The dates for the western zodiac calendar have compressed and shifted later by a few weeks: if you were a Virgo born before mid-September, so the story goes, you are a Leo (now August 10 to September 16). With all of the chaos in the heavens, one might think that a retrograde Mercury is to blame. In January, NASA wrote a brief history of how the western zodiac came to be. The dates of the zodiac calendar follow this laser line as it sweeps from constellation to neighbouring constellation, a bit like the hand of a clock. “We didn’t change any zodiac signs, we just did the math.”NASA’s ultimate counter-argument is that the zodiac calendar is a fantasy on par with a fortune cookie.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 27, 2016 02:37 UTC