Jupiter

Jupiter in natural colours with shadow of the moon Europa, from photos taken by the Cassini-Huygens telecamera on 7 December 2000.

Today's Jupiter (ancient Egyptian Hor-wepesh-taui; Hebrew צֶדֶק, Tsedeq; astronomical sign: ♃) arose from a spiritual-scientific point of view, when the so-called Old Sun's existence was repeated in an abbreviated form during the earth evolution. It consists essentially of gas and heat. Jupiter's sidereal orbital period is 11.86 years.

„Jupiter has a moderate active power because its motion is between the cooling influence of Saturn and the burning power of Mars. It heats and moistens; And because its heating power is the greater because of the underlying spheres, it produces fertilising winds.“

– Claudius Ptolemy: Terabiblos, Book I, The Power of the Planets

A Great Conjunction of [[Saturn and Jupiter occurs about every 20 years. Some astronomers and historians suggest that the Star of Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth may have been a Great Conjunction in the years 7 to 6 B.C.[2][3] The most recent, spiritually very significant Great Conjunction occurred in the evening of December 21, 2020.

Literature

• Fran Bagenal, T. Dowling, W. McKinnon (Hrsg.): Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-81808-7.
• Guillaume Cannat, Didier Jamet: Jupiter und Saturn – die schönsten Bilder der Raumsonden Galileo und Cassini. Aus dem Franz. von Gottfried Riekert. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1877-3.
• Alexander J. Dessler: Physics of the Jovian magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-24558-3.
• John W. McAnally: Jupiter and how to observe it. Springer, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85233-750-6.
• Rudolf Steiner: Natur- und Geistwesen – ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt, GA 98 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-0980-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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