Gigi,
Those are all interesting articles. It is true that you can mentally reset the zodiac on the vernal equinox to Aries. Of course, that is a mental point only and has no correspondence to the physical world.
A few errors I read.
1. Ophiuchus and Hercules are actually separate and distinct contellations, not the same one.
2. Ophiuchus cannot have been discovered. Constellations are defined, not found. They have no basic in reality as a unit. Stars in two separate constellations may very well be and often are closer to each other than stars that are in the same constellation. We are effectively viewing three dimensional space in two dimensions.
There are actually times when the Sun is not in any constellation. Consider that constellations don't overlap. One could argue that astrology deals with symbolic relationships only and that there is no correspondence between astrology and astronomical objects. Of course, then the question is why would one refer to astronomical objects at all? Why not just use dates?
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