More recently, USA Today traced some 2020 headlines about the “13th zodiac sign” back to a viral Facebook post from a Virginia-based radio station.īut this story long pre-dates the internet. A flurry of headlines were published in early 2016 after NASA published a (since-deleted) blog post on its children’s site, Space Place, showing where Ophiuchus would fall in the zodiac if astrologers decided to include it, while acknowledging that, well, they didn’t. Where did the Ophiuchus story come from?Īccording to Snopes, these stories have been circulating online since at least as far back as 2002 via various chain letters and viral blog posts. But even now, stories about “Ophiuchus” still keep resurfacing. There's even a whole page (from 2015!) debunking the myth. This viral story has been popping up here and there since at least the 1970s-yep, pre-internet! -and every time, it’s been debunked. We’re here to tell you to calm down-you’re still a Cancer or a Pisces or an Aries or whatever. Apparently, the viral story goes, NASA has just discovered a 13th zodiac sign, and the other 12 zodiac signs have had to shift their dates to make room, changing everyone on Earth’s zodiac sign in the process. Every six months or so, the internet promptly panics when yet another story about “ Ophiuchus, the 13th zodiac sign” goes viral.
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