Try pulling earth, on right circle, counterclockwise as is its normal orbit to 9 O'clock then imagine the sun moving 180° from the center of the right circle to the center of the left circle to stand still in the sky for 12 hours as earth rotated. Then on the left circle you see the earth at the 3 O'clock position. If you now pull the earth, in the left circle, clockwise you see how earth's forward momentum is unchanged yet earth's orbit is now in reverse, clockwise. Earth is safely recaptured by the sun. Likewise if the sun moved 180° back at on the same date, earth would flow into its present counterclockwise orbit and the sun would be back to where it was previously. Try moving the dot while keeping the circle the same size. See Yao's zodiac below:
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"But the vernal mansions go to the west and the autumnal ones to the east, reversing the previous directions of these two seasons, and in opposition to the prevailing notion of the Chinese that the spring belongs to the east..." The Chinese Classics III, Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese, p.94, p95 The sun can only be to the east of the zodiac in spring in a reverse orbit. That is, if the sun is in Leo in summer at noon in a reverse orbit the sun was just in Scorpius to the east, where the sun rises, in spring. The sun was normally in Taurus Spring 2300 BC. The sun in Scorpius in the east in spring means a reverse orbit. |

3D Author: Daeron Meyer