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The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander after the conquest, becoming the place where Babylonian astrology was mixed with Egyptian Decanic astrology to create Horoscopic astrology. This contained the Babylonian zodiac with its system of planetary exaltations, the triplicities of the signs and the importance of eclipses. It used the Egyptian concept of dividing the zodiac into thirty-six decans of ten degrees each, with an emphasis on the rising decan
Equatorial stars on the Path of Anu
The Field, the seat of Ea, which leads the stars of Anu (The 4 stars of the Square of Pegasus)
The star at the Field, the Swallow (The head & neck of Pegasus, & the western fish of Pisces)
The star behind the Field, Anunitum (The northern fish of Pisces)
The star behind it, the Hired Man, Dumuzi (Aries)
The Star Cluster, the Seven Gods, the great gods (The Pleiades)
The Bull of Heaven, the Bull’s Jaw, the Crown of Anu (Taurus, or at least its head)
The True Shepherd of Anu, Papsukal, the messenger of Anu and Ishtar (Orion)
The Twins who are opposite the True Shepherd of Anu, Lulal and Latarak
The star behind him, the Rooster (Lepus)
The Arrow, the arrow of the great god Ninurta (The star Sirius & probably other stars in Canis Major)
The Bow, the Elamite Ishtar, the daughter of Anu (Puppis)
The Serpent, Ningishzida, lord of the Underworld (Hydra)
The Raven, the star of Adad (Corvus)
The Furrow, Shala with her ear of barley (The eastern part of Virgo)
The Scales, the Horn of the Scorpion (Libra)
Zababa (The eastern part of Ophiuchus), the Eagle (Aquila) and the Dead Man (Sagitta)
To use all stars on the ecliptic i have never understood, it is an inaccurate measure where all stars would follow the apparent path of the Sun which is crazy, but astrologers still debate on this:-