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[Antonio García Jiménez]

That there is an intention behind the Voynich Manuscript, a systematic plan, seems obvious simply by looking at the last section of the codex, the so-called recipe section. Why write so many pages without illustrations except for stars if not because there is a preconceived plan?

  In this section, if I've counted correctly, there are 312 stars with their corresponding paragraphs. Since two folios that should be in the center of the quire are missing, it's safe to assume that the authors intended to include 360 stars with their paragraphs. That is, 360 stars, as in the zodiacal section where the 30 degrees of each sign are represented by a female figure holding a star. In fact, a majority of the stars in quire 20 have a tail that appears to have detached from the hands of the female figures. There is an evident correspondence between both sections and an affinity in completing the ecliptic circle, regardless of what the chains of symbols mean.

   What can be stated from this observation is that astrology plays a fundamental role in the Voynich, and that, as I have mentioned on other occasions, this codex is a herbal, but not a conventional herbal, but an astrological herbal.