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earth is a planet. it might play a role, too.

oh, planets, plural. well, jupiter's massive gravity helped clear and shape the solar system, and the planets (except mercury) align to its orbital plane, not the sun's 'equator'.

I thought this was an image.

assumption that our solar system is stationary and that every year, the earth nears the exact same location as your birth.

I've been casually investigating several astrological systems for years (even since still in my militant atheist materialist phase)... and I've not encountered this assumption before. Can you tell me in which astrological system is this assumption found? Sounds interesting.

The zodiac constallations don't even line up with their original dates anymore, for exactly the kind of reasons you described: the universe and our position in it are not stationary.

This website has a chart for the updated dates (note also that they had to add another zodiac sign because of parallax or something)

One thing that could have an effect is the time of year you are born because it seasonal changes. A spring baby will be exposed to more sunlight than a fall baby in the first 6 months of life outside the womb, and the opposite for the second 6 months.

What that actually affects other than maybe the strength of their immune system early on, I can only speculate about. But it would be a mechanism through which birth sign can be correlated to personality or health.

And if there is such a correlation, it would make sense that the signs and dates falling out of sync as the constellations process wouldn't have any effect on anything because the stars and planets don't matter as much as the seasons do.

Though it does make me wonder if there have been studies analyzing personality difference statistics based on birthdate. Though I think it would have to be based on full birthdate (year included) due to year to year weather variations, as well as location dependent due to geographical weather variations. Like if there is such a correlation, it's probably stronger in Canada than California.

Surely you mean Taurus... right?

It's Taurus that's the statistically the more cliche incredulous and dismissive and certain that astrology's bunk.

Aquarius are the most interested in astrology. (Likely (at least) in part because the profiles and readings are often most flattering to Aquarius ~ how much that's a feedback loop, or how much it's due to being fixed air, I know not... hard to tease out.)

Or, rather than supernova (or ballooning to a giant, in a few billion years) just the flares and corona mass ejections.

Which in turn are influenced by (for one) Jupiter's influence on the sun cycle.

Also IIRC there should be thirteen astrological signs but that number was unpopular so the charts were fudged to make them fit twelve. So they aren't accurate for any age.

I first got intrigued to investigate astrology, while disbelieving it as utter bunk, when someone correctly "guessed" (asserted with certainty) what my sun sign was, from my personality/behaviour. I have since gone on to be able to fathom several other people's sun signs from not only their behaviour, but their appearance[1].

But for sure, there are feedback loops.

Prediction or projection? Ever the feedback loop quandary.

[1: You can literally see it. In shorthand, by faces alone (though there are many other clues)...:

• Aries, you can see the aries glyph on their face, in the eyebrows.
• Taureans have a T on their face with a more flat eyebrow.
• Gemini have the twins facing each other on their face.
• Cancerians have a "moon face", sometimes can see a crab-like appearance too to help distinguish from Librans.
• Leos have a lion-like nose/mouth/jaw protrusion/carving.
• Virgos have the tell tale "large cheeks". [Edit: Heart shaped "spade faced" too.]
• Librans have "lightbulb head" (and a softness of features).
• Scorpios have a scorpion like severity to their face. (Like Capricorns, hard to describe)
• Sagittarian (I think the easiest to spot) have a rectangle forehead.
• Capricorn's kinda goaty, kinda see it in the severity in their eyes, and a sharpness of features (like cheekbones).
• Aquarius I find harder to spot by their face (because of uniqueness), best clue, lower top eyelids, I often mistake for Taureans.
• Pisces are best detected in the eyes that look like two fish jumping out of the water towards each other.

And if you then couple appearance with personality traits, it gets easier to see/guesstimate. Some people manage to tune their sight to see it constantly, effortlessly, whereas some people "never" see it, much like magic eye pictures. Then of course, there's rising sign and moon sign (or stelliums) that typically next have the biggest influence on appearance, which may be worth enquiring if guessing sun sign incorrectly, to see if you were seeing those other influences. Once you know what to look for, sometimes it stands out strikingly obvious.]