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Il8 - QUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
24, November 6, and December 26. There must have been some
others, but so far I have not had the time to find them. At any
rate, these three examples should be enough to show that astrology,
be it a science or an art, is not easy to master and requires a
certain intelligence. Before even trying to decide if
astrology is
an exact science or a sham, which in itself is a delicate question,
we should study a little the very basis of our modem astrology as
transferred to us by the Chaldean Magis: the zodiac with its
twelve mysterious signs.
Since the dawn of time, men must have noticed that certain
stars hanging in the vault of the sky seemed to disappear behind
the sun and that each return of the yearly seasons brought these
stars back. This is how they must have realized pretty soon that
the stars were immobile and the sim was traveling around and
that the same path, only slower, was followed by the planets. In
such a way, certain characteristic groups of stars were chosen to
indicate every season of the year. The whole ring of constellations
was given the name "zodiac," or circle of animals, because
of all the animals our ancestors seemed to recognize in
these star groups.
Depending on the region and the way they counted their
sheep, goats, or cattle, our ancestors divided the band of the zodiac
into eight, ten, twelve, or thirteen parts. One division was as
good as the other because the constellations are not evenly distributed
at equal intervals. The Chaldeans, like the Sumerians
before them, had divided the band of stars into twelve parts because
they counted everything by 12 or by 60. Actually, it is better
to divide the zodiac into thirteen parts, since it is easier then
to give each segment one characteristic constellation without
gaps or overlap.
It is quite easy to design, with groups of the brightest stars in
the zodiac, thirteen different triangles that have dissimilar forms
and orientations and whose centers are evenly spaced about 28
degrees from each other all around the great highway of the ce-
This illustration shows a new zodiac made of thirteen equally spaced
triangles and 39 corresponding stars. This is much more logical than
our present Babylonian zodiac with twelve vmevenly spaced constellations,
some above and some below the ecliptic, which does not seem
to make sense.