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> It’s the date that determines parts of her personality, her passions, her romantic interests and, to some degree, her life decisions. One day it came to be f

by nirui 3y ago

> It’s the date that determines parts of her personality, her passions, her romantic interests and, to some degree, her life decisions. One day it came to be from a female colleague during a fun meeting. The vibe was too good to be disturbed, so I just skipped all birthday hoops and told her my star sign is Orion, then I asked her to search online if she wanted to know the attributes. My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy.

lern_too_spel 3y ago
> My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy. What matters in astrology is the constellations that the sun passes through. You can learn some basic astronomy by figuring out the movement of planets in the solar system as seen from Earth, as the ancient astrologers (up to Kepler) did in order to predict their locations in the future, which they (erroneously) believed would allow them to predict auspicious days for their patrons.
jcranmer 3y ago
> My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy. If you're going to criticize astrology on astronomical grounds, you should at least learn enough of the astronomical basis of astrology to understand how to criticize it. In this case, there's 12 astrological signs because the ecliptic passes through 12 constellations. (Actually, there's an interesting discussion about Ophiuchus, but this is where it's helpful to know that the constellations aren't well-fixed in divided space, IAU's process of doing so notwithstanding, and for astrological purposes, the ecliptic is instead divided into 12 equal-sized regions, each one labeled with a constellation)

by nirui 3y ago

lern_too_spel 3y ago

> My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy. What matters in astrology is the constellations that the sun passes through. You can learn some basic astronomy by figuring out the movement of planets in the solar system as seen from Earth, as the ancient astrologers (up to Kepler) did in order to predict their locations in the future, which they (erroneously) believed would allow them to predict auspicious days for their patrons.

jcranmer 3y ago

> My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy. If you're going to criticize astrology on astronomical grounds, you should at least learn enough of the astronomical basis of astrology to understand how to criticize it. In this case, there's 12 astrological signs because the ecliptic passes through 12 constellations. (Actually, there's an interesting discussion about Ophiuchus, but this is where it's helpful to know that the constellations aren't well-fixed in divided space, IAU's process of doing so notwithstanding, and for astrological purposes, the ecliptic is instead divided into 12 equal-sized regions, each one labeled with a constellation)