Astrology - The language of the stars

[Viper]

Although Venus is the brightest star in the evening and morning sky, in the night Sirius the Dog Star is the brightest, it's a star of the constellation Canis Major, one of the decans(a constellation close by to one of the twelve main zodiac ones) of Gemini, it's name translates "The Chief One", "The Leader", Canis Minor and Lepus are also decans of Gemini.



Canis Major & Lepus Constellations.


Sirius is a binary star system consisting of two white stars orbiting each other>>



An artist's impression of Sirius A and Sirius B. Sirius A is the larger of the two stars.

[Viper]

[Still on the Geminian theme]

When I Woke Up

When I finally woke up I took a look around. I saw city halls, courthouses, houses of government, churches, schools, and universities by the hundreds and thousands. I saw systems; systems for managing the land, the air, and the water; systems for managing human behavior; systems for managing religion; systems for managing learning; systems for managing food, shelter, clothing; systems for managing love and procreation: a vast complex of carefully engineered systems. I saw millions of people working, not for themselves, but for someone else. I saw millions of people doing, not what they themselves want to do, but what someone else wants them to do. I saw the depressing evidence of a people who have externalized and institutionalized-in fact, have tried to standardize-the very nature of humanity.

I saw a whole people who've lost the way of life and in its place have built a technological monster which does most of their hard work, carries their water, delivers their food, raises their kids, makes their decisions, says their prayers, transports them, informs them, entertains them, and controls the people it serves, absolutely. I also saw that the monster, seemingly unable to manage itself, was running wild, totally out of visible control, ripping the land to pieces, spreading poisons, filling the air with filth, dumping garbage and shit in the rivers and lakes and oceans. I saw all that, and I saw the people, millions of them, crowded together in cities, living side by side in towns, villages, rural areas. But I didn't see a single community. Is someone doing all of this on purpose? Yes!
From a text by Wilfred Pelletier and Ted Poole

[Viper]

The entry into Cancer marks the summer solstice, the sun's maximum northerly declination, when the days start getting shorter, it's the time of John the Baptist's birthday(24th June). During the winter solstice, six months later when the days start getting longer, we celebrate another famous birthday.





John3
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

Jesus is six months older than John the Baptist >>

Luke 1
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.


One of the island’s coves is that of Phorcys, the Old Man of the Sea, with its mouth between two projecting headlands: both are sheer cliffs to seaward, but slope down towards the harbour on the landward side. They restrain the huge breakers raised by strong winds outside, while oared ships can ride unmoored once they have reached their anchorage. A long-leafed olive tree grows at the head of the cove, and nearby is a pleasant, shadowy cave sacred to the Nymphs called Naiads. There are stone mixing-bowls and jars inside, where the bees have their hives. And there are great stone looms in the cave, on which the Nymphs weave wondrous purple fabrics, and also there are never-failing springs. The cave has two mouths, one facing the North Wind(CANCER) by which men enter, while the other facing the South Wind(CAPRICORN) is the immortal gods’ sacred portal that men do not use.
The Odyssey Book XIII
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey13.htm#_Toc90268129

Beehive Cluster

The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189) is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. It is one of the nearest open clusters to the Solar System, and it contains a larger star population than most other nearby clusters. Under dark skies the Beehive Cluster looks like a nebulous object to the naked eye; thus it has been known since ancient times. The classical astronomer Ptolemy called it "the nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer," and it was among the first objects that Galileo studied with his telescope.
wiki

Two ancient names for Cancer were 'The Crab' and 'The Asses and the Manger.'

[Viper]

URSA MINOR (The Little Bear) The lesser sheepfold)
URSA MAJOR (The Great Bear) The fold and the flock)

These are two of the three decans of Cancer "the crab", Scarabaeus "the sacred beetle" to the Egyptians. It has been noted since at least the nineteenth century that these two constellations are not bears and the Greeks got the naming of them wrong.>>

It is sufficient to point to the fact that no Bear is found in any Chaldean, Egyptian, Pesian, or Indian Zodiacs, and that no bear was ever seen with such a tail! No one who had ever seen a bear would have called attention to a tail, such as no bear ever had, by placing in its very tip the most important, wondrous, and mysterious Polar Star, the central star of the heavens, round which all others revolve. The patriarchal astronomers, we may be sure, committed no such folly as this.

