An ET Horoscope: An ET-Face Plaque from Mexico, Interpreted as a Horoscope

This paper describes where the carved images on a small stone plaque, said by its seller to come from Mexico, appear to belong in the night sky. The plaque is carved as what appears to be the face of an infant ET. On the front, the recto, above the eyes, is a carved circle holding seven small signs. On the back, the verso, is one large sign, called here the back sign.Each sign was traced and laid over star charts of past dates. The back sign is placed on the stars around the north pole of the sky: its top edge runs from Polaris, the pole star today, to Vega, which was near the pole about 14,000 years ago. The seven small signs are placed on seven neighboring constellations of the zodiac, in their order around the sky. Laid on the stars this way, the back sign turns around the pole through the night like the hand of a clock, so it can be read as a stardial. Each placement was measured and, where a test could be made, compared with the same figure laid at random places. None of the tested placements passed the usual standard of 5 percent. The decipherment remains a conjecture until other objects confirm it.The author bought the plaque because its carved circle looked like a horoscope; the author had written a book on reading character from the shapes the planets make on a chart. Part Two reads the nine carved lines that way, as the birth chart of a steady, self-contained person. No date is fixed, and no sign is read as a word.The photographs by Michael Forest (Figures 1 and 2) are not covered by this record's license; they are used with his permission and may not be reused.