Venus and the grand quintile
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5 & 8 are Venus' numbers because of the manner in which she draws a Grand Quintile against the zodiac over a period of eight years. So how, exactly does she manage to do that?
Venus and the grand quintile
- 1. Venus and the Grand Quintile
- 2. Evening and Morning Star When Venus is on the left side of the diagram between positions 3 and 5, she appears as an evening star. When it is on the right side between positions 6 and 2, she is a morning star. Positions 4 and 7 mark the furthest Venus will get from the Sun as observed from Earth Between positions 5 and 6 on the near side of her orbit, or 2 and 3 on the far side, she is too near the sun to be seen.
- 3. Visibility as an evening or morning star each average about 263 days Crossing the sun's face (conjunct) takes about 8 days Passing behind the sun (opposition) takes about 50 days Or 584 days (1.6 years) for one synodic cycle
- 4. The Grand Quintile Easiest if we select either Venus' eastward (#4) or westward (#7) elongation from the Sun. Plot this point against the zodiac over five consecutive synodic periods Each sighting will be 215尊 from the previous one Taking approximately eight (5 x 1.6) years to complete the pentagram.
- 5. Giving Wiccans two of their sacred numbers 5 for the Lady 8 for the cycle of the seasons Two amusing factoids: If you set your origin point at the top of the pentagram, she'll draw an invoking Earth pentagram against the sky 216尊 is roughly 7 zodiac signs (In fairness, the 3/7 pair come from the directions, not Venus)
- 6. Giving Wiccans two of their sacred numbers 5 for the Lady 8 for the cycle of the seasons Two amusing factoids: If you set your origin point at the top of the pentagram, she'll draw an invoking Earth pentagram against the sky 216尊 is roughly 7 zodiac signs (In fairness, the 3/7 pair come from the directions, not Venus)
Editor's Notes
- The earth is shown at the bottom of the illustration, and for our purposes, consider it to be at rest. So let's look at Venus at different places in the orbit. She is orbiting around the sun counterclockwise in this illustration, and the earth is rotating on its axis in that same direction, causing night and day. See also John Pratt's The Feathered Serpent for the symbolism of points 1 through 7 in Quetzalcoatl's life story.
- Venus must orbit the sun 2.6 times while Earth orbits 1.6 times before the two planets will align again. This period (583.92 Earth days) is called the Earth-Venus synodic cycle (synod means "place of meeting").
- If you take a sighting point against the zodiac, and another each 584 days, Venus will be about 215.6属 further around the circle each time, thus describing a pentagram and not a pentagon, against the zodiac over the 8 years it takes her to make 6 such alignments to close the pentagram (a Grand Quintile since it moves 5 times to come back to its point of origin). It's not quite perfect in that the sixth alignment, beginning the next synodic series, occurs slightly west of the 1st point (2-3尊) because a full synodic series takes 7.997 rather than an even 8 years.