> get lamp

This whole "new sign" thing (besides being silly) isn't new. Apparently it's Babylonian but they decided to discard it. I remember reading a book once when the local public library still had the adult non-fiction over where the sci-fi/fantasy fiction is now which talked about how Ophiuchus was "really" in the zodiac and laid out dates for the "thirteen" signs like they had invented it. This body memory of where I picked the book off the shelf dates it minimum 15 years ago, probably more, and the book itself was hardly crisp and new at the time. So.

Someone on nonfluffypagans commented that it was old news but what was new was that now people could tweet it and Facebook it and whatever-the-hell-it so the idea would spread faster than any rationality.

I have an iGoogle gadget that shows the current sky overhead. This is a few minutes ago. I just thought the neat little arc of Venus, the Sun, Mercury, Mars, and I guess Jupiter (the symbol is hard to see, but Saturn's been up at night lately, so process of elimination) all gathered together in Pisces, Aquarius, and Capricorn was kind of cool.