NEW MOON REPORT
Nehemia Gordon compiled the following New Moon
Report for the month of July 2006 and the beginning of the Fifth Month of the
Biblical Calendar.
New Moon of 5th Biblical Month Sighted –
“On Wednesday July 26, 2006 the New Moon was sighted
from Israel. The moon was first sighted
by Miri Burgin at 19:52 from Jerusalem.
Over the next few minutes the moon was also sighted by the following
observers from Jerusalem: Nehemia
Gordon, Devorah Gordon, Ferenc Illesy, Neria Haroeh, Rob Auston, Yohanan
Savage, Yahshua Martinez, Jeremiah Martinez, and Andrew Haymore.”
It is expected that the next New Moon will be visible from Jerusalem, Israel near sunset on August 25, 2006. This New Moon may be visible from the United States on August 24.
MERCURY AND
SATURN IN CONJUNCTION
The planets Mercury (Catab) and Saturn will come into conjunction (same celestial longitude) on August 21, 2006. This is not a particularly rare event in and of itself, since Mercury comes into conjunction with Saturn at least once every year. There are, however, other celestial events in the week to follow this event that makes it of notable interest, though I do not believe that this is a precursor to Armageddon as some would have us believe. There has been a lot of false and erroneous information about the celestial events of late August going around the internet. Much of this information is from Astrology and has nothing to do with Biblical Astronomy, therefore I will not bore you with all the details.
Chart 418 shows the positions of Mercury and Saturn in the constellation Cancer when they are seen near conjunction from Jerusalem about 30 minutes before sunrise on August 21, 2006. The lines around the constellations in this chart are the constellation borderlines.
Chart 418 – Mercury and Saturn in conjunction in Cancer on August 21. 2006
In the early morning skies on August 22, there will be a unique massing of Venus, Mercury, Saturn and the waning crescent moon. This is displayed in the picture below.
This is of interest in the fact that it could possibly be
a sign to radical Muslims to attack their enemies. Here is a bright crescent moon, not only
with the bright planet Venus, but also with Saturn and Mercury. There have been major attacks in the past
from such groups when the crescent moon was next to a bright planet. Then of course, the current leader of Iran is
proclaiming that Armageddon will begin on August 22, 2006. The date of this writing is August 21. Due to a number of circumstances, this
month’s issue of Biblical Astronomy is late (at least 10 days later than
originally planed). It will be in the
post office and on its way to you on August 22.
You should know by the time this reaches you if Armageddon has yet
begun. I think it is just a lunatic
rattling his saber and trying to make people nervous. But then again, perhaps the thwarted plan to
blow up 10 jumbo jets over the Atlantic Ocean on September 16 was the first of
a planned series of attacks. Either way,
do not be troubled by these matters, for as it is written of the spoken words
of Y’shua – “And
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
VENUS AND SATURN IN VERY CLOSE CONJUNCTION
The planets Venus (Nogah)
and Saturn will come into a very close conjunction on August 27,
2006. From some areas on Earth, they
will be seen with just 1/15th of a degree of separation between
them. In the early morning sky over
Jerusalem they will be seen about 1/7th of a degree apart.
Chart 419 shows the positions of Venus and Saturn in the
constellation Cancer as seen from Jerusalem Israel about thirty minutes before
sunrise at the time of conjunction. Even
though the label for Saturn on the chart is well below Venus, there is an arrow
to the left of Saturn (hard to see here) pointing to where the planet is. In this chart, the two planets appear as one
and both are in the dot to the left of the label for Venus.
Chart 419 – Venus and Saturn in
conjunction in Cancer on August 27, 2006
This conjunction is real close
to the borderline between Cancer and Leo. According to the late Dr. Earnest L.
Martin, this was a point of interest at the time of Messiah’s birth. The following are excerpts from his book The
Star of Bethlehem: The Star That Astonished The World (Second Edition – 1996)
pp12-15.
“There were other astronomical
signs at that period that would have strengthened the concept that a new Golden
Age was dawning. A little over a year
earlier (May 19, 3 B.C.) the planets Saturn and Mercury were in close
conjunction (.67 degrees from each other).
Then Saturn moved eastward through the stars to meet with Venus on June
12, 3 B.C. At this conjunction they were
only a mere .12 degrees from each other.
(Note: In the August 27, 2006 conjunction these two same planets will be
a mere 0.07 degrees from each other).
And if this were not enough, two months later (August 12, 3 B.C.)
