Gems and stones powers

Dear Friends, I am writing to you this time to give you a quick guide on gemstones and their properties. Many of the stones are used in my spell casting. I also use some as jewelry, depending on which vibe I require.

You see, gemstones and crystals have been used for centuries to aid people in many ways, like healing and reconnecting with the Divine. Gemstones and crystals enhance our natural healing and psychic abilities as well. The following are some basic metaphysical properties of them:

Alexandrite – Enhances the rebirth of the inner and outer self. It promotes awareness.

Amber – A powerful healing energy. Purifies and enhances spiritual growth and transforms negative energies into positive, allowing the body to heal itself.

Amethyst – Promotes spiritual awareness and awakening. It balances the energies of body, mind, and spirit. Amethyst is said to aid one in meditation and dreaming. It is also known as a protective stone.

Angelite – promotes love, compassion, and healing. It also enhances communication with the angelic realms and animal spirit guides. It is said to help aid telepathic communication between two people when they carry a stone when separated.

Apatite – Enhances communication and encourages one to achieve one’s goals. Highly psychic.

Aquamarine – Helps to banish fear and calm one’s nerves. Enhances strength and self-control.

Bloodstone
– Excellent healing stone. Promotes courage, strength and revitalizes our energies on all levels. It helps one to live in the present moment. The ancients used it as a way to connect and communicate with their ancestors in the spiritual realm.

Blue Lace Agate
– Soothing soft energy. It promotes grace and inspiration in one’s life.

Carnelian – This stone enhances one’s physical energy and helps speed up releasing sorrow and trauma. It promotes the powers of creativity, compassion, and courage.

Charoite – The Russians first discovered this stone in 1947. It cleanses your aura and accelerates spiritual growth. Place this stone beneath your pillow at night to assist with disturbing dreams, especially those where you experience fear.

Chrysocolla – Promotes balanced expression and open communication with others. Enhances one’s abilities to attune to Mother Earth’s energies. This stone encourages the realignment of mind, body, and spirit.

Chrysoprase
– This mineral is good for spiritual protection and often aligns the chakras with the ethereal plane.

Citrine
– Assists in attracting the energies of abundance and wealth. This stone balances and aligns the chakras. It promotes creativity, optimism, intuition, and inspiration.

Clear Quartz – A great all-purpose stone. Quartz amplifies the energies of all other stones. It enhances healing and communication with the elemental kingdom, animal kingdom, guides, and angels.

Emerald – This stone is used to open, activate and stimulate the heart chakra and symbolizes love and good fortune. Emeralds also assist those in need of balance, healing and promote peaceful dreams. It also enhances psychic abilities, raises consciousness, and has excellent healing powers.

Fluorite – Encourages objectivity, intuitiveness, and focus. Enhances our abilities to remove unwanted energies and assist us with bringing our mind, body, and spirit into balance and harmony.

Garnet – Promotes healing and protection. Assist one in manifesting what is needed to heal.

Green Aventurine – promotes healing and soothes troubled emotions. It clears, activates, and opens the heart chakra. It enhances one’s creativity and brings good luck.

Hematite – This is a great grounding stone. It helps one to transform negative energies into positive ones. It balances the meridians of the body and encourages peace and tranquility.

Howlite – Promotes inner strength and character. Assists one in working on releasing judgments and selfishness. It enhances the release of stress and anger.

Iolite
– This stone is considered one of the central stones for the third eye and crown for healing and guided meditation. It is a potent “shaman” stone, which enhances shamanic healing, shamanic journeying, and soul retrieval. It also assists and stimulates a healer’s intuitive abilities and communication with the higher self.

Jade – Many cultures consider jade a sacred stone. It is said to enhance one’s ability to interpret dreams and assist one in manifesting their dreams. It promotes healing, devotion, confidence, and self-esteem.

Jasper – a very nurturing and protective stone. It helps one align their chakras and also helps you to ground with the energies of Mother Earth. It is also said to calm dysfunctional energies and help with eliminating negativity from one’s life. Encourages spiritual awareness and assists one in astral travel.

