I am Gemini!

Some craziness happened with the Astrological Signs or some shit, I don't know it's still kind of fuzzy to me, but all I know is that I was a Cancer yesterday and now I am a Gemini. Which sucks cause I have the Zodiac Sign for Cancer tattooed on my right wrist. This is from Troy Reimink from The Grand Rapids Press:

If your astrological forecast is inaccurate today, there's an explanation – other than the usual explanation of “it's all made up, anyway,” I mean.

Confusing messages from the stars? Only if you believe that sort of thing.

The Internet is all atwitter with news that threatens to upend the industries of horoscope writing, little symbolic knick-knack manufacturing and ill-considered lower-back Zodiac-sign tattooing: Your astrological sign isn't what you think it is.

According to astronomers at the Minnesota Planetarium Society, here's how your date of birth aligns with the constellations:

Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11
Pisces: March 11-April 18
Aries: April 18-May 13
Taurus: May 13-June 21
Gemini: June 21-July 20
Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23-29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20

Wait, 13 signs? Ophiuchus? Let's slow down. The system still observed by people who take astrology seriously dates to the Babylonians, who started with 13 and ditched Ophiuchus, the “snake handler,” because they wanted an even 12 to match the number of months in the year.

But is the Age of Capricorn the new Age of Aquarius? Sure, but only if you want to be, like, technical about it. The origin of this discussion – “new zodiac sign dates” is a Google hot trend item, in case you're wondering – is a brief piece in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune in which an astronomer merely points out that the positions of constellations relative to the calendar, as observed by the Babylonians, no longer correspond to the dates they appear today.

The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was "in" on the day a person was born. During the ensuing millenniums, the moon's gravitational pull has made the Earth "wobble" around its axis, creating about a one-month bump in the stars' alignment.

So should everybody re-examine their personalities? Start reading a different horoscope for spiritual guidance? Divorce the spouses they married because their signs allegedly matched?

Well, it's your life. An astronomer pointing out the flaws in astrology, by the way, is kind of like a doctor explaining why you shouldn't drill holes in a person's head to let the demons out. In other words, the extent to which this information is cosmos-shattering probably depends on how much you 're willing to let grumpy ol' science blow the whistle on superstition.

I don't know what to make of any of that...but...hey...if you get something from it, then I'm glad I posted it! 

-Mike