It has also been treated in novels by T. Coraghessan Boyle ( A Friend of the Earth ), Carl Hiaasen ( Tourist Season, Sick Puppy, Hoot ), Neal Stephenson ( Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller ), and Richard Melo ( Jokerman 8 ), and movies such as Choke Canyon ( 1986 ) and On Deadly Ground ( 1994 ).

His next novel, Zodiac ( 1988 ), was a thriller following the exploits of a radical environmentalist protagonist in his struggle against corporate polluters.

* Zodiac ( 1988 )

* Zodiac ( novel ), a 1988 novel by Neal Stephenson about environmentalism

* Science and Astrology: The Relationship Between the Measure Formulae and the Zodiac, ( 48 p .) 1988, Anodos Foundation, ISBN 1-892160-06-4

The first Carddass, released in 1988, is based on the Saint Seiya anime series ( also known as Knights of the Zodiac ).

For Zodiac, this first major international diversification — strengthened by the purchase of Pioneer ( 1988 ), Weber Aircraft LLC ( 1992 ), Sicma Aero Seat, and Contour Aerospace ( 2011 )— heralded the start of a new entrepreneurial adventure.

The culmination of this partnership was A Zodiac of Angels, a choral jazz ballet performed opposite Carmina Burana under the innovative baton of Victor Fox in the Opera Theatre Manchester in January 1988 and utilising symphony orchestra, 7 jazz soloists including Norma Winstone, full choir and a dance company.

The constellations of the Zodiac of western Asia and Europe were not used ; instead the sky is divided into Three Enclosures ( 三垣 sān yuán ), and Twenty-eight Mansions ( 二十八宿 èrshíbā xiù ) in twelve Ci ( 十二次 ).

The classical Zodiac is a product of a revision of the Old Babylonian system in later Neo-Babylonian astronomy 6th century BC.

E. W. Bullinger interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel ( and thence in Revelation ) as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac, with the Lion as Leo, the Bull is Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle standing in for Scorpio.

In a Knights of Zodiac movie, there is an Eris ' ghost knight, represented by the Southern Cross.

However, it is equally possible to evoke angelic beings, gods, and other intelligences related to planets, elements, and the Zodiac.

It is understood that the constellations of the Zodiac within the belief system of Astrology,

Cleomedes states: The band of the Zodiac ( zōdiakos kuklos, " zodiacal circle ") is at an oblique angle ( loksos ) because it is positioned between the tropical circles and equinoctial circle touching each of the tropical circles at one point … This Zodiac has a determinable width ( set at 8 ° today ) … that is why it is described by three circles: the central one is called " heliacal " ( hēliakos, " of the sun ").

Other authors use Zodiac to mean ecliptic, which first appears in a gloss of unknown author in a passage of Cleomedes where he is explaining that the Moon is in the zodiacal circle as well and periodically crosses the path of the Sun.

* One of earliest occurrences of the scorpion in culture is its inclusion, as Scorpio, in the twelve signs of the series of constellations known as the Zodiac by Babylonian astronomers during the Chaldean period.

E. W. Bullinger interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac, with the Lion as Leo, the Bull is Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle representing Scorpio.

* December 20 – The Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road, Benicia, San Francisco Bay, California.

* In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, twelve signs of the Zodiac, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness.

" Capra simply means " she-goat " and the star-name Capella is the " little goat ", but some modern readers confuse her with the male sea-goat of the Zodiac, Capricorn, who bears no relation to Amalthea, no connection in a Greek or Latin literary source nor any ritual or inscription to join the two.

For example, in the Dendera Zodiac, the hawk symbol for Canis Major is identified by the term “ Naz Seir ”.

This squadron performed many important bombing and photographic missions during the war, but is perhaps best known as the " Zodiac Squadron ", as its bombers were decorated with colourful images of the twelve signs of the zodiac painted by a professional artist named Phil Brinkman, who was taken into the squadron by its commander, Capt.

* Zodiac by Neal Stephenson ; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston Harbor

They are the second ( known ) victims of the Zodiac Killer.

They are the second ( known ) victims of the Zodiac Killer.

He is encountered in the second chapter of the game and involved in a story arc concerning his father Besrodio and a man named Ludovich, who is searching for the Taurus Zodiac Stone.

Taurus () is the second astrological sign in the Zodiac.

His Across the Zodiac ( 1880 ) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre.

The first alien language in a work of science fiction may have been Percy Greg's Martian language in his 1880 novel Across the Zodiac.

The general theory of magick proposes that there are various forces which are represented by the classical elements ( air, earth, fire, and water ), the planets, the signs of the Zodiac, and adjacent spaces in the astral world.

The sephiroth are represented by the planets and the paths by the characters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are subdivided by the four classical elements, the seven classical planets, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Eos and Astraios will later marry and have Zephyros, Boreas, Notos, Eosphoros, Hesperos, Phosphoros and the Stars ( foremost of which are Phaenon, Phaethon, Pyroeis, Stilbon, those of the Zodiac and those three acknowledged before ).

Ancient Persians believed the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years at the end of which the sky and earth collapsed in chaos.

The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat, and there are many stories about the Origins of the Chinese Zodiac which explain why this is so ( see below ).

Downey also received great notice for his roles in more mainstream fare such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Disney's poorly received The Shaggy Dog, and David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, in which he played San Francisco Chronicle journalist Paul Avery.

The latter are those organs which perform functions in the body independent of the outside world, being the hands, feet, kidneys, gall, intestines, stomach, liver, pancreas, and spleen ; and they are, accordingly, subject to the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

In it, the Zodiac included details about the murders which had not yet been released to the public, as well as a message to the police that when they cracked his code " they will have me.

In August 2005, she made her voiceover debut in Singapore's first 3D animation film, Zodiac, The Race Begins, which was released in early 2006.

Harris was eventually fired by matchmaker Frank Dusek following a controversial Texas heavyweight title match in which Gary Young, dressed as The Super Zodiac, defeated Eric Embry for the title, when Young grabbed a chain from the pocket of Harris ( who took a bump by Embry ) and blasted Embry for the win.

Phil Grant wrote about Ley lines for # 3 and Mary Caine who revised an earlier article ( from Gandalf's Garden ) on The Glastonbury Zodiac for issue # 4, which also saw the debut of the " Reviews " section, beginning with comments on a book by John Michell, the Sphere reprint of Charles Fort's New Lands and John Sladek's The New Apocrypha.

In New York City, during the late 1960s, he became a contributor to the East Village Other, which published his own comics tabloid, Zodiac Mindwarp ( 1968 ).

The Lo Shu square on the back of a small turtle ( in the center ), surrounded by the signs of the Chinese Zodiac and the Ba gua | Eight trigrams, all carried by a large turtle ( which, presumably, stands for the Longma | Dragon horse that had earlier revealed the trigrams to Fu Xi ).

* Zodiac ( solitaire ), a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together

References are made to the seven Tikshi, the seven Lumashi, and the seven Mashi, which are older than the signs of the Zodiac ; so far as can be ascertained these groups were selected from various constellations.

This list also excludes standard Palm OS games which are also available for Zodiac handhelds, which were either identical or slightly improved on Zodiac, called " Zodiac tuned " ( e. g. a game available for standard Palm OS only has the extra features of vibration and shoulder buttons as extra usable buttons when played on Zodiac ).