14 Valley Life Stone
OVER OUR HEADS... Astronomy & Astrology by Ed Kohout
Bookkeeping I do the paperwork so you can
OFFICE SOLUTIONS!
• Personal & business bookkeeping • Payroll • Accounts payable • Accounts receivable • Billing • Account reconciliation • Filing • Organizing
Personalized Service! Personalized Service!
• I work with your computer accounting software or manual system • I can come to your location or work offsite
• QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor (Advanced, Enterprise) • QuickBooks installation, maintenance and training
Joyce Stone Joyce Stone
www.stonebookkeeping.com •
StoneBkkp@aol.com Phone: 760-989-0056 Fax: 760-650-7204
I’ll do what I do
best...so you can do what you do best!
ANZA VALLEY CITIZEN’S PATROL
VOLUNTEER TODAY! LEARN NEW SKILLS!
LAW ENFORCEMENT! WORK WITH
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!
CALL FOR MORE INFO!
BRIAN EVANGELIST PRESIDENT
951 763-5324 Naked eyes on Anza’s skies!
I do the paperwork so you can GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!
We have some exciting naked-eye astronomy coming our way this year, and Anza is one of the few places left where humans can actually see it with pristine beauty.
The weather has been
excellent this winter, and I hope that continues. Other folks have to fight the urban soup of smog, light pollution and noise, but not us. We can walk out our back doors and look up to see Orion and the dog shining brightly against the dark canvas; the only stars they get to see are the ones atop a 24-hr. Drive-Thru Carl’s Jr, but at least they have little smiley faces!
Venus and Jupiter -- the two greatest planetary lights -- are now only one “sign” apart, that being the faint Pisces, with Venus at the “lower fish” and Jupiter still bright in Aries. We can watch nightly as Venus moves closer to Jupiter, with a conjunction on March 13. This is a great chance to see planetary motion on a night-by-night basis, well before bedtime. After sunset, it is still easy to pick out Venus in the west, very bright, and then Jupiter, also very bright, higher and toward the South.
The best sequence of February starts when the new crescent moon appears on the 22nd with Mercury, and conjoins Venus on the 25th, Jupiter on the 26th, and the Pleiades on the 28th, co- setting a few minutes after midnight as Leap Day arrives.
The full moon on the 7th is an astrologically important event, and I expect a flurry of major political moves in connection with what went on last November, and the further moves away from the “9/11 era” and into the new “Arab Spring” era of destabilizations and revolutions.
In our era, the Pleiades sit at the imaginary line astrologers define as the cusp of Taurus and Gemini, and the location of this spring’s solar
GET LISTED! GET SOLD! Choosing the right Realtor DOES make a difference! JUST SOLD!
NEW LISTINGS
1750 SF w/guest house, .42 acres. $85,000. (Seller Agent)
Valley View, Anza
Hickethier Broker
and Team Call Direct: 760-445-0973
DRE #01364040
Alicia Lanik
Se Habla Espanol Call Direct:
(951) 551-2079 DRE #01255728
Denice
1415 SF, 3B/2B, garage/shop, 2.5 acres. $135,000 (Buyer Agent)
Lee Trail, Aguanga PENDING SALES
2.55 Acres, Lake Riverside Estates Saddleback Drive, very nice parcel. $26,500.
22.84 acres, usable land. $63,000 short sale. (Seller Agent)
Howard Rd., Anza
La Colina, off Terwilliger, end of road, private. $18,500.
4.49 Acres, Anza
Chihuahua Valley Rd., Warner Springs 2366 SF, 3B/2B, 2 car garage, 6 acres, cross- fenced. $240,000.
2605 SF, 4B/2B, 3 car garage, horse facilities, 2.73 acres. $155,000. (Seller & Buyer Agent)
Lucille Lane, Anza
Alfredo Rd., flat land, off Bautista and Howard. $18,500.
2.59 Acres, Anza
2.37 Acres, Wood Way, Anza Beautiful parcel close to paved Bautista. Very pretty and buildable land. $18,000.
Home and Land Sales Property Mgmt.
(free consultation and education) Notary, Fax & Copy Services
Short Sale Experts 56455 Highway 371• Anza, CA 92539 763-1000 (west of Bedrock Hair Salon)
Visit our office in Anza 56480 Hwy. 371
eclipse that will be visible from Anza. In fact, it will be possible, from certain parts of the valley such as Table Mountain or Terwilliger, to get a picture of the eclipse hovering right over Cahuilla Mountain. This kind of event -- an in-progress eclipse setting over Cahuilla Mountain -- will simply never happen again during our lifetimes. More on this online and in the next issues as we figure out where the best viewing spots might be. (Steve’s backyard!!!)
“Leap day” is really “catch-up day” because it is the sum of partial, leftover 5 hours and 49 minutes at the end of every year – the time from one spring equinox to the next – that adds up to a smidge less than one day over four years. The original Roman solution was to simply add a day every four years and be done with it, and so it went for centuries that every 4th year would have 366 days. But even those pesky 11 minutes add up over the centuries, so much so that the calendar fell out of sync with equinoxes more than ten whole days by the 1500’s. A calendar correction became necessary to ensure that Easter met the original astronomical ideal of the sun returning to prominence over the moon, as Easter is always the first SUNday after the first full moon after the equinox. The ancients believed that the sun again “rose” to dominance when it passed the equinox, supplanting the moon that, though full, is entering her weak half of the year where she is not so bright and the nights are shorter. This is why Easter takes place only after the last full moon at the equinox, after which the moon is weaker for six months.
Experts from across the known world were consulted, as were astronomical tables and data from around the world, so that a calendar system could be phased in that keeps the spring equinox on March 20 or 21 well into the future. The Holy
(cont. on page 15)
CALL US TODAY!
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28