Sailing the Zodiac: A lion's voyage through the River of Life

The Zodiac is a fascinating tool that we humans have been using since the beginning of our history to understand our destiny and existence. Projected towards the sky, it is seen as a set of arbitrarily grouped stars: the illustrious 12 constellations that the Sun, the Moon, and the planets travel in their apparent movement around our planet. However, the astrological value of the Zodiac is different: its circularity reveals 12 archetypal qualities deeply relevant to our evolution. Projecting it to the stars is a subtle way of reminding us of this. Its name comes from the Greek which means animal path and describes quite accurately the type of creatures that inhabit it. The Zodiac itself is the setting of this novel. Everything that happens in this novel takes place precisely within its surroundings. The main character of this story is Eol, Lion of lions. He finds it difficult to integrate himself into the Zodiac's structure until he meets the Centaur Itrasagio and together they begin to explore it. As he begins to meet its Denizens, the traveler recovers the feeling of belonging to a Greater Whole that contains him. In the format of a hero's-journey type story, "Sailing the Zodiac" tries to provide its readers, initiated or not in the astrological language, an overview of the archetypal meaning of the Zodiac and of each Sign in particular. Everyone is welcome aboard!