In Utterance 215: 141 of the unas pyramid text of it states… “there is no star-god that has no companion, have you your companion?”

A terma is a Buddhist term for something that is hidden but comes into our awareness or is discovered when our consciousness is ready. This can be anything, but in the world of astrology, this often happens when planets come into our view. This is the case for all of the modern planets, which we cannot see with our naked eye. In the 1700’s several asteroids came into telescopic view. They were the “feminine asteroids” Pallas, Ceres, Juno and Vesta, and they seemed to bring a deeper understanding of the feminine. They appeared just as women’s rights started to come into our social fabric. In 1781, Uranus appeared and brought the Industrial Revolution. In 1930, Pluto came into view through modern telescopes, and with Pluto emerged knowledge and use of nuclear technology. For science, these were just another astronomical body, but for astrology became symbolic of something deeper; another layer, and a deeper understanding of life, its intricacies and meaning. We became aware of them as our awareness and our collective consciousness evolved, and as societies evolved, they brought a deeper layer of understanding and awareness.

We have now approached a time where we are not just bringing new planetary objects into our awareness, but we are also learning more about the universe, star systems and galaxies. Technology has allowed us to peer further into the universe than we ever have in our known history. We have been able to send out probes and gather new data and insight on our planets, galaxies, stars, nebulae and so on. This allows us to learn something more about ourselves. And yet many of these new understandings have not been applied to astrology. We have been ready to embrace and to seek new understanding of any new planetary or orbiting body that appears through our telescope or probe, but we have been less open, or perhaps it hasn’t occurred to us to take in our learnings about other solar systems and galaxies and apply it to our own. It requires that we stop and ask ourselves, How does this relate to our solar system and our understanding of it? It requires that we look inward to all that we currently know, to incorporate new understandings and discard anything that no longer fits. This is the case with Binary Star Astrology.

Binary star astrology uses the Tychos model to reconsider the spiritual path through the use of astrology. And though the Tychos had not yet become the generally accepted model, a spiritual understanding of the model might help us get there. In Binary Star Astrology, which uses the Tychos model, the planet meanings are not changed. In fact, when the Tychos is applied to astrology, many of the ancient myths, symbols and techniques begin to make sense. We have no way of knowing if the ancients knew how our solar system actually operates. There seem to be hints that they did. They seem to show up in myth, symbol and technique. However, just as the asteroids and new planets came into our view, and nothing changed, only a deeper quality emerged. So too, does the Tychos model add more depth and texture in a way that may or may not have been known. Those ancient myths, symbols and models will be explored, and a revived, yet innovative view of them will be suggested. What changes in Binary Star Astrology is the function and importance that the planets play in our astrological understanding of our psycho-spiritual development. The traditional meaning of the planets remains.

The main components key to Binary Star Astrology can be summarized as follows.

Our Two Stars

Many of you might have already entertained that we may be living in a binary star system. This idea was explored by the Binary Star Institute and Walter Cruttenden, who runs it and has explored the idea that we may be in a binary star relationship with Sirius in his book The Lost Star of Myth and Time. But it’s been hard to reconcile the length of the Great Year, said to be between 24,000 and 25,900 years, with this idea. Sirius would need to be considerably closer for this to be true. Earth, however, has one planet that has an aberration in its cycle. That planet is Mars. This aberration has been well known by astronomers throughout the ages, and it is the ancient records of the Mayans and the Babylonians that have helped to understand this aberration and guided the understanding of the Tychos. We will explore these records and the cycles of Mars in depth later, but sufficient to say here that Mars and the Sun have overlapping orbits. This makes it likely that they are binary stars! And this means that the Sun and Mars are partners.

In Ancient Egypt, two suns were spoken of. The Sun and the dark Sun. Ra and Anum. At some point, these two Suns were synchronized into Anum-Ra, but many have continued to speculate on the existence of a second Sun. Later, we will explore if this second sun is Mars. As a spiritual path, however, defining Mars as a Star or a Sun may not matter; the truth is that Mars has an overlapping orbit with the Sun, and that provides a shift in our thinking to allow us to re-evaluate the spiritual path. Rather than thinking about the Sun and Mars in terms of masculine and feminine at this point, you can think of them as something like Freud’s conception of Ego and will, or Being and Doing, or even Freud's conception of Ego and ID. Mars is like the ID in that it is an instinctive drive without necessarily having any values or feelings attached. The Sun has already often been linked to the Ego, in that it’s who we are, our expression and creativity. We often have to discover who we are through our expressions. How we express this is through creativity, our actions and so on. So there is something essential about the relationship between the Sun and Mars. Venus, Mercury and the Moon, the inner planets, also have a role.

