- re: THE
ZODIAC
The traveller Earth, like a dervish-dancer, spins on its own
axis. From perspective of an observer stationary located at one place on its
surface, this is a rhythmic turning toward & away-from the Sun; and if the
observer is at a non-polar region, during such one turn there are two distinct
phases: one with the Sun above horizon, and the other when its visible disk is
hidden from sight, behind the zone of the horizon-area.
The length of each of these portions of one such spin-turn
gradually waxes and wanes during the course of one pulse-tide of the planet's
dance-movement around the Sun; and twice in a single such wave-unit, the length
of the Sun-above and Sun-below horizon portions of the on-own-axis rotation are
mutually quantitatively equal; we call these occasions Equinoctes.
And in relation to the plane of planet's annual motion, the
angular position of this its axis isn't stationary: it "wobbles", or
gyrates - and does so in a steady rhythmical beat as well: turning one whole
round at a frequency of cca 26,000 annual tide dance-turns.
If on the planet's surface there is an observer endurable
& patient enough - say, for practical illustrative purposes, a stone with
its peculiar way of witnessing such things - capable of recording/remembering
what's seen, and making note of what stars are visible on the Eastern horizon
immediately pre-dawn on each subsequent year on one of the Equinox days (it can
be Vernal or Autumnal, and the observer can be located on the North or the South
of planet's hemispheres - choose your pick), it'd see the Zodiac-belt stars
"wheeling" around, in the ~26,000 annual tide-beats rhythm, with the
specific 12 segments of this belt-area gradually appearing and disappearing,
following one another and this in sequence with opposite direction of that in
which the Luminary-discs and the "wanderer stars" (planets) traverse
the same space area: the visibility of the Sagittarius-zone, followed by visibility
of the Scorpio-zone, followed by visibility of the Libra-zone, and so forth, in
a rhythmical beat of each of the 12 being thus present, before the
next-in-sequence starts appearing, for about 2,167 annual tides.
This phenomenon is generally known by the term
"Astrological ages".
A North-hemisphere located observer at current time, looking
at this at Vernal Equinox day pre-dawn moments, will notice the stars within
Pisces constellation (belonging within first 5*-6* degrees of it, counted
Luminary/planetary-annual-movement direction-wise).
That same portion-area of the Zodiac as it has been pre-dawn
appearing at the given Equinox-day during ~24,000 BC; as it's been appearing
during ~179,000 BC; as it's been appearing during ~ 361,000 BC ... in brief: at
every ~26,000 years since after the Earth-Moon system's birth our planet's
axial tilt "settled" into motion-position configuration of this its
~23*-inclination-to-Solar/ecliptic-plane, ~26,000 own years for a full
gyro-turn, rhythm - till the present day.
Have the conditions on Earth, and, in specific, the peculiar
*quality* of what we know as Evolution of Life here, been the same as they are
now, in, say, ~24,000 BC, as they were in ~50,000 BC, as they were in ~76,000
BC etc, - during each of these periods when the Vernal/Autumnal point has been
aligned with this same zone-area of the Zodiac?
- The answer is so clear that the question itself is funny,
indeed, even merely as a thought.
Yet - hold your breath! - there's something *even more*
hilarious: for ages now (all puns intended), there've been 'astrologers'
spouting-out their 'wisdom' which in a defining manner speaks of the Zodiac as
a loopy-circular-knot: "Oh, at root, it's eternal return of the
same", say they, "it's just about the variations in manifest
forms" (indeed, it's not so hard to imagine how if that group of
amphibians which was first to dare into the prolonged-dryness-of-air, had been
somehow able at the time to foresee specimen as these eventually coming, they'd
be quite solemnly drawn to fully re-consider the entire undertaking ... ) -
"it's just the circle turning around! - yes, there are variations in
specific expressions, but what-was-thus-far is ESSENTALLY the same as
what-is-to-come - ehm, what can there really *ever* be new under-the-Sun?"
