
These two zodiac signs are also honest and sincere, which makes them incredible people to get close to, especially in a serious, long-term relationship. Easygoing and practical in their everyday lives, their relationship is cool, calm and collected. Virgo and TaurusĪs both are earth signs, Virgo and Taurus really hit it off.

The passion these two signs have for life, love, and each other is incredibly intoxicating. You know the type: the exact couple you have wanted to be for years. This is the couple that's so fun, everyone flocks to be around them. Both are fire signs and have a profound understanding of the other, which helps them to get along so easily. They are both passionate about what they want out of this world and extremely encouraging in helping the other achieve any goal or dream. The passion is high between Leo and Sagittarius, as both signs both enjoy life and love others who feel the same. The end result is a deep, mental connection that isn't easily taken away. Pisces is all about connection with others, while Cancer is devoted to nurturing those around them. Because as well as giving meaning to alignments-which makes no sense-their alignments are 3,000 years out of date.To make things even better, they have very compatible individual traits that mesh well together. So next time someone reads your horoscope or says “typical Capricorn!” you can know, for sure, that they’re talking complete gibberish. So on your birthday the Sun very probably is not in same star sign that traditional astrology says it is. In short, the apparent positions of the stars have shifted west. The result is that the “North Star” constantly changes and so do the equinox points. Precession is a natural process lasting 25,800 years that sees Earth wobble on its axis-rather like a spinning top-because of the Moon’s gravitational influence. It’s partly because the star signs were rounded down to 12-omitting Ophiuchus-and then rounded-up to each cover a month.īut there’s something big that’s happened since Babylonian times.Įarth has precessed in the last 3,000 years, which is when the astrological star signs were codified by the Babylonians that lived in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq and Syria. So what’s happened? Why are the traditional star signs all out of whack? For example, it’s in and out of Scorpio in just a week while it spends a whopping 45 days in Virgo. Look more carefully at the list of real star sign dates and you’ll see that the Sun spends a vastly different time within the boundaries of each zodiacal constellation. So while many of us are the star sign before the one we think we are, many Sagitarians are actually Ophiucuns.

a period of the year traditionally thought of as Sagittarius. It’s real! The Sun enters the constellation of Ophiuchus on November 29 and departs on December 18. gettyĭid you spot the “new” one? The 13th sign of the zodiac is Ophiuchus (pronoucned or-phew-cuss), a summer constellation well known to stargazers but ignored by traditional astrology. the Sun appears to pass in front every year. The 12-but actually 13-constellations of the zodiac, the "circle of animals," are the constellations. The real star sign dates Capricorn:Īctual: November 23–November 29 OphiuchusĪctual: November 29–December 17 Sagittarius So here’s a list of the star signs-the signs of the zodiac-with their traditional dates and the actual dates that the Sun is within their boundaries each year.

If that’s you then you’ll want to know which horoscope you should be reading.
