Editorial: What’s your sign? Who cares!

If “what’s your sign, baby?” is your normal pick up line, you might want to replace it… If “what’s your sign, baby?” is your normal pick up line, you might want to replace it with something else. The response might be anger about the supposed shift in zodiac signs, especially if a tattoo is involved.

We’re sure you noticed the explosion from news outlets, if not from social media sites, with a list of updated zodiac signs — including a new sign called Ophiuchus.

Social networkers, including a noticeable number of Pitt students, were observed mourning the loss of their zodiac signs — and some refused to acknowledge the change.

According to The Boston Globe, the identity crisis of “I’m a Pisces? All this time I thought I was an Aries!” started when astronomer Parke Kunkle told the StarTribune in Minnesota that the moon’s gravitational pull has caused the calendar onstellations to be off by about a month.

But now, before Cosmopolitan even had a chance to update its horoscopes, most astrologers are saying that the signs haven’t changed at all.

Cambridge, Mass., astrologer Joyce Levine told the Boston Globe, “The precession of the equinoxes does not affect Tropical Astrology, which is primarily what we use in the Western culture. Tropical Astrology is based on the seasons: Aries, the beginning of spring; Cancer, the beginning of summer; Libra, the beginning of fall, and Capricorn, the beginning of winter.”

An article in the Examiner went as far as to suggest that publications that printed “the bogus list of new signs should print corrections.”

But more important to us than whether or not the signs have changed is why people care so much.

Though most are quick to dismiss their astrological signs and the fortune-telling horoscopes that correspond, the reaction to a possible constellation shift was extremely widespread.

You might have your zodiac sign tramp-stamped on your back, we’re looking at the characteristics attributed to the different signs and thinking the descriptive adjectives are pretty generic. According to astrology-online.com, a Taurus’ traits include being jealous, determined and warmhearted. Yeah … that could be anyone.

Should we really be buying into what seems about as reliable as a fortune cookie?

And as far as the identity crisis that has erupted from the supposed astrological shift, we’re doubting that your sign actually accurately predicts whether or not you’re a bitch. Sorry.