Show Sign of the Zodiac The Zodiac C Is a belt of ot sky extending ex ex- tending ending eight degrees es side of r the he ecliptic and aDd comprising the flipp apparent apparent ap flip- p parent rent paths of the sun moon moon and prIncipal 1 planets It Is divided into 12 2 signs of ot 30 SO degrees each the names of which are Aries Arles Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sa Sagittarius Capricorn us Aquarius ai aka d Pisces The first six are north of the equator the thc last six south of it Tie six aB ascending ending signs are those from to Gemini Inclusive e In Ie which the sun Is moving northward the he six descending sl signs ius those la lo traversing reversing which It continually increases in creases its north polar distance Th The series rles begins with the vernal equinox and shifts shirts through precession Tie Tye 7 Zodiac is of ot immemorial antiquity It wa was Invented in Babylonia essentially as we know it not later Inter and probably much earlier than 2000 B. B O. O The Greeks adopted It about the Sixth century B. B C. C and transmitted It west west- ward The Zodiacal symbols came Into In to use abut about the Tenth century |