"Shooting stars. This electrical [sic] phenomenon was observed on Wednesday morning last at Richmond and its vicinity, in a manner that alarmed many, and astonished every person that beheld it. From one until three in the morning, those starry meteors seemed to fall from every point in the heavens, in such numbers as to resemble a shower of sky rockets..."
What will the Lyrids do this year? The only way to know for sure is to go outside and look.
Experienced meteor watchers suggest the following viewing strategy: Dress warmly. Bring a reclining chair, or spread a thick blanket over a flat spot of ground. Lie down and look up somewhat toward the east. Meteors can appear in any part of the sky, although their trails will tend to point back toward the radiant--i.e., toward Vega.
Vega is a brilliant blue-white star about three times wider than our Sun and 25 light years away. About 14,000 years ago Vega was the North Star. Earth's spin axis wanders: Now it points at Polaris, then it pointed at Vega. You might have seen Vega in Carl Sagan's movie Contact. It was the source of alien radio transmissions to Earth.
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************The Dragon Star*************
Consider a few scientific facts regarding the star positions. Today, the North Star#1, also known as the pole star, is Polaris, located in Constellation Ursa Minor.
For all practical purposes it does not move, but, in reality, it does. The ancient positions of the stars were dramatically different than their positions today, and in about ten thousand years earth will have a different polar star.
Long ago, the pole star was Thuban#1, which is in Constellation Draco, the Dragon..
The ancients believed Thuban was protected by Constellation Draco. They also thought this constellation contained a portal leading from mortality to immortality . Conjecture suggests this idea was possibly taught to them by the "Sons of God".
If we consider at the actual position of the Constellation Draco during the time of the Apostle John, we discover it to have been a dominant force. Thuban was the pole star at that time and had been in that position for the previous twenty-five hundred years. Today, Polaris, in Constellation Ursa Minor, dominates the heavens as the pole star. As the stars rotated, the Dragon constellation, equated to the forces of evil, battled for heavenly domination, but slowly they gave way to the Constellation Ursa Minor, which is synonymous with the forces of good. With that transfer of heavenly dominion a new celestial light, Polaris, representing the ascended Fallenstar of Indian legend, replaced Thuban, symbolic of Draco, the Dragon, as the pole star.
This great battle for dominance has raged continuously for thousands of years. It is difficult to estimate when this celestial conflict may have begun.
However, the suggestion of one constellation giving way to another is intriguing and appears to signal something. In the Scriptural account of Revelation Chapter Twelve, we see the Dragon being defeated.
He and the stars, or angels, that followed him were cast to the Earth.
Because their heavenly positions are now lower on the horizon, the stars in Constellation Draco actually appear to fall into the Earth as Thuban yields dominance to Constellation Ursa Minor along with its star, Polaris.
This astronomical explanation is nothing more than a description of the slowly progressive movement of the stars, in relationship to the Earth, over eons of time. Ursa Minor's dominance will last for about another fourteen thousand years before it yields to another constellation.
The question is, "Do these celestial changes signal future events that will eventually envelope Earth?"
As the Earth travels along its orbital pathway, it constantly spins on its axis. Scientists are of the opinion that the speed of Earth's axial rotation was much greater thousands of years ago.
Slowing of this motion causes destabilization of the planetary axis; as a result, Earth tends to wobble at times. This can be depicted as the axial instability occurring whenever something with spinning motion, such as a top, begins to slow down.
It has been suggested that such an event may have allowed the Earth to tilt on its axis approximately twelve thousand years ago, resulting in a polar shift. This could occur again if wobbling intensifies as Earth's rotational speed continues to decline.
It has been speculated that when the Dragon is cast down lower in the heavens, or "falls to Earth," there may be another massive polar shift. The degradation of Earth's axial speed may also have resulted in significant changes in its magnetic field.
Along with a polar shift, alterations in Earth's magnetic field can result in further geological upheaval......
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