Kunzite
– This mineral activates the heart chakra and aligns the heart chakra with the throat and third eye chakra. It is a high-level stone and strengthens the auras of spiritual healers and teachers. It can also be used to deepen altered states of consciousness. Pink kunzite dissolves negativity and automatically raises the vibrations of the area surrounding it. Kunzite is one of the few stones, which can align the seven chakras within a twenty-four-hour period.

Kyanite – This is one of those stones, which never needs clearing or cleaning, and it also aligns all the chakras automatically and immediately. It is often used for the throat and third eye chakras, but you may also find it beneficial to place blue kyanite below the heart chakra and black kyanite near the root chakra. This is an excellent stone for meditation, dream recall, and shamanic work because it gives protection during these states of consciousness.

Labradorite – This stone was first found in Labrador, Canada, in 1770 among the ancient artifacts of the Red Painted People of Maine. It protects the aura and keeps the aura clear, balanced, and free from energy leaks. This stone is suitable for shadow work allowing us to bring light to our shadow self and believe in providing relief from anxiety, hopelessness, and depression.

Lapis Lazuli – The ancient Egyptians highly prized this stone and sacred to the Goddess Isis. Lapis is said to have existed before “time was born”, and may assist one in gaining access to the Akashic Records. This stone activates and energizes the third eye and the throat chakra. It also helps one develop insight into one’s dreams, providing a connection with your dream guides, and is said to shield the wearer from harmful energies by clearing the aura.

Lepidolite – This stone activates the throat, heart, and third eye chakras. It is also known as the vacuum cleaner of negative energies. It is helpful for gridding one’s environment, promoting a calming and soothing effect. I also use rose lepidolite to locate energy blockages within the body and to drain excess electrical energies.

Malachite – clears and activates all the chakras. Encourages insight and clarification to promote the release of negative energies.

Moldavite – This stone enhances spiritual growth and psychic awakening and is considered to be a potent healer. Moldavite is a stone of transformation and is believed to be associated with the Holy Grail, a talisman falling from the sky to heal the earth. It is an excellent protection stone for spiritual healers.

Moss Agate – Aides one in balancing the emotions and healing the heart chakra. It promotes a positive outlook and may be used to enhance plant growth.

Obsidian – a great stone for protection, healing, and grounding. It enhances one’s connection to Mother Earth. Aides one in meditation and brings about purification on all levels.

Onyx – A stone of protection, helping one connect with their guides, totems, angels, and the Great Divine. It encourages strength, willpower, happiness, and good fortune.

Opal – The Native American Indian has used it to invoke visions, and the Aboriginal Australians use it during ceremonial “Dream-time.” It is a stone of renewal and helps guide one on their journey through life. It offers a connection between the self and inner knowing and also assists one in releasing old patterns and the trauma of old wounds. It is an excellent spiritual activator teaching love and nonviolence.

Pearls – Pearls were considered sacred in ancient times and said to attune the wearer to the ebb and flow of life. They also protect one from harm and promote love, truth, charity, integrity, and faith. White pearls are associated with the 7th chakra, which governs the highest brain centers allowing oneness with God, Goddess, The Divine, Peace, and Wisdom. Pearls are also used for healing blocked and damaged chakras. They are for spiritual transformation and help assist us with receiving spiritual guidance.

Peridot – Cleanses, protects, and shields the aura. It promotes happiness and aids one in releasing anger/or jealousy. Assists one with the release of energies or patterns, which are no longer useful.

Rainbow Moonstone – Brings good fortune and cleanses one of negativity. It promotes one’s intuitive abilities.

Rhodochrosite – Promotes love and balance on all levels. It enhances one’s meditation and expansion of consciousness. It helps with balancing emotions and enhances one’s ability to connect with the energies of Mother Earth. Rhodochrosite accelerates the expansion of consciousness.

Rhodonite – This stone is very calming and soothing. Assists one in achieving their highest potential by dispelling anxiety and fear. It encourages compassion and generosity.

Rose quartz – promotes love, forgiveness, peace, and self-acceptance. It soothes the emotions and helps open the heart chakra, promoting unconditional love of self and others.

Ruby – The ruby is believed to be an excellent power shield against harmful intentions and said to protect you against psychic or physical attacks. It stimulates the heart chakra and encourages love, gentleness, wisdom, and understanding. It also enhances healing, dreaming, and access to information from one’s spiritual guides.