Jupiter and Venus appeared together in a pre-dawn conjunction which was even
closer (just .07 degrees from each other as viewed from earth). Though the planets at this conjunction did
not appear to “touch” one another as they did some ten months later on June 17,
2 B.C., they were very close in this meeting.
Then look at what happened. What
began as a pre-dawn “morning star” union on August 12, 3 BC for Jupiter and
Venus, then developed into their “evening star” reunion some ten months later.
There is more. The “morning star” conjunction of Jupiter and
Venus on August 12, 3 B.C. occurred when the planets were in the last degrees
of the zodiacal sign of Cancer which was the concluding sign for
interpreting the astrological year. Yet
the “evening star” conjunction of the same planets in their reunion ten months
later happened in the first degrees of Leo, the beginning sign of the
astrological year. The zero degree line
for beginning the astrological calculations was between the signs Cancer and
Leo.
This means that the “morning
star” conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in August 12, 3 B.C. happened at the
conclusion of the astrological year, while the “evening star” reunion some ten
months later occurred in the beginning of a new astrological year. These two unions of Jupiter and Venus could
well have been interpreted as showing a close on one age in history and
the beginning of another age in 2 B.C…..
As mentioned earlier, the zero
line for beginning and ending the 360 degrees of the Zodiac was reckoned by
some astrologers as existing between Cancer and Leo (The Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics, XII.51). This means
that this motion effect shown by Jupiter circling around Regulus (like a
“crown” over the star) was happening in the heavens just east of the zero
degree line for astrological measurements.
It occurred at the beginning section of the astrological Zodiac
in the view of some Gentile astrologers.
This interpretation is similar to that adopted by Moses in his
arrangement of the armies of Israel in
the fashion of the Zodiac around the Tabernacle in the wilderness. The biblical Zodiac designed by Moses also
began with the royal sign of Leo, but its zero degree line was located in the
middle of the constellation, not at its beginning. Whatever the case, these indications would
surely have shown to the people of that era that a great king or ruler was then
being introduced to the world.”
The conjunction of Venus
and Saturn on September 27 is similar to the Jupiter and Venus
conjunctions of 3 and 2 B.C. They come
into conjunction on September 27 in the last degrees of Cancer in the
morning sky and will come into conjunction again in the first degrees of Leo
on July 1, 2007. The below chart
shows the conjunction of Venus
and Saturn in Leo on July 1, 2007.
The planet Venus was in
conjunction with in 3 BC and 2 BC was Jupiter (Zedek) which represents
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS and the Messiah.
Here, in the two conjunctions of 2006 and 2007, Venus is in
conjunction with Saturn which represents Satan. Could these be signs of the introduction of
the Antichrist or the beast? Perhaps of
his birth? At this point, this is all
speculation. Perhaps more will come to
light in the near future.
At any rate, these are
continuing signs in the constellation Cancer that started in June. See the June 2006 issue of Biblical
Astronomy for more information concerning these events.
MARS ATTACKS II
The summer thriller is back
with more special effects than last year’s version. I have again become swamped with e-mails
about Mars coming so close to the earth on August 27 that it will appear as
large as the moon. Mars did reach its
closest approach to the earth in the last 70,000 years on August 27, 2003. At its brightest it appeared about as bright
as Jupiter at its brightest, not as bright and large as the full moon. Ever since then an e-mail hoax goes out every
summer stating that Mars will be at its closest approach to the earth in
thousands of years and it will appear as large as the full moon. This year there is a link to a PowerPoint
Mars will be barely visible, if
visible at all, on the evening of August 27 this year. Below is an article from Astronomy Magazine’s
e-mail Astronomy News released on August 18, 2006 concerning Mars.
Mars
to leave our skies for a while
“Head out at dusk if you want a final glimpse of Mars before winter. The
Red Planet appears as a modest star low in the western sky about 30 minutes
after sunset. It shines at magnitude 1.8, similar to the brightest stars in the
Big Dipper. By month's end, Mars becomes lost in the twilight. Your last good
chance to spy the planet occurs August 25, when a 2-day-old crescent Moon lies
5° to the left and slightly above the planet.”
SEMINAR REMINDER
August 25 & 26, 2006
A Voice Crying in the Heavens
with
Robert Scott Wadsworth
Hosted by Congregation Tree of Life
Corner of Dawes and Jeff
Hamilton Roads
Mobile, Alabama
Starts at 7:00 pm on
Friday August 25 and starts again at 1:00 pm on Saturday August 26 and goes to
around 8:00 pm with breaks included
For more information call
(251) 776-1002
If you desire to have a Biblical
Astronomy seminar in your area contact me (Bob Wadsworth) at starguy1@comcast.net or 503-655-7430.
Yahweh watch over you and keep you.
