vernal equinox

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• The ancient Egyptian Magi observed another division of the year that was called the fatidic year and began at the vernal equinox.
• Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. Letter XVII-On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton’s Chronology
• Historically, March 21 is known as the vernal equinox -- an equal balance of light and dark. Kari Henley: What Seeds Of Change Are You Planting This Spring?
• A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles.
• The vernal equinox is defined in astronomy as that point in space where the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, the ecliptic, intersects the plane of the Earth's equator extended into space.
• Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
• Here on Barbary Lane, the vernal equinox was heralded by an ancient scarlet azalea that blazed like a bonfire next to the garbage cans. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
• Consequently, since this month always began with that new moon of which the fourteenth day occurred on or next after the vernal equinox, Christ arose from the dead on Sunday, the seventeenth day of the so-called paschal moon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• In the northern hemisphere the March equinox (or "first point of Aries") is called the vernal equinox; the September equinox ( "first point of Libra"), the autumnal. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux