Category: First Point of Aries

  • First Point of Aries

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    by

    Rick Williams
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    As described in The Ancients post, we left our Babylonian looking out at the ecliptic intersecting the due west line after dark on the Equinox in the year 2000 BCE and seeing the edge of the constellation Aries. This was the First Point of Aries, marking the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It…