Ophiuchus Horoscope- New Horoscope Signs A Hoax?

As I checked my Facebook page earlier tonight, I saw several people who were extremely upset over the Ophiuchus horoscope and the new Zodiac signs 2011. While some people brush off astrology as a bunch of garbage, there are many people who rely on the signs of the Zodiac and their horoscopes for guidance in their daily lives. One Facebook commenter asked if the Ophiuchus horoscope change was real or some sort of hoax. Is there a possibility that this is just one more Internet hoax gone viral?

With so many online hoaxes going on these days about celebrity deaths, and other Internet scams, it really isn’t a huge surprise that some will draw the conclusion that Ophiuchus is a hoax.

As far as I can tell, the Ophiuchus Zodiac change is real, and Ophiuchus has actually been a constellation for a very long time.

According to Professor Parke Kunkie at the Minnesota Planetarium Society, “The Earth spins and, like a toy top, the spin axis moves around, pointing in different directions. Today, Earth’s spin axis points toward the pole star, Polaris. Around 3000 BC Earth’s spin axis pointed toward Thuban. Wait 26,000 years and the north star will again be Thuban. Astronomers call this motion of the spin axis precession. About 130 BC, Hipparchus noticed that the Earth’s spin axis had changed directions, so astronomers and astrologers have known about the Earth’s precession for over 2000 years. But this means that if the sun was “in” a certain constellation on a particular date, it is in a different constellation on that date today. For example, the sun was in Pisces on March 1, 2000 BC but it is in Aquarius on March 1, 2011 AD.”