Ophiuchus also appears in Genesis 3:15 when god says to the serpent:

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

A lot of biblical scholars ask who is the "he" that god refers to that is crushing the serpent's head? They don't know because the idiots never bothered to study astrology which is the very foundation of the book they waste their time puzzling over. "He" is, of course, Ophiuchus. Take a look:

Ophiuchus

One can see that Ophiuchus is stepping on the head of Scorpio, the dragon of the dark. He battles the serpent Serpens. In Greek mythology, the hero Orion is killed when he is stung on the heel by a scorpion (How big a problem are scorpions in Greece?) and in Egyptian lore, Osiris is the constellation of Orion who, when he is seen rising in the east, Scorpio is seen setting in the west. He has risen to vanquish his foe and during that time of year at it's deepest, darkest hour, the sun is reborn and light vanquishes the dark.

So Revelation is merely recounting the story of the solar hero's journey through the last quarter of the zodiac--conceived in the body of a virgin (Virgo), flees to the "wilderness" to protect the child from the dark, devouring dragon (Scorpio), Michael (Ophicius) arrives to battle the serpent and overthrows him so that the solar hero may be born on Christmas Day. The reason the virgin must hide for 1,260 days is that this is the amount of days in 3.5 years (approximately) which represents the 3.5 months from the virgin's labors to the appearance of the child on Christmas--Christ's birth.

But 3.5 years is 1277 days. Why didn't they just say that? Because 1,260 is a scattering on 2,160 which is the number of years the sun spends rising in a certain constellation. Due to earth's precession of the equinoxes, the sun moves into a different constellation every 2,160 years by working backwards through the zodiac. Christ was imaged as a fish because in his time, the sun rose in Pisces every spring so it was the age of the fish. The sun has now passed from Pisces backwards through the zodiac to Aquarius so that's all the age of Aquarius stuff you've heard about. So a full cycle through all 12 signs takes 25,920 years or about 26,000 years. It is not coincidence that the chapter and verse that the reference to 1,260 days appears in is 12:6. The bible is full of numerology. Especially Revelation. Various words and phrases add up to certain values using a process called isopsephia or gematria. You can look it up if you're curious.

The bible is really a very profound document when you learn its secrets but the dopey Christians have no interest. It's analogous to finding a window propped open with a book so they read the book voraciously from cover to cover and analyze every word trying to figure out why the window was propped open. As Carl Sagan said, "They say, 'My god is a small god and I want him to stay that way.'"