The lesser sheepfold and The fold and the flock are their real names.


Stars of Cancer :
The brightest star, z (in the tail), is called Tegmine, holding. The star a (or a1 and a2), in the lower large claw, is called Acubene, which, in Hebrew and Arabic, means the sheltering or hiding-place. Another is named Ma'alaph (Arabic), assembled thousands; Al Himarein (Arabic), the kids or lambs.


Stars of The lesser sheepfold :
The bright star b is named Kochab, which means waiting Him who cometh. Other stars are named Al Pherdadain (Arabic), which means the calves, or the young (as in Deut 22:6), the redeemed assembly. Another, Al Gedi, means the kid. Another is Al Kaid, the assembled; while Arcas, or Arctos (from which we derive the term Arctic regions), means, according to one interpreter, a travelling company; or, according to another, the stronghold of the saved.


Stars of The fold and the flock :
The brightest star, a (in the back), is named Dubhe, which, as we have seen, means a herd of animals, or a flock, and gives its name to the whole constellation.

The star b (below it) is named Merach (Hebrew), the flock (Arabic, purchased).

The star g (on the left of b) is called Phaeda, or Phacda, meaning visited, guarded, or numbered, as a flock; for His sheep, like the stars, are both numbered and named. (See Psalm 147:4)

The star e is called Alioth, a name we have had in Auriga, meaning a she goat.

The star z (in the middle of the tail) is called Mizar, separate or small, and close to it Al Cor, the Lamb.

The star h (at the end of the so-called tail) is named Benet Naish (Arabic), the daughters of the assembly. It is also called Al Kaid, the assembled.

The star i (in its right foot) is called Talitha.


Shared thanks go to this guy :
http://philologos.org/__eb-tws/chap33.htm

[Viper]

URSA MINOR (The Little Bear) The lesser sheepfold)
URSA MAJOR (The Great Bear) The fold and the flock)

..these two constellations are not bears and the Greeks got the naming of them wrong.>>

The principal star of Ursa Major is Dubhe, the Greeks took this to mean bear, from the Greek 'Dob' but it really means :

'...a collection of domestic animals, 'a fold', as in the Hebrew word 'Dober'. The evidence is that, according to the original intent, we are to see in these constellations not two long-tailed bears but two sheepfolds or flocks, the collected and folded sheep of God's pasture.
Gospel in the Stars or Primeval Astronomy by Joseph Augustus Seiss(1884)

[Viper]

Mark 8
23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.>>

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Einstein

Mark 8
24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.>>

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller(1880 - 1968) US blind & deaf educator


Mark 8
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

[Viper]

The Dog Days

But when the artichoke flowers, and the chirping grass-hopper sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings in the season of wearisome heat, then goats are plumpest and wine sweetest; women are most wanton, but men are feeblest, because Sirius parches head and knees and the skin is dry through heat. But at that time let me have a shady rock and wine of Biblis, a clot of curds and milk of drained goats with the flesh of an heifer fed in the woods, that has never calved, and of firstling kids; then also let me drink bright wine, sitting in the shade.
HESIOD(700 BC), WORKS AND DAYS

[Viper]

Although Cancer marks the point of the sun's maximum northerly declination,
Leo marks it's point of maximum power.


Hercules slaying lion.


Samson slaying lion.



In the beginning there was Existence alone - One only, without a second.
He, the One thought to himself: Let me be many, let me grow forth. Thus out of himself he projected the universe; and having projected out of himself the universe, he entered into every being. All that is has its self in him alone. Of all things he is the subtle essence. He is the truth. He is the Self. And that, Svetaketu, THAT ART THOU.”
Swami Prabhavananda(1893-1976)


Once you really appropriate this truth, and assimilate it in the depths of your mind, a vast change (you can easily imagine) will take place within you. The whole world will be transformed, and every thought and act of which you are capable will take on a different color and complexion.
Edward Carpenter1844-1929

Colossians 1
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

John 2
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

Luke 17
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.


We can beat them Spaceman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMx7lIvroo
(A call to the Spaceman's G20 show from Angela.)