... fix a stick in the ground so that it's stable-standing
and can rotate on own axis, tie one end of a rope to it and the other to your
waist (applying this to neck not recommended!), and move one-full-turn around
the stick, with equal pressure of rope-tightness, well-stretched, on the body:
there it is! - your path thus traversed just reflected this 'ultimate perfection'
which is the circle! (Or: position yourself stationary & with
rotating-on-own-axis conditions, and apply the described rope-connection with
another being, who'd do the round-movement -- to experience the 'ultimate
perfection' of the same dynamics from this internal alternate reference-point).
"Look", the aforementioned 'astrologers' direct
the attention of the new learner of the stellary-science, "it is these
same segments of the ever-lasting, holy Circle that just keep appearing &
re-appearing. Ah, the marvel, oh, the supreme profundity!"
... While the treveller Earth - together with her companion
Moon, a unique duo-member of the Sun-suite - elegantly smooth-dancing as she
does, keeps Going On ...
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Slow does she seem to the ants on her surface moving at
their unique frequency, this wanderer Earth.
But for the Saturn's sight, ah, isn't she such a busy-body?
And how fuming-speedy must she appear to Sedna, each time
when in her own flight she's in the within-heliosphere part!
... From mills, it's now the wheels, oh thou adventurer
Earth! (ready, perhaps, for some of-yet-unseen-kind, entirely new,
flash-striking Birth?!)
The Moon for sure knows what's-been-up, keeping the intimate
watch of this your hidden-in-the-open Art ..
Dances enraptured in its unique galactic beat, glowing
steadily with Joy of witnessing this all, the Sun's burning stellar heart!
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So, without getting ourselves stuck with running-in-circles,
how then can we make use of this knowledge - that there is this very specific
band-like area of the outer-space clearly perceivable from Earth, known as the
Zodiac, and to which we can reliably apply the geometrical form of 360-degrees
circle for the measurements related to it?
To untangle the old loopy knot and get ourselves moving in
alignment with the motion of the Universe, a few most-basic clarifying steps are
first due.
Let's go for the stroll!
-- *** --
The form of the path traversed by each member of our local
stellar-suite isn't a circle; the movement of the Sun around the Galactic
Center isn't a circle; nor is what we see as the Zodiac-area in the sky
actually a circle.
Just like a map of a place isn't the actual territory, but
serves for its representation (and as such, can be accurate more or less), or a
word spoken isn't the phenomenon it refers to itself, but a peculiar
mental-verbal form serving as symbolic representation of it -- so is the geometric form of the Zodiac as a
circle in astrology: it is a symbolic
form, practically applicable for us on Earth for measurements and calculations.
And here, now, is the *key* point - which, when properly
understood, opens up for sight what's been previously obscurely appearing in
perception as a wall, revealing it for the gateway (doors!) that it actually
is:
A symbol - any symbol as such - is a *communication device*.
A symbol performs its job well when it adequately serves to
*connect* (rather than to dis-connect!) our psyche/awareness with the
phenomenon itself which it exists to represent.
And this is so in an exclusive manner: *solely* when this
proper-connecting function is operative, is a symbol actually useful and its
existence healthy, justified.
When there is a symbol which *is* being regularly used, but
does not operate in this way, it is not "merely" dysfunctional and
obsolete - this situation is actually damaging and dangerous: the given form in
such cases is akin to poison being poured into the very opening of a mountain
spring of a river, or having something extraneous, not vision-supporting,
within your eye: it is something standing/abiding at a peculiar trans-mission,
*movement*-serving place (think: a gateway, a hallway, a passage-door), so if
not *conducting* the movement-stream *adequately for the given specific
position*, such a phenomenon at such 'location' acts de-facto as a blocking,
obstructing and/or a thwarting, turning-the-stream-toward-demise, factor.
-- * --
Imagine you have a radio device, generally working well,
with only one 'tiny' technical flaw such that for a given specific range of
frequencies (say, including not more than 3 peculiar frequency-waves, among
multiple-thousands for which it's operative) the sound "V" gets
transmitted in a distorted way, so that what you hear is the sound
"R" instead (or that, for example, the "Aa" sound always
comes out as an "Ii").
You're using this device to receive information from
far-far-away realms, otherwise entirely outside of scope of your perception.
