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	Movement of the Vernal Equinox Point - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		In the middle ages, the Vernal Equinox Point was in the constellation of Pisces.
		The Vernal Equinox Point lay on the border of the constellations of Aries and Pisces.
		The Vernal Equinox Point lay on the border of the constellations of Taurus and Aries.
	www.geocities.com /astrologyages/movementofthevep.htm (1747 words)

	First Point of Aries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Point of Aries, also called the vernal equinox point, is one of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic.
		It is defined as the position of the Sun on the celestial sphere at the time of the vernal equinox.
		The J2000.0 epoch is in use nowadays for that purpose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vernal_point (342 words)

	Sidereal Astrology
		Because the vernal point moves in the ecliptic, the entire set of signs comprising the tropical zodiak also moves with respect to the stars (and the sidereal zodiak), which remain fixed in their location in the heavens.
		The vernal point currently resides at about 5° sidereal Pisces as it slowly moves toward the sidereal sign of Aquarius--thus we are completing the age of Pisces.
		The vernal point is also called the Birthplace, or the Office of the Christ (point of the soul)--governing the timing of the re-birth of the sun-sol-soul consciousness into the world.
	www.lunarplanner.com /siderealastrology.html (2495 words)

	Vernal Equinox Year Information - Articles Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The precise length of time depends on which point of the ecliptic one chooses: starting from the (northern) vernal equinox, one of the four cardinal points along the ecliptic, yields the vernal equinox year; averaging over all starting points on the ecliptic yields the mean tropical year.
		Because the vernal equinox moves back along the ecliptic due to precession, a tropical year is shorter than a sidereal year (in 2000, the difference was 20.409 minutes; it was 20.400 min in 1900).
		The equinoctial points are in between, and at present the tropical years measured for these are closer to the value of the mean tropical year as quoted above.
	www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Vernal_equinox_year (1701 words)

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		The vernal equinox, according to the unequal division of the constellations, occurs at 6 degrees in the constellation of Pisces at the present period.
		RS points out the Christ was a being of the "Sun sphere" and that the development of Man as a spiritually independently connected being was an activity connected intimately to the Christ as messenger from this sphere.
		Elizabeth Vreede points out in her Astronomical letters that the Human journey through the spiritual world is under the influences of the constellations until one incarnates on Earth when the Human again comes under the influence of the Tropical Zodiac.
	rimu.orcon.net.nz /garuda/books/4_7.html (2368 words)

	Poleshifts (1)
		The summer solstice occurs at the point in the earth's orbit where its north pole is tilted directly towards the sun, and the winter solstice occurs at that point where it is tilted directly away from the sun.
		Since each successive vernal equinox occurs when the earth is slightly to the west of its orbital position at the last vernal equinox, the vernal equinoctial point advances slowly westward, so that from equinox to equinox the earth moves 'backwards' through the constellations of the zodiac (i.e.
		The vernal equinoctial point is the point on the celestial equator which the sun crosses at the vernal equinox, and the corresponding point on the earth's equator is defined as the beginning of the sign Aries -- whatever the constellation in which this occurs.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/pole1.htm (4014 words)

	Astrological Eras
		Its starting point is the vernal equinox, which rotates backwards along the fixed sidereal reference frame at a speed equal to the general precession in longitude (50.28" per year at present).
		This cycle of the vernal equinox retrograding along the sidereal signs and constellations is the measuring stick or clock handle used to establish the so-called cosmical rhythm of cultural evolution.
		The difference between the equinoctial zero point (0 Aries in the tropical zodiac) and the zero point of the sidereal zodiac varies slowly with time at a rate of 1 degree per 71.6 years, and is called the "Ayanamsa", a term adopted today by western sidereal astrologers.
	www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/steiner/epochs.html (1814 words)

	Secret of the Pyramids
		The point of cross of the ecliptic and the equator, which the Sun passes moving from a southern hemisphere of a celestial orb to a northern hemisphere, refers to as a point of vernal equinox - V.
		The point of autumnal equinox is diametrically opposite to it - A.
		It is a point closest to the Sun and point of the position removed from the Sun, of the Earth.
	www.angelfire.com /retro/calendar/pyramids.html (2756 words)

	An Astrological Age - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		Vernal Equinox Point moves into that constellation, as seen from Earth.
		It ends when the Vernal Equinox Point moves out of that constellation again, as seen from Earth.
		So it will be the Age of Aquarius when the Vernal Equinox Point moves out of the constellation of Pisces and into the constellation of Aquarius.
	www.geocities.com /astrologyages/astrologicalage.htm (417 words)

