How To Use lunation In A Sentence
- The fundamental difference between the out-going, waxing hemisphere aspects and the incoming, waning hemisphere aspects can readily be seen if we think of the cycle of the seasons or of the lunation cycle or the daily cycle.
- The interaction between the parts and the horizon brings the lunation cycle down to earth, projecting it, via the ascendant, into the sublunar sphere of the mundane houses.
- It is an alien model which exhibits a useful correlation between lunations, phases of horticultural activity and Gregorian calendar months - but it is based on a comparison that does not arise in people's minds.
- Even without the benefit of modern mathematics, tally rods show clearly and unequivocally a mismatch of about a third of a lunation between the end of 12 lunations (the lunar year) and the end of the solar year.
- Applying tropical year and lunation, the exchange formula of calendar and solar calendar could be derived.
- However, the months no longer corresponded to lunations, as days were added to give a total year length of 365 days.
- Given this - along with the use of the average length of the lunation and a number of other rules - a fully calculated calendar was possible.
- To twelve of the 19 years 12 lunations were assigned, and to the other seven 13 lunations, the thirteenth lunation being known as the embolismic or intercalary month. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- From the earliest times they had observed the twelve ecliptical "mansions" and zodiacal signs, and also that the time occupied by the sun in travelling through a mansion was rather longer than one lunation, or the time intervening between two new moons. Ancient China Simplified
- Et quod mirum est valdè de omni lunatione ijs apparet nisi 2. quarta. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
