Good question. I didnt mean to state that Kabbalah is an astrological text, but rather it has some astrological study to it. The Jews, and I mean in ancient biblical times that studied the stars and wrote something about it have related an aspect of Kabbalah in their esoteric teachings to the zodiac. You can literally study this for a long time, for which I dont have the money to buy all the books and neither the committment to follow through, but its a fascinating subject. I only referenced to them because after reading quite a bit on "kabbalah" and ancient jewish texts in general it seems that they like other astrologers have similar ways of viewing the zodiac. I found a bit on the internet that touches upon it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah
http://www.factsbehindfaith.com/astrology-kabbalah.html
http://www.raziel.info/
Its all very interesting to me...I am reading a book about Kabbalah, its called "3 Minute Discourses on Kabbalah by Leading Jewish Scholars" so as you can tell Im only embarking, and i checked this one out from the library.
As far as what their texts say, here's a snippet from a link about The book of creation (cannot verfiy facts but is agreeable to what else i read):
Enjoy!
According to the Sefer Yetzirah, the first emanation from the spirit of God was the (= "spirit," "air") that produced fire, which, in its turn, formed the genesis of water. In the beginning, however, these three substances had only a potential existence, and came into actual being only by means of the three letters; and as these are the principal parts of speech, so those three substances are the elements from which the cosmos has been formed.
The cosmos consists of three parts, the world, the year (or time), and man, which are combined in such a way that the three primordial elements are contained in each of the three categories. The water formed the earth; heaven was produced from the fire; and the produced the air between heaven and earth. The three seasons of the year, winter, summer, and the rainy season, correspond to water, fire, and in the same way as man consists of a head (corresponding to fire), torso, and the other parts of the body (equivalent to water).
The seven double letters produced the seven planets, the "seven days," and the seven apertures in man (two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and one mouth). Again, as the seven double letters vary, being pronounced either hard or soft, so the seven planets are in continuous movement, approaching or receding from the earth. The "seven days," in like manner, were created by the seven double letters whereat they change in time according to their relation to the planets. The seven apertures in man connect him with the outer world as the seven planets join heaven and earth. Hence these organs are subject to the influence of the planets, the right eye being under Saturn, the left eye under Jupiter, and the like.
The twelve "simple" letters created the twelve signs of the zodiac, whose relation to the earth is always simple or stable; and to them belong the twelve months in time, and the twelve "leaders" in man. The latter are those organs which perform functions in the body independent of the outside world, being the hands, feet, kidneys, gall, intestines, stomach, liver, pancreas, and spleen; and they are, accordingly, subject to the twelve signs of the zodiac.
In its relation to the construction of the cosmos, matter consists of the three primordial elements, which, however, are not chemically connected with one another, but modify one another only physically. Power (δύναμις) emanates from the seven and the twelve heavenly bodies, or, in other words, from the planets and the signs of the zodiac. The "dragon" rules over the world (matter and the heavenly bodies); the sphere rules time; and the heart rules over the human body. The author sums up this explanation in a single sentence: "The dragon is like to a king on his throne, the sphere like a king traveling in his country, and the heart like a king at war."
-Wikipedia
I cannot believe they wrote this type of stuff a LONG time ago...i cant even understand it that much..its almost like the Mayan calendar, you'd think because they lived in ancient times that they were barbaric but their societies were probably way advanced.