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What connection has the Serpent to Astrology?

So what is the great power behind the Serpent in Myth and Magic?

 Images of the serpent or dragon are important cultural symbols  seen  world wide and in many different ancient cultures separated by oceans, distance and time. Why?

The Serpent represents wisdom  and is often represented eating its own tail representing the Wheel of Time.

In the clickable images below you will see some cultural images of serpents eating their own tails as well as those of later European secret societies, the image portrays the Alpha and Omega of the repeating seasons, weather, birth, death and rebirth and the rise and fall of civilizations governed by the cyclical Law of Nature.

These cycles of light and dark, positive and negative and order and chaos are governed by the daily spin of the earth and the seasonal rotation of our planet about the sun.

These are the laws that our ancestors measured and understood using the wheel of the background stars and developing the resulting knowledge to a level of sophistication undreamed of by modern research.

Aztec Serpent	Anazasi Serpent	Japanese Serpent
Alchemists Serpent

So was there a real  Wheel of Time governed by a Serpent or Dragon rather than a mythical or imaginary one?

The answer is emphatically, Yes.

The wisdom of the ancients was based on a star culture, so we must look to the stars for an answer and since in each case, the Shamanistic and animist Serpent or Dragon or constellation is rotating around a centre pivot of the pole star, we must look to the circumpolar constellations for an answer.

As the earth spins and orbits, the stars at the poles appear to rotate like a wheel.

We will use a Hellenistic Greek Zodiac originally drawn in 500BC to describe the wheeling circumpolar stars and compare it with a computer model of the North circumpolar constellations in 500 BC using a modern Astronomical program.

Comparison of Hellenistic Circumpolar Stars and Computer model for  the Spring Equinox 500BC

The intelligent reader will not only note that the pattern for the constellations is the same on the Greek Zodiac and the computer generated model but will consider some other interesting facts.

1. The Greek Zodiac shows the meridian lines centred on the Ecliptic pole

2.To the east, the vernal point is in Aries as it should be for the epoch and the celestial pole is midway between Alpha Draconis and Polaris as it should be for the epoch.

3.That indicates the accurate understanding by the Greeks of precession and although Hipparchus was granted that discovery before Sir Isaac Newton, Hipparchus was accused of being wrong. If he was wrong, how could the Greeks place the vernal equinox with such accuracy?.

4.Also remember, that  the position of the constellations are accurately placed for dawn and the stars can not be seen by an observer in real time, so an ancient skill of measurement was performed to achieve this remarkable prediction by the Greeks.

It is the first coil of Draconis that is crucial because it holds the Ecliptic pole. The Ecliptic Pole is that point directly above the north pole of the sun.

It is obvious that they were tracking the position of the sun at night and using Draconis to pinpoint it's position in the night sky.

This measurement was achieved with an instrument that has disappeared from history only to be seen as a religious symbol.

The wheel cross or  the cross and plumb line. This type of measurement can not be taken with a quadrant or any other simple method hence the granting of two patents to the author..

The knowledge held by the Classical Greeks was destroyed as depicted by the crucifixion of the Serpent Draconis on the cross in this early alchemist  image, probably with the burning of the Library at Alexandria by religious fanatics, the Inquisition and the destruction of the Amerindian civilizations by the Conquistador.

The Crucifixion of Wisdom

Transfixed in time between Heaven and Earth

Let us move on and examine this ancient science and its connection with even older societies, agriculture, navigation, construction and the missing instrument of measurement.

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