The emails came in immediately. “What, I’m no longer a Sadge?,” one friend inquired. My facebook wall lit up with cries for help ranging from the slightly perplexed “what's up with the new zodiac sign dates” to the borderline despairing “Sven, can you help make sense of this new zodiac calendar? I'm hearing so many different things about how it may only apply to people born after a certain year, etc., I'm confused.” As I hunkered down in front of my computer after a nice afternoon on planet Earth, it hit me like a brick: the world as we know it had come to an end.