Cetus – the princess-gobbling sea monster.

Mini-theme: Mouse Hoodies – the Thirteen + One

Art © 10/2023 Marvin E. Fuller

With a star representing the variable star Mira.

And an extra one as an apology for taking nearly a year to get back to the Mouse Hoodies. Although the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun through Earth's sky) doesn't directly go through Cetus the Whale, it does come very close to one corner of the constellation's boundaries, enough so that the Moon and the planets will often clip through that corner. In fact, Mars' own ecliptic actually does pass through Cetus, effectively dividing Pisces in half.

In 1970, Steven Schmidt proposed a fourteen-sign zodiac in his Astrology 14 which added Ophiuchus (December 6 - December 31) and Cetus (May 12 - June 6) to the standard twelve.