Thousands of frequency-waves are being transmitted, and it's only very rarely
that any of those in that specific range affected by the technical flaw are
being tuned-on; such a sophisticated radio device is hard to make, there's just
a dozen or so of them on the whole globe, so, of course, you don't use it
solely in order that you personally can listen to what-comes-through it, but
the whole wider community you belong to avails itself of its functionality and
existence.
No problem of any kind!, whatsoever, eh?
But, imagine that it's through those specific few - exactly
three of them, let's put it so for example - frequency-waves that the vital,
very core information is being transmitted: such related to the most basic
things about human approach to food, information about breathing rhythms, and
other similarly *most simple*, quite rudimentary aspects of our daily
psycho-biological operations. So, only every once in a long, long while, on
rare and exceptional occasions, or when there's some pronounced urgency, or a
need/necessity for it, these get tuned-onto and listened to, otherwise, it's
practically as if they aren't even there.
Yet, unlike the information transmitted via other
wave-frequencies, these peculiar three are the ones coming most-immediately,
directly from the vital-energy-stream's Source (- who/what else emits
specifically such kind of information, right?).
The device is being used, it seems in every respect fully
functional, no flaws of any kind are at all being noticed.
But the vital information is exactly that: Vital.
Unlike any other type of information, the high-precision of
accuracy in its transmission isn't a "negligent tiny detail", it's an
actual, and very immediate (however perhaps something far-away seeming!) matter
of life-or-death. And what's coming through wave-frequencies transmitting such
information is not "given once, to be taken in that fixed-same way or
form, for eternity"; the peculiar form-ulations moving-through therein are
shifting over time, just like the adequate form of food for a 2-months old baby
differs from the form adequate for the 12-months old, differs from that
adequate for the 2-years old toddler, etc; each living being has its unique
nature and capacities, and these are being nurtured into their emergence and
healthy-unfolding by the space-time continuum's "aspect" we know as
Mother Nature through processes which are *precisely timed* and are not
operating as manifestations of some "given once-and-for-all
fixed-formula" - they're ongoingly evolving, changing in accordance to the
specifics of each given peculiar living beings' developmental-stage-related
capacities & needs.
... One can be using such a radio, noticing absolutely
nothing flawed about it, for as long as they are living; historical recordings,
and all kinds of paraphernalia attesting to the splendor and wonderfulness of
the device's utmost-functionality can be made; and all the following
generations of those in the area within that same device's operational-reach
could thus proceed. And if it so happens that of the dozen-or-so such devices
existing on the globe there is only one, or a few of them without this peculiar
technical flaw, these would be proclaimed to be not-adequately-functioning.
And everything, indeed (for what looks like quite-a-long
time from a single human personal lifetime point of view) could appear entirely
jolly-merry, splendidly flawless to the out-of-tune radio attached-to ones --
up until the *very final moments* before the Natural expiration-date, for each
of the groups and individuals that are in such way, quite subtly but
*radically* mis-aligned with the actuality of rhythms and frequencies of the
space-time continuum's Vital stream-movement, comes to transpire.
-- * --
So, for the Key-point not to be lost, let's put it forward
again:
A SYMBOL is such a form which serves as a
communication-device; it functions properly *solely* if & when it's
*adequately connecting* our psyche/awareness with the phenomenon itself which
it exists to -- and specifically: *in a conducting/conveying manner*, as the
peculiar *suitable passage-vehicle* -- represent.
-- *** --
Out of the whole of visible sky from Earth, this peculiar
band-area which we know as the Zodiac, and represent by a geometrical circle, is
the zone ‘within’ which we see the planets of our Solar system move; or, in
other words: this is the starry-space area with which the *plane* of our local,
home-star-system’s planetary suite being and movement is aligned.
There are numerous
stars in each of the 12 segments of it, with different properties re how old
and how mutually distant from each other they are, uniquely for each
pair/group/cluster considered. It is from the perspective of our Solar system –
we can take the Sun itself as the central reference point here – that the
peculiar unifying-connectedness of their nature emerges; and this not “just
randomly so”, but in a very specific way so, and *exclusively so*.
