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A half-birthday is a day approximately six months before or after the anniversary of a person's birth. It is sometimes marked by people whose birthday either falls on major holidays, near major holidays, or both, the celebration of which may overshadow celebration of the birthday. [1] It may also be marked by students whose birthday does not ...
The Counter-Earth is a hypothetical body of the Solar System that orbits on the other side of the Solar System from Earth. A Counter-Earth or Antichthon ( Greek: Ἀντίχθων) was hypothesized by the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Philolaus ( c. 470 – c. 385 BC) to support his non- geocentric cosmology, in which all objects in the ...
The Sun's position on a person's birthday therefore determines what is usually called their "sun" sign. However, the sun sign allotment varies between Western (sign change around 22-23 of every month) and Hindu astrology (sign change around 14-15 of every month) due to the different systems of planetary calculations, following the tropical and ...
Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this area from around December 22 to January 19. [2] Capricorn is one of the three earth signs, alongside Taurus and Virgo, [3] a negative sign, [4] [5] and one of the four cardinal signs. Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn and its opposite sign is Cancer. [6]
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun; its diameter is about ten times larger than Earth's, and about ten times smaller than the Sun's.
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. In English, it is named after the ancient Roman god Mercurius ( Mercury ), god of commerce and communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars.
A tithi (Sanskrit: तिथि) is the time taken by the Moon to advance 12° with respect to the Earth-Sun axis. [6] In other words a tithi is the time taken for the Moon's elongation (on the ecliptic plane) to increase by 12°. A tithi is one fifteenth of a pakṣa and one thirtieth of a cāndramāsa. A tithi corresponds to the concept of a ...
Sun sign astrology, or star sign astrology, is a modern simplified system of Western astrology which considers only the position of the Sun at birth, which is said to be placed within one of the twelve zodiac signs, rather than the positions of the sun and the other six 'planets'. This sign is then called the sun sign or star sign of the person ...