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The Moon's Movement Past Venus
The above picture is of the Moon on two successive nights, yesterday and the day before, relative to Venus, which has been going through its "evening star" process before rushing past the Earth and becoming the "morning star". These cycles repeat every 8/5 or 1.6 practical years of 365 days. The Venus cycle is based upon the Fibonacci number series, 0 0 1 2 3 5 8 13 etc since its orbit around the Sun is 8/13 years and it's synodic period 8/5 years.
Why does it say 13.368 DAYS on the photo? Because this is the distance the Sun travels in 13.368 days.
What is happening? Since the Moon orbits the Earth every 27.321 days, the lengthy evening star phenomenon of Venus sees the Moon move past it (as above) on a number of such orbits. When nicely aligned the "star and crescent" symbol is naturally formed, as in Pakistan flag on right, noting also that the star is five pointed just as Venus repeats behaviour 5 times in eight years. As drawn however, the picture is of a waning Moon and morning star rather than evening star.
How is this calculated? If we divide the solar year by 27.321, the (lunar orbital period or LOP), then we see that the average number of LOPs in a year is 13.368544. However, if the lunar orbit is seen as traversing the 365.242 DAYS of the Sun's daily angular motion, but in the shorter LOP, then we can know that the Moon moves, per day, 13.268 DAYS of angular motion. [A DAY is slightly smaller than a degree since a degree is 1/360th of a complete circle whilst a DAY is 1/365.242th of a circle.]
This technique of using DAYS to measure the motion of celestial objects seen from Earth is key to unlocking the numerosity of the planets because it is the natural system of measure for geocentric astronomy. Pushing the boat out one step farther, the design of the celestial system is revealed as a numerical creation. For more on this read Matrix of Creation, and I will be adding more details of how the calculations are done.
The Relation between Lunar Orbit and Month
The orbital period of 27.321 days is often confused with the lunar month of 29.53 days which itself is often confused with the calendar month (named after the Moon) and some popular idea that the month is 28 days long. If we divide the solar year by the lunar month then the number of lunar months in a year is 12.368259. Note the similarity to 13.368, it is virtually identical. The reason for this lies in the fact that in a year the Sun has gone once around the Earth along the ecliptic and that the lunar month is caused by the illumination of the Moon by the Sun. This means that the number of lunar months per year must be one less than the the number of lunar orbits.
This has consequences within the picture above. The left hand moon has waxed one day beyond the Moon from the day before, on the right, because the Sun has moved away from the Moon by 13.368 DAYS minus the 1 DAY the Sun has advanced; in the same direction as the Moon. Thus the increase in distance between Sun and Moon is 12.368 DAYS per day whilst the movement of the Moon relative to the (fixed sphere of) stars is 13.368 DAYS per day.
The Relation between Lunar Node, the Day and the Year
For more on the DAY angular measure and what it reveals about the Moon's node and its synchronicity to the Earth day (at this epoch!) see Synchronicity of the Earth’s Rotation with the Moon’s Orbital Cycles and Solar Year.
Megalithic Egg on Lundy Triangle
Robin went to Lundy Island for the second time - this time by boat from Cardigan, near the origin of the Stonehenge bluestones that were sent to Stonehenge similarly up the Bristol channel (see previous), bad weather forced the boat to wait for two days lee side of the cliffs whilst the weather broke.
Having got to the island, by ferry in the end, the "tump" in the centre of the island which forms the metrological right angle of the Stonehenge-Lundy-Bluestone site 12:5:13 triangle had been cleared of scrub, and someone discovered what looked like a large stone ring, somewhat degraded by time and a wall build. Megalithic monuments are not seen since stone has been scavenged heavily since the upland was isolated from the mainland.
Having a theodolite on board, Robin set too defining lengths from an arbitrary centre. Then the results could be drawn on a radial graph to reveal a Type 1 egg based upon a 3:4:5 triangle, the favourite for this type of egg in which the core triangles have an arc drawn from their common, 4:5 sharpest corner, with arcs from the opposed 3:5 points, joining this to a semicircle centred on the common 3:4 points.
