Zodíaco

Astrological wisdom has origins older than Western civilization itself, and our zodiac signs are mostly those that the astronomical priests of Babylon pointed to in the vault of the firmament. Reconstructing its thousand-year history and discovering how the divisions of the sky, the names of the planets and the composition of the constellations were charged with meaning -from Persia to Egypt and, from there, to the Greco-Roman world- is the only way to understand its profound meaning. To explore such an exciting path, there is perhaps no more expert and authoritative guide than Franz Cumont, who, through calendars, sundials, horoscopes and a fascinating network of original sources, manages to lead the reader, with historiographical delicacy and uncommon passion for the history of the transformations of the twelve signs in an extraordinary attempt to link the human and the non-human, the visible and the invisible, the Self and the All.