Astrological Day of Knowledge - 24 August

This is the moment when the Sun visits in a short space of time two stars that refers to wisdom: the star Atri, the most famous of the seven sages of India, and the star "Alpha Sextans Uraniae", which represents the astrolabe used by the Muse that rules the sciences.

Indeed, in the West, Atri is called Megrez, who represents the non-existent tail of a Bear; that is, the beginning of the Great Bear's tail; it was this furry being a devout girl of Diana, but she fell in love with her Master, in a deceit of Zeus, who pitied, seeing her transformed into a Bear pulled her by the tail to throw her to Heaven and make her spared from the revenge of the Teacher - the tail stretched, and so the constellation is to this day.

The peculiar symbology of Megrez we confess that much escapes us, so we prefer to use the Atri of the Indian tradition, which is the author of many hymns to Agni and Indra.

It had also been a constellation called "the Plow", from which the term Septentrion, "Septem triones", "Seven oxen of plow", used to designate the North.

To reinforce our interpretation we turn to the Nakshatras, and behold, this region appears in Magha - area of royalty, where divine guides, the Pitris, that is, the ancestors, lead to the study and maintenance of noble traditions.

They are endowed with sacred hieratic knowledge, their garments themselves impose respect; they walk the roads like the three wizard kings of the Christian tradition - they know how to be guided by the stars by the ancestral knowledge of the heavens, being well received in any region, since the noble knowledge that they keep is useful and concerns everyone.

In the Taurus Navamsha shines the famous star Regulus, maximum symbol of the Royalty in the firmament; right beside it is Megrez, in the Navamsha of Gemini; this portion, which also contains Alpha Sextans Uraniae, is commonly described as "the moment when the King rests from the throne and goes to the royal library", it's always associated with knowledge.

Maghas are known by the ramblings and digressions of those who wander in other spheres: it is the duty of the palatians, to be alien to all human particular experiences, centered on a plan that concerns once and for all the Kingdom. They walk with their faces veiled by abstractions, celestial thoughts that unite the movement of stars to the classification of plants: botany and astrology; only two of the many sciences which they guard with plenty of bookish erudition.

The sage who accompanies the king's entourage, the Minister, the Vizier: like Giafar, who, in the face of the Sultan's condescension to the fools of Zobaide, wisely reminds him of prudence - the serpent and the mirror of the Stagirite - in one of the endless nights - Yes , the same Giafar of Alladin's animation.

The Chess made the Vizier the most powerful piece, before a King who barely moves - the Prime Minister of modern parliamentarism continues this tradition; if at any moment it became on the checkered board in Queen, it is undoubtedly by the everlasting association of the feminine with wisdom and magical knowledge; from the witches of Assyria and Thessalia to the Goddess Urania herself, for whose sextant adorning the sky glimpses and longs the wise Atri.

Born with the Sun on this Star the writer Borges, who appears in the recent imagination as a peculiar librarian, remembering the most improbable passages he had read through the vertiginous halls of his-our infinite library. As is crucial in these environments, these stars give us a particular disposition for the classification, distinction, definition, basis necessary for any theoretical abstraction.

Lineu certainly paid homage to them, by showing that we are, as homo sapiens sapiens, nothing more than any kind of plant abiding in his garden; or, at least, we have the same label.

Another imbued with this stardust is Aristotle, whose philosophical living consisted in wandering and classifying things. From so much walking through the Greek cities already unified by his disciple his group gained the epithet "Wanderers" - "pateo" in Greek means to take a step, to walk, and "peri" means to turn around something, hence the verb "peripatein", literally walk around, wander, as become known the peripatetics.

Even with the Lyceum, a specific place in Athens for his teaching, he preferred to teach by walking uninterruptedly - and since the subject is about ramblings, one must remember a forgotten passage of "Crime and Punishment", in which Dostoyevsky - who brings the South Node under Megrez - describes two characters with the habit of walking through a room while thinking; that is, he uses his novel to signal a particular psychological condition: to walk thinking.

Aristotle took Lineu's dream to unimaginable spheres: he classified the tangible and the ethereal, from dreams to stones: dissatisfied with living in one world, he classified it in two, choosing to live in the sublunary; where he invented such a great body of science that he is the author of every science we know of and hundreds of others so distinct that we prefer to give up of them. But he proved his correctness by classifying reason itself by inventing logic.

His most notable disciple, the - who would say - Persian Avicenna, gathered his knowledge in his masterpiece "Al-Shifa," in which he sought healing: the Greek himself seemed to believe that this consisted precisely in this incessant act of wandering by classifying; he knew by memory exactly how many stars ("celestial engines") move this world, thus paying tribute to the heavenly wisdoms of the Babylonian Pitris in their little clay rocks - but contrary to his own Mediterranean living, he stated, with anguished solitude - that "the Gods can't see the particulars".

His Master Plato sought the eternal, the cure for the chaotic Greek society, a certain perennial toughness that he thought existed in Egypt and resembled the Sun. Aristotle left a confused legacy about this eternal, which would be in some thing classifiable in a Socrates that was not white.

On the night of this day all sailors will point their astrolabes to heaven, in a prayer that shall echoe that of solitary students from all cold libraries in a unison that will permeate the world and which I would classify as beautiful.