Tracking the Fall Equinox – Sundial Project

6 Responses to Tracking the Fall Equinox – Sundial Project

1. Brian farrell says:

   10/15/2014 at 10:14 pm

   I am still not clear on what epiphany you, or like Stephen on Scott’s site, have had. No one seems to express a concise summation of what they see that changes moon observances to solar based.
   Just trying to understand.

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   • Isha says:

     10/29/2014 at 5:17 am

     Brian, the Hebrew word for “year” (“shaneh”) comes from a root that means “to repeat, do again”. Genesis 1 tells us “the greater light” is for the rule of the day; we understand that to be the sun. When looking for a “repeat” (year) of “days”, we watch what the sun is doing. It runs a course that lasts about 365 days before it begins to repeat itself.

     Genesis 1 tells us the lesser light is for the rule of the night; most understand that to be the moon. The problem with looking to the moon for a “repeat” of “nights” is that unlike the sun, which rises and sets *every* day, the moon rises and sets throughout the day *and* the night. It leads us astray.

     Also, the moon when it repeats its course, it does not line up exactly with the sun each time. It falls behind. For example, the moonrise of a particular phase may happen at 2:20 PM on a particular day. But when that particular phase repeats itself the moonrise will be earlier in the day, 29-30 days later. This is why there is a 13th “month” intercalated every 3 years or so with a luni-solar reckoning. (The sun travels its full course in 365 days, but the moon travels its full course 12.33 times in that span.)

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2. Brian farrell says:

   11/11/2014 at 8:18 pm

   Thank you for your reply. It was such a great start for me, but seemed to stop short as to the next step in understanding how we translate this solar based perspective to determining when the commanded observances are.

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   • Isha says:

     11/12/2014 at 3:14 pm

     It seems that according to Scripture, there are 12 “chodesh” (aka “renewals”) in a year. I’m not sure how exactly each chodesh is determined, but the sun gives a sign to mark each of the four seasons (what we commonly refer to as the equinoxes and solstices).

     I’m thinking there are three chodesh in each quarter, but like I said, I don’t know exactly how to determine the start of each one. I’m thinking the positioning of the stars has something to do with it since there are 12 constellations that make their way across the sky throughout the year.

     Loosely this is how the chodesh would fall out over the seasons of the year:
     1st chodesh = early spring
     2nd chodesh = mid spring
     3rd chodesh = late spring
     4th chodesh = early summer
     5th chodesh = mid summer
     6th chodesh = late summer
     7th chodesh = early fall
     8th chodesh = mid fall
     9th chodesh = late fall
     10th chodesh = early winter
     11th chodesh = mid winter
     12th chodesh = late winter

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3. Brian farrell says:

   12/03/2014 at 1:52 pm

   Thanks again.
   Still waiting on my epiphany.
   I lurk here and on ProProph looking for something that kinda pulls it all together. A consensus from scripture that aligns the moedim(?) with a way to determine when they are. When we say repeat, does that imply falling on the same day of the week annually, and do the days of the week follow, or reset each “new year”?
   Is this obscure to me because I’m missing a piece of the puzzle, or is this understanding not given to some?

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4. Bat says:

   03/06/2015 at 9:05 pm

   Great job on the videos! 😀

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