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Chart showing the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac-rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig-each with a list of corresponding years in the 12-year cycle, along with color-coded elements: fire, earth, metal, water, and wood.
Circular zodiac wheel showing the twelve astrological signs with symbols, illustrations, and date ranges. The chart includes elemental groups—fire, earth, air, and water—and gender symbols for masculine and feminine signs on a dark purple background.
Colorful zodiac wheel showing 12 zodiac sign symbols in the inner ring and 27 nakshatra symbols in the outer ring, used in Hindu astrology and astronomy.
Navagraha statues arranged in a temple shrine, with a central black stone deity and surrounding yellow stone figures, in a Lord Shiva temple in Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Abū Maʿshar (Albumazar)
Personification of astrology as a woman
Midwives assisting a birth while astrologers consult sky charts; woodcut relief print from Jakob Rueff's De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554; The Expert Midwife).
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