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Happy New Year! (once again)

March 24, 2009 in General | No comments

The Sun entered is Aries in March, 20th, and the  dawn of March 21st opened the new year. This day is an ancient Persian feast of the New Year called Nowruz.

Omar Khayyam says in his Nowruz-name:

As for the reason of the establishment of Nowruz, it is the following:
The Sun has two revolutions. One of them is when the Sun returns to the first minutes of Aries every 365 and 1/4 days…
When Jamshid comprehended this day, he called it Nowruz and established the feast. Kings and other people followed him.

Nowadays, Nowruz is the traditional feast in several countries including post-Soviet republics of the Central Asia, and it is a feast in my family as well. My wife spent few years of her childhood in Tajikistan, where this feast has been celebrated all through the ages. From the other hand, Russian astrologers celebrate a vernal equinox as the Astrologer’s Day. We have doubled reason to celebrate this day thereby :D

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Rereading Omar Khayyam

September 30, 2008 in Astrology, Spirituality | 2 comments

Recently I reread the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Unfortunately, in the English-speaking countries Ghiyās od-Dīn Abol-Fath Omār ibn Ebrāhīm Khayyām Neyshābūri mostly known through Edward Fitzgerald’s re-created translation of his quatrains (rubaiyat), which is quite far from the true spirit of the rubaiyat and based perhaps only on tenth part of the extant quatrains. In fact, the poetic heritage of this mathematician, philosopher, astrologer and poet of XI-XII cc. contains many true gems for a devotee of the spiritual evolution as well as for an astrologer.

The Lord has judged so, and there is no judgement over Him.
His decision no never turns into yes.
Perhaps, some possible thing is not existing, by chance.
But impossible one will never exist at all.

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