Rutilated Quartz – Enhances energies in other stones.

Smoky Quartz – An excellent protection stone. It promotes grounding and the removal of negative energies. It enhances intuition, creativity, and joy. Assists one in communicating with the spiritual beings of other realms. Very powerful!

Sugilite – Enhances physical healing and reduces stress. Promotes emotional balance and strengthens the heart.

Tanzanite – This is a stone of magic, facilitates spiritual awareness and insights.

Tigers Eye – A great protection stone and helps one to achieve clarity. It promotes good business endeavors.

Topaz – Enhances tissue regeneration. It promotes clear communication and understanding. Topaz stimulates the creative thinking process.

Tourmaline – Paraiba Tourmalines enhance well-being, promote inner-strength, spiritual inspiration and encourage a desire to help and support others – a stone for healers –
This stone is used to align the heart, throat, and third eye.

Tourmaline – A great healing stone. Relieves fatigue and encourages restful sleep. It enhances love for self and others.
Turquoise – master healing stone. It encourages healing on all levels—healer of the spirit. Also, it’s a wonderful stone for protection. It enhances communication with the spirit world and promotes inner strength, wisdom, trust, and kindness for all our relations.

I hope you found this helpful!

 

Halloween is getting closer…

Halloween coming!

Don’t you feel it in the air? The energies are getting aligned! This time of your is perfect for solving complicated situations you have been wanting to solve for a long time. The veil between the living and the spirit realm is at its thinnest and we can be aided by our ancestors in each spell cast.

Keep your eyes open, I will be offering great spells and deals this coming October, so we can all celebrate Halloween and get the benefit of its powers!

 

Luck spells empowered!

Hello friends!
I just wanted to drop a quick note about the luck spells. I have been working on new formulas to make them even more powerful! Yes, that’s right, I have improved them a lot, so now they are more powerful and accurate!

If you feel that life is not on your side, if you should have more chances and deserve more, do not hesitate and get one spell for luck!

I am working hard to improve all the other spells, so I will keep you informed about my progress 😀

 

Luck spells

Welcome 2012!!!

Fill with positivity your life. Open your arms and heart to this new year: a new beginning, a new era. Take control of your future by deciding and acting, don’t let things control your life instead.

I am here to help you achieve your wishes and allow this new year to be the best!

Magick will help you to achieve your wishes, so do not hesitate to ask for my help.

Love spells, Money spells, Beauty spells, Lottery spells, Luck spells, body spells. Whatever your need is, I will have the perfect spell.
Love to all!

Some inner thoughts…

Our deepest fear is not to be inadequate. Our deepest fear is to let our light shine. It’s this light, the one that frightens us, not our darkness. We wonder, “who am I to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, successful, extraordinary?” The right question should be, “who am I not to be all that?

Face your fears and limitations by accepting them. Ask for and receive help and light that people like me are willing to give to enhance your life.

Spells for love, success, money, body, luck will make these wonderful things that are meant to be, happen for real. Go ahead, talk to me, I will help you.

 

 

FAQ section updated

Hi, my dear friends!

I wanted to write in this opportunity to tell you that I have updated the FAQ section, so before you contact me, you get all the information about my work and spells first. This will help to make our contact smoother and faster. Since I have so many different cases, it is hard for me to respond to all the questions ASAP. So be sure that before you contact me, you take a look at the FAQ section.

And don’t forget, a good spell is always an investment in your happiness, so do not feel afraid of spending and spoiling yourself a little bit with what it could and will be a life-changer.

Whatever your problems are: Love, finances, body issues, insecurities, friends, career, luck, etc., I will have an answer and a solution for you.

 

 

Special spells upgraded!

Hi, my dear friends! It’s been a while since my last post, and I wanted to tell you that I have been swamped with some Internet problems. But I am here and back!

I wanted to tell you that I have been working hard to upgrade all my spells. I have traveled a lot and gathered new information and materials. So far, I have been worked on my special spell. I have improved them, making them faster and more efficient! I will work with all my other spells as well, but one step at a time (since I have so many varieties of spells!).

Spells are like fashion. They can become obsolete after a while, so the spell caster needs to remain informed and open-minded. I like the changes, and I am not afraid to try new formulas, chants, and materials because it is all for the greater good.