These geometries were discovered by Alexander Thom, the first and still only person to widely survey Britain's and Brittany's megalithic structures. Co-incidentally, Robin has just completed the first general book Alexander Thom, Cracking the Stone Age Code (details on this book to follow soon).Interested in Learning about Megaliths?
Some molecules of meaning:
- It is unusual to find a new type 1 egg, or any megalithic egg, in the British Isles.
- Stones 1-5 and 14-18 are on the geometry.
- The inner triangles are 3:4:5 in units of megalithic rods.
- The stones from north to south via west are perfectly aligned.
- It is oriented towards the tump that marks the right angle of the Stonehenge-Bluestone triangle
- The orientation also aligns with an extreme Moonrise event, a third factor.
- Robin did not put it there, to make his 12:13:5 triangle hypothesis stronger.
- This ought to become a scheduled monument as soon as possible.
- This is the first confirmation that the tump is part of a megalithic site of some significance.
Richard Heath
Alexander Thom found a Type 1 and a Type 2 egg either end of the Le Ménec alignments near Carnac in the 1970s. In Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, Oxford University Press, 1978, he wrote,
About a mile northward from Carnac lies the hamlet of Le Ménec, part of which is built inside the west cromlech (Fig. 6.1). It will be seen that this cromlech consists of an egg-shaped ring of upright stones. The egg shape is based on a 3, 4, 5 triangle, the sides being 15, 20, and 25 MR. The fact that some of the stones do not lie on the geometrical construction is easily explained because all but five or six of the stones carry the re-erection mark (§l.2), and those which do not have the mark lie in the outline. This cromlech is important in that it shows unequivocally that the type I egg shape which we found in Britain was also used in France, and that the same unit of measurement was used. The perimeter of the ring is 304.4 MY. Figure 6.1 shows also that by dropping a perpendicular from the centre on to the hypotenuse we obtain another 3, 4, 5 triangle, the sides being 12, 16, and 20 MR. An examination of Fig. 6.2 shows that this triangle was applied at the east end of the Le Ménec alignments to form the type II egg which was used there. Note that the perimeter of this egg is 370.0 MY so that both eggs conform to the usual practice of having the perimeter close to an integral number of rods. One of the stones on the north-east side of the ring was difficult to find and difficult to survey as it was in the middle of deep whins, but the existence of these stones seems to prove our suggested construction. It may also be remarked that the straight distance from the centre, e, of the east cromlech to the centre, w, of the west cromlech (Figs. 6.3(a) and 6.3(b)) is 495.0 MR and row IX, produced as necessary, cuts the axis of each cromlech 1 MR from its main centre.
Figure 6.1 Le Ménec, west end and cromlech
This demonstrates the fact that the builders of monuments in Britain and Brittany were part of the same building scheme. Alignments can be found in Britain at sites such a Mid-clyth in Caithness, far NE Scotland where the same meridian breaks land travelling north to Orkney.
Thom expained in part a use for such alignments, which can also be fan-shaped or simply parallel tracks as at Merrivale, Dartmoor; it is impossible to view a moon rise or moonset exactly at the point of lunar maximum or minimum, which only happens once (in a blue moon?) every 18.618 years - a phenomena associated with the Moon's orbital node and therefore eclipses of the sun and moon.
However a series of sightlines marked by, say, posts can be extrapolated to obtain the missing maximum or minimum post location. In an alignment the stones represent all the possible post positions and hence it can function as a calculator for the extrapolation of many different sets of observations, as perhaps would have been gathered from different neighbouring observatories; as well has having other to-be-discovered uses such as the calendar functions developed from the ideas of Felix Gaillard, an early researcher.
showing the end of the alignments.
Richard Heath
in metrology & monuments
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