Article: Constellation controversy fogs future for horoscope readers. (newly revised zodiac)

Astronomers have revised the zodiac, rearranging birth signs to put them back into alignment with the sun's journey through the constellations. Astrologists, however, remain starry-eyed.

When British astronomer Jacqueline Mitton mentioned in January that the zodiac contained a 13th constellation, she little expected her remark to be plastered across the front page of the London Daily Telegraph. The public-relations officer for the Royal Astronomical Society, who for days afterward fielded calls from Argentina to Singapore, had created an interstellar incident.

Most historians agree that the zodiac, which begins with Aries (at the vernal equinox in March), was ...

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