[Viper]

The Signs and their Elements

[Brocke]

2000-year-old Astrological/Astronomical computer recreated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc

The Antikythera mechanism



A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world’s first computer.

A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

The original 81 shards of the Antikythera were recovered from under the sea (near the Greek island of Antikythera) in 1902, rusted and clumped together in a nearly indecipherable mass. Scientists dated it to 150 B.C. Such craftsmanship wouldn’t be seen for another 1,000 years — but its purpose was a mystery for decades.

Many scientists have worked since the 1950s to piece together the story, with the help of some very sophisticated imaging technology in recent years, including X-ray and gamma-ray imaging and 3-D computer modeling.

Now, though, it has been rebuilt. As is almost always the way with these things, it was an amateur who cracked it. Michael Wright, a former curator at the Science Museum in London, has built a replica of the Antikythera, which works perfectly.




Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/2000-year-old-a/#ixzz0zDR62pa2

[phosphene]

Coral Castle Sundial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frj-6L2s9MY

[Viper]

[Reflections 1]

Worked my way from Aries up to at this point Leo, it's a spiritual journey, seems the psychology aspect of it is at least in one respect is connected with your horoscope, the way the stars were when you were born.
The dudes i'm reading bash the daily horrorscopes in the papers but do believe in the greater level and real meaning of what it stands for, namely that the way the stars were when you were born, do influence your ...well for one thing character i believe.
Anyways to test my understanding thus far i'll post something i found and ask Brocke to check this out cause to me this checks out pretty good, remember i'm only at leo now, with Hydra, Crater, and Corvus the decans.
Anyways here it is, i'm hoping for at least a five out of ten for this one. >>

[Brocke]

That is a very good outline of the signs/houses! 


Something to think about...

Carl Jung on Astrology
“Since you want to know my opinion about astrology I can tell you that I’ve been interested in this particular activity of the human mind since more than 30 years. As I am a psychologist, I am chiefly interested in the particular light the horoscope sheds on certain complications in the character. In cases of difficult psychological diagnosis I usually get a horoscope in order to have a further point of view from an entirely different angle. I must say that I very often found that the astrological data elucidated certain points which I otherwise would have been unable to understand. From such experiences I formed the opinion that astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call ‘projected’ - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations.”

Jung and Astrology 

"How much is lost through disbelief!"
~Heraclitus

Carl G. Jung believed that there is an indisputable connection between our minds and our bodies. Most people today would agree with that assessment. Our bodies affect our minds, and our minds affect our bodies. Our external situation affects our bodies, which affects our minds, and vice versa.

Taking it a step further, he believed that we affect our physical environment, and that ultimately, we affect the solar system. The solar system affects us, we affect the solar system. Our lives are not "caused" by the stars - the stars do not initiate anything, but there is an ongoing two-way relationship between ourselves and the stars.

Taking it another step further, he believed that the singleness of the solar system paralleled the singleness of human experience, and that "we are one." That there is a single external world, and a single internal world. The single internal world is not accessible by our conscious selves, rather it exists in the unconscious mind. He believed that each person's unconscious mind contains not only personal unconscious, but at a deeper level contains collective material that in inherited - the "collective unconscious." Jung felt that we can learn a lot about the human psyche through astrology, not only because the stars and planets are an external reflection of our inner selves, but also because the inherently symbolic nature of astrology allows us to consciously correlate symbols with unconscious knowledge. Jung felt that astrology is a language of symbols that mediates between levels of consciousness.

You may be familiar with Jung's concept of "archetypes," which make suggestions to the conscious mind as mystical images or symbols, and which spring from "known" patterns of behavior within the collective unconscious. For example, Jung thought that we essentially "know" how to act in a given situation, but that this knowledge is not present in the conscious mind until the situation arises, and it will never be brought to consciousness if the situation never arises. An "instinctual archetype" exists in the unconscious mind that contains the knowledge of how to act in that situation, until the archetype is constellated into the conscious mind. This is different from an "archetypal archetype," which is not instinctual or behavioral, but represents a more complex knowledge or understanding of something that we haven't realized with our conscious mind.

