What effect will the 10th planet have on astrology?

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The 10th Planet

Is this bad news for astrology? Will they have to rewrite all their astrological charts now this new planet has been discovered?
Will they be predicting doom and destruction when this new planet comes into alignment with any of the others?
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Did they rewrite anything when Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto was discovered? I don't think so.

~~ Paul
Actually, they did. At least when Pluto was discovered -- Pluto became the reigning planet of Scorpio (originally it was Mars), giving supposed attributes of mystery, the unknown, and other things I don't remember right now.

It may take decades, but I think the current zodiac will be rewritten to include the 10th planet. Of course, those doing the rewriting will claim they knew it all along... :rolleyes:
 
I predict that the discovery will have no effect on the accuracy of predictions made by astrologers.
 
Nex said:
It may take decades, but I think the current zodiac will be rewritten to include the 10th planet. Of course, those doing the rewriting will claim they knew it all along... :rolleyes:

Exactly, how pathetic is that? ;)
 
Is there an exact unit of patheticness? (Pathos?)

The Pathon?

If so, I would rate this about 4 decipathons, (0.4P) on a standardised scale where 1 Uri Geller broadcast rates 1 Pathon.

Other suggestions for calibrating the Pathon scale are sought.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Is there an exact unit of patheticness? (Pathos?)

The Pathon?

If so, I would rate this about 4 decipathons, (0.4P) on a standardised scale where 1 Uri Geller broadcast rates 1 Pathon.

Other suggestions for calibrating the Pathon scale are sought.
Wait, is this a Uri Geller broadcast pre- or post-debunking? The current saddingly pathetic Geller, or the milder pathetic Geller of 30 years ago?

I think there is a difference, and our standard of measure must be accurately defined. :D

If the standard is Geller's current level, then I think we may be looking at 0.3P, in my opinion.
 
I'm sure the effect on horoscopes will involve a great deal of new data. As for the effect on accuracy of horoscopes I'm guessing it will have the same effect as the other 9 planets, planetoids, asteroids, hemorrhoids, comets, etc - nuttin', honey.
 
They're not rewriting much if they continue to call the planet "Dave." It doesn't sound mystical enough to affect astrology.
 
O ye skeptics of little faith.
I predict the opening of a whole new market of enlightenment goodies and trinkets. Somewhere out there is an artist already working up a cool design of the lonely new planet with a little gold moon.

And the new books oh the books! The site below captures the flavor of this huge opportunity. In one page they've managed to introduce a new class of astrology promising new insights.

Note how easily the terms of science are neatly grafted in.

http://www.karmastrology.com/Sedna-meaning.shtml

...Sedna’s placement in the natal chart is not so much a mystery as a revelation of a new aspect of ourselves which each of us as individuals must now learn to integrate into our conscious being: the caretaker of humanity and this planet.

...Then ka-boom. Sedna arrives. A 10,500-year orbit? How in the world does that fit into this nice little schema of inner and outer planets? Short answer: Sedna doesn’t. Sedna represents a new category of planet, a third category which hasn’t been officially named by the astrological community. However, my third house Moon in Aries demands a label, so for the purposes of our discussion here I’m going call Sedna the first of the Great Year planets .

Here’s why. The Great Year is defined by the precession of the equinoxes, and the precessed cycle is some 25,770 years long by current scientific calculations. Geophysically precession is simply the slow wobble of the Earth’s axis, and it gives us the 12 ages of the zodiac, the Age of Aquarius and the Age of Pisces being the most current and most famous.

The Mayan calendar, tied inextricably to Mayan cosmology and its attendant astrological system, neatly defines the demarcation point for the ending and beginning of a Great Year as that time when the Sun, the ecliptic, and the centre of the galaxy are conjunct. That only happens once every 25,770 years, and December, 2012 is the next occurrence. The centre of the galaxy, now around 27 degrees Sagittarius, was considered a sacred spot by the Mayans, the place from with God emerges, to very crudely translate their complex cosmology. These days we know the centre of our galaxy, and most galaxies for that matter, to be a black hole, an intriguing phenomenon which likely is also a dimensional gap into the metaphysical planes.
 
Speaking of Sedna....

When that was discovered, I saw an astrology site using an image of Io to depict Sedna. :rolleyes:
 
Astrologers have already fixed on "Xena":

Breathless scientists announced the discovery of our Solar System's 10th planet on July 29, 2005, and promptly named it Xena, after the warrior princess from TV series of the same name.

The release of the preliminary ephemeris now marks the beginning of the fun for astrologers. We'll be spending no small amount of time divining the astrological meaning and significance of Xena. You may expect this process to be fascinating. The teaching in western astrology, the only astrological system in the world which accepts new planets, is that when a new planet is discovered and named, the archetype of that planet is available to everyone on Earth. The name of the planet counts, so does the planet's mythology and the story of the planet.

But one conclusion may certainly be drawn right away. If the name Xena sticks, then this new planet will represent the female archetype of sacred warrior. Chiron represents the male archetype of sacred warrior. Both archetypes are now discovered in the cosmos and are available to each person on this planet. This would be a call to each of us to balance the yin and yang, male and female within. The era of matriarchal or patriarchal dominance is over. We enter a period where both are celebrated together, and not one at the expense of the other.
So the name they give it determines how it affects your horoscope.
 
I've had this dicussion with a female co-worker. She was talking about Chinese astrology and I said I didn't believe in any astrology, especially now they have discovered a tenth planet.

She went all quiet and I thought that was the end of the discussion.

However later I discovered that she had spoken to someone else at work the next day (my girlfriend as it happens) and she said that I had got "angry" about astrology (I absolutely hadn't) and that she had asked her husband/ex (long story, don't ask) about my comment about the tenth planet. I don't know why his opinion was so relevent - maybe he is a Chinese astrologer or something.

Anyway his answer apparently was "The tenth planet doesn't matter - Chinese astrology only works according to to the planets we can see".

Wow! Really?

I do wonder why she didn't feel prepared to some back and actually tell me this little piece of information directly.
I can assure you my response wouldn't have been one of anger.

Quite the opposite in fact. :)
 
RichardR said:
So the name they give it determines how it affects your horoscope.
Indeed. Sedna, for example, was some sort of ocean goddess apparently, so Guess what some astrologers blamed on that? Only after it had happened, of course.

I was hoping the new planet would be named after Ninkasi.
 

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