Precession of the Equinoxes
The Precession of the equinoxes is a process whereby the position of the stars and constellations gradually move in relation to the seasons. This means that the twelve astrology signs that once roughly aligned with the constellations of the same name no longer do. The rate of precession is one degree every 72 years = 0.838 minutes per year, or more precisely, 50.2675 seconds per year.
The word Zodiac comes from the Greek zõdiakos (animals) and kuklo (circle). It refers to the constellations of stars around the ecliptic. The ecliptic is the path that the Sun, Moon, and planets take through the stars as viewed from Earth. Astronomers still refer to the zodiac as this path through the stars and constellations.
Astrologers refer to the zodiac as the 12 equal Sun signs of celestial longitude. Once upon a time, astronomy and astrology were one, and the shamans, druids, or priests simply divided up this ring of stars into varying numbers of constellations depending upon the culture. For example, in ancient Babylon, the circle was divided into 17 or 18 constellations of varying lengths. In ancient India, this ring of stars was divided into 27 or 28 lunar mansions of varying lengths based on bright stars.
Astrology is the study of the effects that celestial objects like planets and stars have on us on Earth. It has always been based on the spatial relationships between the planets and between the planets and the stars. That is why the original zodiacs were star-based. Because some cultures evolved from a nomadic to a farming way of life, a new zodiac was developed based on seasons.
It was a calendar and was eventually divided into 12 equal segments, which is the zodiac we use today. It was developed around the 7th century BC, and as an ecliptic coordinate system, it:
was a convenient celestial measuring device, unrelated to astrological activity…it was being used at that time for the recording of astronomical data, yet observation of the effects of the planets for astrological purposes continued to be related to the visible constellations. [ Heavenly Imprints, Deborah Houlding]
Measuring Device
The 12 equal segments in this calendrical measuring device were named after the twelve major constellations around the ecliptic, Aries, Taurus, etc. because they roughly fit in at the time. It was a very rough fit, though; the constellation Virgo is 46 degrees long, while the constellation Cancer is only 4 degrees long across the ecliptic. Gradually, the astrological meaning of the constellations was transferred to this new measuring device, and the thing was given interpretive meaning.
The divisions are called sun signs, named after the constellations but now not at all related to them, purely symbolic. What we know as horoscopic astrology today is the result, and most astrology, Western and Vedic, traditional and modern, comes from this. All the rules, such as elements, sign rulers, detriment, etc, are based on these zodiac signs, or Sun signs.
These abstract ideas were cemented in a book called Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy (Ptolemy) in the 2nd century AD. He adopted an astronomical calculation concerning the starting point of the zodiac, which resulted in the popularisation of a fictitious moving (tropical) zodiac, which became the basis of the birth of modern Western astrology.
Now, astrology shows little resemblance to its origins. The zodiac signs we use today do not relate to the constellations from which they derive their name and meaning. The idea of having 12 equal segments reflecting the influence of the stars is nonsense. Even stars within a single constellation can have very different influences, and of course, there are many more constellations to consider that are not on the ecliptic. To make things even more ridiculous, the precession of the equinoxes in the last 2,000 years means the constellations are a whole sign away from the sun signs bearing their name.
Precession Astrology
Precession is the movement of the stars in relation to the ecliptic. They move forward through our tropical zodiac by about 5 minutes every 6 years, so in one lifetime, or 72 years, a star will move one degree forward through the zodiac. This is because the Earth is tilted and moves around this axis every 26,000 years.
Vedic astrologers get around this problem by using the sidereal zodiac, it keeps moving with precession. It’s a patch-up job that tries to resolve the problem by matching the Sun signs to the constellations of the same name. However, this system is still based on the incorrect assumption that these 12 equal divisions reflect the influence of the irregularly shaped constellations. The rules of Vedic astrology are based on this. When the tropical zodiac was developed, zero degrees of Aries matched up with the first star in the constellation Aries. Mesarthim, “the First Star in Aries, as at one time nearest the equinoctial point (392 BC)” [Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889, p.82.]. That star is now at 3 degrees Taurus.
