View Single Post
  #8 (permalink)  
Old 17-August-2006, 03:57 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 5,530
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Fire View Post
Quote:
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually 13 zodiacal constellations, if you pay attention to the way astronomers define them.
The twelve astrological "houses" familiar from newspaper horoscopes span 30 degrees each, so violate all the zodiacal constellation boundaries. Two of the houses (Scorpio and Capricorn) don't even have the same names as their parent constellations. The houses have also shifted relative to the background stars in the last few millennia, so that the astrological house of Ares is sitting in the constellation Pisces, and so on around the sky.

Grant Hutchison
Reply With Quote