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	The Lunar Mansions
		Most lunar maps are plotted as a telescopic view, inverted and reversed, so it is difficult to correlate them with a normal view.
		Usually, 28 such references were established, and they were called the Lunar Mansions, or resting-places.
		Lunar Mansions were prominent in the astrology of the East, in China, India, Arabia, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and, above all, in the Euphrates valley among the Chaldeans, where they may have originated.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/astro/mansions.htm (1463 words)

	Lunar Zodiac: Moon Signs - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		Definition: [Zodiacs] The Lunar or Draconic Zodiac is a band of the heavens approximately 10° wide, centered on the ecliptic, against which the Moon is seen to move, as seen from the Earth.
		I have been unable to discover how the obvious problem of the movement of the marking stars of the mansions against the Tropical Zodiac, because of the Movement of the Ages, is solved for the Arabian Lunar Mansions.
		It is likely that the first mansion of the Arabian system began at a "fixed star" [perhaps Alcyone] and that the mansions were not of fixed length, accurately reflecting real asterisms seen in the heavens.
	www.geocities.com /astrologyzodiacs/lunarzodiac.htm (1773 words)

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		Mansions of the Moon As I mentioned at the beginning, Isaphil's aura is like moonlight made into the form of an undine.
		As I meditate with her, I sense that the 28 mansions of the moon are part of her awareness.
		Fifth mansion: The fifth mansion is effervescent and vivacious.
	www.lava.net /~pagios/isaphil2.htm (8039 words)

	Lunar mansion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Astrology the lunar mansions are a division of the Ecliptic similar to the Zodiac.
		The mansion associated with a given date corresponds to the constellation the Moon is passing through at that time.
		In Hindu Astrology, the lunar mansions are called Nakshatra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_mansion (89 words)

	Hindu calendar
		Other regions use a luni-solar calendar with months based on the lunar cycle and years of either 12 or 13 months.
		Some lunar calendars start each month with a new moon, while others start each month with a full moon, and Hindu calendars don't all agree on when a year starts, either.
		(Lunar days are not the same length as solar days) In some calendars, lunar months are simply numbered, not named.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hindu_calendar (532 words)

	Chinese astronomy
		An Anyang bone inscription records a lunar eclipse "on the fifteenth day of the twelfth moon of the twenty-ninth year of King Wu-Ting (Nov. 23, 1311 BC)." In 1137 BC, the Shang Emperor Ti-hsin is recorded as ordering a sacrifice because the predicted lunar eclipse fell on the wrong day.
		The circumpolar stars were the key constellations to the lunar mansions of the hsiu.
		Based on which mansion the moon occupied at night, the Chinese created their lunar calendar.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Chinese_astronomy.html (486 words)

	28LunarMansions
		Mansion was donut shaped with a garden and a lake in the middle.
		Mansion is like a cave that is in a disarray, while his kingdom stretched as far as the eye could see.
		The Mansion was under a rock in a mountain, that after one entered into it, it turned into a very large room with crystals everywhere.
	www.highmagic.net /kabbalah/28lunarmansions.html (7553 words)

	Hindu Calendar
		These five parts are the tithi (lunar day), the vara (day of the week), the naksatra (lunar mansion), the yoga (luni-solar day) and the karana (half lunar day).
		There are 27 such lunar mansions in the 360 degrees the moon travels in one lunar month (13.3 x 27 = ~360).
		In the Hindu Almanac each of these lunar mansions is named after a star or group of stars in each region of the sky.
	www.sanskrit.org /www/Astronomy/HinduCalendar.html (2172 words)

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		The lunar mansions, known as the nakshastras, are a key component of Vedic astrology, but they were also significant in medieval Arabic astrology where they were passed to Western Europe as part of the reception of the Arabic New Science in the 12th and 13th centuries.
		The Arabic Mansions of the Moon, used by medieval and Renaissance astrologers and magicians, are a twenty-eight fold division of the monthly orbit of the Moon as opposed to the Indian Vedic system of twenty seven nakshastras.
		The talisman for the 17th Lunar Mansion To Repel Thieves uses the tropical boundaries of the Mansions.
	www.renaissanceastrology.com /mansionslunar.html (1187 words)

