On the morn of July 22, in the tradition of the ancients (or there about for different parts of the world go to http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/ancientastro/heliacalrisingsim.html to calculate for your part of the world– In Dandridge TN, Sirius rises on July 31,2014. The star Sirius rises before our sun, it is a helical rising issuing a declaration that the ‘ATLANTEAN, EGYPTIAN, and SIRIAN NEW YEAR’ has begun.
The heliacal rising of a star occurs when it first becomes visible above the eastern horizon, for a single moment just before sunrise. Each day after the heliacal rising, the star will rise slightly earlier and remain visible for longer before the light from the rising sun makes it disappear. The same star will reappear in the eastern sky at dawn approximately one year after its previous heliacal rising. Because the heliacal rising depends on the observation of the object, its exact timing can be dependent on weather conditions.