Not a great week for astrologers

I must admit to a failure in my past life (not a life before this life - the past part of this life - got it? Good!).
Rationalist that I am, nonetheless I once actually thought there was something to astrology. I even went on a course in beautiful Buxton, Derbyshire, to see how it works.
It is only in recent years that my religious scepticism has also spread to pseudo-science, and astrology is the most definite pseudo-science that there has ever been.
This week they told us that there is a thirteenth astrological sign, and that all the dates of the signs have changed.
So many people, who have thought for all their lives that they were Arians, have been told that they were born under the sign of Pisces. And a load of other changes have occurred (my Cancerian wife is now a Gemini for example).
This has caused a load of furore out there from people who cannot accept the changes. This I can understand. If they have had much faith in astrology over the years, they will now realise that everything that they have ever been told about themselves was mistaken, and that any forecasts were based upon inaccurate information.
Worst hit by this though are the professional astrologers. Firstly they have to revise their techniques to allow for the changes. This could take months, even years, while they work out what the impacts will be upon their interpretations of the universe. And if they are fully computerised, think of all the changes that will be required. It could take months, even years, to bring everything in line with what is needed.
And then there is the question of the millions of incorrect forecasts people have received, as all of these were based upon incorrect information. "As far as I was aware of the time" hardly sounds a good reason for not paying the appropriate refund.
This could cost millions if you think about it.
Another industry may well be dying, and little can be done to stop it.
Of course it also gives them a ready made excuse for all the things that they got wrong in the past - that may well be why you did not win the lottery as expected - the astrologer acted in good faith, but nothing was quite where it should have been! I cannot see that this saves them though. Their forecasts were wrong, they have charged sizeable sums of money without having the correct data available. They were like practising lawyers who had used law books that expired years ago! Or doctors who relied upon medieval methods to cure patients.
The best defence actually is that the new sign is a phoney, and that reorganisation is mistaken and not necessary. After all it used to have this balance. Three air signs, three earth signs, three fire signs, three water signs, six positive, six negative. Thirteen is a horrible number to work with, it will not happily divide into anything else.
This could actually lead to a new schism. The "new" astrologers who work with the thirteen signs, the "traditional" astrologers who work with (of course) the traditional established model.
The question is then "who do you trust?", as there is obviously going to be large shadows of doubt hanging over the whole area for a long time.
Though there is a very easy answer, of course, and that would be to dismiss the whole lot of them as charlatans, and stick the words "caveat emptor" on the adverts issued by such individuals. That is the road that any sceptic should follow, and recent events should considerably increase the number of sceptics out there!