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A calendar is a way of marking time.
Because time is God, and we must make ourselves aware of God.
Because time is all-powerful. God is much more than time, yes, but time is one way God becomes a tangible reality to everyone. Marking time is a sacred activity. It makes one aware of God’s presence.
Time allows things to happen. If time stands still, nothing moves. So by observing motion we can mark the passage of time!
The only ruler that can measure God/time is God/the universe. The constant motion of the universe, especially the Sun & Moon, allow us to remain in touch with God by measuring time accurately. All calendars of great human cultures are based on the interwoven movements of the Sun and Moon.
Years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds are the most common units of time. Other units are not as commonly used today but Sages and scientists continue to use them, especially to measure uncommonly large or small intervals of time.
Here is how a natural astrological calendar defines the units of time:
When the Sun makes a complete lap through the circle of the zodiac, we say a “year” has passed.1
When the Moon makes a complete lap through the zodiac, a “month” has passed. The Moon makes about twelve laps during the amount of time it makes the Sun to make one. This is why there are 12 months in a year, and 12 zodiac signs.
When the Sun makes a complete lap through our sky – rising, setting and rising again – we say a day has passed. (Midnight day-changes are a modern mis-invention.) There are approximately 360 days in a year, 30 in every month.
Since the Sun and Moon create 12 zodiac divisions, we give 12 units of time to the Sun and 12 to the Moon, creating 24 hours in a day. On average, the Sun shines on 12 of them, and the Moon shines on the other 12.
A minute is a very small division of the hour. (The word simply means small: “miniature”, “minutia”, etc.) There are 60 minutes in an hour, because 60 is a perfect multiple of 360.
Seconds are the second minutia of an hour. Thus there are also 60 seconds in every minute.
To be exact, the Moon makes slightly more than 12 laps during a single year. This is why there are slightly more than 360 days in a year and also why all calendars require “leap years” to periodically re-synchronize the lunar and solar measurements.
- Vic DiCara
The word on the street in India is that eclipses are very “inauspicious” (read: bad luck) and you shouldn’t look at them at all. Obviously you shouldn’t stare at a solar eclipse or you will go blind. But that is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about the idea that the light during an eclipse is bad luck and should be avoided at all costs.
Is that true? Yes. Indian culture (at least the major part of it, the “karma-kanda” part) thinks of eclipses in this way.
Is it superstitious? Yes.
Does that make it silly? No. Superstitious things also have reality and purpose.
Now lets talk about why India thinks eclipses are inauspicious…
First note to make in this regard is that auspicious and inauspicious are concepts that are part and parcel of karma-kanda varieties of religion. Bhakti (devotion) is elevated above and beyond karma-kanda by two huge steps (one step to Jnana, the next to Bhakti). So, bhaktas (devotionalists) needen’t worry much about what is “auspicious” and what is “inauspicious” in the normal sense of the words. For devotional spiritualists (“bhaktas”) auspicious means “whatever reminds me of my object of devotion (Hari)” and inauspicious means “whatever inclines me to forget my object of devotion (Hari).” Personally, I try to be a bhakta. I love to observe solar and lunar eclipses because it brings me all sorts of thoughts of God, his universal form, etc. So in my case such observance of eclipses are quite auspicious, even by Indian standards (though Indians without an education in the bhakti-marga school of their culture might disagree).
Rahu gets his hands on the Sun and Moon!
Next to the question of why observing an eclipse is inauspicious as far as the karma-kanda (normal, mundane religious) evaluation of things goes… The reason is that the Sun and Moon are the lights of the sky. Everything revolves around them and depends on them and without them we would be dead, frozen solid and sent adrift into space. An eclipse represents a clear THREAT to the Sun and Moon, therefore it is inauspicious.
When there is an eclipse, the asura (“demon”) Svarbhanu (who is now Rahu and Ketu in the heavens) takes the opportunity to extract revenge upon the Sun and Moon for cheating his people of the nectar of immortality. He swallows and terrifies the Sun and Moon during the eclipse. The light that comes from the Sun and Moon during an eclipse is filtered through the shadowy, smoky, occluding paranormal “body” of Rahu/Ketu. Since Rahu/Ketu are asura (“demons”) the light is therefore “inauspicious” by normal standards.
This is why indian people, even including Vrajavasis, don’t let that light fall on anything important, and they take a sacred bath during or after the eclipse light, and during the affair they take shelter of the all-auspicious names of Hari.
- Vic DiCara
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OK, off the bat I am going to be super straightforward and let you all know that I have not studied “mundane” astrology to the extent that I would like to, and to the extent that I would really be qualified to provide you with very good analysis of things like eclipses, etc. “Mundane” astrology, by the way, means the astrology of things that don’t have “souls” – you know – astrology for political events, wars, etc. And, another “by the way” - the reason why I haven’t studied this branch of astrology much in comparison to what I have devoted to other branches of astrology is largely because it bothers me.
Why?
