Counting on stars

[MichelleL11]

Here's what I think: Virgo often holds a flower. They put a star on the stalk instead. Similarly, pisces also includes a line, so they added stars there as well. No idea about Scorpio though.

The inconsistency suggests that it may be direct copying of the original -- unless we can come up with a convincing argument as to why Pisces, Virgo, and Scorpio only.  Of course, that degrades into why was it done in the original.  But I'd bank it could "all be explained" at least from the point of view of the VM, if the source calendar or lot book (my two favorite possible sources, admittedly hardly original) could be found.

The strongest argument against this, in my opinion, is the use of the ubiquitous tailed stars with the nymphs -- but we could flip it around and hypothesize that the calendar or lot book stylization was the source of that idea.