In the original Babylonian 7-day- week the names of the days were adopted from Romans and Greek names after 7 planets. Thus the first day which was dedicated to the sun was called hemera or heliou in Greek and Solis in Latin. Christianity...
) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries. Occultation (n.) Fig.: The state of being occult....
planets." The point does not need laboring; after all, the Sun is something that hits you. The centuries-old Hermetic writings on astrology, alchemy, magic, and so on describe the stars as visible gods of whom the Sun is far the greatest. The Sun's astrological symbol, or hieroglyph, ...
Mayans were keen astronomers, tracking the sun, moon, planets, and Milky Way across the heavens, and constructing incredibly accurate calendars for the time using their knowledge. They built many structures and buildings to align with certain stars, and there’s evidence they had a 13-star Zodia...
the accuracy of astrologers' predictions is also questioned by the fact that planets like Uranus and Neptune were discovered relatively recently, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and not in the time of ancient Greece. Therefore, predictions based on the mo...
Since the Earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the Equator, geodesy represents the figure of the Earth as an oblate spheroid. The oblate spheroid,
Speaking of astrology and signs of the stars and planets and how they foretell of future events, there is a passage that pertains to this in Jeremiah 10: 2Thus says the Lord: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, ...
in our Solar System – with two and a half times the mass of all the other planets combined – it is also home to some of the largest moons of any Solar planet. Jupiter’s largest moons are known as the Galileans, all of which were discovered byGalileo Galileiand named in his honor...
There were 5 planets in ‘essential dignity' at the same time (Sun, Moon & Mars in Exaltation, Saturn & Venus in their own Signs). Most notably was the remarkable conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon with Venus as an evening star, as bright as she can get near her maximum elongation...
The “Andor” series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an ...