Take this eclipse, for example… no wait… stop. Is anyone going to stop to remember first of all that prior to this there have been dozens of announcements, articles, videos, and other blogger-breaking-news reports about the end of the world pertaining to “3 eclipses in a year”, or “Your Venus in my Uranus” or whatever and everything else? I mean really, please, lets not forget how many cans of powdered milk we stockpiled for “Y2K” and this and that.
So take this eclipse for example, it is sort of like, “Hallelujah, Jesus is gonna come.” OK, lovely. Guess what. He is about one thousand nine hundred and… eighty years late. But we still cheer him on. And even those of us without crucifixes around our necks find some way to channel that indomitable human lack of realism. We may talk about galactic centers or Lord Shivas, or eclipses and stonehenges… but really we are all Jesus Freaks waiting for “the rapture” and just using different names for it.
OK, when am I going to get to talking about this eclipse???
OH wow, 2012. 12/21/2012…. look at all those TWELVES, right?
Wrong. The modern calendar is a complete farce and has no astrological merit whatsoever, no connection to nature. Any “numerological” assessment based on meaningless numbers (like our raw modern calendar dates not translated to sidereal time) is going to be as meaningless as the numbers it is based on. OK, but it is still fun because since the alignment of 1984 didnt work, and since Y2K didnt work, and while we are waiting to be disappointed about the aliens and huge asteroids that don’t come to destroy/reinvent/sweep us off our feet… hey, lets play with some numbers and eclipses.
OK, so there is an eclipse that coincides with the winter solstice. Yippie.
Folks… do you first of all realize that eclipses are regular events? They happen at least twice a year, every year, forever. You know that right? So every time some astrologer tries to get hits to his or her blog by talking about the impact of an eclipse, you realize the impact is nothing more or less, in all likelihood, than whatever it was you already forgot about happening 6 months ago when the last eclipse happened?
Now, if an eclipse is happening in conjunction with something in your individual birth chart, maybe that is a different story. I will concede that. But that is why I like to study and practice natal astrology. What we are talking about right now is mundane astrology and the effect of eclipses on world affairs.
Folks… do you ever ask any questions to your “teachers”? You really must. A student is not a student without asking intelligent questions.
When someone tells you that this winter solstice eclipse means yada yada yada… dont you at least want to know when the last one happened? Wouldn’t that be scientific and reasonable and, well, intelligent. Do you know that a winter solstice eclipse happened a few hundred years ago? And do you remember that the world did not end or radically change at that time, at least not in the way people are flowering on and on about what is going to happen…
Yo, seriously, how much can you mix and match flavors before you get a stomach ache? Mayan Calendars, Western astronomy, Vedic lunar mansions – and you like it when the whole thing is called “Vedic astrology”???? And people say “Vedic astrology says this eclipse is more important than 2012″…. please doesnt any one among you have a voice to protest and ask a question? For example, “What? There is a statement in the Veda about the end of the mayan calendar coinciding (we think) with 12/21/2012??? Please can you tell me the reference and perhaps give the Sanskrit?”
Seriously, all this stuff is crazy… you guys are even forgetting the vedas in your rush to welcome jesus, or the age of aquarius, or the planet niberuians or whatever it is the pyramids are supposed to represent this week. The Vedas (Vishnu Purana and all puranas) say that the current epoch of the world, KALI YUGA, lasts for 432,000 years of which only about 5,000 have passed! I know it is fun to hear people try to unify world cultures, but ladies and gentlemen, please hear my (apparently) one singular voice telling you that it is not “Vedic” to say that Kali Yuga ends with the end of the mayan calandar, nor that they Kali Yuga is finished – I don’t care what relatively modern “yogi” gave you the joy-ticket to believe otherwise.
K, back to this eclipse. So, guess what. It is an eclipse. That happens twice a year, at least. Once a year the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon, and once a year the Moon blocks the sunlight. Those are the two eclipses. Todays eclipse is the earths shadow falling on the moon.
Eclipses are big deals because the lights in the sky are going out. Remember when NYC had a blackout? That was pretty terrifying. That is what eclipses are. “Evil” forces are destroying the “power grid” and the light of the sun / moon (as the case may be) fails. It is serious business, to be sure. Symbolically it means that authority and order is being challenged.
It does not mean the end of the world.
Just so you all know, I do believe that the world is undergoing major changes. I do believe that we are witnessing the fall of America. I do believe that this eclipse, the mayan calendar, etc etc have to do with the ending of America’s prominence in the world. And I don’t believe anything catastrophic is about to happen.
Funny thing is this… maybe I am wrong. You know what, I don’t mind, because like I said, it isn’t really my focus of study or practice at least not right now. But you know what is odd? Maybe I should be like what seems like every other astrologer, and predict dire effects every dime a crow flies across the moon. You guys will forget about it when I am wrong, but when I finally get one right, I will become famous.
Nah!
Anyway, sorry for venting. Hope you enjoyed and can relate to the Saturnian Capricornian realism in what I am saying here.
- Vic DiCara
