I read a book once called "God's Voice in the Stars" and it claimed that the more ancient names of the signs and stars in the decans told the story of mankind's salvation. The author made a point that the Sphynx - the head of a woman and the body of a lion - corresponds with the starting and end point in the zodiac story (start at Virgo, the virgin, and end with Leo, the lion). I don't know how accurate all of his points were, but it was an interesting take on the origin of the zodiac.

@MichelvanBiezen

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Best video on Zodiac

Excellent lecture.

28 *13 = 364 , 13 months of the ancient calendar

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

That is very interesting.

Love the lectures professor!! Actually, we should have used the 13 month calendar instead of 12 which would give us 13 perfect months of 28 days + a zero day. Many ancient calendars used the lunar cycles which I find to be far more advanced than our Gregorian or Roman calendars. Maybe you could look into that a bit more as it's very fascinating to learn our ancestors had better calendar systems that the western world uses today in many ways :)

@MichelvanBiezen

5 жыл бұрын

History is fascinating.

@JankyShack

5 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered why February has less days than any other month, after playing kerbal space program my guess is that in the northern hemisphere winter our orbit around the sun is closest (periapsis), making the amount of days between the winter solstice and spring equinox less than in summer when it would take more days. In order for the equinoxes and solstices to be on the 21st of every 3 months they just took days out of February. I don't understand why January has 31 days if January 3rd is the closest day to the sun, shouldn't January have the least amount of days? Also does January 3rd being the closest to the sun have to do with New Years, but with some orbit or calendar change?

@Infiniteredshift

5 жыл бұрын

lunar calendars are hardly more advanced.

@harshannn

3 жыл бұрын

How long you took to type it..😂😂😂

@life42theuniverse

Жыл бұрын

But only a zero day every 1/4 years, except those every 100 years but including those every 400 years ... perfect?

what is your zodiac sign Michel?

I am a physicist and I will do my MA in cultural astronomy and astrology at the University of Wales, you remind so many things that I need to have clear in my mind and the most important thing you speak about astrology without the usual stupid comments from professors, academics and the whole 'know it all world', only this gains my respect for you. Thank you.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

The "know it all world" has shut its doors to a great deal of understanding gained by people over millenia. Discovering that "lost" knowledge can be very exciting. Keep it going. 🙂

@thesmilingpaws3372

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichelvanBiezen Thanks, I'm writing a book is there any way I can interview you? It will be very interesting to have the opinion of educated people who have their doors open to discovering this "lost knowledge".

Would I be correct in assuming that the Sun’s motion, in terms of our galaxy, is negligible in a human lifetime? So we assume the celestial sphere is permanent?

@MichelvanBiezen

4 жыл бұрын

The biggest change to the celestial sphere is caused by the precession of Earth's axis. The Earth's axis makes one complete rotation once every 26,000 years.

@MyBlueZed

4 жыл бұрын

Michel van Biezen 👍🏻❤️

@briansheets4229

4 жыл бұрын

To build on Michel's answer...: From that 26,000 years, the twelve (should be thirteen?) constellations of the zodiac, despite incongruent sizes, are given a flat 30º of the possible 360º, (360/12=30) giving us ≈2,160 year cycle, commonly known as an "age of _[constellation]_," which is when both the sun and a given constellation align with the celestial equator. Compare that math with the thirteen constellations and we get a simpler 2,000 year cycle... but that doesn't seem to align to the celestial sphere's "behavior" as neatly. But that could just be because we may be rounding the wrong numbers. **shrug** None of us will be alive to see if we're right; which circles us back around to your question about negligibility. :)

and the fact that according to greeko roman civilisation these are named as per heroes of ancient times

Sir this is good but I got confused about 1 thing and spent a full day on it but at last I found that you drawn it wrong.that is you tilted the earth in wrong direction 😭😭

@MichelvanBiezen

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I just placed the tilt arbitrarily and didn't check if it was correct relative to the position around the Sun. (probably should have left the tilt off)

How am I still confused 😕 😐?????

SO IM NOT AREIS!!!!!!!