In astronomy, the zodiac is nothing but the circle of star constellation that lines the ecliptic that is the obvious path of the Sun over the time of the year. The Moon and the nine planets also stretch out within the ecliptic, and are inside the group of the zodiac. Zodiacs are the signs that separate the ecliptic into twelve equivalent sectors of celestial longitude.

Histories say that the partition of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs started off in the Babylonian astronomy in the earliest half of the 1st millennium BC. This was most likely all through the Neo-Babylonian times, long-lasting previously during Bronze-Age structures of stars list. At a point of time all through the first half of the 1st millennium BC, alienated the ecliptic into a dozen of equal sectors of outer space longitude to build the first recognized space coordinate system.

Babylonian astronomers found a match up structure that possesses a number of good points over the contemporary systems. For example, the equatorial coordinate system or the ecliptics coordinate system as we call them. The calendar of Babylonians as it located in the 7th century BC allotted every month a constellation, starting with the location of the Sun at vernal equinox. This was the Aries constellation or the Age of Aries for which cause the primary astrological sign is still known and called as the Aries thought the vernal equinox has drifted away from the Aries constellation.

On the other hand, a technical and scientific study of the position of the constellations puts forward their fortitude in this section in the Bronze Age thus telling a former origin of the constellations. Chaldea or so called Babylonia in the Hellenistic world came to be so recognized with astrology among Greeks and Romans. A 17th-century wall painting that was from the Cathedral of Living Pillar in Georgia showing Christ surrounded by the Zodiac circle started off from Babylonian and Egyptian astrology, say the sources.

It’s said that astrology first came into being in the society of Ptolemaic Egypt. The first ever found illustration of the traditional and old zodiac of twelve signs was the Dendera zodiac. Then came the time when Hindu astrology implementing the Hellenistic zodiac during the 2nd to 1st centuries BC. This was a period of strong Indo-Greek civilizing cultural contact and exchange of ideology.

It’s noteworthy to mention that the communication of the zodiac system to Hindu astrology predated far reaching consciousness of the Hindu system got over by using sidereal coordinate system. This resulted in the society of Europe and the Hindu zodiacs, despite the fact that they share the very same starting point in Hellenistic astrology. Many authors have sited similar points between the Babylonian zodiac and the Bible.