Since much of Jung's work was focused around the collective unconscious and its archetypes, he was probably interested in anything that had a long-standing presence in human history. Since the collective unconscious has been bringing forth astrology into human experience for so many centuries, Jung apparently thought that it must be important enough to deserve some attention.

Jung associated different archetypes with specific planets, and believed birth charts would generate archetypal images to him that told him something about the subject of the chart. He frequently looked at the birth charts of his patients, and believed that the symbols in the charts made suggestions to him from the collective unconscious about that person's psyche.

Jung believed strongly in the I Ching, and invented the term synchronicity to describe psychic "coincidence."

Carl G. Jung is widely recognized as a genius in the field of psychology who made great strides towards understanding the complex human psyche. His most well-known work formed the basis of Psychological Type, later turned into the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator psychometric instrument.

Carl Jung Quotes about Astrology

"We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything else."

"...astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."

"The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious."

"...the journey through the planetary houses boils down to becoming conscious of the good and bad qualities in our character, and the apotheosis means no more than maximum freedom of will."

"In the metaphorical descriptions of the alchemist, Luna is primarily a reflection of a man's unconscious femininity, but she is also a principle of the feminine psyche, in the sense that Sol is the principle of a man's. This is particularly obvious in the astrological interpretation of the sun and moon, not to mention the age-old assumptions of mythology. Alchemy is inconceivable with the influence of her elder sister astrology, and the statements of these three disciplines must be taken into account in any psychological evaluation of the luminaries."


Some more very good info...

http://www.yeatsvision.com/Astrology.html

[Viper]

That is a very good outline of the signs/houses! 

Thanks Brocke, thanks very much, making my way through your post right now, enjoying it very much.

[Viper]

Some more very good info...

http://www.yeatsvision.com/Astrology.html

Indeed!


Brocke this is beautiful, all the signs with their classic rulers, as you know in modern stuff Scorpio Aquarius and Pisces are now ruled by other planets,
ones unseen by the naked eye, respectively Pluto Uranus and Neptune.

[Brocke]

Indeed!

I thought you'd like those diagrams! 

[Viper]

Mark 8 34-38
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

'The death of the ego is the birth of everything else.'
Carl Jung

'“Our kingdom go” is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.'
Aldous Huxley

'No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein'

God the Father, the Creator of the world, is symbolized by the dawn. His color is blue, because the sun rising in the morning is veiled in blue mist. God the son the Illuminating One sent to bear witness of His Father before all the worlds, is the celestial globe at noonday, radiant and magnificent, the maned Lion of Judah, the Golden-haired Savior of the World. Yellow is His color and His power is without end. God the Holy Ghost is the sunset phase, when the orb of day, robed in flaming red, rests for a moment upon the horizon line and then vanishes into the darkness of the night to wander the lower worlds and later rise again triumphant from the embrace of darkness.
Manly P. Hall

[Viper]

Leo the second fire sign, only one ruled by the sun, in the zodiacal man it corresponds with the heart, it's main star 'Regulus' means Little King, leader of the Royal Stars, Regulus(leo), Antares(Antares is a class M supergiant star, with a radius of approximately 800 times that of the sun), Formalhaut(Piscis Austrinus, decan to Aquarius), and Aldebaran(Taurus)

Aldebaran - vernal equinox (Watcher of the East)
Regulus  - summer solstice (Watcher of the South)
Antares  - autumnal equinox (Watcher of the West)
Fomalhaut - winter solstice (Watcher of the North)


Fomalhaut, directly opposite Leo,
it's name means the fish's mouth.

[Viper]

Aldebaran - vernal equinox (Watcher of the East)
Regulus  - summer solstice (Watcher of the South)
Antares  - autumnal equinox (Watcher of the West)
Fomalhaut - winter solstice (Watcher of the North)

One of the island’s coves is that of Phorcys, the Old Man of the Sea, with its mouth between two projecting headlands: both are sheer cliffs to seaward, but slope down towards the harbour on the landward side. They restrain the huge breakers raised by strong winds outside, while oared ships can ride unmoored once they have reached their anchorage. A long-leafed olive tree grows at the head of the cove, and nearby is a pleasant, shadowy cave sacred to the Nymphs called Naiads. There are stone mixing-bowls and jars inside, where the bees have their hives. And there are great stone looms in the cave, on which the Nymphs weave wondrous purple fabrics, and also there are never-failing springs. The cave has two mouths, one facing the North Wind by which men enter, while the other facing the South Wind is the immortal gods’ sacred portal that men do not use.
The Odyssey Book XIII

[Viper]

MV

Matthew 1
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.