	Manazil Defined
		Mansion or mansions also see house as any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path [Middle English, a dwelling, from Old French, from Latin mansio, mansion-, from mansus, past participle of manere, to dwell, remain].
		In the esoteric side the concept of lunar mansions was not known in Europe.
		Each mansion is 12 degrees 51 minutes and 26 seconds, and are divided into four groups of seven mansions, starting at 0 degrees of each Cardinal sign.
	www.mazzaroth.com /Introduction/ManazilDefined.htm (693 words)

	Karma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Each lunar mansion occupies 13 degrees and 20 minutes of the zodiac’s longitude, which indicates the mean daily motion of the Moon.
		There are 27 lunar mansions (27 X 13 degrees 20 minutes = 360 degrees) reflecting the 27 lunar days in the sidereal cycle that it takes for the Moon to traverse the zodiac.
		Each lunar mansion is ruled by one of the planets and as the mansions themselves are situated in a particular order, the planetary rulers now have a specific order or cycle.
	www.karmatherapeutics.com /Karma.htm (1671 words)

	Vuoto
		A lunar mansion is the trait of Zodiac covered by the moon in one day (there are 28 of them).
		The conclusion that the epigraphic letters of ancient alphabets descend from zodiacal constellations (or a lunar mansion in each of them) was warranted.
		Their resemblance to semitic and Greek letters is astonishing, more faithful than that between zodiacal constellations (or lunar mansions) and the corresponding letters.
	digilander.libero.it /culturaviva/astri.htm (925 words)

	About the Luopan
		Being ultimately derived from the diviner's board or shi which had the twenty-eight lunar mansions inscribed on both the Earth (base) plate and the Heaven (upper) plate, it follows that a luopan cannot be properly so called unless it has these divisions marked on it.
		Not only was the position of the twenty-eight mansions different, only one of the luopans showed the year divided into 365.25 days, the others preferring a day of 360 days - one for each degree of the western draughtsman’s compass.
		The reason for the discrepancy in position of the twenty-eight lunar mansions is due to the movement of the heavens.
	www.derek-walters.de /text2.htm (1525 words)

	The Astrological Association of Great Britain
		It is notable that the text itself makes many references to the Wise Men of India, who used quite a different system of lunar mansions, but the Indian priests are known to have used their form of lunar mansions in timing their religious rites in the first millenium BC.
		The lunar mansions are claimed to be suitable for specific purposes.
		Born in 1864, Brandler-Pracht was one of the first modern German supporters of astrology.) Volguine notes that the Hindus group these Mansions into masculine and feminine, but the practical use seems to have been abandoned except for determination of the sex of an unborn infant.
	www.astrologer.com /aanet/pub/journal/picatrix.html (4324 words)

	Kalacakra Calendar
		This average point in the sky will lie either in a lunar mansion or at the border between two lunar mansions, and each month is named after either the lunar mansion that the point is within, or one of the two that it borders.
		There are 30 lunar days in a month, but instead of dividing the period between new Moons into 30 parts by time, the division is by angular separation of the Sun and Moon.
		Because the length of the lunar days varies, it is sometimes the case that the same, slightly longer, lunar day is in effect at the beginning of two successive solar days.
	www.kalacakra.org /calendar/caldesc.htm (1510 words)

	.:. Indian Calendar .:. ASTRAL TRAVELER .:.
		Lunar months are measures from one New Moon to the next (although some groups reckon from the Full Moon).
		Each lunar month is given the name of the solar month in which the lunar month begins.
		According to their proposals, precession is accounted for and calculations of solar and lunar position are based on accurate modern methods.
	www.astraltraveler.com /calendars/indian.html (1415 words)

