Signs of the Zodiac

An astronomy professor has 1)_____ the astrology world on its 2)_____ by suggesting the 3,000-year-old zodiac 3)_____ is wrong. Professor Parke Kunkle said the Earth’s wobbly 4)_____ means things have changed in the past three millennia and now has a different relationship to the stars. He said the 5)_____ Babylonians determined the dates of the Zodiac and 6)_____ not to include a thirteenth sign called Ophiuchus. He believes the changes in the Earth’s orbit now 7)_____ this sign must be included in the Zodiac. This would change all of the 8)_____ we are used to with our star signs and many of us would have a new one. Professor Kunkle is surprised his 9)_____ announcement has shocked people: “Astronomers have known about this 10)_____ about 130BC,” he said.

The story has 11)_____ millions around the world to worry their life might change because of this news. People who were 12)_____ at being a Virgo are upset because they are now Leos. Kunkle says people should not be worried because star signs were never 13)_____ to predict our future or provide an 14)_____ to horoscope writers, saying: “You could predict when to 15)_____, when to plant, by the stars. So there is some predictive 16)_____ there. Then they took it too far, using it to determine when to go to 17)_____ and people’s personalities.” Popular astrologer Susan Miller has reassured people they 18)_____ worry and called the news “ridiculous.” In an 19)_____ with ABC News, she joked: “We’ve known about this for ages….Trying to explain something 20)_____ in 140 characters [on Twitter] is hard.”