Luke 1 26-37
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.

[Viper]

bob dylan - sad eyed lady of the lowlands
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2503731630200025613#

[Viper]

Titus Andronicus: Now, masters, draw.
[They shoot]
O, well said, Lucius!
Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas.
Shakespeare

Coma, decan to Virgo.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.

Mother Teresa

[Viper]

Notice the zodiac and ruling planet signs.>>




From here : http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=69831.msg552462#msg552462

[Red7Paladin]

You'll receive much more truth through studying the word of God and prayer than by seeking answers from the stars, imho.

[Viper]

You'll receive much more truth through studying the word of God and prayer than by seeking answers from the stars, imho.

Done that for fifteen years, time to break through imho.

[Krateros]

I’m enjoying your thread, Viper.

... Tzippori, or Sepphoris, is located in the central Galilee and after the death of Herod in 4 CE, the inhabitants revolted against Roman rule. Not surprisingly, the city was eventually captured and destroyed. Following this, Herod Antipas, ruler of the Galilee region, set about restoring Tzippori. He spared no expense on restoring and beautifying the city, prompting the Jewish historian Josephus to later call it the “glory of the entire Galilee.”

The mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue was rediscovered in 1993. There is a large Zodiac with the names of the months written in Hebrew. Helios sits in the middle, in his sun chariot

I’ve seen this mosaic, by the way, and, in this regard, it might also be worth noting that Josephus wrote, concerning the breastplate of the Israelite high priest:

“And the girdle, which encompassed the high priest round, signified the ocean, for that goes round about and includes the universe. Each of the sardonyxes declares to us the sun and moon, those, I mean, that were in the nature of buttons on the high priest’s shoulders. And for the twelve stones, whether we understand by them the months, or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in their meaning.”

Ref: http://books.google.com/books?id=1AMVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=josephus+breastplate+zodiac&source=bl&ots=BS22hmejkI&sig=D9YxvCuXumuedbVA-LqQYrQKTg0&hl=en&ei=-xWVTIitBIShngecjbCNBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=josephus%20breastplate%20zodiac&f=false
 

[Viper]

I’m enjoying your thread, Viper.

Thanks Krateros, i'm enjoying sharing my studies, it imprints more firmly in the mind when you start posting the stuff here too.
I've learned a lot since starting off, and although it would be too much to share every word, i do try keep it cohesive.
This week i hope to get Ptolemy's 'Tetrabiblos'(2nd century), then maybe the following week my other ordered book will arrive R.H. Allen's 'Star names:Their lore and meaning'(1889).
Another very interesting one to look out for is from one of the masters in this, J.A. Seiss' 'The gospel in the stars'(1882).

[Viper]

Mercury rules Virgo and is exalted in this constellation also, something unique, *we can get to what "planet exaltation" means laters, i have no clue myself. Mercury governs the second age of man(there are seven with their governing planets) age 10-20, and is said to have affinity with childhood.

In the following period of ten years, Mercury, to whom falls the second place and the second age, that of childhood, for the period which is half of the space of twenty years, begins to articulate and fashion the intelligent and logical part of the soul, to implant certain seeds and rudiments of learning, and to bring to light individual peculiarities of character and faculties, awaking the soul at this stage by instruction, tutelage, and the first gymnastic exercises.
Ptolemy (Tetrabiblos)

"Now switch to Kryptonite" / "Go to Robin's Revenge"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-meRN0hfI

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"Now switch to Kryptonite" / "Go to Robin's Revenge"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-meRN0hfI

REDUX : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKRkZw0e1k

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Mercury in the zodiac man rules the brain and spinal nerves, it helps a man make decisions to progress in the spiritual life, to humble oneself before God's creations, unlike in the Leo phase where we realise our potential, these two signs are perhaps in a manner of speaking the most important, Virgo once used to stretch into Libra's stars and get nipped by Scorpio's claw, or 'little horn', as Libra was once known.
Seven ages of man and seven visible planets ...The Virgo section here could have been pre-faced with a Leo-Virgo spot the difference sequence; scripture could be used for sure, an old pic of the Sphynx, this following vid deals with rebirth and swift quicksilver downloads directly to the brain.

