Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's a 13th Zodiac Sign No One Talks About

Astrologers had one job: predict where the planets are. Then precession slid every sign ~30° off the actual sky, and they just… kept the old chart. The constellation Ophiuchus sits squarely on the ecliptic between Scorpius and Sagittarius — the Sun spends more days there than in Scorpius — and it’s nowhere on your horoscope app. That’s not an oversight. It’s the tell. The deeper point Neil makes at 03:10 is the one worth sitting with: human brains aren’t wired for probability, which is exactly the gap cold readers exploit. Same trick the casino runs. Watch the astrologer guess his sign wrong 8 straight times → 02:16 What’s your sign supposed to be — and does Ophiuchus blow it up? 👇

I'm a physics professor who's spent 25 years at the frontier of cosmology — building the instruments that imaged the universe's first light. Tyson's right that most people can't name a discovery from the last decade, but they've lived through gravitational wave detection, the first black hole image, and a thousand confirmed exoplanets. The stagnation debate (Thiel, Weinstein, Andreeson) is more interesting than either side admits. Full interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson goes deeper: https://youtu.be/aUnkkHuorto Transcript + Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/yt Free meteorite for .edu addresses (USA): briankeating.com/edu

Astrology? Why don’t you just have Dionne Warwick on the show?

I've always wondered who's more qualified between Brian and Tyson to explain the universe to an average person. Or are they equivalent?

Scorpio🤔🍀

I know that astrology is a joke, and what regularly annoys me is that people who believe in it figure out my astrological Zodiac sign a way too often; I even once calculated the cases I could remember and got something around 7 out of 10 correct guesses from the first attempt. Most of the rest zeroed in after the 2n or, at worst, the third one. I have my own revenge in the fact that, in the astronomic reality, the Sun was in a neighboring constellation on my birthday. So, my question is: a human temper cannot be affected by stars but can it possibly be to some extent affected by what is going on on Earth? Seasons (temperature, insolation), seasonal food, habits, etc.?

A cynic would say modern astronomy is the new astrology. In modern astronomy we take too serious the incorrect consensus view of the universe not unlike we once took serious the influence of the planets on our human lives. We are so sure the images we get to see through our high tech telescopes are WYSIWYG representations of reality outside our galaxy. We are so sure the incoming light of furthest galaxies traversing the fabric of our Milky Way is not fundamentally distorted before reaching our eyes in our tiny spacetime based solar system…we simply ignore we never found dark matter, never found dark energy, never tackled the mature galaxy problem nor the supposed extreme young age of the universe relative to stars. Never mention the dipole quadrupole octupole axes of the CMB are perfectly aligned with the rotation axis of our own Sun and our solar system's motion vector inside our galaxy. All these paradoxes can be solved in one single twist , namely if we finally consider that the interior of our Milky Way (like any galaxy) is dominated NOT by perfect smooth spacetime but instead by a QP backdrop much like the interior of an atom,…just on a larger alternating scale…The visual distortions such a galactic QP backdrop would theoretically create on any incoming images EXACTLY match what we are seeing, thus voiding the need for external pixy dixy fixes like dark matter, dark energy or even the Hubble tension. We can finally restart cosmology as we get an entirely new reality, making much more sense. The good part; even if for incorrect reasons, Brian's inflation argument might still have happened...

Neil's critique lands on tropical astrology, which ignores precession and skips Ophiuchus. There's a version that does neither. True sky astrology uses the 13 constellations the Sun actually moves through and matches what you'd see in Stellarium. Different system, same sky Neil's defending.

When you read a bed time story.. to a child... it doesnt matter that its a story, a fantasy, a fiction.

People studying social behaviour may have a word about it, but I think may be early star gazers spread the astrology lie to popularise their work and also earn some money out of their hobby. 😊