美国明尼苏达州的一位天文学家研究发现，我们现在遵循的12星座起始日期是错误的，每个星座时段都应该后移一个月。他解释说，古巴比伦人对星座的划分是根据人出生时太阳所处的星座来确定的。地球在绕着太阳公转的同时，还发生自转。由于受到月球的引力，地球在自转过程中会发生偏移。在过去的3000年中，地球的偏移角度已达30度，因而12星座的时段也应该相应后移一个月。另外，这位天文学家还指出，古巴比伦人最初划分星座时有13个星座，多出的那一个为蛇夫座。不过，为了与12个月相对应，蛇夫座在几千年前就被排除在外。

Earth's shifts on its axis over the past 3,000 years have changed the 12 zodiac signs.

A Minnesota astronomer confirms what many have suspected: Your horoscope is quite possibly wrong.

Earth's shifts on its axis over the past 3,000 years have changed the 12 zodiac signs. For example, think your sign is Aquarius? You may be a Pisces. (There's also a 13th sign, Ophiuchus, that's based on a constellation the ancient Babylonians threw out for symmetry thousands of years ago.)

So who's to blame for this scam on zodiac devotees?

The ancient Babylonians based the zodiac on which constellation the sun appeared to be in when a person was born. Since then, the moon's has exerted a gravitation pull on Earth, causing a "wobble" on its axis that has shifted the stars' alignment by about a month, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.

"Because of this change in the tilt, the Earth is over here and the sun is in a different constellation than it was 3,000 years ago when this study of the stars began," astronomer Parke Kunkle told the Twin Cities' KARE-TV.

The shift isn't new, Kunkle says -- the zodiac world just hasn't taken the wobble into account.

Here's your new sign below:

Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16

Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11

Pisces: March 11-April 18

Aries: April 18-May 13

Taurus: May 13-June 21

Gemini: June 21-July 20

Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10

Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16

Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30

Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23

Scorpio: Nov. 23-Nov. 29

Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17

Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20

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(Agencies)

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