06-02-2026, 06:20 AM
My identification of Countess Margaret of Tyrol (1318-1365) as the author of the Voynich manuscript provides a plausible explanation for the way the Zodiac charts have been rendered in it, shedding significant lights on why the Capricorn and Aquarius charts were literally cut of the manuscript to suppress her identity as the author of the book, and, relatedly, why the series begins, uncharacteristically, with the Pisces chart.
The Zodiac charts served as a way of making the intricacies of astrological interpretation of her own chart visually accessible for her. A day by day and month by month “calendar” of fixed star influences where nude nymphs are attributed their power and astrological values, by way of hand gestures, body positions, facial gestures, in tub or walking, flat or upright tubs, headgears or crowns, and so on, would have visually made it easier for her to decide on the actions to be taken (or not) on those days and months, in light of the astrological meanings associated with the stars they hold.
Rather than having to go through a purely textual “handbook,” now she could easily tell whether a given day was a right time to do this or that, and this did not have to be limited to health or fertility/pregnancy considerations. Even making personal or social-political decisions would have been made easier for her given the astrological worldviews people, including nobles, took into serious consideration at that time.
The overall calendrical fixed-star structure of a year’s calendar also allowed her to insert and mark her most important life events, which are represented by clothed figures in the charts. While the nude nymphs represent souls associated with their corresponding fixed stars, the clothed figures represent herself and possibly those she knew in her life. This then allowed her to understand her life events in relation to the planetary and fixed-star structure of her life.
The Zodiac charts are intimately shaped around the (now missing) planetary features of her horoscope, aspects of which (such as the Pleiades and Aldebaran having been on the cusp or inside the 12th house) fortunately survived the efforts made by others to suppress her identity by removing or cutting out of some pages from the Voynich manuscript.
The reason the Zodiac months for Aries and Taurus are split each into two is to offer more details of her astrologically most important birth circumstances which must have happened in early April 1318. From Pisces, the journey of her soul in her mother’s womb is traced into the Aries and Taurus months.
There are two charts of 15 days each for Aries and two charts of 15 days each for Taurus. Aries 1 chart include all-nude nymphs, and Aries 2 chart includes all-clothed figures. Conversely, Taurus 1 includes mixed clothed/nude figures, and Taurus 2 includes all-nude figures.
At that time, Aries begun on March 15, so Aries 1 chart includes March 15-29. Aries 2 chart include March 30 and March 31 to April 13. Her birth is depicted to have taken place in this Aries 2 chart, given it is also the most developed and colored chart of the entire Zodiac months surviving in her chart.
The reason the Taurus chart is also split, aside from the fact that it includes days April 14-28 in Taurus 1 chart and April 29-May 14 is that in Tyrol of that time it was customary for noble new-borns to have a very important “Churching of Women” ceremony 40 days after the physical birth. I will later show (in future posts) that her birth must have taken place on April 4 which would mean her Churching of Women ceremony would have taken place on May 13th, near the last day of her Taurus 2 chart.
The reason the series begins with Pisces has to do with the reason the series (must have) ended with Capricorn and Aquarius. She wanted the series to end in those months for a very important reason. Countess Margaret’s abdication took place in January of 1363, shortly after the death of her only heir and son on January 13, 1363. January 13 would fall toward the end of Capricorn, and her abdication and subsequent official proceedings would have fallen in Aquarius (January 15- February 13). These are most important events of her mature life.
Just as a general outline, the following would have been the days that fell in each Zodiac month at the time based on a standard 30–31 day cycle, starting from March 15 (likely leap years may have to be considered, but this is perhaps the month/day structure of her Zodiac charts):
Aries: March 15 – April 13
Taurus: April 14 – May 14
Gemini: May 15 – June 14
Cancer: June 15 – July 15
Leo: July 16 – August 15
Virgo: August 16 – September 15
Libra: September 16 – October 16
Scorpio: October 17 – November 15
Sagittarius: November 16 – December 15
Capricorn: December 16 – January 14
Aquarius: January 15 – February 13
Pisces: February 14 – March 14
Following her clothed calendar markings for her birth related events in Aries and Taurus charts, she may have given sufficient clues in the Zodiac months of Capricorn and Aquarius about herself as the author of the manuscript. So, by cutting them off from the Voynich manuscript, along with removing the bifolia containing her astrological charts, the medieval “forgers” would have made it much harder for a Rudolf II to identify the author of the manuscript as being Margaret “Maultasch” in order to sell it as an exotic and enigmatic book.