More Than One Moon

The Moon, Venus, Mercury, Phobos and Deimos all only show one side of their face to us.

This is the definition of moon, and so by definition, Venus, Mercury and the Moon are all moons. The moon is Earth’s moon, Venus and Mercury are the Sun’s moons. Mars also has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The moons are key players in integrating Mars (will) with the Sun (being/ego).

We are all very familiar with the moon’s lunar cycles. We see them in the sky every month. But what is not recognized is that Venus and Mercury also display phases, and this is true whether you are looking at these planets through the Copernican model or the Tychos model. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered these phases through his newly invented telescope. Curiously, these phases may have been known by the Egyptians. They had more than one lunar god/goddess!

In Dendera, Egypt, in the Hathor Temple dedicated to astronomy/astrology, two zodiacs are displayed. The famous Dendera round zodiac, now in Paris (the replica in Dendera) and another, which depicts the zodiac split by solstices and rectangular in nature. The rectangular zodiac is on the ceiling in the front hypostyle hall. In this same hypostyle hall, between the zodiac are several other rows with depictions of various other cycles. One complete row is said to display the moon cycle with Osiris. Scholars have explained Osiris as the moon (Osiris-Iah). The main moon gods and goddesses in ancient Egyptian mythology are thought to be:

• Iah (Yah, Aah) - The Moon 

• Khonsu - A later version of the Moon 

• Thoth: A god of wisdom, writing, and magic. He is Mercury

Though not completely attested, there are goddesses that are lunar in nature. They are depicted by their lunar headdress and/or associated with the moon in ancient texts. They are Seshat;

Seshat, consort of Thoth. She is often seen with a seven-pointed star and a lunar crescent above her head. She is Virgo/Mercury

Auset/Isis, who is associated with the full or waxing Moon. Isis is often seen with a lunar crescent above her head. She is Venus at superior conjunction or Venus/Libra 

Nephthys, not explicitly a moon goddess, is associated with the waning or dark moon. Nephthys is dark and more occult and can be likened to Erishgigal in the Sumerian pantheon. She is Venus at inferior conjunction or Venus/Taurus

These gods and goddesses are lunar because they have lunar cycles. The Tychos helps us to see its lunar nature. This paradigm shift helps us to embrace the idea that there is more than one lunar body. If we shift our thinking to include Venus and Mercury as lunar, then we can open our minds and the lunar journey of Osiris on the Dendera Ceiling in a new Light. Later we will examine how the panels show:

• The Sun and Mars cycle - a 32-year cycle

• The Venus, Sun and Mars cycle - Mars making 5 conjunctions with Venus in the 32-year cycle

• The Mars, Sun and Mercury cycle - 79 years

Embedded in these cycles are the Sun and Moon Cycle of 29.22 days (rounded up to 30 days in Egypt), the eight (8) year rose cycle of Venus and the 40-year Venus and Mercury cycle.

These images provide a powerful path to re-integrate and understand that the spiritual path is through the moons of the Earth, Mars and the Sun.

All planets (including the moons) are in resonance with our moon. To find this resonance, we experience and develop ourselves through the moons of the Sun, which are Mercury (communication) and Venus (values and love). Mars also has two moons, and we also consider them: Deimos and Phobos. Phobos is panic, flight and rout (confusion). Deimos is fear, dread and terror. Though terrifying, these moons connect us with valuable information that keeps us safe and helps to clarify where we need to draw boundaries.

The Moon, Resonance and the 16 factor

Resonance

The moon has been called the “central drive shaft” in the Tychos. This is because all planets are in resonance with the moon. Spiritually, the moon is key.

