Are the zodiac signs the stars?

Question:
What is called reading the zodiac signs: are the zodiac signs the stars? And is there a difference between astrology and reading the zodiac signs?

Answer:
The zodiac signs are not the stars. The zodiac signs are the twelve stations of the sun. They are the twelve stations of the sun because the year is twelve months, and the sun moves through them. So the zodiac signs are the stations of the sun, unlike the stars, which are the planets. These have stations other than the stations of the sun. The moon descends into them every night, moving through twenty-eight stations. These are the stations of the moon. The stars, the stations of the stars, are the stations of the moon: twenty-eight stations. It becomes hidden in the night if the month is twenty-nine days, or for two nights if the month is thirty days. "Hidden" means it disappears under the sun or near the sun. Yes. We ask Allah for well-being.
During the nights of concealment, the moon comes very close to the sun until it disappears, then it appears as a crescent. After that, it moves away from the sun little by little until it grows and becomes a full moon. Then it wanes. As it gets closer to the sun, it wanes, and as it moves away from the sun, it grows. Yes.