Why does distance NOT deny their effects?
The movement of the constellations is a natural result of the precession of the earth, on a 26,000 year perion, and so this scenario has played out many times. The constellation doesn't shift, the earth does. What's the interaction, and what's your evidence.
No, I don't. Of what stress do you speak? Time isn't the issue.
A quote from this site which sums things up nicely:
This is the origin of the "Age of Aquarius" celebrated in the musical Hair: a period when according to astrological mysticism and related hokum there will be unusual harmony and understanding in the world. We could certainly use a dose of harmony and understanding in this old world; unfortunately, it is unlikely to come because of something as irrelevant as the position of the vernal equinox with respect to the constellations of the Zodiac.