Another significant life even in her life that took place in February (1342) was her second marriage to Lous I. Margrave of Brandenburg on Feb. 10. Not having yet “divorced” her first husband, whom she abhorred and expelled from her castle, having accused him and his family of intentionally not consuming their marriage in order to discontinue her legacy, she obtained a Civil Annulment from Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV to marry his son, and against the order of the church, for which they were excommunicated until later. I will elaborate on the significant challenges of her life and how they shed new light on everything happening in the manuscript.
So, if she had conveyed visually the above also in her Aquarius chart, that would have been another significant life event that had become well-known and would have certainly identified her as an author for the Voynich manuscript.
I am now moving away from the notion of the Zodiac charts in the Voynich manuscript as strictly and narrowly serving a fertility or pregnancy function. These latter needs could have been just two uses she may have used them for. The overall fixed star/soul attribute dy by day calendar, could have served generally as a detailed visual way of her “reading her stars” each day of the year, allowing her to make important and appropriate decisions in a timely way, not just health or fertility related, but also social and political, or personal. “Not today, stars are not right for it, I will wait till next week ion Wednesday to decide on doing that!”
The Zodiac charts also served her indicating, by way of clothed figures, the most important life events of her life, allowing her to see the astrological “the above and the below” links of her life and how her life events were shaped from her time’s astrological point of view.
This is not about us believing in astrological belief systems. It is about the hermeneutics of understanding her mind in the context of her times. If she grew up knowing about her astrological chart features and how, in her time, as a noble heir, she had been tasked to protect her legacy despite the challenges of her life, she would have decided to do everything with full knowledge, as best as she could, of the planetary and fixed star structures of her birth chart.
The Zodiac charts served as a way of making the intricacies of astrological interpretation of her own chart visually accessible for her. A day by day and month by month “calendar” of fixed star influences where nude nymphs are attributed their power and astrological values, by way of hand gestures, body positions, facial gestures, in tub or walking, flat or upright tubs, headgears or crowns, and so on, would have visually made it easier for her to decide on the actions to be taken (or not) on those days and months, in light of the astrological meanings associated with the stars they hold.
Rather than having to go through a purely textual “handbook,” now she could easily tell whether a given day was a right time to do this or that, and this did not have to be limited to health or fertility/pregnancy considerations. Even making personal or social-political decisions would have been made easier for her given the astrological worldviews people, including nobles, took into serious consideration at that time.
The overall calendrical fixed-star structure of a year’s calendar also allowed her to insert and mark her most important life events, which are represented by clothed figures in the charts. While the nude nymphs represent souls associated with their corresponding fixed stars, the clothed figures represent herself and possibly those she knew in her life. This then allowed her to understand her life events in relation to the planetary and fixed-star structure of her life.
The Zodiac charts are intimately shaped around the (now missing) planetary features of her horoscope, aspects of which (such as the Pleiades and Aldebaran having been on the cusp or inside the 12th house) fortunately survived the efforts made by others to suppress her identity by removing or cutting out of some pages from the Voynich manuscript.
The reason the Zodiac months for Aries and Taurus are split each into two is to offer more details of her astrologically most important birth circumstances which must have happened in early April 1318. From Pisces, the journey of her soul in her mother’s womb is traced into the Aries and Taurus months.
There are two charts of 15 days each for Aries and two charts of 15 days each for Taurus. Aries 1 chart include all-nude nymphs, and Aries 2 chart includes all-clothed figures. Conversely, Taurus 1 includes mixed clothed/nude figures, and Taurus 2 includes all-nude figures.
