Turns Out Your Zodiac Sign Has Been a Month Off This Whole Time

“Think you’re a Leo?” The New Zealand Herald asks. “You’re not.”

The piece is highlighting a BBC Stargazing Live discussion of the zodiac, in which a curious tidbit was revealed: even if you accept the idea of astrological signs, you probably weren’t born under the one you think you were.

When the zodiac was devised by the ancient Greeks, people were assigned star signs based on the constellation that was behind the sun at that time. But the constellations are now out by about a month.

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