A Bit of This and That Blog

Now that the official Chinese New Year is here, I wanted to post some information regarding the year of the Boar (pig).
This year’s Lunar New Year is on February eighteenth. It is the year of the pig. The Chinese New Year dates are determined by the lunisolar Chinese calendar, which is also used in countries [...]

According to the research done on the Mayan calendar, it is supposed to end as of 2012. Many people believe this will be the end of the world as we know it.
Many cultures have an end of the world myth. It varies from culture to culture and religion to religion. Some say that the original [...]

Many agricultural and hunting cultures throughout time have used the full moon as a measure of time as well as seasonal markers. Additionally, they were given names to remember them properly.
For 2007 I am posting the names of each full moon for the year. This list is provided by Joe Rao, an astronomer who writes for [...]

Know insurance companies have a new way of attaching costs or savings to your policy - what’s  your astrological sign?
Apparantly, if you are among those who’s Sun sign falls under Libra or Aquarius, you are a bad driver! LOL
Insurance Hotline did a study recently, out of 100,000 insured motorists to see which of the twelve [...]

Our neighbors, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury will be aligned within 1 degree of each other early Sunday morning. About 45 minutes before sunrise, you can look to the East and you will see them in the early morning sky through binoculars or a telescope.
I have always been fascinated with astronomy and our heavenly neighbors. Of [...]

You are The Sun  
Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.
The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the [...]