In the Tychos, the moon has a 29.22-day cycle that is resonant with every planet in our binary star system. This 29.22-day cycle was noted in particular by the Mayans and used in the Mayan Calendar, and called the Octaeteris cycle by the Greeks. The Octaeteris cycle is the average moon cycle over 8 years and was used in timing the Olympic games and the Greek games. Though the average synodic cycle of the moon is said to be 29.5 days, the period used to calculate the average will result in different numbers. But the eight-year average is important. Its resonance with all other planets is:

• Mercury is 4 times 29.22 (116.88 days)

• Venus is 20 times 29.22 (584.4 days)

• Mars is 25 times 29.22 (730.5 days)

• Sun is 12.5 times 29.22 (365.25)

• Jupiter is 150 times 29.22 (4383 days or 12 years)

• Saturn is 375 times 29.22 (10957.5 or 30 years)

• Uranus is 1050 times 29.22 (30681 or 84 years)

• Neptune is 2062.5 times 29.22 (60266.25 days or 165 years)

• Pluto is 3100 times 29.22 (90582 days or 248 years)

When we are connected to the moon, we can find resonance with all other planets! This is why our emotions are the key to spiritual growth, manifestation, joy, love, and basically, connection to the entire system.

Frequency and Vibration

In the Tychos, the 16 Factor is demonstrated by the planetary cycles within 16 years. (5844 days). There are 8 Mars cycles, 200 moon cycles, 50 Mercury cycles, and 10 Venus cycles. Simon Shack calls this the horologic feature of our solar system. Beyond these small cycles, the 16 factor shows up time and time again, including in the Great Tychos Year.

Sixteen (16) also shows up in harmonic tuning, a natural musical tuning measure. The music of the spheres has long been an obsession of those studying the stars, including Pythagorous, Plato and Kepler. It has already been mentioned that this led to temperament tuning, which uses a 12-note scale, and which was an attempt, metaphorically or in actuality, to temper society through the frequency and vibration of sound. Later, this will lead to an examination of the Mobius circuit, Gerjuif’s Enneagram and Tartarian music, which some have connected to Atlantians.

Resonance will be a key feature of spiritual integration within binary star astrology.

Retrogrades, Epicycles and Spiritual Growth

In the Copernican model of our solar system, retrogrades are said to be an optical illusion. But, in the Tychos, retrograde motions are caused by the geometry of trochoidal motions rather than by optical illusion. Retrogrades are geometric occurrences that happen with all tricoidal movements. In Theosophy and Anthroposophy, the maturation of the planets happens in trichodial motions, and similarly, in astrology, retrogrades are seen as times for review and reflection. Retrograde motions are what create the experience of planets reversing direction and going into the underworld. They are key testing and gestating periods for spiritual growth, and they are real. They represent an important part of development for individuals and the planet.

Epicycles also help us reconnect to the sacred geometry. The word 'Geometry' is derived from the ancient Greek word 'geometron'. The word 'geo' means 'Earth' and 'metron' means ' measurement'. What we know as sacred geometry are the patterns derived from the patterns that the planets form from our view on Earth. Kepler, Tycho, and in particular Ptolemy drew accurate diagrams of the cycles of all the planets. Through technology, it has been made possible to see these cycles in action. IT developer Patrik Holmqvist was to create a planetarium that simulated the movements of the planets. This provided the ability to test the tychos in action.

So what can the Tychos tell us about sacred geometry?

• If we track the path of the Sun, the Sun traces an infinity sign.

• The binary paths of Mars and the Sun create a Vesica Piscis. The eclipse cycles of the Sun and Moon also provide us with a Vesica Piscis.

• The Venus path creates the five-petaled rose or pentagram

• Even if we put Eros in, we see Eros and the Sun creating a heart!

• The entire inner system of Mars and the Sun creates the cosmic egg

• In the larger cycles, we can see the equal armed cross and much more.

Understanding sacred geometry and how it actually relates to ancient symbols, ancient technology helps us to better understand the symbols. And this helps us deepen into spiritual growth through the use of geometry and symbol.

Earth’s Slow Pace

The Earth has a much slower orbit than has been explained to us in the Copernican model. It moves at a slow pace around its orbit, which takes 25,344 years. This orbit helps us to understand how one year on Earth is 365.25 days. But was this knowledge known by the ancients?

Earth Orbit

 

In Ancient Egypt, the god Geb was the god of the earth. He is often seen lying under Nut, the sky goddess. The hieroglyphs, particularly in the Old Kingdom, for the Geb are a leg and a goose. The Egyptians used hieroglyphic symbols to depict important qualities about each of the things they were naming and describing, and they also provided a phonetic sound. The goose lives near water, mud and marsh, and this perfectly describes the fertile earth of the Nile region. The leg in front of the goose brings to mind a goose walking on land. How quickly does a goose walk? Slowly, waddling along generally a pace of 1.6km.

