A common thing you hear in a lot of anime, especially shonen (boys/adventure) anime is "{Insert character name] must have been born under an unlucky (or lucky) star." Well, there's a website called Under What Star Was I Born? that can tell you exactly what star you are born under. But wait... before you click them pretty purple letters. It's not a simple tool to use. You have to do your homework first. And you will have two results, because of a fucked up system some genius in New Zealand named George Hudson proposed in 1895 (wait, wut? It wasn't Ben? No, it was not!). And "frankly" (yes, pun intended) the Franklin Institute is tired of Benny getting blamed for that. Daylight Savings Time will cause you to have two results. You can either accept both or choose whichever star suits you or whichever you like better. Both my stars are okay, but Vega is definitely better known and cooler. Though my lesser-known star is probably what has gotten me through some of the crazier shit in my life. Thank you, little Lambda Herculis. But to get to the stars that were smiling down on your wrinkled baby face (or your wrinkled baby ass as the doctor was smacking you into this rude, cruel world) you have to enter the latitude and longitude coordinates of the city you were born (unless you are lucky enough that your city is on the drop down list provided, and if you are a country hick like me, that means you're going to need some back up help). Now, if you're old school, you can pull up a map and do it the hard way, but, sweet World Wide Webby, there's an html for that too! Latitude and Longitude Finder or LatLong.net is the site you need for looking up your place of birth. You can look it up by either the city or town and state, or by the hospital and state. It works both ways. Once you have this information you go back and select the directional latitude and longitude on the Under What Star? site. Select the time zone you were born in. Select whether or not you want to see the star in DST. Enter the time you were born (listed on your birth certificate). I imagine this time is not the "exact" time of your birth. Under this box is a box for "true local birth" time. I left this unchecked. When I clicked "Find My Star" it informed me my actual birth time was 32 minutes earlier. I believe it has to do with the calculations instructions listed on that site below the entry area, so I did those (Whew! Remind me again how much I dislike mathematics! ) Anyway, my calculations ended up right because I pulled up another webpage of the site and just enter the stuff for the "true local birth time" and got the same star as my DST star when I clicked the DST button was clicked on the original page. Makes sense because setting our clocks back interferes with the time we see see things in the sky, so the distance from the meridian is greater or lesser than it should be. I really hate DST for other reasons and we need to do away with it. Anyway, Vega (WEEEEE!!! Or Orihime, in Japanese myth, the Spider or weaving Princess, the Once and Future North Star, the bright blue star of the Summer Triangle) is the star I was born under according to my birth record and what a cool star it is! It was recently in the news for having a scorching hot planet discovered orbiting it. In Japan, the stars Vega and Altair are celebrated in a festival called tanabata "star festival" on July 7th. My other star, most likely my "true" star, is less well known, but still very cool. It says this star gives people born under it "great inner resources and strength of soul." I don't know how much stock I've ever put in astrology, but I've had some personal spiritual battles with evil that would lend some truth to this. Maasym (Lambda Herculis) is a big, bright orange-red star in the Hercules constellation. That's probably where the "strength" comes from. I hope you have as much fun as I did finding the stars you were born under.
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