Two thousand and twenty-four? When should one start counting?
The widely-used Gregorian calendar purports to start from the birth of Christ.
It is strange that despite millennia of civilizations worldwide with architecture, literature, and music, few are able to keep an uninterrupted count that is much older. We are forced to think in terms of negative years ("before the common era") when describing major historic periods. Although something very significant probably did happen around "year zero", The Church seemed to go out of its way to make everyone forget. (Conspiracy research commonly finds roads that lead to Rome.)
Since a circle has no beginning nor end, and time is a measure using cycles, counting years is always in vain. It makes sense that the ancients knew this and thus embroidered their stories with astrological details, the heavens being the absolute measure of all things.
I don´t think I understand your question. From an astrology point of view, we just want a calendar that works, right? Which the Gregorian calendar seems to do.
But you seem to want some kind of absolute time measuring. Wouldn´t that mean that we have to find an absolute birth time for the universe, really? Would that even theorecically be possible, taking the physics idea about time´s dependence on other factors in account?
I don´t know what you mean but time measuring being in vain, as long as it fulfills it´s purpose, which for us is to make predictions within the frame of measuring time and understand our world that we have? Of course real understanding, like enlightment, is something else. But that does make the compromise that living on earth means meaningless?
@staffan It is not so much that measurements are vain, but that an absolute zero or count of years seems problematic: all the calendars are tied to kings--to politics and war--and the wise probably foresaw that. Yet we call this year 2024, implying a literal beginning, glibly calling activities before that "BCE", as if performed by people who lacked a respectable sense or measure of time.
The Gregorian seems to be made to work, but it removes its users from the natural divinity and regularies of time. For example, the moonths (13 moons a year?) are irregular and on the face of it are named incorrectly (the 12th month is called December, the 11th November, etc.)
My post was indeed idle rambling that maybe didn't have a coherent point, just as time itself doesn't seem to have a beginning.
And what true day of the week is it? Research shows it might have missed a beat or two since that tradition started of planets ruling the days of the week.
It seems like an arbitrary making of sandcastles out of thin air, and then living in them.
No astronomical basis.
But even if each weekday doesn't inherently, of its own accord, carry the energy of its assigned planet, we can now more easily tune into and propitiate the energy of that planet on its day because Hindu's everywhere (as well as traditional western occultists) will be chanting mantras and doing pujas to those planets and their ruling deities all over the world, creating a collective resonance on each day for each planet?
Has anyone noticed any evidence of validity to a planets energy ruling the days of the week in their lives?
Just curious.
Thanks,
S.
@mitryendra80 I made a minor investigation as for weekdays and being an astrologer. 200 charts that I found online on a page called astro-seek. When I adjusted it for the sunrise, so that night births were classified as belonging to the day before, there were significally higher numbers for Thursday - Jupiter´s day - and Friday - Venus day. Thursday had 34 and Friday 42 births. Monday had only 21 births.
I also checked with the Cards of Truth, 760 charts, and indeed, some cards that you would expect to inspire many people to become an astrologer stood out. It was fairly clear confirmation to me that that system indeed is on time.
I don´t remember why I didn´t use all the charts for the weekday investigation, perhaps I found that it was just too much work.
@staffan That is indeed interesting.
On what day were astrologers most likely to be born?
I just wonder, though, when was the first Sunday? And why? And how did people know it was Sunday, or decide it needed to be the day of the Sun?
I guess that's similar to the question of how Yamakoti got to be the Earth's, or at least humanity's, lagna.
@mitryendra80 Having a clairvoyant wife I guess that some information have just been beamed down directly into the brains of some extra intuitive people... Who knows... Looking at the technical development during the last 200 years or so; is it a far too crazy thoughts that some scientists and mathematicians had invisible informants...?
But you know what? I just looked into my gmail archive again and realize that I actually went through a bigger material after that first investigation. And that the result leveled out a lot. It became insignificant, I´d say. No real difference between the weekdays.
Well, that´s a result too but perhaps not the one we wanted. For the second investigation I used around 300 additional charts.
Sorry....
A few notes on this, before I further forget:
A recent presentation on the Saros (eclipse) cycle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bva3CXHYt5s
It was originally streamed on the AetherCosmology channel which features informal roundtables of rogue researchers doing their part to dismantle failed science and construct better understandings.
Lay researcher speculates on the past and upcoming eclipses, from a Hebrew perspective:
https://youtu.be/dMaTpQNaffE?t=8926
The guest identifies himself as an Israelite, the biblical the curses of Deuteronomy 28 clearly applying to the slaves brought to America and elsewhere.
Here are hightlights of the presentation, courtesy of the presenter who frequents AetherCosmology:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LJq2EFIEtpfI/
The heterodox astronomers are finally onto the fact that the solar eclipse is not caused by the moon. This was a very lengthy way to not say "Rahu":
https://youtu.be/t2UYXgjWYc4