![]() That’s why today's zodiac situation differs a bit from the traditional one. In ancient times people couldn’t even imagine such a phenomenon. The matter is the axial precession: there’s a slight movement of the Earth's axis, which can be observed during the planet's rotation, which causes a slow zodiac sign shift. However, the modern picture is a bit different from the past. The zodiac that we're familiar with has 12 signs: ♈ Aries, ♉ Taurus, ♊ Gemini, ♋ Cancer, ♌ Leo, ♍ Virgo, ♎ Libra, ♏ Scorpio, ♐ Sagittarius, ♑ Capricorn, ♒ Aquarius, ♓ Pisces. ![]() To make the periods more equal, it was simplified and Ophiuchus was eliminated. For example, the Sun points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points to Scorpius for only 7 days, and to Ophiuchus - for 18 days. In reality, ancient astronomers had counted 13 zodiac signs, but they had to get rid of one for the sake of convenience.Įven after this some signs went still beyond their segments. The word “Zodiac” is Greek and it means “sculpted animal figure“. ![]() Babylonians used a twelve-month calendar according to the 12 moon phases, so it was quite convenient to divide the zodiac equally into twelve parts so that each sign corresponded with one month. The term and concept of zodiac and zodiac constellations was firstly introduced in Babylon about three millennia ago.
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