What do you mean when you say “the Sun is in Taurus”. I get that my star sign is Taurus, but what does that mean astronomically? I’m not talking about my personality, I’m wondering how the Sun can be in the same zodiac for a month.
Or does it have nothing to do with astronomy?
I don’t care if astrology is fake or whatever. I’m just trying to understand the expression of “a planet is in this zodical” generally.
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The zodiac signs are twelve constellations of stars in a circle around the sky. Depending on the time of year, the sun appears to be overlapping one of those constellations at any given time. (Also the moon, and planets, though those can change much more quickly than the sun.) So if the sun is in Capricorn, it means that from Earth, the sun and Capricorn constellation appear to be lined up. What sign the sun is in when you’re born determines your “birth sign”, AKA the one most people know and care about.
Or it *should* mean that, but astrology is dumb, and they haven’t updated the dates to account for leap years in centuries so the sun is not actually in Capricorn when Capricorns are supposedly born, or any of the signs. But it’s all made up anyway, so…
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