How To: Do An Astrology Chart Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the history and truth behind astrology. Central Idea: To teach people how to do and understand an astrological Birth Chart. Introduction I. How many people in here refer to their horoscope daily, are aware of their zodiac sign, or try to justify yourself based on your sun-sign? a.
Although nobody knows what Stonehenge was intended for or how it was created, there are many contradiction beliefs about who designed it, how Stonehenge was built and the purpose of the ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge seems to have been in continuous human use from about 3100BC to 1100BC. The name Stonehenge was recorded in literature from the 12th century and is thought to relate to the idea of stones hanging in the air. One popular belief is that Stonehenge was built for the purpose of astronomy. It may have been used as an astronomer’s tool or to judge the movement in the heaves.
“The Popol Vuh refers to the dark-rift in several different mythological contexts. The black cleft in the Milky Way and the crossing point of the Milky Way and the ecliptic in Sagittarius are extremely important celestial features because of their involvement with the astronomical alignment that occurs on the 13-baktun cycle” In one particular episode , the Black Road(dark-rift) speaks to
The constellations that fall in the zodiac are called the 12 constellations of the zodiac. They were at one time thought to have great mystical and astrological significance. Astrology is bunk, but the constellations of the zodiac are still of importance because the planets, as well as the Sun and Moon, are all near or on the ecliptic at any given time; thus, they are always found within one of the zodiac constellations. Constellations in Modern Astronomy In modern astronomy, the significance of constellations is no longer mythological, but practical: constellations define imaginary regions of the sky, just as the individual states each define an imaginary region of the United States. Thus, to say that a planet is in the constellation Leo is to partially locate the planet on the celestial sphere, just as saying that Knoxville is in Tennessee is to partially locate the city on the surface of the Earth.
Looks like a real solar system. It is use to illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and other objects/particles in our solar system. The principal components/parts of it are the large bulb that is use to represent the sun which is the center of our solar system ,those round objects as the nine different planets or bodies in orbit the sun and that are bounded by gravity, its body and the stand that support the large bulb. The four small inner objects are use to represent Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars that are also called terrestrial planets which are composed of rock and metals. There are also four outer objects which are use to serve as the gas giants.
One view is that it is contains an astronomical significance. Astronomers have come and measured, then computed sophisticated representations of the movements of the sun and moon and perhaps, even, mechanisms for the prediction of eclipses (Gregg 4 of 10). This was especially proposed by Gerald S. Hawkins, who was a British-born astronomer. He introduced a theory that the monuments could have been used as a calculator to predict eclipses, but was more importantly a threefold purpose. First was to “…serve as a solar and lunar observatory for calendrical purposes, to legitimate priestly power (especially by predicting eclipses), and to advance intellectual curiosity about heavens,” (Ray 241).
Apollo 13 The Mission Insignia for Apollo 13 showed the god Apollo, representing the Sun, riding his chariot across the surface of the Moon to symbolize the Apollo Project bringing back new knowledge from the Moon. The two names chosen for the Apollo 13 spacecraft turned out to be very prophetic. The Command Module was called Odyssey from Homer and Arthur C. Clarke’s fictitious works. Lovell liked the sound and felt it was going to follow the dictionary’s description of a long and eventful voyage. The Lunar Module was called after the sign of the Zodiac and star constellation Aquarius, the water carrier, at times identified with Zeus pouring the waters of life down from the heavens.
Greek astronomers knew a lot of the geometrical relationships of heavenly bodies, or stars. There were many different discoveries by astronomers such as Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Hericlides, including the idea of a heliocentric solar system, and a way to predict nearby ellipses of the moon. Euxodus and Cnidus had many similar ideas. Around 600 B.C. Pythagoras developed an early
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors sail across oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations, to know their position. Celestial navigation uses "sights," or angular measurements taken between a celestial body (the sun, the moon, a planet or a star) and the visible horizon. The sun is most commonly used, but navigators can also use the moon, a planet or one of 57 navigational stars whose coordinates are tabulated in the Nautical Almanac and Air Almanacs. Celestial navigation is the use of angular measurements between celestial bodies and the visible horizon to locate one's position on the globe, on land as well as at sea. At a given time, any celestial body is located directly over one point on the Earth's surface.
I have in mind here texts and traditions dating from the second millennium B.C.E. down through the time of the Exile of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah by the Assyrians and the Babylonians (8th-6th B.C.E.). To understand this somewhat singular view of the future one needs to get a general grasp of ancient cosmology. Cosmology is the theory and lore of how the world or universe is structured. A kind of map or picture of the cosmos, cosmology is a way of naming things and putting them in their proper places.