Astrology - The language of the stars

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I have made a photo gallery of all this .. bumpp

[SongBird]

I have made a photo gallery of all this .. bumpp

I got me a sweet lens today friend, looking forwards to some cloudless nights, happy trails.

[SongBird]

Tom Waits - House Where Nobody Lives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqsy2ZAsu8

[SongBird]

Quite inspired HE is.

In the Aquarian section we described this phase of the spititual cycle as 'Change', but this is the result of the phase, what it brings about in the world, the actual phase can be described as 'Inspiration'.

[Back to Pisces]
This phase, to give it justice, is gonna need much coverage, and as with the Scorpio section will take us through the Egyptian Mystery Religion, not to mention paganism and mythology, it can be described as 'Transformation'.


In Greek mythology, Andromeda(Decan to Pisces) is the daughter of Cassiopeia and Cepheus(Decan to Pisces), the King of Ethiopia.  Cassiopeia began boasting that She and Andromeda were more beautiful than the sea nymphs and taunted Poseidon, the God of the Sea.  This angered him until he couldn't take it any longer.  So, to punish the mother, he had Andromeda chain to a rock by the sea...to be sacrificed to a sea monster.

Now, as the story goes, Perseus, was passing by[he had just slain Medusa] and was attracted by Andromeda's beauty.  He agreed to rescue Her under one condition...that Her parents would allow him to marry Andromeda afterwards.  Now, Cassiopeia and Cepheus were not anxious for their daughter to marry Perseus, but they didn't have much of a choice.  It was that or see Her slain by the monster, so they agreed. Perseus was a valiant warrior and possessed some powerful weapons. First, he skimmed over the water...thus confusing the monster...and then, with a flick of his wrist, he cut off the monster's head.  The wedding followed soon thereafter.

And, after Her marriage, Andromeda left Her country to live with Perseus who later became the king of Tiryns and Mycenae.  And, when She died, Andromeda was hung in the sky as a constellation...as an eternal reminder..to forever turn over and over in the starry sky.
http://reclaimingthedarkgoddess.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html


Perseus 'skimming the water'.

[SongBird]

"There follows the constellation of Andromeda, whose golden light appears in the rightward sky when the Fishes [Pisces] have risen to twelve degrees. Once on a time the sin of cruel parents [Cepheus and Cassiopeia] caused her to be given up for sacrifice, when a hostile sea in all its strength burst upon every shore, the land was shipwrecked in the flood, and what had been a king's domain was now an ocean. From those ills but one price of redemption was proposed, surrender of Andromeda to the raging main for a monster [Cetus, the sea-monster] to devour her tender limbs.

"This was her bridal; relieving the people's hurt by submitting to her own, she is amid her tears adorned as victim for the beast and dons attire prepared for no such troth as this; and the corpseless funeral of the living maiden is hurried on its way.

"Then as soon as the procession reaches the shore of the tumultuous sea, her soft arms are stretched out on the hard rocks; they bound her feet to crags and cast chains upon her; and there to die on her virgin cross the maiden hung. Even in the hour of sacrifice she yet preserves a modest mien: her very sufferings become her, for, gently inclining her snow-white neck, she seemed in full possession of her liberty. The folds of her robe slipped from her shoulders and fell from her arms, and her streaming locks covered her body.
Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century A.D.

[SongBird]

The Moon

I got a five dollar filter on the lens still, hoping to up-grade soon,
also yet to use the bundled photo-software, using windows paint to cut right now,
i'll soon seek advice from the astronomy forum.

[SongBird]

In this section we described this phase of the spititual cycle as 'Transformation', but this is the result of the phase, what it brings about in the world, the actual phase can be described as 'Redemption'.

[SongBird]

Taurus Trails

[Brocke]

Andromeda, a popular subject with artists and obviously an important theme in the occult.
Here are some of the best examples.

http://bitterhermit.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/1869_edward_poynter_-_andromeda.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres_-_Roger_Delivering_Angelica.jpg
http://www.settemuse.it/pittori_scultori_europei/dore/gustave_dore_015_andromeda.jpg
http://www.paleothea.com/Pictures/AndromedaLack.jpg
http://www.colombaantonietti.com/public/allegati/umanistica/arte/Edward_Burne-Jones_-_Perseus.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Orlando_Furioso_20.jpg
http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/6/6/16366-perseus-freeing-andromeda-pieter-pauwel-rubens.jpg

[SongBird]

Wow that was a trip, thanks for the pics Brocke.

