Yeah, it looks like someone tipped a salt shaker in the night sky to us too.
Photo: via Fine Art Photoblog , Thumb via Scientific American
Don’t feel like yourself this week? Maybe it’s the cold and dreary Evanston winter? The lack of sun could have your Vitamin D levels all out of whack. Or it may just be you, namely, your personality. At least that’s what a firestorm of articles (and frantic tweets) about a changing zodiac would have liked you to believe. It all started with the publication of an article in Sunday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune that claimed you may not be the astrological sign you thought you were because of precession— the idea that the orientation of the Earth’s axis to the sun changes over time, and so too our relation to constellations. Astrologers cried foul. And then we found out the outcry was all for naught. Darn pseudoscience. There are two zodiacs, and as long as you live in the west, the version you use isn’t based on constellations. So yes, you can keep that Scorpio tramp stamp without feeling like a fraud.
