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A belt of stars got turned into a personality quiz for the entire human species.
means The band of constellations the sun, moon, and planets appear to pass through, carved into twelve signs now used to sort people into personality types.
from From Greek 'zodiakos kyklos', the 'circle of little animals' — built from 'zoion' (animal), the same root behind 'zoo'. Most of the constellations in this belt were named for creatures (the Bull, the Lion, the Crab, the Fish), so the Greeks named the whole ring after its menagerie.
- actual constellations
- thirteen, if you count Ophiuchus, which astrology ignores
- origin point
- Babylonian astronomers mapped it over 2,500 years ago
- sign slippage
- Earth's wobble means your sign is off by about a month
- not science
- NASA has stated astrology is not astronomy, repeatedly