# Do you know your zodiac sign? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927 "2022-03-29T18:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/41 "2022-03-30T21:58:54Z")
I think the woo-theory is that not only do individuals have Zodiac signs according to their birth, but that all of society cycles through Zodiac-associated phases every 2000 years or so. So, the previous 2000 years had been Pisces and everyone was all about money and war and monotheism and other uncool stuff, but starting in the 60s we moved into the Age of Aquarius and now it’s gonna be 2000 years of universal peace and love, man. It’s taking longer than they thought. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/42 "2022-03-30T22:05:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I know why: the newspaper always used to publish daily horoscopes, which listed the dates for each sign. Also, it was friend talk in school and watercooler talk at the office. What’s your sign? It’s easy an impersonal stuff to talk about unless you run into someone who is a devotee. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/43 "2022-03-30T22:18:09Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I think the woo-theory is that not only do individuals have Zodiac signs according to their birth, but that all of society cycles through Zodiac-associated phases every 2000 years or so. So, the previous 2000 years had been Pisces and everyone was all about money and war and monotheism and other uncool stuff, but starting in the 60s we moved into the Age of Aquarius and now it’s gonna be 2000 years of universal peace and love, man. Yes, the [Astrological Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age). Then again, according to [Aleister Crowley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_(Thelema)), we are exiting the Aeon of Osiris, and entering the Aeon of Horus. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/44 "2022-03-31T00:23:07Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > In my childhood in Spain there were several one or two stars every week. So in Spain is it just as typical as it seems to be in the US that everyone knows their sign? And at a young age? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/45 "2022-03-31T00:26:44Z")
I’m guessing that many fewer kids know their sign today than back in our day when newspaper comics pages were still a thing in most kids’ lives. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/46 "2022-03-31T00:49:43Z")
I know both my Zodiac sign, and the sign that the newspaper horoscopes claim is my Zodiac sign. They’re off by about a month. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/47 "2022-03-31T00:56:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > They’re off by about a month. Isn’t that true for everyone? I’m neither an astrologer nor an astronomer, but the story I’ve always heard is that the zodiac cycle was established by the Babylonians (I don’t know exactly when, but I guess about 3000-4000 years ago), and that the constellations since then have moved so that by now, the old zodiac signs the astrologers still work with are all off by a month. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/48 "2022-03-31T01:11:57Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Little rolled-up horoscopes also used to be sold from vending machines which could be found amongst banks of gumball machines. I remember my mother giving me and each of my siblings a dime to get our own horoscopes from a machine. I am a Libra, my little brother is a Pisces. We both received the same horoscope. Figured out then at about 12 years old that the whole horoscope thing is a bunch of hooey. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/49 "2022-03-31T02:29:51Z")
I’ve known mine since I was quite young (under ten for sure) One of my cousins a few years older than me would bang on that it was of course all nonsense that you could tell fortunes with horoscopes, but they absolutely tell you about personalities. I remember my little brain going, everything you are saying about YOUR personality is self-serving tosh. And none of these signs have any negative traits? I didn’t realize then how euphemisms worked. Loyal to a fault = weak minded follower. Ruled by passion = hotheaded idiot. Etc. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/50 "2022-03-31T04:40:52Z")
Me too! So we were born within a month of each other, or some multiple of 12 years apart! One aspect it it being so pervasive, is that it ends up somewhat self-fulfilling. For instance, I knew my sun sign very young and had one of those books about Taurus with general information - gemstone, flower, “planet”, etc, including traits, which included stubbornness. So that trait got reinforced over the years. I’m being stubborn? I’m supposed to be - I’m a Taurus ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/51 "2022-03-31T07:48:35Z")
I would say so, yes. For the same reasons too. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/52 "2022-03-31T22:47:08Z")
Sistah from another decade! You look way younger than me! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927/53 "2022-04-01T08:28:49Z")
Cancerian. Funny thing about that. I can’t tell people I’m a cancer, because that doesn’t sound right. And when I was a little kid, I once said I was a crab. And my cousin remarked, You sure are. BTW, I don’t believe in Astrology at all. But hey, like religion, if it gives you hope, why not? I after could still be wrong 😉 🙂 . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-zodiac-sign/961927.md?page=2)