the rate of 25,868 years on average. This was apparently known to the Egyptians, as a number very close to this was inscribed in the pyramids. Plato also mentioned it. This means that about every 2,156 years the sun will appear to be in a different constellation on the day of the equinox.
Since the vernal or spring equinox is used as the usual beginning of the year, this means that whereas the sun was at the beginning of Aries when this system was established, in the last 22 or 23 centuries the equinoctial point has moved at least one sign back through the sign of Pisces to the last part of the sign Aquarius. What this means is that the twelve signs of the zodiac that have been used to divide the entire circle into twelve equal parts are no longer lined up with their actual constellations of stars, but they are about a sign off.
Sidereal astrology corrects this and calculates the sign positions according to the actual stars. The word "sidereal" relates to star. Tropical astrology, on the other hand, is based on the idea that the more significant relationship is that between the sun and earth which gives us the regular seasons of the year and thus continues to base the signs on these twelve equal divisions of the seasonal year.
Astronomers have discovered that the electromagnetic field around the earth is primarily influenced by the sun and in particular the energy patterns erupting out of the surface of the sun called the corona. They have also found that the patterns of these solar energies are influenced by the relative position of the various planets in this solar system. Thus tropical astrology believes that these relationships which include the relative position of the planets to the sun are more important than the distant stars which do not impact the earth except as symbols. Most astrologers, including myself, use tropical astrology.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.