The Matrix - Smith defeated with one arm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMV8tugFVNw

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INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

Wordsworth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
          
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
              Upon the growing Boy,
          But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,
              He sees it in his joy;
          
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
              Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
              And by the vision splendid
              Is on his way attended;
          
At length the Man perceives it die away,
          And fade into the light of common day.

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww331.html

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I've been looking for a reference picture for the wall as a learning aid, so i got this one, framed in a 'rio honey' frame, it's called 'Zodiacal Chart Showing the Image of God in Man According to the Three Principles of Divine Being', sounds interesting to say the least. >>

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Prague Orloj
The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʒskiː ɔrlɔi]) is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square and is a popular tourist attraction.

The Orloj is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.

The Old Town Clock, Prague, circa 1486

http://frame.legionware.com/pictures/germany/clock_prague.jpg
http://cruciality.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/astronomical-clock-prague.jpg
http://image59.webshots.com/159/4/91/27/2012491270050188221Xrhnkb_fs.jpg
http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/clock_prague_town_hall_zenilc.jpg

Old Town Clock (detail of calendar dial)
http://image08.webshots.com/8/3/85/73/130938573blILAm_fs.jpg
http://image10.webshots.com/11/3/80/69/130938069pkrrXk_fs.jpg
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vqeDOo8mTPw/RqbJHev8NDI/AAAAAAAACRc/B-io1jGX06w/Europe+2007+901.JPG

Astronomical clock Olomouc, Germany
http://frame.legionware.com/pictures/germany/astonomical_clock_olomouc.jpg


Beautiful Astro chart design
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2808509/2/istockphoto_2808509-the-wheel-of-zodiac.jpg

Other images of interest
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/archive/c2w99/public_html/wklyimages/medicina.celeste.jpg
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/archive/c2w99/public_html/wklyimages/esciat.estrellas.fijas.jpg
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/archive/c2w99/public_html/wklyimages/calendro.medicinal.jpg
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/archive/c2w99/public_html/wklyimages/horario.perpet.univ.jpg

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At length the Man perceives it die away,
          And fade into the light of common day.

"I saw Eternity the other night   
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,   
All calm, as it was bright,   
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years   
Driv’n by the spheres          
Like a vast shadow mov’d, In which the world   
And all her train were hurl’d ..."

"The World"
Henry Vaughan  (1621–1695)

http://www.bartleby.com/236/38.html

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[...]
"The World"
Henry Vaughan  (1621–1695)
http://www.bartleby.com/236/38.html

  O fools (said I,) thus to prefer dark night   
  Before true light,
To live in grots, and caves, and hate the day   
Because it shews the way,   
The way which from this dead and dark abode   
    Leads up to God,   
A way where you might tread the Sun, and be          
    More bright than he.

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The Road to The Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2aUMO7E24

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[Reflections no. 2]

The zodiac teaches us about the earth we inhabit and also claims to teach us about human nature, it's a spiritual journey through the twelve houses whose teachings can be found in correct sequencial order in the Gospel of Mark, while the other two synoptics may go into greater detail they are not in correct sequencial order.
This is a belief, to be crude 'religion' that is older than most existing today and may be the oldest, i believe Zoroastrianism is the oldest together with some Indo-European ones, but at this point though i've seen ancient evidence of star cults in India i'm very reluctant to go into such matters.
Greek mythology is based on the stars to give you an idea of what we're dealing with, but why all the concern for the planets and stars? ...Because these folks believe the above influences spritual matters below, here on Earth.

*Side note: Still waiting on my two star books, but Bill Darlison's 'The Gospel and The Zodiac' is helping greatly to understand the spiritual significance of 1: the spiritual meanings and aspirations of the signs and 2: the twelve months of the year and it's four quarters, maybe sometime soon we can look out our windows and say hey! this is october,  look! there's the constellation Libra with the Southern Cross!


In Leo we realise God in all humans and in all Creation, in Virgo we humble ourselves before such creations.