Or,
to use a different verbal formulation to convey this same information:
Our Solar system, with the movements of all members of this
particular stellar-suite, is in a uniquely specific way *attuned* with exactly
this area-region of the whole of the body of the time-space continuum.
The English word Zodiac, the Latin Zodiacus, the Hellenic
“zodiakos”, “zoos”, “vios”, and “bios”, as well as the whole family of Italic
words based on & related to “vivo” and “vita”, the Indo-Iranian “jivati”,
“jiva” (Sanksrit) and ‘zividan” (Persian), the Baltic “gyvas” and dzivot”, and
various Slavic words (like the Russian, Slovak, Czech, Macedonian, etc.,
“život” ) that in their meaning, even to this day, directly convey what is
otherwise the hidden radix – that reaches so deep underneath the
surface-branchings of the visible growth of the large Indo-European language
family-tree, so far-away in our collective language-development past, that of
the exact “whence” of its appearance in time, and the specific “whereabouts” of
the initial habituation of its use, we barely know anything, and are now merely
just able to ascertain that, once-upon-a-time, it used to be: they are the
present-day existing verbal-forms branchings stemming from the
Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeyh₃- ,
“to live”.
Those reading this in English who are also familiar with the Slavic and
Indo-Iranian language forms will immediately notice the vocal (meaning: by the
specific sound-structuring) relation with the words related to Frequency and
Sound (within the Indo-Iranian culture, there is even a major Deity form
immediately representing this – often depicted as Dancing, and with his
characteristic instrument, the damaru).
As is our Solar system’s plane-of-motion attuned with this (and *exactly* this)
region-area of the whole of the visible sky, so does the
trace-of-our-language-development reveal with clarity what over time easily
tends to become obscured, until entirely forgotten: it is not a matter of some
‘coincidence’, some kind of ‘randomness’ -- this Life as we know of it here on
Earth and within this our Solar system, came-to-be, is and goes-on as a unique
time-space manifestation, an expanding-radial-expression of, and solely
within-the-context-of, this very peculiar, pitch-specific attunement of
frequencies.
… How far back in time does reach our awareness-of (the basic knowledge-about)
the Zodiac as-such? It still isn’t possible to say now with a precise
certainty. Marshack’s work revealed that the characteristic Ice-age bone
notations have been recordings of the *observed* Lunar period and phases; among
the Cave Art thus far uncovered, there are images depicting clearly &
indisputably some segments of this our celestial-bestiary (with images of
planets included) - albeit with this kind of “memo-notes”, without a direct
indication (in an at least implicit way) that those leaving the recordings were
aware of the *whole Girdle as a singular phenomenon*, we today can’t say for
sure what was the exact scope and degree of their knowledge of the Zodiac per
se; Fagan’s work uncovered that the monumental inscriptions on the Ramesseum’s
ceiling at Karnak show not only the Zodiac, but this with the record, as well,
of planetary positions as they have been on a specific day (July 16th,
2767 BC, by Julian count) – providing in an explicit and wholesome manner the
information that, beyond any doubt, during this period such level of knowledge
did exist ( & with having been considered as important as for it to be
recorded in the manner that it was); and the excavations at the Gobekli and
Karahan Tepe are still at their earliest stages – what’ll these reveal when
completed, remains yet to be seen …
Through our own history as Earthly species (Homo), our evolution -- with the development
of language/symbols-for-communication and the recording-systems -- has been
intimately tied with this process of continual-observation, with the gradual
increasing-refinement-of-precision (accuracy) of what can be
seen-&-recorded, in relation to, explicitly, the Zodiac region of the whole
of the visible sky.
Our human species-unique awareness of Time – from the initial emergence, into
the further evolution/unfolding of this capacity --- has been based on the
experience (combined with some form of recording/memo-making of
what’s-been-noticed) of the observation of the Soli-Lunar rhythms and tidings,
within this peculiar context of the starry-backdrop area of their visible
‘paths’ that we now know as the Zodiac.