Ptolemy and the Hellenistic astrologers that followed knew about precession, but they chose to ignore it.
There was, perhaps, a more pertinent reason why the astrologers of the early Classical period chose to ignore this matter, one that suggests that by covering up this ‘inherent flaw’ of the zodiac, they were also obscuring a philosophical problem that had wider implications…It was tempting indeed to turn a blind eye, to let some other astrologer deal with it in some future generation when it really mattered. [Heavenly Imprints, Deborah Houlding]
It really matters now. Astronomers and skeptics can easily make astrology a laughing stock because of precession, and they continually do so.
Johannes Kepler
I use the zodiac as it was originally intended, preferring to use the tropical zodiac to describe the position of the stars and planets. The degrees of the tropical zodiac are a universal way for astrologers to communicate where a planet or star is, that’s all. The interpretation comes from the relationship between the planets, the aspects, and from the influence of the fixed stars. What I’m doing is nothing new.
The great astrologer Johannes Kepler had a solution to this problem – he basically abandoned the zodiac and built his astrological system around the aspects between the planets. He thought that the zodiac itself was merely a human geometry exercise and primarily served to aid the memory of astrologers as they computed aspects in their heads. [The Zodiac: Sidereal Vs. Tropical, Bruce Scofield]
I also correct for precession to work out transits. Robert Hand, one of the most respected astrologers in the world, says:
it is possible to treat the tropical zodiac as if it were moving. In other words, one should treat the natal positions of the planets as if they were fixed stars…My own experience has been that in timing an event the corrected positions are more accurate than the uncorrected ones. [Planets in Transit, Robert Hand, 2001, p.29-30.]
Nearly all astrologers continue to use the Sun signs for interpretation, but it has to be understood that these interpretations are purely symbolic, not based on our relationship to the cosmos. This is similar in a way to the use of the cards by a Tarot reader; it aids intuition and helps in reading.
Taking the meaning of the signs a step further by using rulerships and detriments, even saying someone is lacking in an element such as fire, is fundamentally flawed. Astrology is based on the principle that the stars and planets affect us down here, summed up by the words of Hermes Trismegistus, “As above, so below.” It is the planets moving across the backdrop of the stars that influence our lives, not the planets moving through imagined 30-degree divisions on a piece of paper.
A mistake over two thousand years ago took root following the Menai massacre of 61 AD. The Druids, the most feared and revered astrologers of all time, left no writings. It’s all in the mind.
Great write up, thanks Jamie. This is something I doubt I will ever see rectified in my lifetime, more’s the pity. Just when I have my head wrapped around one way of thought, be it tropical/sidereal – whole sign/placidus – something happens which makes one or the other make more sense. Pluto moving into Capricorn especially makes sense. You can see some levels of Sagittarius, with the excess then crash, but the timing!!!! Or some argument gets fired up and it turns me off everything completely.
I have honestly given up thinking about it! What I use works, right or not, as you say, symbolic and it connects with the collective psyche. Skeptics don’t believe anything other than their own opinion. so they can poke fun whereev’s. Astrology will never be respected until ‘astronomers’ acknowledge it, that’s what is needed for science minded people to believe it works. BUT is the question really about what works, or having a working model that PROVES to skeptics that it works? Is it more about validation? I don’t know but astrologer’s sure argue a lot!
Well if they’re going to add another sign then everyone should remember that the chinese zodiac also has a 13th sign(The Cat) that was removed. What’s also interesting is that I live in Florida and for years I’ve been telling people that the Winter cold doesn’t hit til about mid Jan and that they should move the months back to line it up. Could this mean we are going to see an extra month in our Year?!?!?! Since I thought of it do I get to name it?!?! Hmm… how about Jeri:) lol
– Jerry C.
@Karen
Your right about the symbolism of the signs being etched in the collective psyche, atleast in the modern western cultures. It is not something that is going to be easily reversed and probably won’t be for a very long time if at all.
