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10 Kepler investigated this phenomenon:
Kepler has put number 1 at the border beteween Aries and Pisces. Number 2 is inside Sagittarius and number 3 is inside Leo. Number 4 is inside Aries, which means the movement goes backwards in precessional time-space:
Number 20 is inside the Goat and number 21 is located at the border between Virgo and Libra. The First Point of Libra should ideally be visible close to the face of the Full Moon when the Sun rose at the First Point of Aries.
... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ...
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