Looks like Pluto is going to be voted out of the "planet" category.  This means we will only have eight "classical planets".

Which actually pisses me off, because I was really stoked about the possible new planet called Xena being added to the list of nine.  How cool would Xena as a planet have been?  (Of course, the moon of Xena would HAVE to be named Gabrielle.)


And there will be a new category called "dwarf planets".  Which is where I guess Xena will fit.

It should be interesting to read the reinterpretations of all those astrologists?  Will nine planets still be in the birth chart?  Will this be reduced to eight planets?

Will the transits of Pluto still have the same "power", or will the power of Pluto be, er, "dwarfed?".

Also, now that there will be other "dwarf planets" in the solar system.  Will these other dwarf planets be included in the effect of a birth charts and transits?  What will all the new dwarf planets "mean"?  If Xena is transiting, does that mean I will meet a kick-ass chick who yodels?

That is the problem with lack of verifiability.  When things change, suddenly a whole new rap has to be developed, whole cloth.