Blaming Pluto moving into tropical Capricorn for the financial crisis doesn’t make sense to me. The biggest depression was in 1929 when PLuto was half way through Cancer. The big crash of 1987 had Pluto in Scorpio. The aspects between the slower planets seem to have the influence here. Pluto, Uranus and Saturn in hard aspect occured in the early 1930’s with the great depression.
I question to why we think tropical Capricorn should have something to do with the economy anyway. Apparently in mundane astrology Taurus and the 2nd house rule the economy. We can say Saturn rules Capricorn and that is strucutres and government institutions, but how did we get to a planet having ownership of a 30 degree sector of the sky?
The skeptics will never be satified and that doesn’t bother me, but I do care about how astrology is viewed by the general population. When I tell people this is my career I am not happy that most people think astrology is enertainment value at best and charlatanism at worst. We do have a bad image and it is due to those Sun sign horoscopes in the paper and now all over the internet. One in twelve people cannot have the same things going on. To say that more serious astrologer look at more than just the Sun sign is missing the point, they interperet the other planets in those very same signs with the same meanings. It is still based on the assumption that there are 12 eaqual sized and very distinct sections of the sky.
All indiginous cultures still look at the stars, their mythologies are tied to them and they are in touch with the Earth. We used to do the same, but just as we lost touch with the Earth and are destroying it, we have done the same to astrology.
well, this chicken is going to leave this debate where it always lingers, in the air, and go respect the flow of the Dark Moon and de-clutter.
Happy New Moon tomorrow!
@Jamie
Hmm well I know very little about mundane astrology, as it is not a facet that I have studied, so MY logic based on study considers Capricorn the big business/govt sort of thing – so the ingress and the timing makes sense to me via tropical. As do the other years – 1987 with all of the mystery as to why it crashed and 1930 being extremely ‘dramatic’ – totally crabtastic with the drama – the panic etc etc – so it meshes in my mind.
But when you say Taurus rules the economy, which makes sense, so that puts a new twist on it!
So, back to personal astrology – what does the removal of the sun signs as a main working base do to an individual who experiences a Sun with no aspects?
If there are no aspects to the Sun then I would look to any fixed star conjunctions, and chances are there will be one. The influence of the star is used instead of the sign.
Take for example George W. Bush.
His Sun is conjunct the brighest fixed star in the sky, Sirius “fame, honors and riches. Sirius in conjunction with the Sun and well placed in the chart will be found to be the case with numerous important and famous personalities. Possibly, the rise in station is made possible by protection from people of influence.” Ebertin p.38. That is a very different interpretation than you would read in any astrology book for “Sun in Cancer”. Much more accurate, no waffle.
OK cool, because that would be me – Sun out of aspect, not George Bush 😛 You add that no aspect issue with the house type issue, and my Sun could go all over the shop.
I’ll have to check out my Fixed stars out of interest xo
Another topical example is Tony Abbott. Sun in Scorpio? Or Sun on Acrux in the Southern Cross “A deeply religious nature connected with mystical and theosophical interests”
@Karen
Even is your Sun is not aspected and on no major fixed star it will still be influenced to some extent by a smaller star or constellation. Even if that influence is very small, then the Sun simply is not a big factor in your chart, no drama’s there. Other aspects and stars in the chart will have a greater influence on your life as is the case if your were using signs anyway.
Adoration accepted. You may now begin work on erecting a monument in my honour.
12 is a special number but moreso geometrically and mathematically. It makes working out the major aspects so much easier. 13 is a magical number but not so useful in geometry. Still the Celtic zodiac has 13 signs based on the 13 lunar months in a year.
Thanks for that fantastic history lesson Funky 1. Very nicely written. Applause:))) I did try using western Sidereal for a while, but you just reminded me why I gave up on that one!
Now the Zodiac signs are etched in our minds because there is something in the 12. And they are 12 very, very potent archetypes.
