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Learn Basic Astro Meteorology.
What role did Yorkshire monks play in reviving the use of the ancient wind rose of the Babylonians, and how far back in time can the use of astro-meteorology be traced? What exactly is astro meteorology? Is it possible to prepare long range forecasts about wind, rain, snow, ice and other weather patterns, or do we need to understand isobars, low pressure, high pressure and other atmospheric science in order to deliver weather forecasts?
I am going to tell you some amazing things you may have never heard of before such as how planets really help with weather forecasts, and what role the stone circles in the UK may have had in helping the system of astro meteorology evolve.
I’m also going to share with you some of my latest findings about the potential astro meteorological use of prehistoric stones upon the Yorkshire Moors, telling with you my amazing revelation about why and how I believe these stones were being used by civilisations thousands of years old.
In addition I will also be asking do rulers use astrology to fight wars and spin a line to the masses? Which governments plan to use weather as a weapon of mass destruction? Will governments of the future tax us more so that scientists can alter the universe to prevent climate change? All this and more is revealed in longer article by UK weather forecaster and astro meteorologist Tricia, www.starsite.org
You can also find out how to become an astro meteorologist and have free lessons in this ancient system of accurately forecasting UK weather.
What is an astro meteorologist?
Who exactly are astro meteorologists? Many astronomers call themselves astro meteorologists, but don’t apply the principles of astrology as an astrologer would when producing UK weather forecasts. Astrology can produce outstanding results in predicting weather and has been handed down in diverse traditions for more than two millennia. Even conventional meteorologists would find it hard to respectably deny their job of weather forecasting was borne of the tradition of astrologers sky watching to see the correlation of certain celestial events and their coincidence with terrestrial weather.
Which Yorkshire monks were astro meteorologists?
A Babylonian astronomer Asideru observed:- “When it thunders in the day of the moon’s disappearance, the crops will prosper and the market will be steady.” Asideru probably used a wind rose employ to find out which direction the weather was blowing in from. Later during times of Charles the Great we learn that Alcuin, a learned monk from Yorkshire revived the ancient use of the wind-rose:-
“The Babylonians had the wind-rose of eight thumbs, and used already the names of the four cardinal points to denominate the intermediate directions; whereas it was till now generally supposed that we owe to Charles the Great, or perhaps to his learned monk Alcuin, who came from Yorkshire, this progress of the combination of the four principal winds to denote all others.” We see another Yorkshire astrologer makes
his mark on the study later.
Yorkshire scholar in astrology and mathematics John Sacrobosco, was born about 1195 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His book ‘’ THE SPHERE OF SACROBOSCO’’ covers the globe and Polar Regions, along with information about rising and setting of stars at different latitudes and how this affects diverse localities and climes. Sacrobosco finishes with describing the circles and motions of the planets. What is interesting about Sacrobosco is how he takes great pains to describe how the globe can be divided up into areas which then help detect the seven climates he defines so clearly for us. This method of partitioning the globe is widely used today in the grids used by conventional meteorologists but in a more sophisticated way to forecast weather flow.
How do stone circles and other stone markings relate to astro meteorology?
How do our UK stone circles factor into the history of astro meteorology?
The temples in Assyria were aligned towards the point of sunrise at equinox points, and standing stones in the UK are similarly aligned with the skies implying the importance of celestial observation for ancient civilisations that perished if not equipped with some warning of perils warned of by the heavens. The Egyptians used astro meteorological observations to warn them of the incoming floods of the Nile, which aided fertility, just as the Babylonians foresaw the Euphrates would flood, allowing agriculture to flourish and bring prosperity to the nation.
I often visit the Castle Rig stone circles in Cumbria at the summer solstice, and can easily imagine how ancient people could stand there at the solstice and construe a map of the heavens the same way I do with my computer, and use it to forecast the weather for the season ahead.
The stone circles on Lewis Island off the coast of NW Scotland is uniquely placed and oriented in terms of measuring what is now called the ‘’still moon’’ demonstrating that even in ancient times people were aware of the need to track a variety of lunar and other planetary movements if they were to be prepared for any impending weather disasters. An exciting reference to this is made by Diodorus who wrote circa 1BC that in a circular temple on the Hyperborean Isle (Britain), the moon appeared close to earth and god Apollo visited the island every 19 years.
It is worth having a closer look at the parapegmata system of observing the heavens and correlating weather events with the stars as it seems to be a major tool used by ancient astrologer/astronomers to forecast weather. Parapegmata are a peg and hole method of recording positions of stars with some weather observations written next to them and a hole next to each entry for a peg to be placed in.
Do ancient parapegmata exist on the Yorkshire Moors?
Ptolemy, an astronomer astrologer around the first century tells of observations made by Aratus, Cicero, Locric, Daritheus, Cyclades and a host of others around Europe. On Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire there are many prehistoric stones with potentially astronomical signs, called “cup and ring” markings, and these are also found in Italy. Some stones exhibit images that look like the plough shaped constellation, another with the swastika symbol another with a constellation pattern known as the “crux” while one large stone actually looks like a prehistoric parapegmata with groupings of holes in numerical values that suggest the lunar phases, the days of the week, and five brightest planets easily observed from the Moors.
