"I'm nothing like my horoscope says, ever."

[maxwell]

i suspected, and then I did a little research. Lo and behold I had uncovered something epic and epochal in its significance.

The short form: because the Earth has a 23.5 degree tilt on its' north-south axis (that's when many people's eyes glaze over) -- the holy days of pagan and Old Country cultures are on DIFFERENT DAYS -- because the stars in comparison to places on Earth are in different PLACES. The skies are different, and over 2,000 years that makes such a HUGE difference...


the militant Roman Empire, using the Vatican, shut down most of the astrologers who were ALSO astronomers. as a result by the 1700s there were VERY FEW people who understood what was meant by the 'precession of equinoxes.'

perhaps a chilling aside was the targetting by American gov't of "hippies" who sang of "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius."

What could there have been to fear?

[maxwell]

--right now i am in the library farting loudly.

--the whole thing is basically as simple as this: the constellations of the ancients are effectively a heavenly clock -- the skies can be divided into twelve equal wedges of thirty degrees each, 360 deg. in total.


over 2000 years, the stars on a given eastern horizon at sunrise SHIFT -- so that in two thousand years time different stars will be different. thus the age of aquarius starts as the age of pisces ends, the age of pisces began with the time of the alleged birth of "Jeezis".


all those quartenary ancient holidays meant something to people who sought to commune with the heavens.




aha!


now to wait and see if anyone who looks at this finds it remotely interesting.

[jelliejam79]

Hey-- I found U farting loudly in the library remotely interesting