Both Mormon apologists and critics, however, claim that it is not certain that the document is the original, since Anthon had mentioned that the characters on the slip he saw were arranged in vertical columns and ended in a " rude delineation of a circle divided into various compartments, decked with various strange marks, and evidently copied after the Aztec calendar given by Humboldt ," ( 1834 ) or " a rude representation of the Mexican zodiac " ( 1841 ).

Ptolemy extends the logic given in ancient Babylonian texts where the four quarters of the known world are attributed to the four triplicity arrangements of the zodiac.

In astrological usage it refers to the presence of a planet at a point on the zodiac.

* The third and fourth together explain retrogradation, when a planet appears to slow down, then briefly reverse its motion through the zodiac.

Retrograde is most commonly an adjective used to describe the path of a planet as it travels through the night sky, with respect to the zodiac, stars, and other bodies of the celestial canopy.

In delineation the placement of a planet or zodiac sign in a house will determine to a large degree the area of life in which it acts, and the goals and activities on which its drive or impulse will be focused.

An approaching aspect occurs when a faster moving planet, or significator, is moving towards a slower moving planet, or promittor, is moving towards an aspect in the natural order of the zodiac, which is a counterclockwise direction.

A departing aspect occurs when a planet is retrograde, which means that from the perspective of the Earth it appears to move backward across the zodiac.

He knows and teaches the virtues of the stars and the mansions of the planets ( the influence of each planet depending on the astrological sign in which it is in a specific moment and the influence of that sign on an individual depending on how the zodiac was configured at the moment of his / her birth or at the moment of asking a question to the astrologist ); he also gives dignities, prelacies, and the favour of friends and foes, and can metamorphose a man into any shape.

Essential refers to the quality of a planet at a particular degree of the zodiac and its ability to express its true / good nature.

The descendant is ruled by the seventh sign of the zodiac, Libra, and its ruler planet, Venus.

In astrology, essential dignity is the strength of a planet or point's zodiac position, judged only by its position by sign and degree, or its essence -- what the pre-eminent 17th-century astrologer William Lilly called " the strength, fortitude or debility of the Planets significators.

Many modern astrologers assign what is called a ' natural ' rulership of each house of the horoscope to a different planet, in the same way as the zodiac signs are said to have rulers.

Accidental dignity should not be confused with essential dignity which is where a planet gains strength from its position in the zodiac.

Aquarius () is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces.

Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac ( the sun's apparent path ).

The name in the Hindu zodiac is likewise kumbha " water-pitcher ", showing that the zodiac reached India via Greek intermediaries.

It uses the tropical zodiac, which is aligned to the equinoctial points.

Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.

Astrology's modern representation in western popular media is usually reduced to sun sign astrology, which considers only the zodiac sign of the Sun at an individual's date of birth, and represents only 1 / 12 of the total chart.

The Chinese zodiac of twelve animal signs is said to represent twelve different types of personality.

The Korean zodiac is identical to the Chinese one.

The Vietnamese zodiac is almost identical to Chinese zodiac except that the second animal is the Water Buffalo instead of the Ox, and the fourth animal is the Cat instead of the Rabbit.

Sole usage of the tropical zodiac is inconsistent with references made, by the same astrologers, to the Age of Aquarius which is dependent on when the vernal point enters the constellation of Aquarius.

Knowledge of the Neo-Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible.

Capricornus () is one of the constellations of the zodiac ; it is often called Capricorn, especially when referring to the corresponding astrological sign.

It is the second faintest constellation in the zodiac after Cancer, and it is the smallest constellation in the zodiac.

Although Cetus is not generally considered part of the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close to its constellation boundary, and thus the planets may be seen in Cetus for brief periods of time.

It was the center of a band called the zodiac on which various constellations were located.

The term " zodiac " may also refer to the region of the celestial sphere encompassing the paths of the planets corresponding to the band of about eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic.

By extension, the " zodiac of the comets " may refer to the band encompassing most short-period comets.

The bronze fountain represents the work of four sculptors: Louis Vuillemot carved the garlands and festoons around the pedestal, Pierre Legrain carved the armillary with interior globe and zodiac band ; the animalier Emmanuel Fremiet designed the eight horses, marine turtles and spouting fish.

They always seem to move within the band of stars called the zodiac by Westerners.

The iconography also contains two torch bearing boys ( Cautes and Cautopates ) on each side of the zodiac.

The head of the mace is engraved with zodiac symbols representing the university's contribution to astronomy and also contains the DNA double helix representing the biological sciences and microprocessor chips representing information and communications technology.

The Beit Alfa Synagogue National Park, located at the nearby kibbutz Heftziba, contains an ancient Byzantine-era synagogue, with a mosaic floor depicting the lunar Hebrew months as they correspond to the signs of the zodiac.

The Paris Codex ( also or formerly the Codex Peresianus ) contains prophecies for tuns and katuns ( see Maya Calendar ), as well as a Maya zodiac, and is thus, in both respects, akin to the Books of Chilam Balam.

In both astrology and historical astronomy, the zodiac ( Greek: ζῳδιακός, zōidiakos ) is a circle of twelve 30 ° divisions of celestial longitude that are centered upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year.

The immobility of the earth, and the revolution of the sky about a fixed axis are maintained ; the path of the sun in the zodiac is described ; but the planets are introduced merely as bodies having a motion of their own, without any attempt to define their periods ; nor is anything said about the moon's orbit.

Under the Greeks, and Ptolemy in particular, the planets, Houses, and signs of the zodiac were rationalized and their function set down in a way that has changed little to the present day.

In particular, many newspapers and magazines carry predictive columns based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the day of a person's birth, identifying the individual's Sun sign or " star sign " based on the tropical zodiac.

The tree that represents the particular nakshatras in the zodiac has been planted in each of the corresponding arcs.

As a monkey is a part of the Chinese zodiac, which has been used for centuries in Japan, the creature was sometimes portrayed in paintings of the Edo Period as a tangible metaphor for a particular year.

From January to mid-March, the Conservatory celebrates the Chinese New Year with a display dominated by flowers bromeliads and Orchids, as well as the animal of that particular year that the Chinese zodiac celebrates.

The most significant considerations are the regions of the zodiac which mark the place of the Sun and Moon, and the four angles of the chart – in particular the ascendant.