Could these remains of a prehistoric civilisation on Ilkley Moor and elsewhere in Europe actually be the observatory used by astronomer astrologers to decode the stars above and their connection with weather on earth?
What do texts as old as the bible have to say about weather forecasting and astro meteorology?
The Bible has many verses that remind us of how old the practise of astro meteorology is. The Old Testament, biblical book of Daniel is no less than an ancient record of an Israelite astrologer employed by King Nebuchadnezzar to forecast weather. In the New Testament we have more evidence of astro meteorological observation in St. Matthew xxiv. 32, ‘Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh’ a platitude that we see repeated in many versions of weather lore of more ancient times, including Hesiod’s (circa 700 B.C) ‘’Work and Days’’ one of my favourite references for lunar lore in my regular sun sign columns published by a variety of online media, and available to read at www.sacred-texts.com. These fragments of cultural knowledge remind us that the topic of astro-meteorology is the oldest branch of astronomy and astrology, still being applied, even though some modern meteorologists may scorn predecessors in this field of weather forecasting.
Learn basic astro meteorology and UK weather forecasting, using methods used in ancient times and still successful used today. I will show you what to do so you can learn about forecasting wind, rain and temperature further down the blog.
How do rulers try to gain power using the art of weather forecasting?
How did rulers make use of astrology? Nabu-rimanni (Naburianus) was the chief astrologer of Darius, the famous Persian ruler, and he studied lunar eclipses calculating them more accurately than Ptolemy and Copernicus. His work was used for many centuries by observers such Seleucid and Parthian rulers of Persia. His picture of Heavens was borrowed by the Greeks and eventually reached the famous Greek scientist Democritus. It was Naburianus who granted Darius the boon of being able to darken the skies in order to subdue his enemies before a battle, by being told about the time of the next eclipse of the sun which would darken the air. Darius warned the enemy to submit as he was so powerful he could darken the sky, which he did when the eclipse of the sun was full. So even in ancient times rulers used astrology to spin a line, as today we see the FBI and other governments use astrology to fight wars and assassinate perceived enemies. Don’t believe me? Odd how Bin Laden was killed on the exact day of Jupiter conjunct with Mars in Aries 2011, on the 11th May when I predicted in my UK weather forecast for spring, published in February, that terrorism would hit the headlines on that day. But then the US has many a link with astrology and many books have been written about these, including the fact that Franklin produced almanacs, a facsimile of which I have. A former FBI agent now produces some astrological forecasts on a website, and would you believe there is even a document freely available on the net that talks of the military examining ways of using weather in war? The British military also were looking at this during WW1 and there is still an investigation about cloud research conducted with the Royal Air Force in Cornwall. In the US a manual entitled “Weather as a Force Multiplier:Owning the Weather in 2025,” shows a race to control the weather as it is a ‘Research Paper Presented To Air Force 2025’ by seven members of the military in August 1996, since when we have seen cloud seeding undertaken more frequently. Not for the first time are powers trying to control the world using the findings of scientists of all ages.
Why do most modern weather forecasts baffle us today?
Clearly scientists have stolen the show from astro meteorologists by defining a body of measurable conditions that creates a new demand for instruments for amateurs that bring in huge profits they accuse astrologers of making! Ironic, to say the least! These new instruments used in weather forecasting, including the best toy –a satellite viewing the whole globe, give us all the technical jargon we ordinary folk don’t need or understand. Many of us listen dumfounded as we are blinded by the “science” of meteorological forecasting that tells us tomorrow a wave of high pressure pictured in the isobars moving across NW Scotland will land in the south of England…….most of whether to take an umbrella or wear trousers if the wind is set to lift our skirts or blow our hat off.
Learn Basic weather forecasting using astro meteorology.
Learn Basic Astro Meteorology and forecast wind, rain, snow and rain yourself.
As a professional teacher, lecturer, trainer and writer of over 40 years experience, and successful UK weather forecaster using astro meteorology, it is only natural that I would want to share with you the system of forecasting weather. Hopefully my account of some of the literature I have read on the way to becoming a successful UK astro meteorologist, has helped encourage you to take up this branch of astrology.
If you would like to learn basic astro meteorology you need to download this FREE book by C. C. Zain on ‘Weather Forecasting’ if you are sure you have the time, diligence and application to take the subject seriously.
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download Zain’s excellent book FOR FREE on how to use astrology in the art and sconce of weather forecasting.
The book will take you through the basic steps of weather forecasting through setting up solar ingress charts for the season, lunar charts for each phase to look at rain, and Mercury charts for the wind. Using some of the basic guidelines in this book you can begin your study of weather forecasting, but do remember British weather patterns demand you also study our climate and planetary coincidences with weather in this part of the world, and your own unique locality. Who knows after years of study you too can be making accurate UK or world weather forecasts with the help of ‘’astrology that doesn’t cost the earth.’’
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