zodiac

He leans over a display case containing a 14th century book on the zodiac and starts to read aloud from its object label.

“Rising Signs” explores medieval representations of the 12 signs of the zodiac through a fascinating selection of illustrations and devotional books from pre-modern Europe.

The Zodiac circle, chock full of stars from different corners of celebrity — to name a few, it included Lopez’s friend and former co-star Jane Fonda, Sofía Vergara, Post Malone and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson — was reason enough to watch.

We see a potent metaphor for the fourth sign of the zodiac in the Mono Silver Zeug cutlery set — a shiny smattering of tools for that sacred source of comfort: eating.

Early on our first Antarctic morning, in mercifully calm coastal waters, we set out on a small, inflatable boat called a zodiac.