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Signs of the Zodiac

Putting it Together

Now that we have dealt with the houses of the zodiac and the signs of the zodiac, we know that there are twelve elements to each, and that each is represented as being arranged in a circle or ring. We can also see that as we have dealt with the concept that astrology deals with the idea that we are all living our own cycle of life, and that the cycles of the celestial bodies which astrology deals with are also involved in their own cycles of different lengths, we can accept that the houses of the zodiac and the signs of the zodiac may not rotate either at the same speed or in the same plane. As the concept of astrology grew to what it is today, the full-blown idea included that the entire zodiac can be imagined as a sphere.
There are astrologers who will contend that for every "reading" the subject is considered to be at the center of the sphere, with the signs, houses, and astronomical bodies surrounding the subject in three dimensions. This concept is, of course, easier to understand, and to illustrate now that we have computers to calculate the positions of all of the components for any given moment of time, past, present, or future, and to adjust the positions of those components to reflect the location of the subject on the earth, (another somewhat-spherical object). The position of the earth, however, is never taken into account, except as the locus of the subject. The reason that the location of the subject is important is that the subject's view of the heavens, or the heavens’ view of the subject can vary the influence of various celestial bodies on the subject.