Wandering Stars

Jude called them wandering stars - and reserved for them the blackness of darkness for ever. But who are they? In this companion to The Sacred Clock, Wandering Stars follows one precise, checkable claim through Text, Number, and Sky: that the heavens themselves carry a wound. The priestly year keeps 364 days; the sun keeps 365.2422. The remainder - 1.2422 days a year - is the exact signature of a star that began to rise and faltered at the threshold: a post half-kept. From the seven stars bound over the fire to the Watchers who fell on Hermon, this book reads the clock of the heavens as a warning written in a fraction of a day - and turns it, at the last, upon the reader: for a man, too, has a course to keep. Every figure is computed and checkable; the source texts of 1 Enoch are printed in full.