Adequately nurturing, and further developing our
knowledge-of, and increasingly-consciously moving in actual proper
alignment-with these, what we call, “the astrological rhythms” isn’t, for
our life on Earth, some superfluous, not-exactly-necessary and
merely-one-of-many, aspects of the How & What of our being: it is the
actual & radical Vital factor.
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So, here is this
vital-for-us stellar region called the Zodiac; and to get dis-connected, slip
into the deadly deafness of losing-touch with It is, clearly, a no-go. How do
we Proceed?
Letting-go of the main chunk of the obscuring baggage-load of our previously
held-onto projections and prejudices is necessary, a willful turn toward a healthy
demystification movement, before we can actually, collectively, get properly
with the further-Going.
-- *** --
Observed from Earth, the Zodiac is a celestial region, a band-like area of the
visible space around us.
There are stars in this area, and there are some
shapes/forms arising as visual imagery in our awareness, as we look at this;
throughout time, and at different locations (among different groups of Homo
species), the specific parts of this region have been called by different names;
the ones we use for them now have come to be embedded in our collective
subconsciousness through the process of the related Egyptian imagery from some
4-2,000 years ago finding its way to the Alexandrian and post-Alexander-time
Greek historians & scholars, and from there gradually becoming more or less
our Global collective norm (with very few exceptions), via the spontaneous
spreading of information on Earth through time as it came to be.
As long as we are aware that these names represent portions of actual
starry-space, and not get ourselves entangled-into (blindly attached-to) the notion
of ‘map-as-actual-territory’ while we’re using them, there is no problem with
it at all.
But there are stories related to these images; these stories become
created over time, introducing a movement-quality into what’s a fixed-shape of
a geometrical form – initially as means of conveying the
knowledge-thus-far-obtained, and easing the process of communicating it to the
young so that a peculiar personal-intimacy-of-connection gets spontaneously
thus developed with what otherwise tended to seem, during one long period-phase
of our development, as so very far-away-removed from us that no *direct*
contact, of immediacy-kind, is at all possible to exist. We nowadays know these
stories as Myths.
Useful as they perhaps had been, in practical sense - each so pertinent to the
time & circumstances of their appearance - to be perceived as heralds of
some ‘secret, sacred Ultimate truth’ about the Zodiac isn’t just misplaced, at
this time it functions as a yet-additional factor of obscuring – a factor leading
us further into getting cut-off, the disconnection: these stories are what the
human mind developed to “animate” the already-formed imagery; they are
Projections – and as such, speak of the human growing capacities over time
well, but do not actually say anything directly and immediately about the
stars, the celestial region itself.
With the details and the plots they contain, they tend to direct the attention
(and the stream of energy-movement of our psyche, in whole, together with this)
in a very subtle but loopy-vortex-kind of manner into a
circulation-within-circle, and then lock it there; we get attached (deeply,
internally very intimately so) to these specific ideas that have a
time-movement feature in them (ideas formulated as stories), which thus seem as
if they’re representing some vital-movement (growth, development) while what
they actually do is keep the attention and energy within the realm of a
specific cluster of human own (growth-phase defined, and thus naturally very
limited in their quality & scope) ideas & thinking-processes –
projecting these onto the Celestial realm, and taking this mirror-reflections
thus ‘seen’ as some kind of ‘actual information’ about the Stars themselves!
Unlike these stories, the positions of the stars, and the rhythm-beat of number
12, are as they are – these are factors which did not arise out of some
group/culture’s transient, fanciful ideas or opinions.
From one to the next, between two consecutive Earth’s annual-level periods -
whether measured from Equinoces, or in relation to the ecliptic-region stars
rising in the East after Sunset - the New Lunar Crescent appears into its visibility
12 times (after its so-called “hidden phase”, which is the transition from the
“Dark Moon” of the waning gibbous crescent, through the astronomical
conjunction with Sun phase, until its emergence into being visible again as the
New Moon). And on the diurnal level, from one to the next, between two
consecutive moment/periods of the same Zodiac star(s) appearing on the horizon
– that is, during one Earth’s turn on its axis – the “path traversed”, or
movement, of the Moon and the Sun, expressed in arc-degrees on the ecliptic,
has the rhythm-ratio of 12:1.
