The Amazing Ancients Patient Observers of the Night Sky

• Created mental maps of the stars in the sky.

• Imagined pictures to help chart the stars (constellations--especially the 12 constellations of the Zodiac).

• Noticed five (5!) “stars” that wandered around, unlike all of the rest.

• The great superstition of astrology: “Our fate was determined by the location of the planets at the hour of our birth.”