So you know, if your case is HARD and you have tried everything to solve it, contact me at my email address listed on the website and ask for the special spells. They will do the work you want for sure!

And don’t forget to check my website for other spells: love, money, luck, body, beauty.

Love to you all!!!

 

Spiritual retreat!!

The last week of July is an exceptional time for those who are involved with magick like me.

The energies are especially strong, so that is why I choose to work from a spiritual retreat, where the energies are concentrated, and the magick will go through better.

Have said that, please be patient if you write and you do not get a fast answer. I will do my best to answer all as fast as possible (If you already got a spell from me, please mind that if it takes me a while to write, it doesn’t mean that I am not working in your case, it means that I cannot come online often, that’s all).

New special spell for hard cases!

I have finished my masterpiece of spells!

It is a unique spell; therefore, I will be performing it seven times only.

This spell is the actual 1 Wish spell. The difference is that this spell will be able to grant ANYTHING you want. Yes, no limits, anything.

So, if you have something special that you have dreamed of, do not hesitate to contact me. Do not forget to include your full name and DOB, so it is easy to pick suitable candidates for the spell.

And remember my other spells for any other problems you have, and you want a solution: love spells, luck spells, money spells, beauty spells, body spells. Just check my site, and there you will find what suits you best.

All the best,

 

a very interesting article about: Zodiac sign

Hi friends! I found this article, and I think it’s fascinating.
Even though it is not entirely what I do, I base most of my work on the Zodiac, so you have some information about it.
And remember, you can always contact me about your problem. We will work out a particular spell and fix your situation.

 

In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The Moon and planets also lie within the ecliptic, and so are also within the constellations of the zodiac. In astrology, the zodiac denotes those signs which divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. As such, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, more precisely an ecliptic coordinate system, taking the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.

It is known to have been in use by the Roman era, based on concepts inherited by Hellenistic astronomy from Babylonian astronomy of the Chaldean period (mid 1st millennium BC), which in turn derived from an earlier system of lists of stars along the ecliptic. The construction of the zodiac is described in Ptolemy‘s Almagest (2nd century AD).

The term zodiac may also refer to the region of the celestial sphere encompassing the paths of the Moon and the planets corresponding to the band of about eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic. The zodiac of a given planet is the band which contains the path of that particular body, e.g. the “zodiac of the Moon” is the band of five degrees above and below the ecliptic. By extension, the “zodiac of the comets” may refer to the band encompassing most short-period comets

The term zodiac derives from Latin zōdiacus, in turn from the Greek ζωδιακός κύκλος (zōdiakos kuklos), meaning “circle of animals”, derived from ζώδιον (zōdion), the diminutive of ζῶον (zōon) “animal”. The name is motivated by the fact that many of the signs of the classical Greek zodiac are represented as animals (six out of twelve, plus two mythological hybrids).

Although the zodiac remains the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system in use in astronomy besides the equatorial one, the term and the names of the twelve signs are today mostly associated with horoscopic astrology.

History

“The division of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs originates in Babylonian (“Chaldean“) astronomy during the first half of the 1st millennium BC, likely during Median/”Neo-Babylonian” times (7th century BC) , continuing earlier (Bronze Age) systems of lists of stars. Babylonian astronomers at some point during the early 1st millennium BC divided the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude to create the first known celestial coordinate system: a coordinate system that boasts some advantages over modern systems (such as equatorial coordinate system or ecliptic coordinate system). The Babylonian calendar as it stood in the 7th century BC assigns each month a constellation, beginning with the position of the Sun at vernal equinox, which at the time was the Aries constellation (“Age of Aries“), for which reason the first astrological sign is still called “Aries” even after the vernal equinox has moved away from the Aries constellation. However, a scientific analysis of the location of the constellations suggest their determination in this region in the Bronze Age (~2700 BC), thereby suggesting an earlier establishment of the constellations.

