The moon & the lunar mansions

The twenty-eight mansions of the moon

The lunar mansions divide the zodiac into twenty-eight stations, one for each day of the moon's passage around the sky. The system was known in India (the nakshatras), China and the Arabic world (manāzil al-qamar), and reached Europe through Arabic astrology. The Picatrix gives images to be made when the moon is in each mansion, and Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (book II, chapter 33) lists them with their Arabic names, which are used below. Here they are counted from 0° of tropical Aries, as in Agrippa, each spanning 12°51′26″.