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What the Astrologers don't tell you...
If you were born between the 1st and 15th of December then your star sign is not Sagittarius as you thought, but Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus is the thirteenth constellation through which the sun passes, and isn't included on astrological calendars!The zodiac is a strip of sky where the sun, moon and most planets are found. Any star atlas will show the zodiac divided into 13 constellations of various sizes. The 13th constellation is Ophiuchus, between Scorpius and Sagittarius. Besides these 13, there are 75 more constellations covering the rest of the sky.
However, astrologers divide the zodiac into 12 equal parts, called signs. Each sign is named after a constellation - but there the resemblance ends. The signs in fact have little to do with the real sky, and are inventions of convenience. And Ophiuchus, which should be the 13th sign, plus the other 75 constellations, are simply left out.
Why the star signs do not match the sky: And if the 13th sign isn't alarming enough, the 12 zodiac signs you did know about don't match the actual positions of the constellations! The reason is that while the earth spins once in 24 hours, it also has other movements. Just like a spinning top, the earth has a slow wobble (called precession as it spins. It’s really slow - taking 26,000 years to do one wobble. This causes the Zodiac constellations to drift through the sky. The Egyptian and Greek astrologers 4,000 years ago chose signs that more-or-less matched the constellations. But today, because of precession, the moving constellations have left the signs far behind. Today they are seriously out of step (by about 1 sign).
Compare any astronomical star calendar with the zodiac one, and you'll see the following:
Wow ~ I had no clue about this! See what happens when you Google 'Sagittarius'!