stackyFACTSYour mystical, ancient astrological identity is actually younger than Betty White.
Your mystical, ancient astrological identity is actually younger than Betty White. While the concept of the zodiac is thousands of years old, the actual spatial boundaries of those constellations in the sky were completely undefined chaos. It wasn't until 1930 that a Belgian astronomer named Eugène Delporte, working for the IAU, literally drew arbitrary straight lines on a sky map to organize them. Your profound spiritual essence is just a bureaucratic zoning decision.
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