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Badly Aspected/Placed: a planetary affliction, sign placement in detriment or fall, or weak house placement. Benefic(s): Venus and Jupiter. Big Bang (see "Big Bang" page): a theory as to how the universe began, based on Edwin Hubble's 1929 discovery that all galaxies are moving away from one another at great speeds, and that therefore the space between them is continually expanding. This "expansion of the universe" point of few was popularized in the 1950s by George Gamow and a few other physicists, claiming that if the universe were expanding, it followed that the separation between galaxies must have been smaller in the past. Following this argument to its ultimate conclusion, the universe must have at one time been entirely located at a single point. Such an infinitely hot and dense point would necessarily have exploded in a cataclysmic creation event, and, if so, everything we now see in the universe must have come from this incredibly hot and dense point that primordially exploded in what is now called the "Big Bang." In 1962 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two Bell Labs physicists using a large New Jersey radio telescope, found a background "noise" everywhere they looked in the sky. Simultaneously at nearby Princeton University, Robert Dicke had hypothesized that if in fact there had been a big bang, the residue from that explosion would by now, some 13.7 billion years later, be reduced in temperature to a low-level uniform background radiation throughout the entire universe. His computations predicted that the temperature left over from the big bang would today be about 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, exactly what the two Bell Labs physicists were seeing everywhere as "noise" in their Holmdel radio telescope! This was extraordinarily strong supporting evidence of the Big Bang theory. Binovile: an aspect of 20° or 1/18th of the circle (see "Novile"). Biquintile: an aspect of 144° or 2/5th of the circle (see "quintile"). Biseptile: an aspect of 102.86° or 2/7th of the circle (see "septile"). Blavatsky, Madame Helena (1831 - 1891): founder of the school of Theosophy, she purportedly channeled much of her teachings and books through disincarnate guides. According to Russian folklore it was believed that supernatural beings could be placated or even controlled by people like Helena. When she was still a child, the servants would carry her around the house and stables on her birthday while sprinkling holy water and repeating magical incantations to appease the domovoy, a mischievous goblin who lived behind the stove and took on the form of an old man. She was the author of such esoteric classics as Isis Unveiled (1877), The Secret Doctrine (1888), Key to Theosophy (1889), and her highly praised work on Buddhism: The Voice of Silence (1889). Her teachings profoundly affected the thinking of such notables as Mahatma Gandhi, James Joyce, and William Butler Yeats. Furthermore her Theosophical Society did much to bring positive awareness of Eastern philosophy and religions to Europe and other parts of the Western world. Bode's
law: First stated by Johann Titius in 1766, this formula
"predicting" the semi-major axis of each planet's orbit around
the Sun was made prominent by Johann Bode ten years later in 1776. The
Titius-Bode law states that the a planet's semi-major axis in AU (1
astronomical unit = the Earth-Sun distance) is |
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