Your actual Zodiac Sign

Ananya
4 min readApr 30, 2022

Did you know that your Zodiac Sign or at least what you perceive to be yours, is incorrect? If you think that you’re a Sagittarius because you were born between the dates of 22nd November to 21st December, then you’re misinformed. You better find something else to blame for your bad day and pathetic behavior, because your horoscope is incorrect too.

The nature of the Zodiac sign itself was to help people navigate through the year (back when calendars didn’t exist). These constellations fall on the ecliptic, that is the path of the sun across the sky. The constellation itself rises and sets with the sun, for roughly a month, and that’s how your Zodiac sign is calculated. There are 12 of these constellations that fall on the ecliptic starting from Aries to Pisces. You might not be aware of this, but there is a 13th constellation called Ophiuchus that falls to the north of Scorpius.

Image Credits — In the Sky Org

But, it is not a part of the Zodiacs as it didn’t “fit into” the 12 divisions of the sky done by the Babylonians 2500–3000 years ago, according to some sources. The reason could also be Earth’s wobble that causes the stars and constellations to appear differently now, than 30 centuries ago.

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Ananya

I see myself as a philomath. There are lots of things in this universe that are beyond my capability to comprehend, but I sure do enjoy trying to learn them.