	TUJL - Mahabharat: An Astronomical Proof from the Bhagavat Puraan
		Max Muller accepts the interpretation of the shlokas in the Bhagvat Puran, especially the phrase "the lunar mansion in the middle of these two stars (tayostumadhye Nakshatram)," as the extension of the line connecting the two stars away from the pole star.
		A more plausible interpretation of the observations described in the Bhagvat puran, especially the phrase "the lunar mansion in the middle of the two stars (tayostumadhye nakshatram)" is that "the perpendicular line drawn from the midpoint of these two stars towards the ecliptic" intersects at a certain lunar mansion (nakshatra), when extended towards the ecliptic.
		Between the current location of the Saptarishis and the position mentioned in the Bhagvat, i.e., the Magha nakshatra, twenty three lunar mansions intervene, from Anuradha to Ashlesha, if the direction of movement opposite to the commonly accepted interpretation of the predictions made in the Bhagvat is followed (Exhibit 2).
	fortunecity.com /rivendell/ultima/419/mahabharat_astronomical_proof.htm (2258 words)

	History of Constellation and Star Names
		The origin of the system of 27 or 28 "lunar mansions" (i.e., a lunar zodiac) was the topic of considerable debate among 19th-century Orientalists.
		Julius Wellhausen (Reste Arabischen Heidentums (1897)) correctly concluded that the concept of 28 "lunar mansions" was borrowed from the astronomy of the Hindus and merged with elements of Arab star lore after the introduction of Islam.
		The "lunar mansions" were not actually used by the Arab-Islamic astronomers in their astronomical work.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~gtosiris/page11-20.html (1439 words)

	Mahabharat: Proof from the Bhagavat Puraan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Max Muller accepts the interpretation of the shlokas in the Bhagvat Puran, especially the phrase "the lunar mansion in the middle of these two stars (tayostumadhye Nakshatram)," as the extension of the line connecting the two stars away from the pole star.
		A more plausible interpretation of the observations described in the Bhagvat puran, especially the phrase "the lunar mansion in the middle of the two stars (tayostumadhye nakshatram)" is that "the perpendicular line drawn from the midpoint of these two stars towards the ecliptic" intersects at a certain lunar mansion (nakshatra), when extended towards the ecliptic.
		Between the current location of the Saptarishis and the position mentioned in the Bhagvat, i.e., the Magha nakshatra, twenty three lunar mansions intervene, from Anuradha to Ashlesha, if the direction of movement opposite to the commonly accepted interpretation of the predictions made in the Bhagvat is followed (Exhibit 2).
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/mahabharat/mahab_sarasvat.html (2247 words)

	Messengers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The twenty-seven lunar mansions or nakshatras are a unique zodiac that has been used in India for some 5,000 years.
		The lunar mansions lie at the very origins of Hindu astrology, and they are rich in the myth, legend and lore of ancient India.
		The second part of the book explores the mysteries of the lunar mansions and leads the reader upon a journey through ancient myths and stories to reveal how the mansions embody the life cycle of an archaic Goddess.
	www.archer-books.com /mansions.html (159 words)

	Atlantis Rising No. 56 Chinese Astrology
		The Chinese lunar calendar is actually a chronological device which dates back to 2637 BCE when the Chinese Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac.
		One complete cycle of the Chinese lunar calendar takes sixty years and is made up of five cycles of twelve years each.
		If the character of a certain lunar year can be seen to take on the quality of the animal then 2006 might be seen to emphasize issues of loyalty and team work.
	www.queenofcups.com /AR56article.htm (1570 words)

	Moonwise: Hindu Lunar Calendar, Vikram Year 2060
		As is usual with lunar calendars, the months have 29 or 30 days, but days may be missed out or duplicated.
		The way this happens is that each month, from the moment of one Dark Moon to the next, is divided into 30 equal lunar days ( tithis), numbered 1 to 15 in the bright half, and 1 to 14, then 30 in the dark half.
		The date is then the number of the lunar day current at the moment of sunrise.
	www.moonwise.co.uk /year/2060hindu.htm (587 words)