I think they absolutely correspond to the months of the year (in the northern hemisphere) and that is why they appear to work. I thought of all my friends and their Sun Signs and they really do fit with their “style”.
But like clothes, once you peel them off what you are left with is the naked soul and that’s where the aspects come it. Its what we are trying to cover with our Sun signs, like clothes we try to accentuate our good points and mask over the bad ones.
I do love the signs actually, so I use them as houses. Quite a few other Astrologers use this kind of approach. Mars=Aries=1st house etc etc. If someone has Sun in the 8th I see them as a Scorpio.
12 is pretty special. And there was 12 apostles too! If you count Judas, he could be likened to the 13th sign Ophiuchus. The sign that was left out of the Zodiac even tho its on the ecliptic.
I also like to have 12 planets ruling the 12th houses. Now we have Eris (another lady that was left out of the party.)we can do that.
Here’s my rant on the matter!
Zodiac signs and national stereotypes
@Jamie
sheesh I’m just not riding along with great company here now am I.
Alright, well I had a look and Fixed Star Hamal is in parallel to my Sun. I followed your links here and I can definitely see the interpretation influence playing out in real life. However, I will need to study my moon/merc and moon/mars squares before I make an opinion 🙂 about what I mention below.
See, I have a great chart but it is strongly challenged. It is like I had this tough karmic life plan that I chose to dive into and was given this attitude in which to work my way out of it. Which is great but it leaves me sporadic and restless, ready to jump ship in the blink of an eye. Except with my babies. My Moon is not a happy Moon and Venus is not that well placed or in strong, positive aspect – so much about my real life experiences with my children comes back to my Cancer Sun. Even using the western sidereal that experience can be explained by Jupiter moving into Cancer – but without the zodiac, it isn’t explained.
BUT as I mentioned, this is something I will study to completion before I make an opinion and it is just my view after working with astrology that I know and have studied for over ten years now and living my chart for 43 years!
The other thing that confuses me with losing the zodiac is working with the Nodes. Yet again, having a Taurus North, this could explain to me the mothering twist but it comes back to zodiac again!
I personally struggle the most with House systems. That annoys me and I wish there could be some sort of accepted consensus there. With the zodiac however, I totally get the visual versus tropical argument and it bugs my sensibilities too. But what keeps me hanging in there regards the tropical system is that whilst it may defy scientific explanation – it still works. It can be debated until the cows come home but it still works – or there would be no astrology websites with keen readers. Yes, horoscopes are damaging but they also open the door for people to take a more serious interest in astrology, which is fab. It is annoying though, that horoscopes astrologers earn more than those who are doing their best to work with the skies in a more traditional/academic way – moving away from the entertainment aspect of it all. That would be nice to see being brought into balance.
Thanks for this topic and for the food for thought!
That Fixed stars programme may be in my future one day, you just never know.
@Karen
I see you are using Sun in Cancer to explain your stong maternal instincts. Instinct and mothering are the Moon more than anything. The Cancer themes of mothering do come orginally from the Moon supposedly ruling Cancer. So I would look to your natal Moon to explain this focus in your life. It does seem strongly asspected from what you say, much moreso than your Sun so it does make sense just based on aspects alone that this is a major theme in your life.
Going to have to agree to disagree Jamie and I do know how to read a chart. I also do know how relevant the Moon is regards femininity and maternal instinct.
Have a great day!
Jamie – man you’re busy!
I’ve been liking this post and your comments Karen – so much in there.
I am with you on astrology and astronomy being one in our past. Navigating by the fixed stars has an instinctive electric ring to it that feels different from the vagaries of the planets. The scientists have been telling us for years that cosmic rays from the stars affects our DNA!
Am also pulled by the idea that adaptation and survival needs brought out the hunter gatherer to agri-culture shifts – in the face of post glacial rapid climate change (theres hard evidence for a fifty year window in which that climate change happened – thats freaky fast and uncomfortably familiar) – the shamans were there already and I’m sure their roles changed within those shifts, tho I don’t think they put the rings around the animals -fences perhaps.
