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Message Subject The Old Way of Calculating the Solstices and Equinoxes
Poster Handle anastasis888
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The ultimate test of seeing how good you are with the sundial is to pick any random day of the year to walk out in a meadow armed only with a stick.

With that one stick, you have to follow the course of the sun's shadow until you can establish true east and west. Then, knowing east and west, you have to cast a dial circle in the dirt and divide the 12 hours of daylight.

Then at sunset, you have to observe what sign the sun set in, and then observe what the moon phase is.

If you know what mansion the sun is in and know true east and west, and you know how many relative minutes (us) the sun inclines or declines per day, in a few days you should be able to establish what day of the year it is with only a stick and the information from Antolius.

When you can do that, then you pass the course of ancient astronomy. All you can take in the field is your brain and one stick.
 
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