quoteIf you look down as you enter the main door of Freemasons¹ Hall in Great Queen Street in London there is a pentagram on the floor, a five point star. The lecture on numbers in the Zelator degree of the Societas Rosicruciana uses Pentagram to illustrate the number five and the six point Seal of Solomon or Star of David to illustrate the number six. Both are very ancient symbols and I want to concentrate on the question of where they came from.
For the first step I need to draw your attention to the two planets closer to the sun than Earth Venus and Mercury. Take Venus first. Because it is a little nearer the sun than the earth is, its orbit is shorter: though the speed of both through space is similar, from any starting point, Venus gains on the Earth, like an athlete on the inside track at a bend. If both start from the same position on the zodiac, Venus reaches a point when, seen from earth, it is on the far side of the sun, directly in line with it. That is the ³Superior Conjunction². Venus gets back to the starting point before the earth, starts on the second orbit and lines up between the earth and sun, an ³Inferior Conjunction² and continues its orbit, getting further ahead of earth until the next Superior Conjunction.
SourceSourcequoteBecause Venus and Earth take different times to complete their orbits, it is 8 years before the two planets arrive back at the same initial point. In that time Venus has completed 10 orbits and the Earth 8. There have thus been ten conjunctions five ³superior¹ and five Œinferior² in the 8 years. The next step is to imagine two circles, each representing the zodiac as followed by the sun, and mark on one the position of the superior conjunctions and the order in which they occur. On the other circle, mark the positions of the inferior conjunctions and the order in which they occur. In both cases, draw a line between position one and position two, then position two and position three and so on. The result is more than interesting: the result is shattering.