Heres a goofy idea….
How would it be if EVERYTHING changed back then? Theres plenty of evidence to support the otherwise wacky idea that those rapid changes were set off by an axial shift of this planet – the skies orientation/motion would have changed with it and necessitated upgrading the astrology and cosmology we recognise now in the process.
Wouldn’t this have complicated and diversified the already existant astrological arts and call forth the need for a different kind of precision. Is it in that context that fixing everything became more of an issue (including precession – Earth began to wobble)? Next thing you know you’ve got the ancestors of science telling us how it is. (Can anyone explain why Uranus rotates on an ‘horizontal’ axis?).
But that old chestnut of the science in astrology – I became interested in astrology in my early teens, just as the mass entertainment industries began to really take over, and was so often put off by the technicalities and what seemed to be formulaic dogma in interpretations even then – no daily horoscopes back then that I remember, but, never was a scientific one-size-fits-all type – not a problem these days tho. Isn’t astrology about resonance…..
Otherwise seems very quiet out there tonight….and I’m very insomniac at the mo, staying up with the cat – theres a T in my chart formed by Mercury 2 opposite Neptune 2, this squared by Uranus 2, with Pluto 29 and Moon 5 sextiles thrown in for good measure – every transit feels like an electric fog setting off the doorbell in the middle of the night…….
Marina – theres plenty more goof where that came from I can assure you….
I love this notion. I also love the fact Uranus rotates sideways.
Talking about Uranus. Who would you say is more Uranian? Me with Sun/Moon/Venus/Mars/MC in Aquarius and Uranus square AC by 1.16degs or Jamie with Sun conjunct and parallel Uranus by 1.22degs.(This is known as Occultation which is an eclipse actually!)
I guess that would depend which side of bed you got out in the morning, who’s turn it is to do the laundry and whether the kids are playing up!!
personally, I would want to see the whole charts to make a useful comment but a first impression is that you are more naturally Uranian, which doesn’t necessarily mean it would be obvious to anyone, but you don’t have to ‘put on the trappings’, and Jamie is driven to be Uranian, perhaps from within, although I have the feeling he likes to be in the driving seat of the Uranmobile!!
If Earth spins like a top then Uranus rotates like a wheel – Earth has its south pole on the ground and Uranus has its tyre tread at base – curious thing, this makes sense if you think of the solar system as being the ground, ie a disc, with the Earth as a gyroscopic generator and Uranus as an electro-magnetic coil in relation to that plane – they each excert different forces on the field and interact with the vibrational network of that field differently – makes Uranus look positively weird tho, which I like BTW…..oh cripes, am I losing it!!?
s’funny – the quote thing didn’t work – man I’m tired….
@ Karen. I don’t doubt your Sun in Cancer has an influence. I have two best Cancer friends and they are very maternal over everyone. One in particular always feeds us very well and is a great host. The signs provide another layer, but the problem I find with them is that because they are so well known people can get lazy and rely on them too much. Especially if you see a Stellium. It forces you out of your comfort zone if you are forced into looking at other factors.
I love this notion. I also love the fact Uranus rotates sideways.
Talking about Uranus. Who would you say is more Uranian? Me with Sun/Moon/Venus/Mars/MC in Aquarius and Uranus square AC by 1.16degs or Jamie with Sun conjunct and parallel Uranus by 1.22degs.(This is known as Occultation which is an eclipse actually!)
@Marina
Thanks Marina 🙂 and it must be universal, no one leaves my home thirsty or with an empty belly! That’s a very good point regards the stelliums, I can see what you mean there.