	The Lunar Planner
		The sun and moon are therefore less than one degree past the vernal point (the point in the ecliptic were the Sun resides on the equinox), which is at 5° sidereal Pisces.
		The movement of the vernal point (and its opposite point --the anti-vernal point) is called the precession of the equinoxes.
		The vernal point also defines 0° tropical Aries and is the reference for the divisions of the tropical zodiak.
	www.lunarplanner.com /LunarMonths2004/lunarmonth.04.03.20.html (2909 words)

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		The present location of the vernal point during the 1980's is at 5 degrees Pisces (5 1/2 degrees in the sign of Pisces in the sidereal zodiac), as shown in the figure overleaf.
		The rate of motion of the vernal point fluctuates slightly in the course of time-at present it is closer to one degree in 71 1/2 years-but taken over the entire cycle of precession it averages out at one degree in 72 years.
		The development of the Aries culture was marked by the foundation of Rome in the middle of the eighth century B.C. This culture was the offspring, on Earth, of the passage of the vernal point through the zodiacal sign of Aries, during the zodiacal age of Aries.
	www.vermontel.com /~vtsophia/shore2.htm (4595 words)

	Skyscript: Heavenly Imprints: Precessional Shifts & Zodiacal Splits
		His carefully crafted words were not in the least bit controversial since at that time the Vernal Point still lay within Aries, the year 220 AD being reckoned as the one in which it moved into the sign of Pisces.
		The second point is more relevant to the history of cosmic symbolism, and generally overlooked by authors who write on the great mysteries of precessional ages.
		The date generally given to the movement of the vernal point out of Aries and into Pisces - 220 AD - is a date that recognizes the boundaries of the imaginary, tropical signs, not the actual constellations.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /zodiachistory3.html (1601 words)

	Tropical year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Position along the ecliptic is measured from the vernal equinox, one of the four cardinal points along the ecliptic.
		Because the vernal equinox moves back along the ecliptic due to precession, a tropical year is shorter than a sidereal year.
		Hence the time gained because this point has approached the Sun (by the same angular arc distance as happens at the southern solstice point), isn'tably greater: so the tropical year as measured for this point is shorter than average.
	www.city-search.org /tr/tropical-year.html (1675 words)

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		The reason this is CURRENTLY THE AGE OF PISCES is the fact that the vernal equinox, marking the commencement of the spring season in the northern hemisphere, occurs when the Sun crosses the equator while apparently projected against the backdrop of the anciently defined constellation of Pisces the Fishes.
		The gradual shifting of the vernal equinoctial point among the stars is due to a precessional wobble in the orientation of the tilt of the Earth's axis (not the tilt itself, by the way).
		By a study of the position of the vernal point in the systems of these two famous Babylonian astronomers, and of the difference between the assumed lengths fo the ye r and the true length of the tropical year.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/occultism/divination/astrology/astrolage.txt (2963 words)

	ARHAT: On the Invariance of the Tropical Zodiac
		Note that when the Sun is at the vernal and autumnal points the daylight is precisely 12 hours; the daylight reaches a maximum of 14h 24m when the Sun is exactly 90 degrees later at the summer solstice point, and a minimum of 9h 36m when the Sun is at winter solstice point.
		This is apparently a later measurement of the vernal point in the sidereal zodiac.
		The longitudes are the positions of the vernal point given in terms of the sidereal zodiac of Fagan-Allen.
	www.robhand.com /tropzo.htm (5141 words)

	Aquarian Age Star maps 2000
		However, it is the precession of the spring equinoctial point that alone determines the zodiacal name of a great age, so when referring to the great ages, the term "precession of the equinox" is more commonly used.
		The vernal equinoctial point will be in the constellation of Pisces on the spring equinox of the year 2000.
		The vernal equinoctial point has entered or will enter the constellation Aquarius sometime in the next 600 years depending on what star map you use and where it draws the boundary line between Pisces and Aquarius.
	www.aquarian-age.net /faqs.html (1661 words)

	What Really Happened in 3100 BC - and Where Are We Headed Now
		The Vernal and Autumnal Points, as well as the two solstices, are key astrological points that are said to act as conduits through which energy from the cosmos enters the earth system itself.
		The precession of the equinoxes is the movement of the Vernal Point backwards against the stars of the zodiac.
		Pre-cession is caused by a wobble of the earth's axis that causes the Vernal Point to pass through all 360 degrees of the zodiac during a span of 25,868 years, on average.
	www.onereed.com /articles/3000bc1.html (2277 words)

	Aryabhatt : Vedic Astrology lessons
		If we consider the revolution of the Sun around the earth from one vernal equinox (around 21st March, when the day and night all over the globe are equal) to the next vernal equinox, it takes one tropical year to do so.
		However, if at the end of a tropical year from one vernal equinox to the next, we consider the position of the earth with reference to a fixed star of the zodiac, the earth appears to lie some 50.26 seconds of celestial longitude to the west of its original position.
		This point, the first point of Aries or the vernal equinox, goes on receding westward at a rate of approximately 50.26 seconds of arc each year.
	www.aryabhatt.com /vediclessons/vediclesson5.htm (1963 words)

