10 Reasons why Astrology is Fake

Someone once said that Astrology is about as vacant as the space that it worships. Here are some reasons why:

1. The stars in a constellation are sometimes thousands of light-years apart and the connection between them is

arbitrary.

2. When you were born your obstetrician had more gravitational effect on you than any planet or star in the

universe.

3. There are 13 constellations in the Zodiac (not 12). The 13th is Ophiuchus.

4. The Zodiac was established around 2000 years ago. Since then the Zodiac has shifted one sign along, however

the traditional dates for each sign haven't changed. i.e. The Zodiac sign that you were born "under" is meant to be

the constellation that the sun was in front-of during your birth. So if you are a Gemini, the chances are that Cancer

was actually behind the sun during your birth (due to the 2000 year shift in the Zodiac).

5. The natal planet alignment is futile since the time-of-birth is often arbitrarily chosen (i.e. the doctor/nurses may

get the hour right, but not necessarily the minutes).

6. Are all horoscopes done before the discovery of the outermost planets incorrect? Planets get found, demoted

and promoted all the time. Pluto was identified and became a planet in 1930. It was demoted to "dwarf planet" in

2006. Ceres was a planet in the 1800s and then demoted to asteroid in the 1850s and has now been promoted to

dwarf planet again. Xena was discovered in 2003 and became a planet and in 2006 was demoted to dwarf planet.

What's more - Pluto doesn't follow the zodiac path like the other planets (i.e. it will sometimes be in front of non-

zodiac constellations.

7.If the planets influence us astrologically why is this influence independent of distance? Mars is sometimes the

other side of the sun from us and sometimes it is the same side as us, yet this difference has no astrological effect

on us.

8. If distances aren't important in astrology, then where's the astrology of galaxies, quasars, nebulae and black-

holes?

9. Why do horoscopes of the same zodiac sign in different newspapers differ so much?

10. Why is the moment of birth, rather than conception, crucial for astrology? Why does a thin layer of flesh and

blood protect a baby from the planets/stars/sun/moon...and if not then why do premature babies not have different

star-charts than non-prem babies born at the same time on the same day?
 NASA Has No Time for Your Astrology Nonsense
Melissa Locker
Sep 26, 2016
You may have a totally new zodiac sign, according to an astronomy society that redefined the
zodiac calendar, but NASA wants to clarify its role in the matter.
Back in 2011, as TIME reported, astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society found
that because of the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars has shifted.
As Earth's axis changed direction, the disruption resulted in a big change for astrology
believers and horoscope readers: the astrological signs of the western zodiac moved back
approximately a month in the calendar. Following that line of thinking, people who had been
reading the Virgo horoscopes might actually be Leo's. Plus, there was more — a whole new
astrological sign. Anyone born between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17 was now paired up with a new
sign, Ophiuchus.
A few months ago, NASA released a statement aimed at kids, updating the birthday-
constellation alignment, doing so based on the stars’ actual placement in space. According to
the BBC, the updated calendar meant that a whopping 86% of the world now had a different
star sign.
But NASA took to Tumblr in a statement last Tuesday to make a key distinction, and remind
everyone that astrology and astronomy are not the same thing.
“Astronomy is the scientific study of everything in outer space,” wrote NASA. “Astrology is
something else. It’s not science.”
The lengthy post explains that NASA made its update based on hard facts, pointing out that if
you want to blame anyone for playing fast and loose with the stars, point the finger at the
Babylonians for leaving out Ophiuchus entirely. “To make a tidy match with their 12-month
calendar, the Babylonians ignored the fact that the sun actually moves through 13
constellations, not 12. Then they assigned each of those 12 constellations equal amounts of
time,” NASA wrote. “So, we didn’t change any zodiac signs…we just did the math.”
NASA doesn't seem to care very much about your place in the universe.