Ancient Tidbits One, by R.E. Prindle

While we're talking about the Ancients here, let us take a moment to consider the creation of a very important item, that of the Zodiac. The Zodiac was an idea not born in the local pub by a few inebriated celebrants. It didn't come into existence over a generation. No, it was a long thought out result of an acute astronomical study by generations of the priesthood. The priests were the original scholars. In my youth we sneered at priesthoods and laughed them to scorn. Nevertheless civilization has its base in the priesthoods and as this Great Year we are in is generally considered to be the fourth, the Zodiac had its germ way back a hundred thousand years ago. The Zodiac was never intended to be a fortune telling tool. It began as a calendar divided into 12 units just as the terrestrial year is of twelve units. Over the Great Years it also appears to have become a weather predictor. The twelve Ages of about 2100 years each can be grouped into four seasons that corresponds to the annual year. If we begin with Easter as the new year the groupings Pisces, Aires, and Taurus as the Great Year summer And Gemini, Cancer and Leo as the Spring. Scorpio, Libra and Virgo as the Winter of each recurring ice age. Aquarius, Capricorn and Sagittarius then is the Fall. This series of seasons recurs every twenty-six thousand years. 12-13 thousand years ago Spring and Summer of the Great Year began. We are now entering the Age of Aquarius or Autumn. That's the calendar and we now get to the weather. Just as in the annual year each season has its own particular weather. In other words, turning to astronomy, the earth's position vis a vis the Sun changes. Weather phenomena will necessarily be different for the various seasons. If you notice the symbol for Aquarius is a boy pouring water from a jug unto Earth. Therefore we may conclude that the next 2100 years are going to be in various stages of wet. The wet period is not caused by human activities it is inevitable and unavoidable. The only reaction to it can be adaptation. Everything we have known now becomes wrong. Adapt or die. (Cont.) How the Earth's position to the sun changes next.