I guess the point I was trying to make and was using my data as an example, is that without knowing me and my life experiences, you need more than just aspects to make a solid, cold reading. Using the aspects to my Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars – these would provide an adequate explanation of the difficulties I have faced in life.But not the upswings that I have experienced, thanks to having children or how important my ‘home’ is to me. There is nothing ‘maternal’ or ‘domesticated’ in my asoects at all, in fact, they’re the exact opposites. Having the Sun out of aspect and the traditional interpretation that elements out of aspect scream louder than those that are, really works. But you need houses (placidus gives me a 5th House Sun and whole, a 6th House) or signs (Cancer) to really flesh out the detail, or as mentioned in the Robert Wilkinson article, far more positive, modern twists on the Fixed Stars.
Thanks again and phew, that’s a lot of Uranian influence floating about with you too!
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@ Karen. I think Astrology is just a tool to access into a persons psyche. I said to Jamie yesterday that I didnt think he needs so many “tools” as it were, to do that since he is I’d say more Neptunian than I am. (He pulls things out of thin air)
I love using the houses, parallels, and the asteroids to fine tune. I NEED to use Astrology more than him I think. That’s more Uranian than Neptunian.
So I am more the 18th century Astronomer wearing a frilly shirt surrounded with astrolabs and horarys. While Jamie is the druid standing in Stonehenge just looking at the stars direct.
Thats very, very true and without even looking at the chart! Thank you for that observation. Made me laugh:))
Our charts are on the “about marina & Jamie” page. There is a link under our pic on the sidebar
Thanks, Jamie, for this thought-provoking work. As I was out for my run this morning thinking about it and the current Sun in Virgo, this is what came to mind.
Perhaps it’s unfortunate that the same names are used for the tropical zodiac and the constellations, but there is something fundamentally true about the tropical zodiac that is extremely important in an agrarian society.
When I first was learning astrology Noel Tyl was my teacher and he very carefully aligned the Sun signs with the seasons. This has always made sense to me. That Aries is the first sign, the sign of beginning things, and its alignment with the vernal equinox rings true for me. That a fixed sign always follows a cardinal sign to set in place what was initiated, and then a mutable sign to transition to the next cardinal position, just intuitively works for me. That the solstices and equinoxes correlate to the cardinal signs in their characteristic descriptions seems ultra-rational and natural.
It’s always seemed true also that when an infant is born she picks up the pervading atmosphere of the moment of birth, such as the instinctual fear of the darkening of Scorpio, or the harvesting of Virgo, or the hot, bright sun of Leo. I think all people react to these forces of nature on a very deep level, and from this comes a lot of the “meanings” of the Sun signs. Actually I think that all people react to the other planets in the same way but they are so subtle that many people miss them.
I wonder, not having studied it, whether the meanings assigned to the fixed star constellations have been actually lifted from the seasonal sun sign zodiac!
What may be the kicker in our time is that we are no longer an agrarian species really, and the natural connection to the seasons is becoming less and less relevant, thereby rendering the tropical zodiac less relevant.
Thanks for the stimulating post!
What a great point! Astrology is constantly changing and it is different from what it was 1000 years ago, so there is no reason to suppose it will stay the set up we have now. Plus our lifestyles have changed so fast even in the last 100 years.
The point about the meanings of the constellations coming from the Signs. I don’t think that’s the case, but I am desperately trying to research the history, but there is no clear evidence, things have got lost in translation. But Robert Hand says there IS evidence that the Babylonians used a tropical zodiac, but not in the way we do today. It was more like a measuring device and a way of fixing everything to 0 degs Aries and the cardinal points.
It appears that the signs came from using houses which were a way of bringing the planets down to earth. They made the Signs fit the interps of the houses and just took the names from the constellations on the ecliptic. They have NO relation to the constellations whatsoever.
In that case it’s the HOUSES that truly represent the seasons, but they are purely symbolic and represent our internal seasonal clock.
With the Sun signs tho, I don’t think its anything to do with the feeling of the environment around you at birth, other wise all Australian Aquarian’s would feel like Leos?
With the Sun signs tho, I don’t think its anything to do with the feeling of the environment around you at birth, other wise all Australian Aquarian’s would feel like Leos?
Yes, I’ve often wondered why the signs are not reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. From my way of looking at it, it should be.
et al….
