Zodiac
The Zodiac is the twelve constellations in the form of animals, humans or objects.
Western zodiac
The modern astrological signs are the simplified pictures of the signs used in the Hellenistic times. These are the twelve aspects the signs represent:
- Aries (The Ram) - (21 March - 19 April)
- Taurus (The Bull) - (20 April - 20 May)
- Gemini (The Twins) - (21 May - 20 June)
- Cancer (The Crab) - (21 June - 22 July)
- Leo (The Lion) - (23 July - 22 August)
- Virgo (The Virgin) - (23 August - 22 September)
- Libra (The Scale) - (23 September - 22 October)
- Scorpio (The Scorpion) - (23 October - 21 November)
- Sagittarius (The Centaur-Archer) - (22 November - 21 December)
- Capricorn (The Sea-Goat) - (22 December - 20 January)
- Aquarius (The Water-Bearer) - (20 January - 18 February)
- Pisces (The Fish) - (19 February - 20 March)
A person's Zodiac sign is determined by at what time and on what day they are born. The Meteorological Signs do the same thing.
Chinese Zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, years match twelve animals in turn.
Zodiac Media
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Modern zodiac wheel showing the 12 signs used in horoscopic astrology
- Antoninus Pius Drachm showing a Zodiac wheel.jpg
Roman Egyptian coin of Antoninus Pius (dated year 8 of his reign or 145 AD) showing his portrait and a Zodiac wheel with the busts of Helios and Selene in the center
- Beit Alpha.jpg
A sixth-century mosaic zodiac wheel in synagogue Beth Alpha incorporating Greek-Byzantine elements, Israel
- F4.v. zodiac circle with planets - NLW MS 735C.png
Zodiac circle with planets, c. 1000 – NLW MS 735C
The 1st century BC Dendera zodiac (19th-century engraving)
- Angers Cathedral South Rose Window of Christ with Zodiac.jpg
Angers Cathedral South Rose Window of Christ (center) with elders (bottom half) and zodiac (top half). Medieval stained glass by Andre Robin after the fire of 1451
- Ottoman Sundial at the Debbane Palace museum.jpg
Ottoman-style sundial with folded gnomon and compass. The sundial features engraved toponyms in Arabic and zodiac symbols. Debbane Palace museum, Lebanon
- Zodiac German Woodcut.jpg
The zodiac signs in a 16th-century woodcut
- F3.v. Southern hemisphere constellations - NLW MS 735C.png
Depiction of the southern hemisphere constellations in an 11th-century French manuscript (from the Limoges area, probably in the milieu of Adémar de Chabannes, fl. 1020–1034)
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18th-century star chart illustrating the feet of Ophiuchus crossing the ecliptic
