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THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC 12$
southeast, Yemen south, Ethiopia south-southwest. Nubia westsouthwest,
Egypt west, Palestine west-northwest, and Armenia
north-northwest.
Now we have to remember that these traveling salesmen were
most certainly illiterate. But they could count and were very
good at memorizing their travel orders, which were given to
them in the form of small tablets engraved v^th the signs of the
zodiac. Gemini, the Twins, was the sign for Ethiopia; Virgo, the
Virgin, for India; Pisces, the Fishes, for Palestine; Leo, the Lion,
for Hadramaut; and so on. The stars of the constellations not only
-gave them the direction in which to lead their caravans of mules
or camels but also indicated the right time for aniving at their
destinations. The best time to arrive for business was when the
sun rose in the morning within the given sign.
This system, however, has a flaw. The precession of the
equinoxes changed the direction in which the salesmen were to
travel. The spring equinox, which coincided with the sign of
Cancer for Hadramaut 9,700 years ago was in the sign of Gemini
for Ethiopia 7,500 years ago, and became the Taurus for Nubia
5,300 years ago. Either the signs or the destinations had to be
changed to keep things in order, but we do not know if the one
or the other correction was made or not. This question has never
been answered, but we do know that today's astrologers use
signs that do not correspond to the actual positions of the constellations
in the zodiac, but do coincide approximately v^dth the
positions the stars held 2,500 years ago when the Chaldean astrologers
did their fine work in Babylon. On the contrary, our
modern astronomers use a zodiac where the spring equinox is determined
for all times to fall on or close to March 21 when the
sign of Pisces gives way to Aries, while the constellations where
the sun rises at this date have slowly changed their places and
have nothing to do any more with the positions of 9,700 years
ago when the zodiac was probably invented.
This is the weakest of all points in our present-day astrology.
It does not represent the actual astronomical positions of tiie
stars today, it does not correspond to the signs when the zodiac
was invented, but it approximately reflects the state of 2,500
years ago when the Jews were captives in Babylon. The zodiac
of our present-day astrologers is the zodiac of the Bible, and this