From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: UFOs and Newage
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 20:38:33 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

     Subject: What Age Are We In?

     Some people think the Age of Aquarius is just something 
     that some crazy people made up to make a lot of money off of 
     gullible people and I'll have to admit that some people think 
     that I (John Winston) am one of the most gullible people that 
     just fell of the turnip truck.

     First of all lets define the word Newager.  The word refers 
     to a person who basically believes we are going into a newage 
     and most of these people are believing and hoping it will be a 
     good one.  Things may get worse before they get better and we 
     (including myself as a newager) sure expect things to get better 
     as we just are getting into the Aquarian Age.  From Jesus  till 
     now has been the Picean Age and he talked about going to see a 
     person with jars of water on his shoulder which refers to the 
     Aquarian Age.  He said he would be with us to the end of the 
     world but other translations of the bible say it this way, till 
     the end of the age.  
 
     I asked a friend of mine to write me out an explanation of 
     how we can determine what age we are in, he said he couldn't, 
     and wouldn't do it.  It was too complicated and there is a lot 
     of controversy between astrologers and astronomers.  Each group 
     thinks the other group is crazy and some people claim to be in 
     both groups.  I guess you would call them double crazy.  
     Astronomers don't even want to talk about the word age.  I seems 
     it all got started when men and women on earth would look up in 
     the sky and look at certain group of stars and  they looked at 
     them with a good imagination like you may have looked at clouds 
     as a kid.  You probably thought that some looked like birds , 
     elephants and etc.  People long ago looked at the stars and said 
     that one looked like a bear, scorpion and a hunter.  Later on 
     these words that they used for the animals came through as using 
     their Greek and other languages to name the star systems that we 
     have today.   The names of the zodiacal signs are Aries the Ram, 
     Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins,Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, 
     Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, 
     Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Water 
     Bearer and Pisces the Fishes.  

     In the 1800's scientific people decided to make some sense 
     out of all of this and got their minds together to agree on 
     certain names and definitions.  The people decided to divide the 
     Zodiac or full rotation of the stars around the north 
     star(Polaris) into 12 parts.  These parts had certain star  and  
     constellations in them and they were named about the same names 
     as they were called thousands of years ago.

     When you look up in the sky at one time each night you'll 
     notice  that stars of a particular group will be in a particular  
     position and each night they will be in about the same spot.  
     The second thing we'll have to do is find out what day it is in 
     relation to the position  ( or axial excursion) of the sun. This 
     can be done many ways but  one way is to go to Stone Hendge in 
     England or Medicine Wheel in the Sheep Mountains of Wyoming, USA 
     and see when the sun comes up and casts a shadow at certain 
     point through some  of the pillars (stones).  By this method we 
     can prove when the first day of spring is.  You can do the same 
     thing by putting up a stick and marking where the suns shadow is 
     cast on the ground.  The sun comes up about 2 minutes earlier 
     each day until a certain day and then the days start to get 
     shorted by 2 minutes.  

     Now we have the sun coming up at a certain time on a 
     certain day.  The Sun is then observed to see what part of the 
     Equinox it is in or you can observe the sky at night and 
     calculate what part of the Equinox it is in.  Because of the 
     procession of the equinoxes about the ecliptic, a 26,000  year 
     cycle, the first point of Aries retrogrades about one degree in 
     70 years so that the sign of Aries today lies in the 
     constellation  Pieces.  In about 24,000 years, when the 
     regression will have completed the entire  circuit of 360 
     degrees the  zodiacal signs and constellations will again 
     coincide.  They started naming signs probably in 2,000 BC in 
     Mesopotamia.  zodiacal signs are Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, 
     Gemini the Twins,Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the 
     Virgin.
     
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