Aries Design: Truly Aries, or actually based on Capricorn?

[eggyk]

The Author told the Scribe to draw...

Could it be that the month markings like "Aberil" were written by the Author before anything was drawn, as an instruction for the Artist what to draw?

Could be.  Although I doubt that the VMS Scribe would have known that "April" meant "Aries"...

All the best, --stolfi

Hahaha, imagine the scene: 

"Hey, I added "Mars" to the first circle, so you know to put aries there first, as Aries is ruled by Mars" 

"I thought you meant march... I drew pisces there instead"

"Pisces goes with february, not march!"

"Let's just run with it, they'll understand what we mean"