Pluto under investigation

It's laughable that just as I gear up to start a blog based on Astrology and the learning of same - somebody is about to throw a spanner in the works !

An international body of astronomers is currently deciding on how to designate "a planet", not only celestial bodies recently (or still to be) identified, but one of our long-time Astrological chums, Pluto.

It's likely that before too long astrologers will have many more celestial bodies to play with, whilst students of the discipline are likely to become ever more confused.

Astrology is already amazingly complex, you could compare it to one of those computer photographs in which you can first see a city skyline, then, homing in, each building, then, closer still, each window, and even closer, the contents of each room, inside a cabinet in the room, even, and read the script of a document within. Some astrologers are content to remain at the second stage of that scenario, some of the less able Sun sign columnists even stop at the original photograph of the skyline! More inspired and expert astrologers though delve deeper. All of these possibilities have existed for centuries, by using only Sun, Moon and the traditional planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto came into play later and have been well integrated. Imagine what will happen in future years when an extra 10, 20, 100 planets are added to the mix!

Can astrologers cope? Will a completely new system evolve? Or will astrologers regress to traditional methods favoured by their colleagues of ancient days ?

Present uncertainty sent me researching the internet to try to discover how the ancients first associated the known, and visible, planets with signs of the zodiac.
How, in fact, did the signs of the zodiac acquire their individual meanings, and how did the planets come to acquire their distinct personalities? Watch this space !