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One among many inconsistencies is that some astrologers do not seem aware of precession of the equinoxes, which means assigning everyone the incorrect "sign." Some would say you're a Virgo, when in fact precession means the sun was actually in Leo at your birth. Also problematic is that the sun moves through 13, not 12 constellations, so two of my uncles are not Sagittarius but rather Ophiuchus - the Babylonians simply omitted Ophiuchus because they wanted their system based on number 12. And yes, it's all silliness anyway given the constellations are just imagined groupings of stars, not real astronomical phenomena. The only thing that Sagitt-, I mean Ophiuchans, share in common in terms of the cycles of the natural world, is that if they happen to arrive from a womb situated in the temperate zone of the N hemisphere, then as infants they will all experience the same sequence of seasonal changes in their first year of life. If someone cared to study that sort of developmental effect, then it would shift the inquiry from pseudoscience to science. (And don't forget to compare them with June babies in Australia, South Africa, and other seasonably comparable areas in the S hemisphere)