Orbits of the 5 inner Planets

This post details something I saw when I was doing a maths problem on Polygons, in particular Pentagons, and the 5 sided figure that is geometrically constructed inside a pentagon ie.e Pentagram.

This lead to many links of various natures regarding the origin and belief systems surrounding the pentagram (5 sided star).

One of these sites linked to an image of the orbits of the earth which is quite fascinating.  I also picked up a similar image on another site.

BELOW:  ".......When viewed from Earth, successive inferior conjunctions of Venus plot a nearly perfect pentagram shape around the zodiac every eight years."


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Image source: http://www.esotericonline.net/group/sacredgeometry/forum/topics/sacred-geometrythe-pentagram?commentId=3204576%3AComment%3A9364&groupId=3204576%3AGroup%3A9042


BELOW:  Orbits of the inner planets viewed from the Earth



Image Source:  http://montessorimuddle.org/tag/space/