♊ Gemini — shoulders and arms

Third sign / paired upper limbs

Gemini is assigned to the paired shoulders, arms, and by extension the hands in common Zodiac Man summaries. The two-sided correspondence is collapsed to one midline anchor so the twelve signs remain one ordered set; it is not a claim that the limbs meet at the midline.

♈ Aries — head and face♉ Taurus — neck and throat♊ Gemini — shoulders and arms♊ Gemini — shoulders and arms♋ Cancer — chest and stomach♌ Leo — heart and upper back♍ Virgo — abdomen and digestion♎ Libra — kidneys and loins♏ Scorpio — genitals and pelvic organs♐ Sagittarius — hips and thighs♑ Capricorn — knees♒ Aquarius — calves and ankles♓ Pisces — feet

Point 3 of 12 in Zodiac Man — Melothesia (Homo signorum)

Cross-tradition overlaps

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Sources

Zodiac man (homo signorum) diagram, Wellcome Collection M0017629 (primary_canonical)

Fifteenth-century Zodiac Man diagram assigning zodiac signs to descending bodily regions from head toward feet.

Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts (scholarly_modern)

Scholarly history of medieval astrological manuscript diagrams and their medical context.

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