“Astronomy is a scientific concept based on 3D material reality.
“It’s important to remember that astrology is NOT astronomy,” she adds. Hence the move from Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.” Western astrology (tropical) sticks with the unchanging positions and accounts for the apparent shift via the great ages (around 2,500 years in each sign). Eastern astrology (sidereal) reads the planets against the current view of the constellations. The constellations have not shifted, the wobble of the earth’s axis creates the impression that they have. When I ask her if NASA’s comments about shifting stars has any impact on the zodiac signs, Gerosa explains: “ is due to the precession of the equinoxes. It just wasn’t selected by the ancient astrologers to be one of the 12 zodiac signs.” Pauline Gerosa, the consultant astrologer behind Astrology Oracle, tells me: “Ophiuchus has always been one of the constellations that fall along the ecliptic. However, astrologers have a word of warning to all those frantically casting the old zodiac aside.
Essentially, they reckon that the stars have shifted, we’ve been reading the wrong horoscope all this time, and there’s a new star sign – Ophiuchus – in the mix (more on that later).