At that time, Aries begun on March 15, so Aries 1 chart includes March 15-29. Aries 2 chart include March 30 and March 31 to April 13. Her birth is depicted to have taken place in this Aries 2 chart, given it is also the most developed and colored chart of the entire Zodiac months surviving in her chart.
The reason the Taurus chart is also split, aside from the fact that it includes days April 14-28 in Taurus 1 chart and April 29-May 14 is that in Tyrol of that time it was customary for noble new-borns to have a very important “Churching of Women” ceremony 40 days after the physical birth. I will later show (in future posts) that her birth must have taken place on April 4 which would mean her Churching of Women ceremony would have taken place on May 13th, near the last day of her Taurus 2 chart.
The reason the series begins with Pisces has to do with the reason the series (must have) ended with Capricorn and Aquarius. She wanted the series to end in those months for a very important reason. Countess Margaret’s abdication took place in January of 1363, shortly after the death of her only heir and son on January 13, 1363. January 13 would fall toward the end of Capricorn, and her abdication and subsequent official proceedings would have fallen in Aquarius (January 15- February 13). These are most important events of her mature life.
Just as a general outline, the following would have been the days that fell in each Zodiac month at the time based on a standard 30–31 day cycle, starting from March 15 (likely leap years may have to be considered, but this is perhaps the month/day structure of her Zodiac charts):
Aries: March 15 – April 13
Taurus: April 14 – May 14
Gemini: May 15 – June 14
Cancer: June 15 – July 15
Leo: July 16 – August 15
Virgo: August 16 – September 15
Libra: September 16 – October 16
Scorpio: October 17 – November 15
Sagittarius: November 16 – December 15
Capricorn: December 16 – January 14
Aquarius: January 15 – February 13
Pisces: February 14 – March 14
Following her clothed calendar markings for her birth related events in Aries and Taurus charts, she may have given sufficient clues in the Zodiac months of Capricorn and Aquarius about herself as the author of the manuscript. So, by cutting them off from the Voynich manuscript, along with removing the bifolia containing her astrological charts, the medieval “forgers” would have made it much harder for a Rudolf II to identify the author of the manuscript as being Margaret “Maultasch” in order to sell it as an exotic and enigmatic book.
Another significant life even in her life that took place in February (1342) was her second marriage to Lous I. Margrave of Brandenburg on Feb. 10. Not having yet “divorced” her first husband, whom she abhorred and expelled from her castle, having accused him and his family of intentionally not consuming their marriage in order to discontinue her legacy, she obtained a Civil Annulment from Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV to marry his son, and against the order of the church, for which they were excommunicated until later. I will elaborate on the significant challenges of her life and how they shed new light on everything happening in the manuscript.
So, if she had conveyed visually the above also in her Aquarius chart, that would have been another significant life event that had become well-known and would have certainly identified her as an author for the Voynich manuscript.
I am now moving away from the notion of the Zodiac charts in the Voynich manuscript as strictly and narrowly serving a fertility or pregnancy function. These latter needs could have been just two uses she may have used them for. The overall fixed star/soul attribute dy by day calendar, could have served generally as a detailed visual way of her “reading her stars” each day of the year, allowing her to make important and appropriate decisions in a timely way, not just health or fertility related, but also social and political, or personal. “Not today, stars are not right for it, I will wait till next week ion Wednesday to decide on doing that!”
The Zodiac charts also served her indicating, by way of clothed figures, the most important life events of her life, allowing her to see the astrological “the above and the below” links of her life and how her life events were shaped from her time’s astrological point of view.
This is not about us believing in astrological belief systems. It is about the hermeneutics of understanding her mind in the context of her times. If she grew up knowing about her astrological chart features and how, in her time, as a noble heir, she had been tasked to protect her legacy despite the challenges of her life, she would have decided to do everything with full knowledge, as best as she could, of the planetary and fixed star structures of her birth chart.