	Horary or electional astrology of the five components
		Lunar Mansion: (Svati), Uttarashadha, Uttaraphalguni, Shravana, Punarvasu, Pushya, Mrigashiras, Vishakha.
		Lunar Mansion: Purvabhadrapada, Shravana, Shatabhishaj, Krittika, Purvaphalguni, Abhijit.
		Lunar Mansion: Jyeshtha, Ashlesha, Krittika, Mrigashiras, Ardra, Shravana, Abhijit.
	www.kalacakra.org /calendar/tibast03.htm (1288 words)

	Newsletter- Nehru Centre
		The ancient hymns of Rig Veda (written between 1200 and 900 B.C) allude to the 27 houses of the Moon and thus the lunar houses probably predate the Rig Veda.
		Hindu astronomers marked the location of the Moon by noting the position of the Moon in relation to 27 constellations or nakshatras or lunar mansions.
		Al Matih was another name for this lunar station, as the chief components are near the horns of Aries.
	www.nehrucentremumbai.com /newsletter/January03/zodiac_sign.htm (1366 words)

	Vedamu.org - Vedic Literature - Course
		The lunar zodiac is considered composed of 27 Nakshatras or Lunar Mansions.
		The impact of the synthesis evolved by the Vedic Astrology is that, in India, the astrologers take the Solar as well as Lunar signs for determination of auspiciousness or otherwise of the events that follow in one’s life or the evolution of a society.
		Rahu and Ketu are the northern and the southern nodal points of the ecliptic path of the Sun (as visually perceived) intersected by the path of the Moon.
	www.vedamu.org /Astrology/vedicastrology.asp (1134 words)

	Jornal Astrologia - Surya: The Sun in Vedic Astrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The lunar mansions assume incredible importance in the Vedic system because they provide a modifying influence on the planets in a chart, and they also provide a starting point for the destiny of the individual.
		The Nakshatras or lunar mansions are ruled by planets -- the Hindu system uses the seven classical planets and the North and South Lunar nodes, which are also referred to as Rahu and Ketu.
		The lunar mansions are also mentioned in Western astrology several hundred years ago and are also used in Arabic and Chinese astrology, but have limited predictive utility.
	www.jornal-astrologia.com /article_gomes.htm (6540 words)

	PlanetQuest Education
		There are roughly 12 lunar cycles, or synodic months (from full Moon to full Moon, say—the basis for our modern month) in one year.
		In some contexts there were 27 lunar mansions, while in other contexts an additional naksatra containing the star Vega was included, giving 28 lunar mansions.
		Also, the libraries have lengths measured along their interiors of 16 hat in the east-west direction, and either 12 or 11 hat in the north-south direction, depending upon whether or not the doorways are included.
	www.planetquest.org /learn/angkor.html (1031 words)

	Almanac: Old Calendar: Moon - Arabic Mansions of the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Each mansion is 12 degrees 51 minutes and 26 seconds.
		There are four groups of seven mansions, starting at 0 degrees of each Cardinal sign.
		The Arabic names are sometimes derived from zodiacal constellations found in the mansions, e.g.
	almanac.nuit.ca /house/mansions.html (269 words)

	Tibetan Astrology
		Similarities are for example the 28 Chinese lunar constellations and the 27 or 28 Indian Naksatras (from the Vedas), and the importance of the lunar nodes, Rahu and Ketu.
		In the Tibetan system, the lunar mansions have also been connected to the Chinese elements and directions.
		Both the signs of the zodiac and the lunar mansions are ruled by a particular planet, in order: Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury.
	kalachakranet.org /ta_tibetan_astrology.html (2007 words)

	Mansions of the Moon · Astrological definition of Mansions of the Moon · Astrology Encyclopedia
		Mansions of the Moon · Astrological definition of Mansions of the Moon · Astrology Encyclopedia · July 18, 2005, 26:12 GMT
		Sepharial considers that the entrance of the progressed Moon into a Mansion presaged important changes involving affairs pertaining to that Mansion; but it is probable that they had more to do with the transits of the planets, and with the Mansion in which fell the current Lunation and Full Moon.
		Another Series of Mansions from an Ancient Chinese source indicates that it was chiefly to determine the requests which one propitiates the gods to grant.
	www.astrologyweekly.com /dictionary/mansions-of-the-moon.php (939 words)

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