It is within this rhythm-beat matrix of the mutual
attunement of these three, central in most Fundamental sense for us here,
celestial ‘factors’ – the Moon, the Sun and the starry-area of the sky
“through” which these two celestial Luminaries are, as seen from our
perspective on Earth, “traversing” - that every cell of every living organism
on this planet has emerged into its being.
-- *** --
Rather than looking how to “connect” with the time-space
continuum’s Vital stream whose directly-visible celestial expression for us is
the Zodiac through increasingly-thickening entanglement into the veiling,
obscuring-network of our own thinking-&-calculating processes, the way of
continuation & deepening/refinement/evolution of actual Connection
is through orientation toward ever-growing in its quality Immediacy of
contact. - If one has senses developed for direct,
immediate reception of information from a physically-distant-realm, the
presence of a transmission tool such as is a radio-device can be useful, but
isn’t at all necessary; and if/when such a device happens to be malfunctioning,
an occurrence of that kind does not operate as a factor leading to the loss of
actual contact/connection.
During the past cca 1.5 dozen of centuries, the human
species has gradually but consistently been trained into greater and greater
dis-continuation of immediacy of contact with the Starry sky itself, with the
capacity for direct-connection becoming so atrophied, by huge tumorous-kind of
structure-growth of layer-upon-layer of obscurity, over time, that it came to
it now appearing as something veritably “entirely impossible”.
Not only is the very notion that a human being can learn something about the
sky, stars and Life itself by simple, one’s own, persistent careful
Observation, close to extinct, but the physical conditions for us on Earth for
such basic immediacy of presence-with the phenomena of the visible celestial
realm have turned into what’s forcefully and emphatically been oriented toward
disabling this kind of Contact: what we nowadays so casually call “the light
pollution” and tend to perceive as just ‘some rather negligent in importance’,
a yet-another-factor-of our modern-day existence, “normal aspect of existence”,
is far from actually normal, in the healthy natural sense of it, for our Life
on Earth – as “quite normal” as it seems, with all the complex subtleties of different
aspects of its existence, what it actually is is something outright functioning
in the service of our demise.
Looking at screens with letters, numbers and percentage-notations generated by
a software, as not only primary-way, but the only way, of how we “keep
the connection with” and “receive-information-from” the Celestial realm, without the direct immediacy of exposure-to and visual-contact-with the night sky itself, is
much akin to someone staring at the physical reflection of their own face in a
plain, simple mirror, claiming this mirror is a highly-refined, advanced telescope,
and feeling absolutely certain that what is transpiring via this process is: they’re
thus obtaining and increasingly-deepening their knowledge about some very specific
distant Celestial realms & their actualities.
Human being’s capacities and their adequate development/evolution require
presence of both Day-light and the Night – as these naturally and rhythmically
occur for a living being existing on Earth.
Thinking about the stars is exactly that: thinking.
There is no amount of thinking that can make a human being on this planet
more-consciously and most-directly so connected-with & attuned-to the
starry expanse of space which we call the Sky, without the immediacy
of one’s visual exposure-to and silent intimacy of attentive-Presence-with
the clear Night sky.
-- *** --
Over time, the practical aspects of astrological endeavors, those concerning
the Interpretation (of different factors & of their mutual
clusterings/connections) and, especially, related to this, the Prediction, have
developed so that they function as yet-another obscuring, in-itself-enclosed
loop-within-loop. Onto the Zodiac, the 12 portions of this stellar realm,
started being projected the themes, thoughts and ideas which emerged to our
awareness related to the planets of our Solar system: we gradually got into
this notion as habit of perceiving the Zodiac-related starry-space-expanse as
inherently defined by the qualities/ideas/properties that we noticed to
be related to the planets!
