2017 Zodiac Hatch-a-Long

ChickenCanoe · Apr 24, 2017

Penny Hen said:
I am working with Llewellyn Moon Sign Book. It is a tropical based almanac as opposed to a sidereal almanac. A tropical almanac is based on Aries being at 0 degrees at the equator. The sidereal is based on the position of fixed stars. Before we knew so much science we had to rely on the position of fixed stars, but fixed stars aren't really still. The Earth has a wobble that slowly changes the position of the stars. It is called progression. The astrological system has been used for about 5000 years now. It origins can be found in Sumer (the ancient civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley where all the wars are going on now). The fixed stars have drifted about 23 degrees and the tropical system corrects for this drifts This difference is enough to put a date fertile date in the sidereal system into an infertile date by the tropical system.

I'd like to learn more about this. I may buy the book.
I find this interesting in a few ways. One is that Llewellyn was the last prince of Wales, and by the spelling LLywelyn's is a chain of Welsh pubs that my whole family either currently or has worked at.
I think Sumerians and Mayans knew more about celestial bodies and progression than we know today. Interestingly the Mayan knowledge dates back to at least 1800 b.c..
The similarity in their calendars is also striking.
http://360dayyear.com/

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