Wanderlust Road Trips is a beautiful guide to some of the best drivable adventures on Earth. It features locations around the globe with beautiful natural landscapes, fascinating cultural history, exciting activities, and more. Capricorns are guided by their sense of responsibility and determination.
As earth signs, Capricorns measure themselves against more traditional metrics of success. They also highly value having powerful personal connections.
Capricorns work hard, and although they can be quite serious, they also play hard when the time comes. Shellye Archambeau is one of the first Black women CEOs in the tech world, and she learned a lot of lessons on her way there. In Unapologetically Ambitious, she recounts the challenges to her success, shares advice for work-life balance, and celebrates being unapologetically ambitious. Aquarius is known for being a bit unconventional.
Perkins weaves together her own life with pop culture to tell her story, and the essays discuss sex without shame or embarrassment. Kat Chow has been a bit obsessed with death since she was a child.
She worried constantly about her parents dying, particularly her mother. And when she was barely a teenager, her mother died unexpectedly and her worst fears became a reality. In this beautifully written memoir, Chow examines how grief shapes us, what we owe our family, and how our perceptions of our parents change over the course of our lives.
Pisces will appreciate the contemplations on loss, empathy, and family ties. Get recommended reads, deals, and more from Hachette Get recommended reads, deals, and more from Hachette Sign Up. Apple Books. Google Play. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar. Hudson Booksellers. Shit, Actually by Lindy West. Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito. Pisces is the oldest and wisest of the signs.
As a water sign, they have high emotional intelligence and are considered the caretakers of the zodiac. Their instinct to shelter and heal the people around them can often cause them to burn out. Pisces are gentle souls with a special appreciation of art and music. Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow. Loyalty Bookstore. Discover More. Well, here's the final say when it comes to cusp signs in astrology : They don't exist.
A planet can only be in one place in the zodiac at a time, meaning you can only have one sun sign — because the sun can't be in two places at once. Sorry to burst any cusp-claimers' bubbles! However, if you are born on a so-called cusp of two zodiac signs, there are definitely some things to keep in mind — as this placement could make things a little bit complicated.
When people talk about their zodiac sign, they're usually referring to their sun sign in astrology. But the annual zodiac calendar isn't as cut and dry as a regular calendar even though it may seem that way when you're reading your horoscope. While horoscopes usually provide clear-cut date ranges for each sign's birthday season, it's not always percent accurate. That's because the sun moves into a new zodiac sign approximately every 30 days, and its movement doesn't align perfectly to the hour clock, either.
This means that sun signs don't just change when the clock strikes midnight on a certain date, like a calendar — the exact day and time that zodiac sign's season begins varies slightly from year to year.
For example, I was born in the morning on what's generally thought of as the last day of Libra season, but had I been born just about 12 hours later — in the evening of the very same date — I'd actually be a Scorpio because the sun moved from Libra to Scorpio at p.
PT on the day I was born. This means that some people who share my exact birth date — same date, same year — are actually Scorpios and not Libras. Trippy, right? Although only a small percentage actually admit to take horoscopes seriously, the vast majority of the people do not know the astronomical concepts behind their birth sign. Astrology originated in Mesopotamia around years ago.
The ancient Babylonians performed methodical observations of the night sky and built great observatories where priests would study the skies, and the celestial bodies that they believed controlled life and events on Earth.
In those times, objects in the sky were believed to be affixed to transparent celestial spheres and their motions were thought to be a result of the motion of these spheres as they revolved around the Earth. Groups of bright stars were observed to form prominent patterns in the night sky called constellations, which have been historically ascribed to mythological figures. The early astronomers recognized that constellations appeared and disappeared with the change of the seasons throughout the course of a year.
In the same way, the Sun, Moon and planets were observed to move in relation to the fixed background of stars, or constellations. The Earth travels in space as it revolves about the Sun in a planar orbit that is approximately circular. If one drew a line from the center of the Earth through the center of the Sun, that line would "draw" a large plane in the heavens as the Earth orbits the Sun.
This large plane is called the ecliptic plane, as is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 The ecliptic plane and the ecliptical coordinate system.
Figure 2 The equatorial plane, the annual seasons and the equinoxes. Figure 3 The band of the zodiac and the apparent position of the constellations with respect to the Earth-Sun system. Based on their observations of the night sky, ancient astronomers determined that during the daytime, the Sun would appear to "enter" or pass through different constellations throughout the year.
Because of their perspective from Earth, they observed that the Sun, the Moon and all the planets visible with the naked eye seemed to pass in the course of a year through a region in the sky occupied by twelve specific constellations. Those constellations are the ones that we would intersect if we extend the ecliptic plane out into space. These twelve constellations were called the Zodiac. Many ancient people believed that a person's behavior, emotions, and fate were heavily influenced by the time of that person's birth i.
The zodiac constellations, as envisioned by ancient astronomers, were ascribed specific patterns that resemble the shapes of animals and human beings. The constellations of the zodiac actually form an imaginary belt in the sky that extends about eight degrees above and below the ecliptic plane as is shown.
As we look at the position of the zodiac constellations at any given time of the year, the Sun is between the Earth and one of these constellations, as Figure 3 shows. Vernal and autumnal equinoxes. We are familiar with the Earth's equator because of our knowledge of geography. If we could extend the earth's equator into space so that it could be viewed against the background of stars, we would be able to see what in astronomy is called the celestial equator.
Because the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the ecliptic by The two points in the sky where these two planes cross are called the equinoxes. We call the vernal equinox the intersection point where the Sun, in its apparent motion against the background stars along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator from south to north, usually occurring around March 21 st. Similarly, we call the autumnal equinox the intersection point where the Sun, in its apparent motion against the background stars along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator from north to south, usually occurring around September 21 st.
The first day of Spring then corresponds to the vernal equinox and the first day of Fall corresponds to the autumnal equinox.
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