[SongBird]

The death of an ass and rebirth as a devotee of Isis, as described in 'Metamorphoses'(2nd century AD), the hero, Lucius, given the wrong potion transformed onto an ass, instead of an owl, munched some roses one year later and became a man again.
Being iniciated into the priesthood of Isis, he approached the gates of death, setting one foot on Proserpine's throne, later to return 'rapt through all the elements'.
This Lucius emerged from the sanctuary at dawn 'wearing twelve different stoles'.
One of the names that is used for the god of the mystery cult is 'the Spirit of the Year'.

[SongBird]

Protect your lens with a Hoya HD(hardened) protector filter>>

Indestructable Hoya HD Filter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6wBQR7iqE

[SongBird]

Star Charting Apps for iPhone and iPod Touch
http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/iPhoneStarApps/

I like the 'iStellar'.

[Brocke]

The death of an ass and rebirth as a devotee of Isis, as described in 'Metamorphoses'(2nd century AD), the hero, Lucius, given the wrong potion transformed onto an ass, instead of an owl, munched some roses one year later and became a man again.
Being iniciated into the priesthood of Isis, he approached the gates of death, setting one foot on Proserpine's throne, later to return 'rapt through all the elements'.
This Lucius emerged from the sanctuary at dawn 'wearing twelve different stoles'.
One of the names that is used for the god of the mystery cult is 'the Spirit of the Year'.

All dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0GcqYGv1AA

Vangelis - Theme from 'Missing'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7qOvF5ARNE

[SongBird]

Andromeda

The more a person forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
Man's Search for Meaning

[SongBird]

Three quarter Moon, First uses ISO 800, second ISO 1600.

[SongBird]

Three quarter Moon, First uses ISO 800, second ISO 1600.

Although there is more noise using the 1600, it does produce a clearer picture, though using the 800 is more smoother, the exact stats for the 1600 were : EX. 1/250, AP. 14.

[SongBird]

Take it easy-Eagles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzTdBJUHO8

[SongBird]

I've started reading Seiss' 'The Gospel In The Stars or Primeval Astronomy'(1882), working my way through the Gospel of Mark also, Bill has little intros for each section at the end of his book, detailing the decans, element association, and some basic astral-nomenclature.
Seiss is contending from the get-go the idea that the constellations originated from man, instead believing the source is from the same Spirit the Gospels originated.

Many thanks to Bill Darlison for the best intro to Astrology ANYone could wish for.

[SongBird]

The star-gazers claim some ownage of the OT also, especially the snake story and the fall of man, later to be redeemed by the suffering savior.


Richer, a French writer, has repeatedly asserted thast the whole primitive revelation may be traced in the constellations.
Albumazer describes the various constellations as known all over the world from the beginning, and says, 'Many attributed to them a divine and prophetic virtue'.
Cicero, in translating the account of the constellations by Aratus says, 'The signs are measured out, that in so many descriptions divine wisdom might appear'.
Roberts, in his 'Letters to Volney', accepts it as a truth that the emblems in the stars refer to the primeval promise of the Messiah and His work of conquering the Serpent through His sufferings, and traces out some of the particular instances.
Dupuis, in 'L'Origine des Cultus', has collected a vast number of traditions prevalent in all nations of a divine person, born of a woman, suffering in conflict with a serpent, but triumphing over him at last, and finds the same reflected in the figures of the ancient constellations.
Seiss

Christ, and our redemption through Him, or ...'The Glory of God'.

2 Corinthians 4vs6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Colossans 26-27
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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

Hebrews 1 vs 1-3
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high

[SongBird]

Somewhere in the earliest ages of human existence the stars were named and arranged into groups by someone thoroughly familiar with the great facts of astronomy. Those names and groupings at the same time were included in certain figures[Constellations], natural or imaginary, but intensely symbolic and significant.
[...]
Astronomers growl at them, consider them arbitrary and unnatural, and sometimes denounce them as cumbrous, puerile, and confusing, but have never been able to brush them off, or to substitute anything better or more convenient in their place. They are part of the the common and universal language of astronomical science.
Seiss


Lee Marvin - Wandering Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE9vc2cO170

[SongBird]

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job 26 vs 13

The Gospel in the Stars

In the primeval astronomy the number of these figures[constellations] or star-groups was forty-eight. In imitation of them dozens more have been added, mostly by modern philosophers. Among these additions are the Sextant, the Giraffe, the Fox and Goose, the Horned Horse, the Fly, the Greyhounds, the Lynx [...] which may serve to designate the groups of inferior stars to which they have been assigned, but which are otherwise totally meaningless, and utterly unworthy of the associations into which they have been thrust. Having no connection whatever with the primitive constellations, except as poor and impertinent imitations, they must of course be thrown out and cast quite aside from the enquiry now in hand. They are no part of the original writing upon the stars, as proposed for our present reading.
Seiss


The twelve signs and thirty six decans are our enquiry ...

