Last Updated on June 13, 2017
When news broke that a “new” zodiac system was adding a 13th sign and shaking up the traditional schedule that determined under which sign your birthday fell, people went crazy.
In fact, when I checked on the source of a fairly respectable spike in visits to this blog, I found that nine out of the top ten keyword searches that brought people here involved the zodiac.   That’s 90%, and that’s a blog bonanza!
The original article did note, midway through or so, that this “new” zodiac really wasn’t new; it’s the centuries-old zodiac that eastern culture uses, while those of us in western culture prefer the nice, even 12-sign system.   That traditional western arrangement is the one almost all of us used to determine what our sign was the first time we checked.   It’s the system we’ve relied on, in varying degrees, ever since.
But many people just read the first few lines of the article, panicked (for reasons that are a complete mystery), and rushed to the table that listed the altered arrangement.   Many discovered, much to their chagrin, that they weren’t what they thought they were.   Some even learned they were this mysterious 13th creation they’d never heard of.
When it comes to checking your horoscope every morning, change sucked.
Unless you blogged about it.   Then, it wasn’t so bad.
