Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23905172-20131020065936/@comment-68.231.150.158-20160904100059

Court Appointed Shrub wrote: 177.97.170.113 wrote: If you consider the sign Ophiucus, the thirteenth house that astronomers use to measure the stars' movement, we have our Serpent constellation. You've got the superstition of astrology (which created the zodiac signs and "interprets" the movement of stars) mixed up with the science of astronomy (which created the constellations and "studies" the movement of stars).

You also got the constellation wrong. ("male water snake") is clearly the inspiration for The Snake. Same number of stars, same coat-hanger shape. looks nothing like the Snake constellation. Not even close.

Stay away from the tarot cards and Oujia boards, kiddies. Go to the planetarium instead. I'm inclined to think that The Serpent is representative of Ophiuchus because Ophiuchus is on the ecliptic but isn't associated with a month, much the same way as The Serpent "has no season." Also Hydrus has 3 main stars--it's a triangle. Perhaps you mean Serpens? Which happens to be the serpent that Ophiuchus is holding, AND it's split into two separate regions of the sky which may correspond to how The Serpent literally moves around the sky in lore.