In Theory, I'm a Gemini

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The name of this site is from an album I was gifted as a teenager entirely because I was born under the Sun Sign Gemini. 

I had not previously heard of the artist, Gino Vannelli, and it wasn't a genre of music I was into or anything like that. I did end up liking the album. 

At least in theory I'm a Gemini. My understanding is the constellations are no longer in line with our astrological Sun sign "calendars," so that may be inaccurate and perhaps should be investigated and updated, much like other calendars were inaccurate historically and had to be updated.

When you actually do the math and hand cast charts like I did in my youth, you calculate sidereal or star time for the time and place in question.

This includes accounting for latitude and longitude of the place of birth. 

So a brief history of man's relationship to time:

Historically, it was noon when the Sun was directly overhead. If you had a local clock tower in your town -- because clockworks were huge things originally -- they set the clock by when the Sun was directly overhead.

Then some fool messed up this elegant, intuitive system by inventing trains. Trains needed to be able to communicate time of departure and arrival for multiple stops across substantial distances.

So this led to our whackadoodle time zones. So now noon is no longer when the Sun is directly overhead but it's possible to schedule a train trip. But that's why our crazy making system of time zones and time zone maps exist: so some greedy businessman could sell train tickets and meaningfully communicate to passengers when to get to the train station and what time it would be when they got where they were going.

Then some fool thought trains weren't messing things up enough and invented airplanes and then they created jet engines and planes or jets travel so rapidly through snail's pace time zones that they use Zulu Time to communicate time for their purposes.

And some people have suggested that with the rise of virtual jobs and very long distance collaboration via Internet, we should perhaps adopt something similar for things like scheduling team meetings.

So you basically convert local time to Zulu Time when casting horoscopes.

But you also need to account for precession: the wobble of the Earth's magnetic pole over time. So there's a lot of math involved in accounting for the fact that the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and absolutely everything is in motion and those relationships are constantly changing.

However, with ALL that math going down, as far as I know, no one has made any adjustments to account for the Earth's changing relationship to the constellations which supposedly rule each Sun sign.

I mean, we know historically calendars were inaccurate. My understanding is Ramadan was originally scheduled for a mild time of year and because the calendar was inaccurate, Islam now tortures its people by insisting they fast all day during the hottest part of the year in the Middle East.

This is almost certainly not what Muhammad wanted to dictate for his people.

We have Leap Year to account for the fact that Earth actually takes 365.25 days to travel around the Sun.

We added months to old calendars to try to get them to actually align with the seasons etc.

But no one has gone "Hey, wait a minute, the constellations have shifted. What does this mean -- if anything -- for Sun signs in Western astrology?"

I mean, Sun signs typically start around the 21st or 22nd of the month because they don't line up with calendar months. So presumably it is tracking some association in particular, not merely counting the days like a calendar.

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