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Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Jyotish Reference on Venus............................................................................................................................................... 4 Jyotish Fundamentals on Eclipse of the Sun.................................................................................................................... 4 The spot of the Eclipse ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Thus, the Prediction ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Way out, Remedies ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
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Introduction
Transit of Venus on June 5 and 6 2012 is one of the hottest topics in the astronomical and astrological circles. United Astrology Conference 2012 was held recently [May 24 to May 29 2012] in New Orleans, US and was an august gathering of world class astrologers across the globe. The conference had a tag line called Venus on the Rise, implying the transit of Venus having some major astrological and astronomical implications and influence on human life. Wikipedia mentions on the page Titled Transit of Venus a very interesting sentence Ancient Indian, Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian and Chinese observers knew of Venus and recorded the planet's motions. I am a jyotish so I obviously got recent inquiries on this forthcoming event. Thus, after coming back from a wonderful Saturday evening with friends, I thought it best to pen my thoughts on this subject before I retire for the day. A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. This means, from Earth, Venus, Sun and Earth are on the same plane. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. A transit is thus identical to a solar eclipse by the Moon. While the diameter of Venus is almost four times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller, and travels more slowly across the face of the Sun, because it is much farther away from Earth. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 commensurabilities.
The most recent transit of Venus that was last observed from Earth took place on June 8, 2004. The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit after the invention of broadcast media. No human alive at the time had witnessed a previous Venus transit since that transit occurred on December 6, 1882.
The next transit of Venus will occur on 5 and 6 June 2012, and will be the last Venus transit this century; the prior transit took place on 8 June 2004. The previous pair of transits was in December 1874 and December 1882. After 2012, the next transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125.
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