Whose to say they aren’t, and whose to say that we aren’t prone to applying a northern hemisphere bias – the archetypal symbolism wouldn’t change, the context might. Its a persuasive idea. Has anyone found it working in practice?
Crunchy questions – like a lot!
It doesn’t make any big difference really because if you are using ‘sun signs’ – an individual is both the ‘light and shadow’ of that axis, or it should be considered at any rate in both hemispheres!
Using the Modes though, seasons change when it is mutable time, no matter where you are in the world, and we still eat food – so we’re still agrarian 🙂
Thats all a helpfull clarification – and, yes, if there is an agrarian shift isn’t it cultural; we can grow tomatoes any time of year and food availability is no longer tied to location – best eat biodynamic from your own back yard!
Hey Rob 🙂 In fact, with the environmental awareness trend, plus the political focus on global warning – we are perhaps becoming more aware of the agrarian cycle. But, alas, some of us, like myself, will always be the vegetable garden’s funeral dirge, regardless of our knowledge about the cycles!
Anyway, I forgot to mention, great post and beautifully written Ellen.
@Ellen Longo
I know when I read my first basic astrology book and how the seasons related to the signs I was very skpetical. Reading about how Virgo I am because I was born in Autumn. I was born in spring! It’s no wonder that Ausies lead the field these days in the use of fixed star. Bernadette Brady, Anne Wright and Rob Tillett.
Bernadette Brady’s book, the Eagle and the Lark, was one of the very first technical books I ever bought, and one that I still use today. I would love to attend her conference in Adelaide but won’t be able to!
I also thought it was quite ironic that the aussie’s are leading the way regards the Fixed Stars and let’s hope at the end of it, there is modern interps that resonate in more positive ways for the personalised, human condition.
For me, I have never struggled with the signs or the hemispheres, as I always consider the sun’s position and the relevent aspects as a priority ‘anyway’. Precession confuses me because we have no solid, scientific proof! The argument about house systems drives me nut and it annoys me that I adore whole signs, but have to keep switching back to placidus, or koch to not confuse people
……anyway……
I have honestly loved this conversation, thanks to you both for hosting it. First time any of this has ever been discussed without a stupid argument!
not confuses me, annoys me lol sorry 😛
Karen and Rob, how strange this topic of growing things all year came up just now. Last night I had a dream of growing things with an industrial sized hydroponics unit 😉
*LOL*oh my!!!
@Jamie
Thats cool! This method of farming gives v high yields, can be optimised to the max, organic, is v low waste and gets round the problem of location dependancy – and is very Moon friendly. Wow – great dream – sounds prophetic – lots of healthy inner growth there!
Re precession – itself is observable and measurable – innit? People been doin so for millenia to try and get a handle on it. Anyhows, if applied, don’t the results bare out the hypothesis…….
@Karen
Thank you, Karen. This whole discussion has really got me thinking…
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Thank you so much for all your hard work and knowledge.
Diana
This post just got popular again with all the hype about constellation Ophiuchus and the 13th sign in astrology.
HAHAHA Well if your going to add another sign then everyone should remember that the chinese zodiac also has a 13th sign(The Cat) that was removed. What’s also interesting is that I live in Florida and for years I’ve been telling people that the Winter cold doesn’t hit til about mid Jan and that they should move the months back to line it up. Could this mean we are going to see an extra month in our Year?!?!?! Since I thought of it do I get to name it?!?! Hmm… how about Jeri:)
– Jerry C.
Yes, and the Celtic zodiac also has 13 signs.
it’s not what I think is true….
You’re in the majority there Lucy. Best way to test it out is to look at your Pluto transits. Write dates in diary for precessed and non precessed to personal planets. Can be inaccurate for transits to AC and MC if the time of birth is out by even a few minutes.
