[5] See “Antares” in The Friendly Stars.
[6] For those who find rhymes an aid to memory, the following list may prove useful:
This is the way the spring begins:
First Aries, then Taurus, then the Heavenly Twins.
The first summer sign is the one we call Cancer;
The next two to Leo and Virgo will answer.
Then autumn brings Libra and bright Scorpio,
And next Sagittarius, with his strong bow.
Capricornus then ushers the winter in,
And near old Aquarius the year we begin.
Pisces comes next, and then winter is done;
And with Aries’s approach, a new spring is begun.
These are the signs; but bear this well in mind:
The sun lags in one constellation behind.
When his place is Aries, we’ll find him in Pisces;
When in Taurus he should be, in Aries he stays.
If Gemini’s his place, and to find him our wish is,
We must look back in Taurus to see his bright rays.
And so through the year, whatever his place is,
The bright group behind is the one that he graces.
[7] See, in The Friendly Stars, “The Seven Stars of the Dipper.”