ASTROLOGY


Stargazer – March & April 2018


Stella explores ancient Inca stargazing and discovers similarities with indigenous Australians. She discusses emotional balance during the upcoming equinox and lunar cycles, and gives seven top tips for a fruitful Autumn.


by Stella Woods


TWICE IN A BLUE MOON? If you missed all the excitement of late January’s super blue blood-red full moon and lunar eclipse, don’t despair – we have another blue moon coming up in March! “Once in a Blue Moon” is a common


expression meaning ‘hardly ever’, but what exactly is a blue moon? According to popular definition, it’s the second full moon to occur in a single calendar month. The average interval between full moons is 29.5 days, whilst the length of an average month is roughly 30.5 days. This makes it unlikely that any given month will contain two full moons, though it does sometimes happen. On average, there are 41 blue moons every century, so we could


say that ‘once in a blue moon’ means about once every 2.5 years. This year however, we had two full moons in January and there will be two more in March: one in Virgo on the 2nd and one in Libra on the 31st. The Libra full moon is the blue one.


STARGAZING IN PERU Peru, like Australia, is in the southern hemisphere and as the South Pole faces the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, those of us lucky enough to live in these southern lands can enjoy spectacular views of the southern skies featuring brilliant stars such as Sirius, Canopus and Alpha Centauri; constellations such as the Pleiades, Orion and Southern Cross and of course, the glowing band


of the Milky Way. The non-luminous part of the Milky Way, formed by overlapping dust clouds, is sometimes referred to as ‘The Great Rift’ or ‘Dark River’. On a recent trip to Peru to explore


ancient megalithic sites and their solar and lunar alignments, I was keen to find out how the Inca and their ancestors viewed the cosmos. I discovered that at the height


of its power in the mid-1500s, the Incan Empire of South America had 10 million subjects and stretched 5500km from Colombia in the north to Chile in the south, covering plains, mountains, desert and tropical jungle. I also discovered that many cities and sacred sites attributed to the Inca had been built thousands of years


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