The concept of “planets ruling the signs” emerged, directing steadily -
however very subtly and slowly – in a loopy-manner our attention, until almost fully
locking it in within this, into projecting the ideas stemming from
observation of what-is-close-by and somewhat-known onto the what is
distantly-away, and with qualities that are fundamentally the-yet-unknown –
putting up, thus, a specific kind of veil before our eyes, a fixed-type of
imagery-charade that supposedly exists in service of us “seeing and
learning-about the stars”, while what it’s actually been doing has been:
blocking of our sight, the vision-potential, to be present to the starry-realm
itself, by persistently training into atrophy our very capacity for the direct-awareness
of this at all, as such.
Granted there are some similarities/affinities in observed qualities
between individual planets and one or another of the Zodiac signs, the actually
accurate, adequate way of language-use about this is not the term “rulership”
(and other such similar forms); the most & best we can do is say it’s
“representation” of a sign/starry-realm by a planetary-principle – and even
this is a bit of a stretch, for all we actually know is that, simply, there is
a similarity, a likeness-of-quality; to project some fixed ideas of
hierarchical (and/or enclosed-schematics) kind onto it doesn’t in any way
support increase of our knowledge, or the developing/deepening of our understanding,
of either side of these two peculiar groupings of astrological factors, the
signs and the planets.
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The open-ended, expandingly-spiraling, oriented
toward-infinity movement of the tissue of the time-space-continuum’s body, as
well as of what we know as Life itself, requires that we adjust our ways of
approaching the Observation, and introduce changes in the default-mode of our automated,
yet which are obscuring/blinding, perception-tendencies – however ‘safely
habituated’ many of us have become in such patterns.
The Science – human scientific endeavor as such, stemming from the species’
capacity, willingness and openness to continually Learn – is ultimately about
Revealing, the Uncovering, bringing-to-open-sight, that which has been thus-far
not-known (including the not even considered as possible-to-be existing!),
about the properties and qualities of the processes & rhythms of Nature (in
the smaller as well as wider scope of what we call by this name).
And this our dance-like process, at times smooth, at times turbulent, is not,
at any moment, in any of its phases, a “finished product”; a fractal-expression
of the universal evolving-expansion-of-Life movement as it is, it’s an
ongoingly-open-ended process: whatever “definite answers” that we come-upon as
we thus Go, it is the Open-questions which are of greatest value! – sometimes,
these bring what feels like a-huge-disturbance to the structures of “definite
answers” we’ve been very sure we’ve indisputably “got to get hold-of” during
the dance-thus-far; but if the movement keeps-going in a Balanced way,
open-ended, with our actual capacities and willingness to keep-Learning not
atrophied, such shaking-up passages eventually come to be nothing more but a
funny-facts historical data, an interesting aspects of the
what-transpired-in-the-past, to tell the Children about.
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Herethere follows a list of stars which are on and
in-the-immediate-proximity-of the ecliptic-area, by their Zodiac longitude.
Some of them are by the present-day astronomical designations classified under
the constellations/visual-grouping names which are not among the Zodiac’s
Twelve, but this is not of concern for us here; they are positioned in the sky
in such way that, within the non-light-polluted, clear-night conditions, we
can observe them in immediate relation to the position of the visible Lunar
disk, as well as to the positions of the planets of our Solar system (the
naked-eye visible ones, together with the telescope-visible ones) – however
some or another group’s current-decision, pertinent to one or another period of
human history, may decide to designate them, for all our practical intents and
purposes, these naturally belong with the Zodiac-region. – It is
the position of those brightest among them which are most closely aligned with
the ecliptic itself, and with their exact spatial-mutual-relation as it is, the
observation of which (in light of, primarily & initially, using the visible
Moon’s motion as the easy-marker for measurements) enabled over time our
awareness of the Zodiac to emerge with the degree of accuracy which is at the
disposal of our knowledge today [for more info on this subject, see:
fiducial/s, Fagan-Bradley ayanamsha].
Is or isn’t there “a First among the Twelve” is a matter to be left for further
investigation; in order to at all approach it, an agreement would need to be
made about How exactly are we to (at least practically, in an on-the-go working
manner) define what is, in this context, adequate to be considered as “the Beginning”-marker.