The Babylonian zodiac also finds reflection in the Hebrew Bible. The name of the twelve signs are equivalent to the names in use today, except that the name of the Eagle seems to have been usually substituted for Scorpio. The arrangement of the twelve tribes of Israel around the Tabernacle (Numbers 2) corresponded to the order of the Zodiac; and four of the tribes represented the middle signs of each quarter: Judah was the Lion, Reuben the Man, Ephraim the Bull, and Dan the Eagle. Thomas Mann in Joseph and His Brothers takes the Blessing of Jacob as attributing characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe. The faces of the cherubim, in both Ezekiel and Revelation, are the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac: the Lion is Leo; the Bull is Taurus; the Man is Aquarius; and the Eagle is Scorpio.

Hellenistic astrology was a syncretism of Babylonian and[Egyptian astrology], and it was in Ptolemaic Egypt where horoscopic astrology first appeared. The Dendera zodiac, a relief dating to ca. 50 BC, is the first known depiction of the classical zodiac of twelve signs.

Babylonia or Chaldea in the Hellenistic world came to be so identified with astrology that “Chaldean wisdom” became among Greeks and Romans the synonym of divination through the planets and stars.

The Hindu zodiac is a direct loan of the Greek system, adopted during the period of intense Indo-Greek cultural contact during the Seleucid period (2nd to 1st centuries BC).

In Hindu astrology, the individual signs are called ‘rāshi. The transmission of the zodiac system to Hindu astrology predated widespread awareness of the precession of the equinoxes, and the Hindu system ended up using a sidereal coordinate system, which resulted in the European and the Hindu zodiacs, even though sharing the same origin in Hellenistic astrology, gradually moving apart over two millennia that have passed since. The Sanskrit names of the signs are direct translations of the Greek names (dhanus meaning “bow” rather than “archer”, and kumbha meaning “water-pitcher” rather than “water-carrier”).

Particularly important in the development of horoscopic astrology was the astrologer and astronomer Ptolemy, whose work, the Tetrabiblos laid the basis of the Western astrological tradition. 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. Ptolemy lived in the 2nd century AD, three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by Hipparchus around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem, apparently by dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is referred to as a tropical coordinate system instead.

The High Middle Ages saw a revival of 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 zodiacal signs remain in use as the basis of an ecliptic coordinate system, though modern astronomers tend to use an equatorial coordinate system since Early Modern times. One can see the use of the sidereal coordinate remained in use throughout the medieval period, e.g. in Hermannus Contractus in his de mensura astrolabii liber who gives the locations of stars in stereographic projection for the construction of an astrolabe, There he gives the zodiac coordinate of Antares as 14. Scorpius, equalling a J2000.0 ecliptic longitude of 224° (the 14th degree from the beginning of Scorpius at 210°).

The twelve signs

The symbols used in Western astrology to represent the astrological signs

“What follows is a list of the twelve signs of the zodiac (with the ecliptic longitudes of their first points), where 0° Aries is understood as the vernal equinox, with their Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Babylonian names (but note that the Sanskrit and the Babylonian name equivalents denote the constellations only, not the tropical zodiac signs):

no. symbol long. Latin name English translation Greek name Sanskrit name Sumero-Babylonian name[12]
1 ♈ 0° Aries The Ram Κριός Meá¹£a MUL LUḪUN.GA “The Agrarian Worker”, Dumuzi
2 ♉ 30° Taurus The Bull Ταύρος Vṛṣabha MULGU4.AN.NA “The Steer of Heaven”
3 ♊ 60° Gemini The Twins Δίδυμοι Mithuna MULMAÅ .TAB.BA.GAL.GAL “The Great Twins” (Lugalgirra and Meslamta-ea)
4 ♋ 90° Cancer The Crab Καρκίνος Karka MULAL.LUL “The Crayfish”
5 ♌ 120° Leo The Lion Λέων Siṃha MULUR.GU.LA “The Lion”
6 ♍ 150° Virgo The Virgin Παρθένος Kanyā MULAB.SIN “The Furrow”; “The Furrow, the goddess Shala‘s ear of corn”
7 ♎ 180° Libra The Scales Ζυγός Tula zibanitum “The Scales”
8 ♏ 210° Scorpio The Scorpion Σκoρπιός Vṛścika MULGIR.TAB “The Scorpion”
9 ♐ 240° Sagittarius Centaur The Archer Τοξότης Dhanus MULPA.BIL.SAG, Nedu “soldier”
10 ♑ 270° Capricorn “Goat-horned” (The Sea-Goat) Αἰγόκερως Makara MULSUḪUR.MAÅ  “The Goat-Fish”
11 â™’ 300° Aquarius The Water Bearer Ὑδροχόος Kumbha MULGU.LA “The Great One”, later qâ “pitcher”
12 ♓ 330° Pisces The Fishes Ἰχθείς MÄ«na MULSIM.MAḪ “The Tail of the Swallow”, later DU.NU.NU “fish-cord”

The zodiacal symbols are Early Modern simplifications of conventional pictorial representations of the signs, attested since Hellenistic times. The symbols are encoded in Unicode at positions U+2648 to U+2653.

