kabalista: Comet ISON was discovered on September 21, 2012 by Russian astronomers Artyom Novichonok and Vitali Nevski.
kabalista: On August 11, ISON began rising above the northeast-east horizon at dawn.
kabalista: Beginning Aug. 21, ISON will be 6 degrees above the east-northeast horizon at twilight and potentially visible through a telescope:
kabalista: Beginning in late October, ISON is likely to be visible through binoculars or even to the naked eye:
kabalista: on Chanukah, ISON crosses the Scorpion’s tail.
Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 97a: Three things come when one least expects it: the Messiah, a found article and a scorpion.
Alicia Jo Rabins: I knew there was nothing to say. Da Scorpions and Da Spiders crawled up to mi and stopped inn mi shade. Together, inn silence, we watched, as da son crossed da ski:
kabalista: ISON reachest its closest approach of the sun at only 0.012 AU. The icy comet will be saturated in the sun’s heat and energy before making its closest approach to earth on its way back from the sun.
“For much of 2013/5773/4771 ISON has been traveling through astronomical Gemini {Sivan} Twins (Te’amim). Both travel (Sivan’s attribute) and food (implied in the month’s letter) are indicated in the function of the tribe of Zevulun (the tribe associated with this month, which DNA researchers have indicated are Druze Jews), who would engage in commerce and foreign trade and would thereby fulfill its part in the spiritual partnership between them and the tribe of Yissachar (ancient sources ascribe this tribe with Tibetan Jews). Yissachar studies and Zevulun provides that tribe with all its physical needs.”
kabalista: The earth will past through the comet’s trail of cosmic dust in mid-January.