– Thus, to avoid any unnecessary confusion at this time, the list begins with
the sign-segment of the Zodiac directionally aligned with our local Galactic
Center, Sagittarius, following in the observable sequence in which the Solar System’s
bodies traverse “through” the signs.
It is by no means an exhaustive, an all-included kind of a
“complete” list; it’s merely to serve as a small initial-steps type of a visual
navigation aid.
What is it that you can/will do with it - whether you may perhaps come to feel
drawn to undertake a sort of a study ( - something, for example, based on
longitudinal relation of the Moon’s/Sun’s or the syzygies’ position with
them?), or to simply just observe, during the clear nights, being silently
Present-with the visibility of the stars themselves as they are in the sky - or
yet something altogether else – I’m leaving to the guidance of your
inspiration.
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Sagittarius
05°00’ Sinistra
06°19’ Spiculum
06°30’ Alnasl
08°28’ Polis
09°50’ Kaus Medius
10°19’ Kaus Australis
11°34’ Kaus Borealis
13°33’ Facies
17°38’ Nunki
18°53’ Ascella
20°14’ Manubrium
21°01’ Arkab Prior
21°05’ Arkab Posterior
21°30’
Albaldah
21°53’ Rukbat
Capricorn
01°06’ Terebellum
09°01’ Giedi Prima
09°06’ Giedi Secunda
09°18’ Dabih
09°41’ Alshat
09°58’ Oculus
10°25’ Bos
17°59’ Armus
19°06’ Dorsum
25°27’ Castra
27°03’ Nashira
28°48’ Deben Algedi
Aquarius
07°08’ Enif
08°31’ Ancha
09°01’ Sadalmelek
09°07’ Fomalhaut
11°58’ Sadalachbia
12°05’ Biham
14°08’ Skat
14°40’ Situla
21°24’ Homan
Pisces
07°50’ Deneb Kaitos
14°25’ Algenib
19°34’ Alpheratz
27°12’ Baten Kaitos
Aries
02°04’ Al Pherg
04°36’ Alrisha
08°27’ Mesarthim
09°14’ Sheratan
12°55’ Hamal
19°35’ Menkar
26°07’
Botein
Taurus
01°25’ Algol
02°57’ Misam
03°58’ Miram
04°40’ Electra
04°42’ Calaeno
04°49’ Taygeta
04°56’ Maia
04°57’ Merope
05°00’ Asterope
05°15’ Alcyone
05°25’ Keid
05°38’ Pleione
06°24’ Atiks
10°14’ Menkib
11°04’ Hyadum Prima
12°08’ Hyadum Secunda
15°03’ Aldebaran
17°11’ Tabit
20°32’ Cursa
21°54’ Hasseleh
27°50’ El Nath
(Pleiades-cluster members)
Gemini
08°42’
Propus
10°34’
Tejat Posterior
14°22’ Alhena
15°12’ Mebsuta
16°28’ Alzirr
20°15’ Mekbuda
23°46’ Wasat
25°30’ Castor
28°28’ Pollux
Cancer
09°31’
Al Tarf
12°36’
Praesaepe
12°48’ Asellus Borealis
13°59’ Asellus Australis
18°54’ Acubens
29°30’ Subra
Leo
02°49’ Adhafera
03°09’ Al Jabhah
04°52’ Algieba
05°05’ Regulus
06°08’ Praecipua
16°34’ Zosma
18°40’ Coxa
26°52’ Denebola
Virgo
02°25’ Zavijava
09°46’
Zaniah
14°12’ Diadem
15°11’ Vindemiatrix
15°23’ Porrima
16°42’ Auva
16°55’ Minkar
18°42’ Algorab
22°37’ Kraz
27°07’ Heze
29°05’ Spica
Libra
09°03’
Syrma
12°12’ Khambalia
17°33’ Alphecca
20°20’ Zuben Elgenubi
20°32’ Zuben Elakribi
24°01’ Zuben Hakrabi
24°37’ Zuben Elschemali
27°19’ Unukalhai
Scorpio
07°49’ Dschubba
08°26’ Acrab
09°53’ Jabbah
15°00’ Antares
22°29’ Grafias
29°16’ Lesath
29°50’ Shaula
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