[SongBird]

Leo & Hydra
[Thanks go to Lamourlady]

The primary and chief series of the old forty-eight constellations[twelve signs + three decans for each sign] is formed on the line which the sun seems to mark in the progress of the year, called the Ecliptic. That line is really the path of the earth around the Sun, in the course of which the Sun seems to move thirty degrees every month, and at the end of the twelfth month appears again where it started at the beginning of the first month.
The moon and planets follow apparently much the same path, and are always seen within eight or nine degrees of the line of the Sun's course. We thus have a Nature-indicated belt, about sixteen degrees wide, extending around the entire circuit of the heavens, half the year north and half the year south of the equator of the earth extending into the sky.
Seiss

[SongBird]

Pegasus Constellation in sky right now.

Ursa Major, my bad, i tried taking pic of Andromeda tonight but with the zoom lens i got on cam couldn't fit all of her in, here's Jupiter passing Aquarius>>

[SongBird]

The following is from the American Heritage College dictionary:



Caduceus
Gk. Myth. A winged staff with two serpents twined round it, carried by Hermes.

Hermes Trismegistus
Myth. The Egyptian god Thoth, the author of works on alchemy, astrology, and magic.

Folks are saying this Hermes is none other that Enoch, whom the apostle Jude quoted, folks are also saying that astrology stemmed basically from him and, ...Seth, the third son of Adam & Eve.

*The studies are starting to get a little hardcore now, i'm gonna look into this Enoch fella, if anyone out there can back up any of this please do, i got sources from almost two millenia ago but i can't be the only one that has taken an interest in this stuff, could you please tell me>> should i pick up Enoch's books?, i could order them tonight.*

*I'll continue with the postings but am a little taken aback right now.*

[SongBird]

Do Freemasons believe in this?

This is the publishers logo, from the book i'm currently reading>>

[SongBird]

The Sabbatic Week and The Stars

We find among all the ancient nations -Chaldeans, Persians, Hindus, Chinese, and Egyptians- that the seven days of the week were in universal use; and, what is far more remarkable each of these nations named the days of the week, as we still do; after the seven planets numbering the Sun and Moon among them.
Hence we say Sun-day, Moon-day, Tuisco or Tuves'-day(Tuisco being the Anglo-Saxon name for Mars), Woden's-day(Woden being the same as Mercury), Thor's-day(Thor being the same as Jupiter), Friga-day(Friga or Freiya being the same as Venus), and lastly, Saturn-day, anciently the most sacred of the seven.
The order is not that of distance, velocity, brillancy of the orbs named, neither does the first day of the week always coincide among the different nations; but the succession, no matter with which of the days begun, is everywhere the same. It is impossible to suppose this mere accident or chance; and the fact forces the conclusion that the devising and naming of the seven days of the week dates back to some primitive representatives of the race, from whom the tradition has thus generally descended, and who at the same time knew and had regard to the seven planets as enumerated in the primeval astronomy.
Seiss

[SongBird]

Under the sun, moon and stars
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdi5py_space-travel_creation

[SongBird]

Sacred Geometry - The Secret Rosslyn Lightbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqHXWXB7sKA&p=594DCD06110877E7

[SongBird]

Nice verse from the Aquarian section of Mark, remember we described this phase as inspiration:

Mark 13 vs 11
But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

[SongBird]

Manu Chao - Homens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8G-HV9HPY
manu chao-la primavera+me gustas tu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDE20auDH8

[SongBird]

“My trust is in the Cross; there lies my rest,
My fast, my sole delight.
Let cold-mouthed Boreas, or the hot-mouthed East,
Blow till they burst with spite;
Let earth and hell conspire their worst, their best,
And join their twisted might;
Let showers of thunderbolts dart round and round me,
And troops of fiends surround me:
All this may well confront; all this shall ne’er confound me.”
Joseph A. Seiss

[Brocke]

2010 Winter Solstice Total Lunar Eclipse



This NASA chart depicts which countries will be able to see the total lunar eclipse of 2010 on Dec. 20-21

Parts of four continents will be treated to a view of a total eclipse of the moon during the overnight hours of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21. This spectacle of celestial shadows will be the best of its kind residents of North America will see until the year 2014.

