Astrology predictions for December 21

lovestarsigns brings you:

Aries: You will be active and intensely alive today. You will also be generous and at your witty best.It's always better to accept your mistake and ask for forgiveness if you have done somebody any wrong. Today your remorse will be recognized and you will be pardoned.

Taurus: A sense of depression will detach you from everyone. It would also repel anything that brings happiness.Your irresistible sense of humor makes you very popular among friends and others you meet today. It would also enthuse people who you work with.Be grateful as it is your good karma that will help you avoid mistakes in your business deals or at work today.

Gemini: Nothing will bring you out of the dull, melancholic state you have enveloped yourself in today. Music or anything else that's beautiful would catch your interest.Now is the ideal time for you to make any changes or renovate your home. You would also have the means to carry out the renovation. It's advisable though to handle all the work on your own instead of giving to a contractor.

Cancer: Your investigative and inventive mind will lead you to discover something new. Your creative discovery will also bring you lot of appreciation and recognition.Your habit of boasting and making tall claims will get you into trouble today. People dealing with you might also hold it as a grudge against you.

Leo: All your efforts you have put in to create something useful for others as well as yourself will be rewarded. You will succeed in creating what you set out to do.It would be very difficult today to balance your time between family and career. There would be a conflict of commitment.

Libra: All your efforts you have put in to create something useful for others as well as yourself will be rewarded. You will succeed in creating what you set out to do.It would be very difficult today to balance your time between family and career. There would be a conflict of commitment.

Scorpio: Today your dream project will get the approval from the authorities. It would be a joyous moment for you as you've worked hard on this one.Mother will today have to balance between their family and career. It might even prevent them from fulfilling their duties towards their kids. They would have to eke out some time to spend with their family.

Sagittarius: Today seems to be your lucky day. The stars appear to be very favorable. Having positive thoughts will help channel the right energy towards you that will reach you to your goals.It would be good if you do not take any risks in business or industrial matters. Such a risk might jeopardize you and your position.

Capricon:Today some of your financial problems may get resolved. Things might become a lot easier. It would still be some time before you can expect results or profits from prior contracts.

Aquarius: All your efforts you have put in to create something useful for others as well as yourself will be rewarded. You will succeed in creating what you set out to do.It would be very difficult today to balance your time between family and career. There would be a conflict of commitment.

Pisces:Express your feelings and emotions clearly and openly to the person you are attracted to. Do not fear rejection.You have a highly creative and inventive mind. It would help you take a an important decision that will ensure a secure future for you.You would feel like escaping all the troubles, confusions and problems surrounding you.

Star of Bethlehem may have been caused by movement of planet Jupiter, scientist claims....

The appearance of the Star of Bethlehem, which in the Bible guides the three wise men to Jesus' birth place, can be backed up by science, according to an astronomer.

7:15AM GMT 19 Dec 2010

Mark Thompson, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy Presenter on BBC's The One Show, has conducted research that he says can explain the story, told in the Gospel of Matthew, about the star leading the travellers to Bethlehem.

Using historical records and computer simulations that allow the position of the stars and planets to be charted back to around the time when Jesus is believed to have been born, Mr Thompson claims there was an unusual astronomical event.

He said that between September 3BC and May 2BC there were three "conjunctions" where the planet Jupiter and a star called Regulus passed close to each other in the night sky.

The planet passed Regulus traveling first in its usual easterly movement, before then appeared to reverse and pass it again in a westerly direction and then changing direction once more to resume its normal direction to the east to pass the star for a third time.

Mr Thompson, who is due to present the BBC's new astronomy programme Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox, said: "The Three Wise Men were believed by some to be zoroastrianist priests, who were renowned astrologers at the time, so the king of planets passing so close to the king of stars on three occasions would have been hugely significant and could have been interpreted as the birth of a new king.

There have been numerous theories put forward by astronomers in the past as scientific explanations of the Star of Bethlehem, including a comet, a supernova – where a star explodes and produces huge amounts of light – and a planet.

Mr Thompson said he looked at "all the possibilities" before coming to his conclusion.

The three conjunctions, which took place on 14 September 3BC, 17 February 2BC and 8 May 2BC, were caused by an astronomical phenomenon called retrograde motion, in which a planet will appear to stop its normal eastward drift through the night and instead drift back towards the west for a period of several weeks.

This happens because the outer planets in our solar system are orbiting the sun at a slower rate than the Earth and so our planet occasionally overtakes them.

"The retrograde motion meant the planet was travelling in a westerly direction in the sky and so the [Three Wise Men] may have followed it from Persia," Mr Thompson said.

"By camel it would have taken about three months and interestingly this is roughly about the same time Jupiter was travelling in this westward direction."

He added: "It is not for me to actually say whether the Bible is right or wrong, I am just drawing on the facts in front of me."

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