2. Continuation of Introduction.

Welcome back Guys! I am glad ya all sticked around me and trusted me!! I shall try my best to kepp ya engaged to this book!

So welcome new readers...before we start with the topic from last time.....Allow me by...

Starting with Myself...

Hi new readers. I am a 17 year old school student from Delhi,India.

Myself, Asmi Bhat.

This is my second book...(ya can say cause its aint a novel).

So...shall we begin???

Let's Hit it!

4.The Middle Ages.

The High Middle Ages saw a revival of interest in Greco-Roman magic, first in Kabbalism and later continued in Renaissance magic. This included magical uses of the zodiac, as found, e.g., in the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh.

The zodiac is found in medieval stained glass as at Angers Cathedral, where the master glassmaker, André Robin, made the ornate rosettes for the North and South transepts after the fire there in 1451.

Mughal king Jahangir issued an attractive series of coins in gold and silver depicting the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

5. Early Modern Ages.

An example of the use of signs as astronomical coordinates may be found in the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1767. The "Longitude of the Sun" columns show the sign (represented as a digit from 0 to and including 11), degrees from 0 to 29, minutes, and seconds.

The zodiac symbols are Early Modern simplifications of conventional pictorial representations of the signs, attested since Hellenistic times.

(Frankly speaking... people who were in the early modern ages who called themselves as great astrologers was just some shi*t a** people

who took ideas from the older ages and modified them a bit and what famous so frankly speaking I don't really know much about them cause I bever cared! No Offence!!)

**Finally... Phew!!! This topic ended... for long time this thing was getting in my brain that I had to print the rest of the topics about it or my few lovely readers that is you people might leave me!!!

Now of you could believe or respect a few modern astronomers must be thinking that I am being disrespectful towards them so here is my answer to that...

●How does the modern world explain zodiacs and the relation of zodiacs and astronomy??

Stars within the zodiac are subject to occultations by the Moon and other solar system bodies**. 

the zodiac defines a belt of space extending 9° either side of the ecliptic, within which the orbits of the Moon and the principal planets remain. It is a feature of a celestial coordinate system centered upon the ecliptic, (the plane of the Earth's orbit and the Sun's apparent path), by which celestial longitude is measured in degrees east of the vernal equinox (the ascending intersection of the ecliptic and equator).

The Sun's placement upon the vernal equinox, which occurs annually around 21 March, defines the starting point for measurement, the first degree of which is historically known as the "first point of Aries". The first 30° along the ecliptic is nominally designated as the zodiac sign Aries, which no longer falls within the proximity of the constellation Aries since the effect of precession is to move the vernal point through the backdrop of visible constellations (it is currently located near the end of the constellation Pisces, having been within that constellation since the 2nd century AD).

The subsequent 30° of the ecliptic is nominally designated the zodiac sign Taurus, and so on through the twelve signs of the zodiac so that each occupies 1/12th (30°) of the zodiac's great circle.

Zodiac signs have never been used to determine the boundaries of astronomical constellations that lie in the vicinity of the zodiac, which are, and always have been, irregular in their size and shape.

The convention of measuring celestial longitude within individual signs was still being used in the mid-19th century, but modern astronomy now numbers degrees of celestial longitude from 0° to 360°, rather than 0° to 30° within each sign.

The use of the zodiac as a means to determine astronomical measurement remained the main method for defining celestial positions by Western astronomers until the Renaissance, at which time preference moved to the equatorial coordinate system, which measures astronomical positions by right ascension and declination rather than the ecliptic-based definitions of celestial longitude and celestial latitude.

Now... there are many people who get confused between two topics. They are Zodiac signs and Astrological signs and Horoscope. So now let's discuss astrological signs and Horoscope.

●What are Astrological Signs ??

Astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries. The order of the astrological signs is Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

Each sector was named for a constellation it was passing through in times of naming.

The concept of the zodiac originated in Babylonian astrology, and was later influenced by Hellenistic culture. According to astrology, celestial phenomena relate to human activity on the principle of "as above, so below", so that the signs are held to represent characteristic modes of expression. Modern discoveries about the true nature of celestial objects have undermined the theoretical basis for assigning meaning to astrological signs, and empirical scientific investigation has shown that predictions and recommendations based on these systems are not accurate.85;:424 Astrology is generally regarded as pseudoscience.

●What are Horoscopes???

This is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth. The word horoscope is derived from the Greek words ōra and scopos meaning "time" and "observer" (horoskopos, pl. horoskopoi, or "marker(s) of the hour"). Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart. It is used as a method of divination regarding events relating to the point in time it represents, and it forms the basis of the horoscopic traditions of astrology.

In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of solar Sun sign astrology; based strictly on the position of the Sun at the time of birth, or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology. In particular, many newspapers and magazines carry predictive columns, written in prose that may be written more for increasing readership than tied directly to the Sun or other aspects of the solar system, allegedly based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the month of birth, cusp (2 days before or after any particular sign, an overlap), or decant (the month divided into 3 ten-day periods) of the person's month of birth, identifying the individual's Sun sign or "star sign" based on the tropical zodiac.

**Gosh!! its so tiring to write so long paragraph. Now I am gonna put an end to today's chapter and I shall continue with the differences between all the three in the next chapter. If ya guys wanna me to add some information about or go in more depth of any of the topics in this chapter all the previous one comment in the following chapter below. I.E. if it's from the first chapter then comment from the first chapter review box .If its for the second chapter then comment in this review box!!!

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