	Age-of-Aquarius
		The beginning point of the signs of the zodiac on the spring equinox of the year 2000 AD coincide with a logical division of the sky into equal segments that can be used to define the Great Ages because of the alignment with the equinoctial point with the galactic equator.
		This motion of the equinoctial point along the ecliptic is measured by its position in relation to stars and constellations, not to the signs of the zodiac that are actually based on the position of the equinoctial point.
		The exact motion of the equinoctial point can't be determined by the star field behind the equinoctial point, because that point is not visible as it is blocked by the sun on the vernal equinox.
	www.aquarian-age.net /Age-of-Aquarius.htm (11470 words)

	What is Solar Arc
		However, one other point you might want to add right away to your midpoint and planetary picture combinations is the “Aries Point” or “Vernal Point” -- 0 degrees Aries, or the beginning of the zodiac.
		Substituting the Aries Point for one of the points in a two-point combination enables you to investigate single planets as well as pairs of planets.
		To interpret the meaning of each pair of points, you can refer to standard aspect meanings, but since you’ll usually be dealing with arc openings that aren’t any standard aspect, you’ll generally need to edit out the qualities (like “easy” for trines, “difficult” for squares, etc.) that would be contributed by the type of aspect.
	www.alabe.com /solararc.html (1417 words)

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		An astronomical age is determined by the vernal point of the sun in the plane of the sidereal zodiac.
		The vernal point is the location of the sun in the sidereal zodiac on the day of the spring equinox.
		As of February 10, 1983, the longitude of the vernal point was exactly 5 1/2 degrees Pisces in the sidereal zodiac.
	www.vermontel.net /~vtsophia/7AGES.htm (3747 words)

	Sutradhari - Ayanamsa. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Different scholars gave different dates but the Indian Govt in order to standardise the Ayanamsa value took the initial point of the zodiac as the point in the ecliptic opposite the star Chitra (Alpha Virginis) which was the vernal equinoctial point on the Vernal Equinox day of 285 AD.
		The rate of precession of the Vernal Equinox was taken as 50.3 seconds per sidereal year.
		The Tropicalists (Western astrologers) maintain that the Vernal Point is presently in the 6th degree of Pisces whilst Siderealists (Vedic astrologers) maintain that the Sidereal starting point remains to be 0 degrees Beta Arietis (Aswini) and that the Sidereal zodiac doesn't change ~ What IS changing is simply the degree of precession.
	www.sutradhari.com /ayanamsa.htm (572 words)

	Yosemite Valley Spring Hiking
		Glacier Point, our destination, is at the 7,214’ level, and it’s a 3,220’ climb from the Valley trailhead.
		From our vantage point we saw lush, green meadows on the valley floor, Nevada and Vernal falls filled with torrents of gushing water, Half Dome profiled against a clear, blue sky and in the distance a panorama of snow-capped mountain ridges and peaks.
		Arriving at the Vernal Fall overlook, the viewing area was filled with resting and sunbathing bodies.
	home1.gte.net /res19ce8/yosemite1995.htm (765 words)

	Vernal equinox, Platonic year, Vernal Equinox, precession of the equinoxes, great year
		Polaris will reach the point at which it comes closest to aligning with the North Pole axis of our Earth in the year A.D. In two thousand years, because of the effects of the Platonic year, there will be no pole star, as there was no pole star two thousand years ago.
		Should we try to trace the sun’s vernal-crossing point as it moves a bit west each year on the equator itself, we would not discern any even pattern in its movement because of the nutational cycle.
		However, when we observe the position of the sun in the Zodiac on successive Vernal Equinoxes, the westerly movement will appear “steady” as each year passes, because the stars and sun are too far away to be affected by the cycle of the moon.
	www.revealer.com /platonic.htm (1606 words)

	For and Against: The Zodiac Debate by David McCann and Kenneth Bowser
		Moreover the Babylonian norm of System B (vernal point = 8° Aries) persisted contemporaneously with Ptolemy and so long after him, that its use gives rise to questions about the currency of the tropical zodiac, and at the very least constitutes proof of the pervasiveness of Babylonian influence in the Roman world.
		Hipparchus, the discoverer of precession, apparently did reckon longitudes from the vernal point, although it looks like he didn't have much company; yet his wholesale adoption of the Babylonian lunar and planetary theories speaks volumes about the accuracy of Babylonian mathematical models, and ostensibly his regard for them.
		Grasshoff points out that this discrepancy suggests that the matter was not seriously entertained during the interval between their lifespans, when the difference between sidereal and tropical reckoning decreased from 5° to 1°.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /sidereal2.html (1551 words)

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