In addition to the above-mentioned circles, there is one representing the zodiac which is exceedingly heavy, on which have been cut the signs of the several constellations and the names of the months.
Each of these parts in turn, in the outer periphery, is subdivided further into 30 parts, which are the 12 signs of the zodiac and the individual degrees of the signs of distance of the sun and the moon from the head of the dragon.
What sign of the zodiac does the sun occupy, the moon, the head and tail of the dragon?
The Zodiac is also favourably affected by proper suffumigations.
Remarks on the Architecture, Sculpture, and Zodiac of Palmyra; with a Key to the Inscriptions.
Mr. Prescot gives the signs of the zodiac a Hebrew origin.
It moves slowly and majestically across the sky, advancing through the Zodiac at the rate of one constellation yearly.
The Arabs saw in this group of stars two peacocks, the Egyptians two sprouting plants, and the Hindus twin deities, while in the Buddhist zodiac they represented a woman holding a golden cord.
Why was he wearing a magician's robe, I wondered, with stars of gold and signs of the Zodiac upon it?
This zodiac of the creatures' cruelty Curls round us, like a river cold and drear, And shuts us in, constraining us to hear.
The phantastic Vision has all passed; the Earth-zodiac has broken like a belt, and is dissolved from the Desert.
Observe, the order of the Zodiac is reversed upon the external human plane.
As each sunrise is different in its aspects, so are no two signs of the Zodiac alike.
And last, but most important, seek with an earnest desire for truth to learn the relation of those glittering constellations of the shining Zodiac to the human soul and their influence in shaping its eternal destiny.
Each sign of the Zodiac surrounding the center head had within it a faintly seen face.
In revealing this mystery, we would impress upon the mind of the student that the order of the Zodiac is the reverse of the external, in its spiritual application, to the twelve houses of the horoscope.
The celestial signs of the shining Zodiac have no existence to us apart from the graceful and unwearying motion of our Mother Earth.
Here, then, is the sum total: First is revealed to us the grand Astral Man, the Zodiac being the outward idea or form, the Sun and his system the vital functions thereof.
The astrological Zodiacof a Saturn or a Mars cannot be like ours.
Commagene, as well as of a great number of Syrian cities, had the signs of the zodiac as emblems on their coins.
At that time this name was undoubtedly understood to mean "lord of the months," because Attis represented the sun who entered a new sign of the zodiac every month.
Perhaps, dear reader, you have never had to stand as a model for the picture of the man in the front of the almanac, who looks like the victim of a buzz saw, with the various members of the Zodiac family floating around him.
If a man could let out the back straps of his vest and breathe in the unoccupied atmosphere lying between the Laramie river and the Zodiac it would be all right, but he can't do it.
That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
Lastly, he says that Aristarchus discovered that the diameter of the sun appeared to be about 1/720th part of the zodiac circle, i.
Footnote 14: The principal zodiachas since been removed.
It is framed in a circle with the signs of the zodiacand the images of the great Olympian deities.
The zodiac promises us a good star, and the figures representing it are not the common emblems, but each deeply significant.
This suggests that Chaucer may, at the moment, have confused face with exaltation, thus giving us, as the portion of the zodiac intended, the first ten degrees of Libra.
It has been already intimated that the Vernal equinox probably was near the head of Aries, when the signs of the zodiac received their present names.
Finishing upon a chart the arc of precession which they measure on the zodiac they measure the whole circle it will sweep, and calculate a cycle or period of thirty-six thousand years, as the duration of one grand year of the universe!
In the Denderah (Egyptian) Zodiac it is an unclean bird standing on the serpent, which is under the feet of Orion.
In the Zodiacin the Temple of Denderah, in Egypt, about 2000 B.
In theZodiac of Esneh and in a Hindu Zodiac (400 B.
In the Denderah Zodiac he is called Apes, which means the head.
The name in the ancient Denderah Zodiac is Clusus, or Claustrum Hori, which means the place of Him who cometh.
In the Indian Zodiacit is a goat passant traversed by a fish.
In Sir William Jones's Oriental Zodiacwe meet with a crab, and an Egyptian Zodiac found at Rome bears also the crab in this sign.
In the Denderah Zodiacher name is Set, which means set, set up as Queen.
His name in the Denderah Zodiacis Pe-ku-hor, which means this one cometh to rule.
In the Denderah Zodiac His name is Kar Knem, he who fights and subdues.
They divided the Zodiac into twenty-four zones, and were assigning the zones to the different observers, when they were startled by the news that the missing planet had been accidentally found by Piazzi in the constellation Taurus.
There had been started many years before by the French astronomer Chacornac a series of star maps round the Zodiac similar in intention to the Berlin maps which figured in the history of the discovery of Neptune.
A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares.
Defn: That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires.
Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
The reader will find fuller descriptions of the stars in the zodiac in The Friendly Stars, by the author of this book.
The fact that the zodiac is sixteen degrees wide, or eight degrees on each side of the ecliptic, is due only to a very generous allowance for the vagaries of Mercury, which he really does not quite need.
He travels through about one sign of the zodiac each year, and is thus not very difficult to keep trace of, since the signs and the constellations of the zodiac so nearly coincide.
The twelve constellations of the zodiac are as follows: Pisces, the Fishes.
Having once learned the constellations of the zodiac and, approximately, the line of the ecliptic, it is not necessary for the ordinary observer to keep in mind the exact location of the vernal equinox.
Each of the twelve signs of the zodiac had a presiding genius, or imaginary personification, and these were the twelve greater gods of Paganism.
Will you call for me here--Truax & Fein, Zodiac Building?
She, too, at least during the best hours of the day, lived in the Zodiac Building's microcosm.
