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In November 2015 social media users recirculated rumors claiming that the zodiac would be modified in the upcoming following year to include the new star sign Ophiuchus. A screen shot of a Time magazine web site page often accompanied iterations of the rumor: The screenshot circulating in November 2015 stemmed from a Time magazine article titled Horoscope Hang-Up: Earth Rotation Changes Zodiac Signs, published on 13 January 2011, which stated that: The article included a link at the end which readers were invited to click to see the counterpoint from American astrologers. That link opened to a 14 January 2011 article titled Astrologers Get Their Say in the Horoscope Hubbub, which carried important information for folks maintaining a belief that stars and their movements through the galaxy influence our daily lives — namely, that all the previous;y reported information about gravitational pull and the alignment of stars won't affect the underlying system of astrology in the Western world: DailyHoroscope maintained similar (relative) skepticism when the site addressed rumors of a purportedly imminent star sign shake-up in 2011: The existence of authentic astrologers is questionable in and of itself, depending upon whether one believes zodiac signs and horoscopes are an effective form of divination. But 2015 rumors about Ophiuchus' purported disruption of the extant practice of astrology are false regardless, as the claim dates to 2011 and thus far hasn't affected daily horoscope columns.
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