Taurus

You see the many faces of the, the lion right here.

And the horse is Sagittarius in astronom- in astrology, the bull is Taurus, and the lion is Leo.

So these students or these kids that went back, they were like, "Oh, we recognize this, so what are we gonna do?" So they called people, and they eventually called the scientists, and the scientists came to the cave, [clears throat] and they went, went to the back of the cave and they saw this.

And the first thing that they did was they carbon dated it.

The Muslims claim that Ishmael was to be sacrificed by Abram, and the Jews claim that it was Isaac who was to be sacrificed.

Now, beyond this, God demanded a blood sacrifice, but stops it at the end.

Through Abraham's faith, God allows the sacrifice to be transferred to animals, specifically rams, bulls, goats, or in astrology, that's Aries the ram, Taurus the bull, and Capricorn's the goat.

Aside from that, Genesis 8:21, "And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice from Noah.

They're actually produced as the Earth's orbit takes it through the debris trail left behind by the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, which takes about 6.6 Earth years to make a single revolution of the sun.

The Taurids meteor shower takes place on October 10th, and as their name suggests, they appear to radiate out from the constellation Taurus the Bull.

Their meteors are composed of larger than average pebbles and dust grains and are thought to be generated by debris left behind by the comet 2P/Encke.

Although it's thought that both the Taurids and Encke could be the remains of an earlier comet which disintegrated over the past 20,000 to 30,000 years, breaking into several pieces and releasing material both by normal cometary activity and possibly also by gravitational tidal interactions with the Earth and other planets.

The northern part of the sky, apologies to our northern listeners, Northern Hemisphere listeners, but down here in the south, the bits that we can see at this time of year, it's pretty dull there as well.

If we were much further north of the equator, there would be plenty of things to see.

But if you like staying up late or getting up really early, the skies after midnight in October are really great 'cause the other half of the Milky Way is rising in the east, bringing with it the fabulous constellations of Orion and Taurus and Gemini and Canis Major and Puppis and other ones.

To me, these are the constellations of summer.

And the horse is Sagittarius in astronom- in astrology.

The bull is Taurus, and the lion is Leo.

So these students or these kids that went back, they were like, "Oh, we recognize this.

So what are we gonna do?" So they called people, and they eventually called the scientists.

The Muslims claim that Ishmael was to be sacrificed by Abram, and the Jews claim that it was Isaac who was to be sacrificed.

Now, beyond this, God demanded a blood sacrifice but stops it at the end.

Through Abraham's faith, God allows the sacrifice to be transferred to animals, specifically rams, bulls, goats, or in astrology, that's Aries the ram, Taurus the bull, and Capricorn's the goat.

Aside from that, Genesis 8:21, "And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice from Noah.

And in front of the bull, like if you follow the line of its snout, you see three or four dots arranged in a line kind of on the other side of a crack or a break in the cave.

That bull is Taurus.

That little smattering of stars above its shoulder is the Pleiades star cluster.

And those three or four dots k- kind of across from the bull's snout are Orion's Belt, the three stars in the Orion constellation.

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As I am a Taurus and you have Orion, uh, tattooed on you.

Yes, this is us.

Gradually it shifts from constellation to constellation.

Four or five millennia ago, on the day of the northern vernal equinox, the Sun rose into the constellation Taurus.

after some centuries it began to rise into the constellation aries having retrograded eventually into the constellation pisces you'll notice i keep emphasizing the word constellation because constellations are different from signs That, as we will see, is really the key to understanding the conflict around when the various ages begin and end.

Now, unlike astronomers, we astrologers define the first degree of Aries as the position of the sun on the ecliptic on the day of the northern vernal equinox.

Now, in the text version of this presentation, There's a map that will probably be a helpful visual aid if you want to really follow this, but I'll do my best to put it into plain language.

On the left side of this diagram that I'm describing, see the position of the Sun on the northern vernal equinox around 4,500 years ago.

And as you see this, it's like, what do you think? Did it fall on Taurus or Aries? Again, there are no boundaries in the sky.

seems to lean more Taurus.

Okay, well, Uranus is, uh, there as well, and Uranus is now able to reach peak altitude under true darkness for the entire month.

It's currently a magnitude +5.6, so theoretically it is naked-eye visible, and it's located in Taurus, between the Pleiades and the star Ain, uh, or Ain, however you want to pronounce it, which is-

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