Zodiacal constellations

” It is important to distinguish the zodiacal signs from the constellations associated with them, not only because of their drifting apart due to the precession of equinoxes but also because the physical constellations by nature of their varying shapes and forms take up varying widths of the ecliptic. Thus, Virgo takes up fully five times as much ecliptic longitude as Scorpius. The zodiacal signs, on the other hand, are an abstraction from the physical constellations designed to represent exactly one twelfth of the full circle each, or the longitude traversed by the Sun in about 30.4 days.

There have always been a number of “parazodiacal” constellations which are also touched by the paths of the planets. The MUL.APIN lists Orion, Perseus, Auriga and Andromeda. Furthermore, there are a number of constellations mythologically associated with the zodiacal ones: Piscis Austrinus, The Southern Fish, is attached to Aquarius. In classical maps it swallows the stream poured out of Aquarius’ pitcher, but perhaps it formerly just swam in it. Aquila, The Eagle, was possibly associated with the zodiac by virtue of its main star, Altair. Hydra in the Early Bronze Age marked the celestial equator and was associated with Leo, which is shown standing on the serpent on the Dendera zodiac. Corvus is the Crow or Raven mysteriously perched on the tail of Hydra. The MUL.APIN glosses Hydra as “the Snake Ningizzida, lord of the Netherworld”. Ningizzida together with Dumuzi (Aries) and Pabilsag (Sagittarius) governed the household of the queen of the underworld.

Taking the current constellation boundaries as defined in 1930 by the International Astronomical Union, the ecliptic itself passes through an additional thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, situated between Scorpius and Sagittarius. This is already recognized in Ptolemy‘s Almagest.

Table of dates

“The following table compares the Gregorian dates on which the Sun enters

The theoretical beginning of Aries is the moment of vernal equinox, and all other dates shift accordingly. The precise Gregorian times and dates vary slightly from year to year as the Gregorian calendar shifts relative to the tropical year. These variations remain within less than two days’ difference in the recent past and the near future, vernal equinox in UTC always falling either on 20 or 21 of March in the period of 1797 to 2043, falling on 19 March in 1796 the last time and in 2044 the next. In the long term, if the Gregorian calendar isn’t reformed, the equinox will move to earlier dates: it will fall on 18 March for the first time in AD 4092.

Sign Constellation
Name Symbol Tropical zodiac
(2009, UTC)
Sidereal zodiac
(Jyotisha) (2009, UTC)[18]
Name IAU constellation boundaries (2009) Solar stay Brightest star
Aries Aries 20 March – 19 April 14 April – 14 May Aries 18 April – 14 May 25.5 days Hamal
Taurus Taurus 19 April – 20 May 14 May – 13 June Taurus 14 May – 21 June 38.2 days Aldebaran
Gemini Gemini 20 May – 21 June 13 June – 14 July Gemini 21 June – 20 July 29.3 days Pollux
Cancer Cancer 21 June – 22 July 14 July – 13 August Cancer 20 July – 10 August 21.1 days Al Tarf
Leo Leo 22 July – 23 August 13 August – 13 September Leo 10 August – 16 September 36.9 days Regulus
Virgo Virgo 23 August – 22 September 13 September – 13 October Virgo 16 September – 31 October 44.5 days Spica
Libra Libra 22 September – 23 October 13 October – 12 November Libra 31 October – 21 November 21.1 days Zubeneschamali
Scorpio Scorpio 23 October – 22 November 13 November – 13 December Scorpius 21 November – 29 November 8.4 days Antares
Serpentarius Serpentarius n/a Ophiuchus 29 November – 18 December 18.4 days Rasalhague
Sagittarius Sagittarius 22 November – 21 December 13 December – 12 January Sagittarius 18 December – 20 January 33.6 days Kaus Australis
Capricorn Capricornus 21 December – 20 January 12 January – 12 February Capricornus 20 January – 17 February 27.4 days Deneb Algedi
Aquarius Aquarius 20 January – 18 February 12 February – 14 March Aquarius 17 February – 13 March 23.9 days Sadalsuud
Pisces Pisces 18 February – 20 March 14 March – 14 April Pisces 13 March – 19 April 37.7 days Eta Piscium

