The astrologers, baffled, faced a problem: how to integrate this constellation as a sign of the zodiac. The ecliptic had actually always passed through that constellation, although the dates change with the centuries. Mitton explained that the ecliptic (the Sun’s apparent annual journey through the heavens) passes through a thirteenth constellation: Ophiuchus – the Latin version of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. In January 1995, Jacqueline Mitton, from the British Royal Astronomical Society, announced in a BBC show that the 12 signs of the zodiac were not only erroneously advanced due to the effects of precession of the Earth, but that they were, in fact, 13.
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