"If you go on your housetop or any other convinient elevation on a clear night, you will see a great many stars adorning the vaulted arch of heaven, and if you look more closely you will observe that they all twinkle -that is to say, with the exception of perhaps one or two which shine with a perfectly steady light. The twinklers are suns of other solar systems so far away that a traveler going with the speed of light would require hundreds of years to reach some of them. They move in such enormous circles and are at such a distance that they appear to maintain the same positions relative to one another. Therefore they are called "fixed stars". There is a radical difference between the twinklers and the stars which emit a steady light. If you watch one of the latter night after night, you will find that it changes position relative to the fixed stars in a direction from west to east, the same as the Sun. Continued observation of the various heavenly bodies whose light is steady will show that they all follow the same path among the maze of fixed stars. Four such luminous planets are visible to the naked eye at various times a year. Their names are Saturn,Jupiter,Mars and Venus. A fifth, Mercury is usually so close to the Sun that is invisible on account of the luminosity of the Sun's rays,but at times it may be seen west shortly after sunset or in the east just before the sunrise. It twinkles like a fixed star,although it is a planet." -Max Heindel, Astrology lesson no.2 #astrology #maxheindel #rosecross #rosicrucianfellowship #astrologyjuniorcourse #fixedstars #astrologydaily #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #quote #joy #love #l4l (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqdgNVIHgPt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ly6b0g32j1gi