https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac Celestial events remembered and foreseen, from the observatory of CORPVS. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/what-is-the-emerald-tablet https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/what-is-the-emerald-tablet Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Emerald Tablet explained — where the thirteen lines actually come from, what "as above, so below" meant to the alchemists, and where to read the full text free. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-night-the-sky-grew-larger https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-night-the-sky-grew-larger Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT William Herschel's discovery of Uranus on March 13, 1781 — the first planet found since antiquity, at 24° Gemini, with the night's sky computed to the degree. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-magic-square-durer-engraved https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-magic-square-durer-engraved Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Jupiter square in Dürer's Melencolia I — every line summing to 34, the date 1514 in its bottom row, and why Renaissance doctrine read it as a cure. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-great-mutation-of-1603 https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-great-mutation-of-1603 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The great conjunction of December 1603 — the fiery-trigon mutation Kepler watched from Prague, and the trail that led him to the Star of Bethlehem. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-conjunction-blamed-for-the-black-death https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-conjunction-blamed-for-the-black-death Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in Aquarius on March 20, 1345 — the sky the University of Paris blamed for the Black Death. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-astrologer-who-drew-london-burning https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-astrologer-who-drew-london-burning Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT William Lilly's 1651 woodcut of a burning city, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Parliament committee that questioned the astrologer who drew it. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/total-solar-eclipse-august-2026 https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/total-solar-eclipse-august-2026 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 crosses Greenland, Iceland and Spain — Europe's first totality since 1999, read in the old doctrine. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-star-of-the-magi https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-star-of-the-magi Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in 7 BC — the astronomical case for the Star of Bethlehem, with the December sky computed. https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-sky-over-nineveh https://corpusarcanum.com/almanac/the-sky-over-nineveh Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Bur-Sagale eclipse of June 15, 763 BC — the total eclipse in the Assyrian eponym canon that anchors ancient chronology, computed to the degree.