3 docs tagged with "signs"

A 360° circle cut into twelve equal parts — a ruler laid along one circle in the sky, and nothing more exotic than that.

The Babylonians named the constellations along the Sun's path, then deliberately replaced them with twelve equal divisions of 30° — which is why the signs have never been the constellations.

Signs are divisions of the ecliptic. Right ascension is measured around a different circle, so a sign name attached to it names nothing — which is why the applications withhold them.