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Being in Moscow a week ago, in addition to meeting my friends, lecture delivering, meeting members of our international astrological web forum, I had an opportunity to take a walk inside of the Kremlin and to admire its churches. There is a fresco on a wall of one cathedral, the Cathedral of the Dormition, that attracted my special attention. It is an image of Sophia, the God’s Wisdom.
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 
From time to time we find there are many things besides astrology in our life. From time to time we find that everything in our life is astrology. It’s all very well 
Sometimes you can meet a maniac and find it is a good chance to observe the effects of atra bilis or overheated melancholy 
Last weekend we opened an exhibition of my wife’s paintings in the State Art Museum in the kremlin. This event had a strong scent of Venus – the aesthetic feast with paintings, chamber music and buffet tables.
This prompted me pay my attention to Venus in a period of the exhibition. And I found a pretty curious condition of Venus in this period.
Georgia attacked South Osetia about 100 days ago, 7th of August 2008. First Georgian volleys towards Tskhinval, the capital of South Osetia was about 23h30min of Moscow time.
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