Scorpio or Virgo? Personality Crisis Averted

After last night’s brouhaha over revised astrological charts and an additional new zodiac sign with a challenging pronunciation, I found myself a little peevish over the loss of my Scorpio sign. “But…I’ve been a Scorpio for as long as, hmmm–how long exactly? Oh yea, since I was born!” I thought to myself, “now what? Can I even live up to the Virgo sign?” The very thought of creating neat ordered lists and organizing everything in my life made me seriously doubt it.

Well, it appears that the confusion was short-lived. It turns out that this newest revision apparently is not the zodiac most of us actually follow here in the US. The media was just having its way with us. Imagine. Apparently, after doing a little research I found that we follow a Western tropical zodiac as opposed to the Eastern sidereal zodiac. Since the Western chart follow the equinoxes there are no new changes. The Eastern zodiac follows the constellations and changes with planetary shifts; therefore they gain the new sign. Thankfully, for those of us who are set in our ways and follow the Western Zodiac, no worries, we retain our current zodiac status.

Phew, that was a close one, no need to change my personality after all –and I was just starting to make a list.