Almost all people who think they know their star signs are wrong:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...reading-the-wrong-horoscope-your-entire-life/
The stars have shifted since the standard connection between date and sign was made.
It's pretty funny to point this out to people who regularly read their horoscope that they've been reading the wrong one.
Not to defend astrology, as I am an advanced amateur astronomer...
The fact of precession of the Earth's axis, which causes the astrological signs to drift with respect to the starry firmament by one sign about every 2,000 years, is the result of the framework being tied to the First Point of Aries. That is, the intersection of the ecliptic and celestial equator. In other words, the astrological frame is anchored to the precessing Earth, and not to the stars themselves.
The astrological signs were created from the starry patterns when astrology was being established, and their locations with respect to the First Point of Aries determined the astrological intervals of exactly 30 degrees. From this fiducial, the signs were destined to drift thereafter.
This being tied to the Earth is necessary so that the signs remain fixed relative to the seasons/calendar. Otherwise, if the signs were tied to the stars, an Arian would be born in Mar/Apr a couple thousand years ago, but some 12,000 years later a Mar/Apr baby would be a Libran.
Astrology is very geometrical. Which is why the astronomer who raises the fact of the constellations Ophiuchus straddling a small part of the ecliptic means there should be 13 signs misunderstands the mathematical framework.
Now, the starry patterns inspiring the astrological signs are themselves problematic, in that they suggest the cart did indeed follow the horse. Unless some supernatural force so arranged the stars that the only outcome would be the constellations and hence signs that correspond to human nature as laid out.
But we are wise to discount the supernatural element for a number of reasons. We know the stars have for the most part existed for at least millions, and for most, billions of years. As they orbit the Galaxy, even small differences in their orbits induce proper motions that cause the patterns we see to change markedly after hundreds of thousands of years. To be set on their course from their creation, subject also to the perturbing action of molecular clouds and the spiral density wave in the Galactic gravitational potential, and just happen to present the necessary patterns by the time of Man and thus inspire him to divine his individual nature and destiny therefrom, strains credulity.
Just as Man created God(s), he fitted a story to the patterns of the stars and thence constructed a scheme by which to attempt to divine his own nature and make predictions of his fate. It most certainly was not the other way round, where the scheme came first and then, lo and behold, the matching patterns were right there in the stars for all to see.
