Ophiuchus the 13th Zodiac Sign? No, It's Not

Before Pope Gregory XIII we followed a Lunar Calendar which is as Ucinogen eloquently pointed out is 28 days to a month of 13 Lunar cycles in a year. This leaves 1 extra day a year unaccounted for, but a 30 year scholar of paganism, and dear friend of mine explained this as being a day sacred to the goddess. Leap year being a day sacred to god. People might ask which god? whose god? What god?.. and in response I personally believe they are all the same force just different faces, and interpretations of those faces. Ophiuchus is not new. He was an actual man who walked the Earth and did such miracles in healing that he was "gifted his own stars by the Gods" His symbol was originally a stick with a snake wrapped around it, and this symbol is modernly used to represent medical practices. I too have to say, "Welcome back Ophiuchus." Cast out and forgotten by the rule of the Church. It's time we remember history before the confounding antics of the Illuminati/Vatican to distort, and rewrite the past.

‎"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." —Arthur Schopenhauer

With a little simple research and mathematical sense any astrologist will soon realize that the 13 month, 28 day lunar cycle is profoundly more accurate than the current 12 month cycle that has been promoted by the establishment for centuries. Why exactly the campaign against the abolition of the 13th symbol took place may very well never be fully understood—but rest assured it was a deliberate attempt to hide/rewrite truth and will not be very successful much longer.

I say: Welcome back Ophiuchus. We missed you.

it wouldnt work anyway twleve months twelve zodiacs. and for the people that believe the world will end it is not going to happen it has never happened yet

Briana, you're actually wrong about the whole 'it's the astronomers' faults'. People have mistaken the words of Kunkle, in hype and fanaticism most likely. He never actually said that there had to be a 13th sign, he merely commented on the fact that while we base astrology via signs and stars, yet we actually disregard the 13th constellation in the Western Zodiac. The Zodiac itself is based on lunar cycles, but because of the leap year system, we actually cut our years short, bar that one year in every four. There are actually 13 cycles, much Jeff stated earlier, because it coincides with the positioning of the sun over the 13 constellations in correlation to the Earth. The Eastern Zodiac follows this. On the other hand, the Western doesn't.

Kunkle never once stated that there was going to be a 13th sign xD

The arachnid isn't the thirteenth sign, Kassie, Ophiuchus the Snake Bearer is >> it has to do with the "movement" of the sun in the sky and all that. And I agree with most of the people here. Why would you base something like the zodiac signs on seasons on earth? And even if you did, what about the two different hemispheres? That's just ridiculous :P

I'm not particularly a follower of Astrology, I just happened to stumble across this (perhaps a little late, meh). I am surprised that no one seems to have mentioned this by now. As someone who lives in the SOUTHERN hemisphere, since our seasons are out by six months compared to you guys, does that mean I am really a Virgo and not a Pisces based on this "seasons" theory? I fail to see how seasons would have anything to do with it then if that's not the case.

Also, just wanted to correct a little cosmological flaw in Vanessa's argument (posted 14th January - yes, a while back but still): stars CAN and DO move through space. Our Sun for instance orbits the centre of our galaxy just as we orbit around the Sun.

As I recall learning, the 13 symbol is actually the arachnid! the spider. Sorry, everyone has there two sense, and that happens to be mine.

All you people being jerks about these statements, i don't know what you're doing on this website if you don't believe it. Not many ASTROLOGISTS actually believe the new sign. It's ASTRONOMERS who are stating this mostly. Astrologists are the only ones who know how astrology works, lets stick with the history because its been working for us since the beginning of time. And its correct.

Thank you so much for this information. I am so glad to you guys do the real stuff with information to back it up. I am studying astrology and i really want to be an astrologist, i got confused with all this media and i wasn't aware about the seasons, i am new to studying astrology so its nice to hear how exactly it works. I have a book, the only astrology book you'll ever need. if you have anymore recommendations for me to help me study please fill me in.

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