Jesusistheway
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What do you guys think of this article by NASA?? I recommend it.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
In hermetic doctrine, all the planets were in alignment when the Earth first took form; of course, this is probably meant as a symbolic statement rather than as a historical fact (but then, who knows??)
In hermetic doctrine, all the planets were in alignment when the Earth first took form; of course, this is probably meant as a symbolic statement rather than as a historical fact (but then, who knows??)
fwiw - source: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=203
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When astrologers speak of the planets being aligned (something which doesn't really concern astronomers) they don't mean that the planets will actually all lie on a straight line at some instant of time.
One calculation of alignments within around thirty degrees (about as close as they can get) shows that the last such alignment was in 561 BC, and the next will be in 2854.
All nine planets are somewhat aligned every 500 years, and are grouped within 30 degrees every 1 to 3 alignments.
Richard Tarnas discusses the triple conjunction of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the Axial Age in his book Cosmos & Psyche.
During 1600-2100 Neptune and Pluto become conjunct in just one period of a couple of decades. Three 12°-conjunctions occurred from 1882 to 1902. Here is the transit table, showing three exact conjunctions followed by a nearly-exact (0°39) conjunction:
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In the first decade of the 20th C. Uranus was more-or-less opposite to Neptune and Pluto.
Both conjunction and opposition are "axial" alignments, so one could have an axial alignment of all the planets if they were all pairwise either conjunct or opposite (allowing a generous orb for these two aspects). It would take a little work to discover whether this has occurred within the last 2500 years, but it could be done.
From 1900 through 1904 Uranus and Pluto were continuously within 12° of an exact opposition. From 1904 through 1911 Uranus and Neptune were continuously within 12° of an exact opposition except for four days in September 1904. From 1882 until mid-1904 Neptune and Pluto were within 15° of an exact conjunction except for a few months at the end of 1903. So the closest they came to an axial alignment, with Uranus opposite a Neptune-Pluto conjunction, was at the end of that conjunction. Here is the situation on June 20, 1904 (showing only conjunctions, oppositions and trines, with 15° orb for conjunctions and 8° orb for oppositions and trines):
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Thanks for this. Interesting indeed.
However, it does show that Mercury is just outside the 15 deg between Neptune and Pluto and more importantly Jupiter and Saturn are well outside this alignment. So we still don't have the "all the planets in alignment" scenario - yet
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