stackyFACTSYour steadfast identity as a stubborn Taurus is built on a two-thousand-year-old lie.
Your steadfast identity as a stubborn Taurus is built on a two-thousand-year-old lie. Thanks to a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, the Earth wobbles slightly on its axis like a slowing spinning top. This wobble has shifted the alignment of the stars by about 24 degrees since the Babylonians codified the zodiac. Therefore, the sun is rarely in the constellation Western astrology says it's in when you're born. You are living an unaligned lie.
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