Our Sun and eight planets with their moons make up what astronomers call the “Solar System”. Although our Solar System is not the only one in the galaxy, scientists have not yet found the one like it. Each planet in the Solar System is as unique as the system in which it orbits. As a matter of fact, eight planets have very few attributes in common. They similarly orbit around the Sun, and they have largely the same chemical compositions. Beyond those two properties, the planets contrast far more sharply than they neatly compare.

The Sun’s gravity and magnetic field, called the “heliosphere”, envelop the major planets and all the dwarf planets in the Solar System. Although we frequently represent the planets’ orbits as circular, the major planets actually trace cosmic ellipses as they rotate around the Sun.

The planets take their names from Roman gods and goddesses. Of course, “Jupiter”, by far the largest of the eight planets, is named for the King of the Roman gods. Saturn, frigid and ice-bound almost beyond measure and imagination, paradoxically carries the name of the Roman god of agriculture. Mars, relatively small and desolate, carries the name of the Romans’ war god.

However there is a lunar secret that is very important to take into consideration when your horoscope is being analyzed. When you look at the Moon to determine the mood of a person you have to look for the cycle the Moon were in at the time of the persons birth.

Was the Moon, New, Crescent, First Quarter, Gibbous, Full, Disseminating, Last Quarter, or Balsamic Moon. These are called “the Lunar Cycle” and they can help you understand the moods of a person. These lunar cycles represent subtle feminine energy and power in your chart.

By finding the placement of the Moon in your chart you will be able to clarify why a person may have certain moods and often get into similar situations without realizing why. For instance if your Moon were in the New Moon phase which last about three and a half days then your mood would generally be one of emergency.

The New Moon is for planting and creating. So the kind of mood for this person would be one of hopefulness for the future and generally perceive the world as a place of possibilities and a life of joy.

For centuries man has rediscovered himself and the world around him by gazing at the stars. It is almost as if man had an intuitive feel about the vastness of knowledge that is stored within these stars. Gradually as more and more familiarity evolved and mankind started on a path of discovery of the hidden knowledge of these shiny sparkles of light through the science of Astronomy.

Through the science of Astronomy we can know more about the process of the creation of the stars as well as the history of the universe. Through the various sophisticated processes that are involved in the science of astronomy, we can also measure the distance of separation of one star from the other as well as forecast the time when they will be destroyed.

As mankind learned more about the stars through Astronomy and its allied sciences, the use of imagination was merged with this newly gained knowledge through which we could also visualize shapes and characters in the various groups of stars. We named them in accordance with these characteristics and termed them to be scientifically as constellations. This was the perfect blend of the science and the arts and allowed us to become even more involved in this process of getting to know more about our celestial neighbors.

One of the most interesting subjects imaginable, knowledge of the science of Astronomy is something that all of us should possess. The basics of the science of astronomy can be easily understood and once you have grasped this knowledge you can carry out a lot of self reading on the subject to gain a deeper knowledge about the various facets of the science. In this article we are going to talk about the various basics of Astronomy.

Astronomy can be defined to be the science which deals with the matter of the earth, its neighboring planets, the environment and the mass which surrounds these as well as other studies that can be said to be a part of their periphery. However, if we really were to define the scope of the subject of Astronomy, it would encompass the entirety of the study of just about everything around us and our planet.

Although astronomy is the oldest science, it continues to be at the forefront of not only scientific thought, but that of the public at large too. Who has not looked up at the galaxy while walking home late at night and wondered? Having said that though, the ancient people of certainly the northern hemisphere, but probably both, knew the movements of the stars and planets better than most of us do nowadays.

They understood then, thousands of years ago, that the majority of stars appear to rise in the Eastern skies at night and travel on circular paths. They also noticed that some ‘stars’ were ‘wanderers’ (we call them planets) and that sometimes they went ‘against the flow’.

They also named groups of stars that we now call constellations or even galaxies and knew that those visible in the winter were different from those visible in the summer.and that others were visible all year round. The average common man of 5,000 – 10,000 years ago almost certainly knew more about the movement of the celestial bodies than the average common man of today does. (I mean men and women here, of course).