“We have set the signs of the zodiac in the Heavens, and adorned and decked them forth for the beholders.
“And We guard them from every stoned Satan,
“Save such as steal a hearing: and him doth a visible flame pursue.”
In explanation of the last verses, commentators tell us that the devils listen at the gate of heaven for scraps of the knowledge of futurity, and when detected by the angels, are pelted with shooting stars (see [Sūrah iii. 31]: “the pelted devil”; also [Sūrah xxxvii. 8]: “hurled at from every side”).
So in the Talmud, in Chagiya xvi. 1, the shadeem, or “demons,” are said to learn the secrets of the future by listening behind the pargōd or “veil.”
The names of the signs are:
1. Ḥamal, Ram.
2. S̤aur, Bull.
3. Jauzāʾ, Twins.