Simon Shack used the image of a snail on the cover of his book The Tychos to depict the slow pace of the Earth's motion. His main addition to the Tyhonic model of Tycho Brahe was this orbit of Earth; Earth moving at 1.6km (1 mile per hour) over 25,344 years to complete a Great Tychos Year.

Did the Ancient Egyptians know the orbit of the Earth? We know they were great mathematician who could measure the circumference of the Earth, so it’s not hard to imagine that they did.

Five (5) Days out of Time

Two ancient cultures had a calendar of 360 days. In Ancient Egypt, the Egyptian Civil Calendar was tied to the Sothic Calendar of 360 days, but in 2773 BC, the Civil Calendar was standardized to 365 days. Five epagomental days were added dedicated to Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Seth and Horus. The establishment of the calendar was not associated with a Pharaoh making a declaration in order to fix the year, but rather by a myth. The myth went like this: the god Geb (Earth) and Nut (Sky) were forbidden by the Sun god Ra from having children during the 360 days of the year. Thoth tricked Ra by gambling with the moon to gain extra light, adding five extra days to the year. Nut then gave birth to the five gods that represent the five epagomenal days.¹ The Egyptian calendar was divided into the sections, three 30-day months within each and then further broken down to 36 10-day weeks for the entire year, with 5 epagomental days at the end. The Mayans also had a calendar called the Haab with 360 days. This calendar was divided into 18 months of 20 days plus one month of 5 days. Where does the 360-day year with 5 extra days singled out come from?

The Tychos model explains that the Earth moves around its long 25,344-year PVP orbit in one direction, and the Sun moves in the other over one year. Earth has two motions; While Earth is moving in its direction around its orbit, it is also rotating counterclockwise about its own axis, moving west. The Earth spins around its own axis 366.256363 times in one year and moves along its orbit at a speed of 1.6 km. On the other hand, the Sun also has two motions. It is moving in the opposite direction, also rotating but clockwise and moving east. As the Sun moves in its direction, it does so by 1 degree per day as measured against the stars. There are 360 degrees in a circle, so it seems it should take 360 days to complete one year and return again to meet up with the same star as viewed from Earth. But A solar day is 4 minutes longer than the sidereal day. The solar day is 1440 minutes, and a sidereal day of 1436 minutes. Taking all of these motions, earths spin counterclockwise and moves west, and the Sun spins clockwise, and 1 degree motion east into accounting and 5.2 extra days are created. And these 5.2 days are time out of time and can only be explained by the relationship of the Earth's motions and the Sun's motions.

Only the Mayan and the Egyptian calendars described their year with the 5 extra days, as if to point out that they were liminal days, created by something other than anything real. And this points again to the likelihood that they understood the true motion of our solar system.

In the Mayan year, the 5 days called Uayeb, who was also a god of Misfortune, were considered dangerous and unlucky. It was considered a portal between the mortal and the underworld, which allowed in ill-meaning deities. For this reason, during this time, the Mayans would fast, abstain from sex and celebration, washing their hair or even leaving the house.² The dates of misfortune were July 21 to July 26.

The Ancient Egyptians also considered these days to be dangerous and practiced rituals to protect themselves. They wore amulets made of linen knotted 12 times. They performed rituals to pacify the Goddess Sekhmet.

Earth’s slow and gradual pace and its relationship to the Sun through time cycles reflect our growth and pace and need for honouring portals.

Ages, Aeon’s and Earth’s Cycle

The Great Age, or “precession of the equinox,” is due to Earth's PVP orbit (Polaris/Vega/Polaris). This orbit takes 24,344 years in the Tychos conception. Each Age is 2112 years long. One of the biggest questions in astrology is when the age of Aquarius begins. We have been looking at the sign on the equinox when day and night are the same in length in order to answer this question. But the Tychos points us in the direction of the North Star. The North Star tells us who is King of the age. This was the argument of the authors of Hamlet’s Mill, and it’s one that we will take seriously in helping us to understand what age we are in and what our North is.

This is a lot to unpack; in the following chapters, these models, ideas and concepts will be explored fully.

We are all stardust. We are the stars that split and created the dust that is the stardust of our souls. Integrating Mars and the Sun and allowing them to work in harmony helps provide a path to embrace all aspects of ourselves. As above, so below!

1 Www.globaleygptianmuseum.org

2 Lynn Foster, Handbook to Life in the Ancient Mayan World