Precession of the equinoxes

The zodiac system was developed in Babylonia, some 2,500 years ago, during the “Age of Aries“. At the time, the precession of the equinoxes was unknown, and the system made no allowance for it. Contemporary use of the coordinate system is presented with the choice of either interpreting the system as sidereal, with the signs fixed to the stellar background, or as tropical, with the signs fixed to the point of vernal equinox.

Western astrology takes the tropical approach, while Hindu astrology takes the sidereal one. This results in the originally unified zodiacal coordinate system drifting apart gradually, with an angular velocity of about 1.4 degrees per century.

For the tropical zodiac used in Western astronomy and astrology, this means that the tropical sign of Aries currently lies somewhere within the constellation Pisces (“Age of Pisces“). The choice of origin for the sidereal coordinate system is known as the ayanamsa, a Sanskrit word.

It is not entirely clear how the Hellenistic astronomers responded to this phenomenon of precession once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read Ptolemy as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is referred to as a tropical coordinate system instead: in other words, one fixed to the Earth’s seasonal cycle rather than the distant stars.

Some modern Western astrologers, such as Cyril Fagan, have advocated abandoning the tropical system in favour of a sidereal one.

In modern astronomy

The zodiac is a spherical celestial coordinate system. It designates the ecliptic as its fundamental plane and the position of the Sun at Vernal equinox as its prime meridian.

In astronomy, the zodiacal constellations are a convenient way of marking the ecliptic (the Sun’s path across the sky) and the path of the moon and planets along the ecliptic. Modern astronomy still uses tropical coordinates for predicting the positions the Sun, Moon, and planets, except longitude in the ecliptic coordinate system is numbered from 0° to 360°, not 0° to 30° within each sign. Longitude within individual signs was still being used as late as 1740 by Jacques Cassini in his Tables astronomiques.

Unlike the zodiac signs in astrology, which are all thirty degrees in length, the astronomical constellations vary widely in size. The boundaries of all the constellations in the sky were set by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1930. This was essentially a mapping exercise to make the work of astronomers more efficient, and the boundaries of the constellations are not therefore in any meaningful sense an ‘equivalent’ to the zodiac signs. Along with the twelve original constellations, the boundaries of a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus (the serpent bearer), were set by astronomers within the bounds of the zodiac.

 

In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The Moon and planets also lie within the ecliptic, and so are also within the constellations of the zodiac. In astrology, the zodiac denotes those signs which divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. As such, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, more precisely an ecliptic coordinate system, taking the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.

It is known to have been in use by the Roman era, based on concepts inherited by Hellenistic astronomy from Babylonian astronomy of the Chaldean period (mid 1st millennium BC), which in turn derived from an earlier system of lists of stars along the ecliptic.[1] The construction of the zodiac is described in Ptolemy‘s Almagest (2nd century AD).

The term zodiac may also refer to the region of the celestial sphere encompassing the paths of the Moon and the planets corresponding to the band of about eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic. The zodiac of a given planet is the band which contains the path of that particular body, e.g. the “zodiac of the Moon” is the band of five degrees above and below the ecliptic. By extension, the “zodiac of the comets” may refer to the band encompassing most short-period comets [2]

The term zodiac derives from Latin zōdiacus, in turn from the Greek ζωδιακός κύκλος (zōdiakos kuklos), meaning “circle of animals”, derived from ζώδιον (zōdion), the diminutive of ζῶον (zōon) “animal”. The name is motivated by the fact that many of the signs of the classical Greek zodiac are represented as animals (six out of twelve, plus two mythological hybrids).

Although the zodiac remains the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system in use in astronomy besides the equatorial one, the term and the names of the twelve signs are today mostly associated with horoscopic astrology.