The combination of the two zodiacs is the secret

The Circumpolar constellations This is the first clock and calendar of the ancients. In the first coil of the serpent is the ecliptic pole. It is the first constant in nature that does not change over time and they knew this, seeing the ecliptic pole as the Gateway to Heaven and the abode of God. The other constant is a plumbline which always points to the earths centre.	The Zodiac This wheel of the twelve signs of the Zodiac girdles the Sun and is part of a huge cosmic clock for measuring time and tracking the position of the earth in relation to the sun. It does not work without its gears linked to the Northern zodiac. First the ancients had to measure the position of the Serpent and the Great Bear to tell the time and date, then they could tell what star sign the sun was in front of during daylight. They made almanacs to track it.	Essenes Lunisolar Calendar Dead Sea Scrolls This is a picture of fragments of the Priestly Courses taken from the Dead Sea Scrolls where the Essenes kept meticulous records of the calendrical movements of the sun, moon and stars as long ago as 300BC, however they only gained their knowledge from the Egyptians who knew it 2000 years earlier.

The only method of telling the time in ancient era's was to track the position of the sun both night and day since the peoples of the world, quite rightly saw the sun as the Father and maintainer of all life on earth.

In absence of miniature modern electronic and mechanical clocks or calendars, our ancestors had to rely on the only mechanical device that they could observe and that was the motions of the sun, moon and planets across the face of the fixed stars .

To recognise these stars, our ancestors joined the lines between groups of them to make an imaginary (Images) and in a universally and easily recognisable form for the use of other observers and to pass the information down through the generations. It is not important to argue what civilisation used what images, it is only important to understand the principles involved.

The Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Maya and the Greeks all created their own images of these groups of stars whereas the Inca used the spaces or shadows between the stars to make images of their zodiac constellations. The most well known of these are the Llama, the Condor and the Toad, however it was the Greek system that we adopted and still use in astronomy today, it is known as a zodiac, named thus after the word zoo for animals making the full meaning of the word zodiac as meaning a circle of animals.

The purpose of this 360º circle is to place the sun, the moon and the planets on the plane of the solar system known as the ecliptic so that you can see clearly their position against the stars behind them.

The 360º circle is divided into 12 signs of the zodiac, each sign all though not equal to exactly 30º  fills the area for recognition purposes only and allows the ancient astronomer to recognise which segment of the circle he is observing. The degrees being observed are subdivided into 60 minutes of arc of which the cross and plumbline are quite capable of measuring.

By these ancient systems of measurement the hours and minutes of the day and the weeks and months of the year can be accurately determined, providing you have an instrument with which to measure them.

Of course, it is obvious, or it ought to be so, that you cannot measure what constellation the the sun is in when you actually see the sun. The result of seeing the sun is what we call daylight and in daylight, no stars can be seen at all except during a solar eclipse.

There had to be another simple and logical method of measurement of discovering the exact position of the sun on the ecliptic plane.

The following reasoning should lead the reader to the conclusion that our ancient ancestors once knew that the world was round and only deterioration and corruption of a societies knowledge would lead them to conclude that the earth was flat . Such deterioration of knowledge was extant in Christendom in the Dark Ages but not in the earlier Islamic or Hellenistic eras.

It has come to the authors notice through considerable research that there was such a logical method of determining the position of the sun in a zodiac sign during daylight and it is obvious but is shrouded and obscured in superstition and myth.

There is a further zodiac that is connected geometrically to the ecliptic one and that obscure zodiac is known as the circumpolar zodiac.

The ancients thought in wheels and there are two of these zodiac wheels in the northern hemisphere, the ecliptic and the circumpolar.

In the same way, there are two poles, the celestial or north pole and the ecliptic pole, it is the latter ecliptic pole which holds our attention for the purpose of telling time.

Why? because the celestial pole star drifts through the actions of precession at the rate of 1º every 72 years and is therefore not reliable over time, but the ecliptic pole which is directly over the centre of the sun is constant and varies little over hundreds of thousands of years.

The result of the observation of the phenomenon known as precession was that the Egyptians saw the intertwined cyclical changes of order and chaos that we call Time as natural Gods and by determining the position of the sun in a zodiac at the Spring equinox named the God of that moment (Horizon) accordingly.

The Sign of the Times

The sun rises at the spring equinox in the sign of the times, at this time it rises in the end of the sign of Pisces which is 2160 years long, the beginning of that sign was marked by the birth of Christ at the end of the Age of Aries.

Amongst the polytheistic pantheon, Time was the greatest God of all.

Hence, the God of the Age commencing with the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in 2170BC and ending with the death of Jesus Christ was AMUN or AMEN as stated at the end of the Christian Lords prayer. Amun means Aries which was the Zodiac sign for a period of around 2160 years. Even the Pharaohs were named after the Age, the most famous being Tutankhamen meaning Tut=Wisdom    Ankh=Life     Amen=Aries. The boy Kings name was literally "The Life and Wisdom of the age of Aries"

The God Amun or Amen ( British Museum)

Of course, we are now at the end of  the age of Pisces as can be seen from the Fish symbols on the hats of Christian priests and on the back of Christian cars.

But how did our ancestors measure the position of the sun in the spring equinox against the backdrop of the stars since the stars would be obliterated by light?

No matter what you are told by any other researcher, it was impossible for our ancestors to determine the exact position of the sun in a constellation by observing the stars at dawn or sunset, to suggest otherwise is preposterous showing either a lack of actual observation and research, or a deliberate fudge to obscure the truth.

It is for this reason that astronomers do not recognise astrologers and see them as pseudo-scientists.

Is the reason for such disdain because most modern astrologers who influence others fail to practise real astronomy? There is no doubt that the majority are still working on unobserved mathematics inherited from the Greeks which are  2000 years out of date through the actions of precession. ( The slow 25,920 year top like wobble of the earth which is responsible for the seasons and all cyclical life given to us by the sun)

It is the ecliptic pole that determines the position of the sun in an ecliptic zodiac sign and this can easily be determined at night by observing the constellation Draconis with a Working Celtic cross

To see the ancient hidden concepts built into stone and architecture in a Great Cathedral by Gnostic Masons go to:

Early Church Timekeeping

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