Complete Set of 12: Constellations of the Zodiac Serigraphs

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ECL. AQUARIUS JANUARY 20 FEBRUARY 18 22 H ECL. PISCES FEBRUARY MARCH 2 / 19 ECLE ARIES MARCH 21 APRIL 20 4 H ECL TAURUS APRIL 21 MAY 20 ECL 7 H. II GEMINI МАУ 21 JUNE 2О ECLIP 8H JUNE 21 JULY 20 CANCER 10 ECL. LEO JULY 21 AUGUST 21 13 H VIRGO AUGUST 22 SEPTEMBER 21 ECL 15H ECLIP. LIBRA SEPTEMBER 22 22 OCTOBER ECL 16 H SCORPIO OCTOBER 23 NOVEMBER 21 ECL. SAGITTARIUS NOVEMBER 22 DECEMBER 20 21H ECL CAPRICORNUS DECEMBER 21 SANUARY 19 GUIDE to the CONSTELLATIONS of the ZODIAC SUPPLEMENT TO A SERIES OF LIMITED EDITION SERIGRAPH Published by М. А. SHEEHAN TOPANGA, CALIF.

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HAND MADE Original Serigraph E. C А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET N° HAND MADE Original Serigraph А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND-SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO C 다 HAND MADE Original Serigraph S. [ ㄷ - PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EJTION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET N ui HAND MADE Original Serigraph [ C - PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN. TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDUTION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO HAND MADE Original Serigraph PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EQUTION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NP HAND MADE Original Serigraph АА A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO HAND MADE Mo Original Serigraph C C А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION 1S LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO Po HAND MADE Original Serigraph S. А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO HAND MADE Original Serigraph А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET N: HAND MADE Original Serigraph PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA. CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION 1S LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET N9 HAND MADE RE Original Serigraph А A - PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET N. HAND MADE Original Serigraph А A PUBLISHED BY M. A. SHEEHAN, TOPANGA, CALIFORNIA - THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO TWO THOUSAND SETS THIS CARD IS PART OF SET NO Go back 2000 years, and imagine that you are a shepherd at the end of a long night in the early Spring; you are facing the Eastern horizon, waiting for the rising sun which, you know, will appear in the middle of the stars of Aries. Aries is not showing yet, but the Pisces are half way above the horizon. Now, we know that twelve constellations pass over the horizon every 24 hours, or one constellation every two hours; the Pisces being next to Aries on the Zodiac, you know that you will have to wait about two hours, for dawn to come. The constellations of the Zodiac were a calendar if you watched the rising sun, or a clock if you knew the date. For the night watchmen of Chaldea, they were all im- portant, a great deal more important than Polaris (the Pole Star) which stayed in the same place all the time and said nothing. Polaris was an aid to the navigators, not to the shepherds. Before we leave the Ancient Times, we have to consider another motion of the Earth. The Earth wobbles a bit, very slowly, one wobble every 25,800 years. This wobble causes what is called the precession of the equinoxes, a retrograde motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic, in other words the sun is a little slow in the meaning of a clock being slow) and, at the present time (after 2000 years), the sun gets up in the middle of the Pisces on the 21st of March (equinox) instead of the middle of Aries, as in olden times. Rightly or wrongly, the Ancients saw a relation between human behavior and the constellations of the Zodiac. ASTROLOGY is the study of these influences, while ASTRONOMY is the study of celestial bodies by themselves. The Astrologers have kept the old dates associated to the signs of the Zodiac. These dates are given at the bottom of the cards. They have no astronomical meaning. We shall leave the astrological point of view to those more informed about that subject, and confine ourselves to the astronomical aspect of the Constellations of the Zodiac.