December's total lunar eclipse is the only total eclipse of the moon of this year. For the Western Hemisphere, the eclipse will "officially begin on Dec. 21 at 12:29 a.m. EST (9:29 p.m. PST on Dec. 20) as the moon begins to enter Earth's outer, or penumbral, shadow.

But even in clear weather, skywatchers will not notice any changes in the moon's appearance until about 45 minutes later when a slight "smudge" or shading begins to become evident on the upper left portion of the moon's disk. 

This NASA lunar eclipse chart shows the visibility of the eclipse from different regions around the world.

While it can be seen in its entirety from North and Central America, parts of the eclipse can also be seen from Europe, northwestern Africa and parts of Australia. It will not be visible from southern and eastern Africa and India.

Unlike an eclipse of the sun, an eclipse of the moon presents no hazards to the observer. No precautions to protect the eyes are needed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40556339/ns/technology_and_science-space/

[Brocke]

Also...


This month Earth will pass through the Geminid debris stream, producing as many as 120 meteors per hour over dark-sky sites. The best time to look is probably between local midnight and sunrise on Tuesday, Dec. 14th, when the Moon is low and the constellation Gemini is high overhead, spitting bright Geminids across a sparkling starry sky.


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/06dec_geminids/

[tritonman]

Also...


This month Earth will pass through the Geminid debris stream, producing as many as 120 meteors per hour over dark-sky sites. The best time to look is probably between local midnight and sunrise on Tuesday, Dec. 14th, when the Moon is low and the constellation Gemini is high overhead, spitting bright Geminids across a sparkling starry sky.


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/06dec_geminids/

Yup, I have been waiting for these as they are going to be the best ones of this entire year.    I will not be on much that night other than to come in to tell others to go out and see.  I love my meteor showers.

[SongBird]

[Moon & Venus]

Faulty Explanations

Some have attempted to explain the origin and meaning of these signs of the Zodiac as gradual formations for season-marks, of sowing, reaping, fishing, hunting, cattle-culture, and the like.
Abbé Pluche, in his 'History of the Heavens', thinks to exhaust the whole matter after this manner, though it is hard to see the need for such high and elaborate memorials of what was otherwise far more obvious to the senses. And although some of these signs apply, and have been used, in this way, the abbé is obliged to admit that the scheme does not fit to Egypt, where many say these signs originated; neither does it fit in anywhere else; whilst it leaves all the Decans of these signs wholly unexplained.
And, however well the theory may fall in with some of the signs, it is much perplexed and disabled when it comes to such as Scorpio, since the scorpion is nowhere a thing of game or cultivation, and has no particular season. The best the abbé can do with it on this theory is, to expound it as a sign of autumnal diseases, to tell the people when they were most likely to be sick!
Had the abbé taken the very significant hints given in his quotations, telling how these signs were explained to those iniciated into the more famous ancient mysteries, he would have saved himself such puerilities, and found what he so trifled with to be the records of truths relating to the highest spiritual and eternal interests of man.

Seiss

..I love my meteor showers.

A red rose and chocolate watch for the best pic taken, no cheating!

[SongBird]

A red rose and chocolate watch for the best pic taken, no cheating!

I've had my eye on Castor & Pollux (two main stars of Gemini) on and off for seven hours now, i had a great view just now but some clouds have moved in, i haven't spotted anything as yet, i did see a shooting star around Ursa Major but meteors are more grander, Dec 7th - Dec 17th is the date given for them on my star app. I wonder if they travel as fast as shooting stars?

Here's a Geminid meteor passing Orion>>


a geminid fireball explodes over the mojave desert in 2009

[tritonman]

It is cloudy and snowing here.

[SongBird]

[Back to AstroLOGY]

In this thread we've dealt with the main twelve constellations, which can be used personally, from Aries to Pisces, for spiritual development, however should we want to go further in these studies and discover the nature of this life we must use all forty eight constellations, each of the twelve main ones, the Zodiac signs, has three supporting signs /constellations.
This story starts with Virgo, and ends with Leo, personally i'm at Scorpio right now having made my way through the first two. Please note: The sign of libra is a set of scales(nevermind the Glyphs right now), but, for this sign to be accurate one of the balances has to be down, i.e. the scales are not even, something is in one of them, this is the Southern Cross.



I've started a new thread, dealing with this story in the Heavens, but lemme say the pic dealing with Libra above is spot on, the price is the Cross, the Victim is ourselves, and our prize is the Crown.
I'm confident that anyone that has knowledge of such things will agree, and do hope, that one day someone will stumble upon this forum and join in with us.