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Question for September 2018

Does each of the 20 day signs relate to a particular quality?? Asked by Dulwich College Junior School. Chosen and answered by Dr. Mark Van Stone

Yes, the [Maya] Dresden Codex tells us a lot about this, but, like our modern horoscopes, in which there are many influences besides your Sun Sign (“Ah, you’re a Taurus, so you’re bull-headed, but you have Venus rising, which means you are a lover, not a fighter…). So the 20 daysigns meant a lot (just like “Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace…”), but they could be modified and overridden by other influences.

Picture source:-
Image scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro facsimile edition of the Florentine Codex, Madrid, 1994.

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