A cup of tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the cup overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

Zen saying

Coma, decan to Virgo.

To be clear, Coma, or 'Coma Berenices'.(Its name means "Berenice's Hair", and refers to the legend of Queen Berenice II of Egypt, who sacrificed her long hair.) Ptolemy referred to it as "the lock" of hair; however, he did not list it as one of his 48 constellations, considering it as part of Leo, considering it to be the tuft at the end of the lion's tail.) Here's another more appropriate pic>>





Bootes, decan to Virgo.
Bootes, one of the oldest named constellations, mentioned in 'The Odyssey', in the ancient world 'Pastor' was one of it's titles, it's brightest star, 'Arcturus'(4th brightest in sky) was called 'The shepherd of the Heavenly Flock' in ancient Euphrates.

In Greek mythology, Boeotus was one of the twin sons of Poseidon who were abandoned and left to die on Mount Pelion but who were rescued and raised by a herdsman. Boeotus was later reclaimed by his grandfather and went on to inherit part of his kingdom.
Bill Darlison

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The entry into Libra marks the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, when day and night are equal once more. This is the mid-point of the year, the moment of equilibrium, when the forces symbolized by the day and the night are in perfect counterpoise. This has happened before, of course, when the sun enters Aries in the springtime, but there is a difference between these opposite but complementary points: at the spring equinox the point of poise occurs before the dayight begins to dominate; in the autumn this is reversed and the balance-point presages the fourthcoming massing of the darkness.
Bill Darlison

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Venus Rules Libra

It's the most brilliant sight in the evening and morning sky, after the moon; to the Greeks she was called Phos(Light), and is represented by Aphrodite, one of the twelve Greek Gods; to the Romans she was Lucifer(The Light Bearer), and was represented by Venus, one of the twelve Roman Gods.


Size comparison of terrestrial planets (left to right): Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

Note the ferrous color of Lucy above^^

I'd like to introduce here Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and intoxication, known as Bacchus to the Romans, simply because of how Manilius(1st century writer of the greatest Astrological poem ever written 'Astronomica') describes Libra:

Libra, whose scales, when Autumn turns the signs,
And ruddy Bacchus treads the juicy vines;
In equal Balance, poise the Night and Day,
Teach how to measure, and instruct to weigh ...

Lebanon. Baalbek. Temple of Jupiter.

Whatever the nature of the pre-Roman worship at Baalbek, its veneration of Baal created a hybrid form of the god Jupiter, generally referred to as Jupiter Heliopolitan. The Romans also assimilated the worship of the goddess Astarte with that of Aphrodite or Venus, and the god Adonis was identified with Bacchus.

Maat with Feather of Truth

In ancient Egypt Libra was associated with Maat, the Goddess of cosmic harmony and justice, whose special task was to weigh the hearts of the dead on the scales of justice balanced against an ostrich feather.
Those who failed her test were 'heavy hearted, those who passed, 'light hearted'.

Suicide and The Afterlife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocu4cnRwl1c

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Let's take a look inside the Mystery Religion!

"Ancient philosophers were priests. The Greeks wrote copiously on this subject. Plato, Pythagrus, the historian Herodotus and others each spent between 20-30 years being educated and iniciated into the "mysteries". Beginning in Egypt, the iniciate went on to Phoenicia, Jerusalem, Tibet and finally India."
[...]
"In the Kabbala and in the writings of Plato we find reference to the creaton of man, woman, and a third sex. The latter was driven from society, being called the 'deviant creation'.
From "Cutting Through" by Alan Watt

In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it. The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word 'androgynous' is preserved.
Plato, Symposium.

Was Eve created on the sixth also?

Did God say to Adam and Eve "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"?

Intro to G1 man : "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"
Intro to G2 man (Adam) : "..and there was not a man to till the ground."

Genesis 1 26-27
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


The prelapsarian man was a mix of Spirit(male) and Matter(female), before being sundered by the fall; Plato's hermaphrodite became too powerful and was sundered into male and famale by Zeus.
Human love, says Plato, is the attraction between the halves, in the mysteries this balance is also spiritual, balancing spirit with matter.

Gospel of Thomas (22)
"Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom."
They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."