This is a bit much to get the mind around for me. In the now, Uranus is in fact in Aries and because we use a tropical chart in Western analysis, have we have corrected for the inaccuracy of the historical divisions of constellations? I am a bit lost here. How do you approach an interpretation of a modern chart in one of the common systems of house division – say Placidus for example? Are we to not pay too much attention to the house?
I don’t know if the tropical chart has been corrected or changed at all since it was invented, except by the Siderealists. Uranus is in tropical Aries but I avoid all the confusion by saying it is on the fixed star Deneb Kaitos in constellation Cetus.
I don’t use the houses myself but Marina like most astrologers does.I think she uses Koch.
I noticed that the tropical and sidereal charts are the same in 221 AD.
I actually did charts for the vernal equinox in Athens, Greece.
Sun went into 0’00 Aries on March 21, 221 AD in both charts, and it was only 3 minutes apart. 6:36 AM for the tropical chart and 6:39 AM for the Sidereal Chart.
I am thinking that I am just better off without using a zodiac chart.
I thought about focusing just on aspects.
I thought about using multidimensional system
using not only Ecliptic Longitude but also Right Ascension and Declination. The Astronomers use Right Ascension and Declination to locate objects.
As for fixed stars, well…I wonder about using paran method like Bernadette Brady. She doesn’t believe in projecting stars onto the ecliptic. She also pointed out that Ptolemy measures stars by the Pole of the Ecliptic and that now has been changed to measuring stars by Pole of the Equator by Ulugh Beg.
There is also the issue of which day to use with the parans.
She uses sunrise to sunrise which was the Egyptian,Babylonian day
instead modern day of midnight to midnight.
I think that it would makes sense to use midnight to midnight because we live in modern day. I feel that our brains are naturally attuned to this day cycle.
I think whatever system works for you, works. There are SO many astrological languages, we would go bonkers if we tried to test them all. But you are right in pointing out that as soon as we find a method that we think makes sense or is “scientific” we find something has been altered along the way. All theories about the universe are just theories. Facts change everyday as we learn more, as we grow more. The world and life are not static.
The best way is to create your own benchmark and test it out empirically. You can present that research to the world and if it resonates then you know you it has some truth. The more people it resonates with the stronger the meme and then it becomes a school of though and a language.
I have a lot of respect for Brady, but I just do not like parans at all. I like her updated interpretations for the fixed stars and I think they work for the ecliptic method too just like Jupiter is still basically Jupiter whether you use hellenistic or psychological astrology. (With variations I grant you, but the archetype remains the same).
I think Diana Rosenbergs idea of using starsets is interesting, I have thought about this myself in using decans, there will be a set of stars in each decan, some further away by declination, so they have less of an influence. But I definitely see a bunch of traits from a few of the stars say in decan one of Aquarius that make early Aquarians different from late Aquarians. Then we get onto the zodiac signs which I believe do have some value. I will continue with this line of thought in answering Robbie below.
Hi Marina,
I hope all is well with you and Jamie.
I have been reading stuff in regards to Cyril Fagan and other Sidereal Astrologers, I feel like I can no longer use the Tropical Zodiac system. I am checking out the Cyril Fagan System with the use of the Sidereal Zodiac and Campanus House system.
I noticed that the difference between my tropical and sidereal Solar Returns are 10 hours apart. That is a big difference. I am definitely scratching my head and wondering. I am going to pay attention and see how things turn out.
I am iffy about the paran stuff, and I find myself falling back on the use of ecliptic projections.
The Sidereal Astrologers do use fixed stars like that. They use Right Ascension with them too.
I wish that there was a program that does the 13 constellation zodiac. One of my reservations about the Sidereal Zodiac is the fact that it is not the actually constellation zodiac. My Sun is in Virgo constellation and not in Libra constellation even though my Sun is in Libra in Sidereal Zodiac.
I will probably ending up being like Johannes Kepler, just throw the signs and houses away and just work with aspects. I also like Cosmobiology with its strong emphasis on midpoints.
I have been studying the possibility of the Natal chart remain “alive” after death, the immortality of the chart, the Natal chart in the Spirit world, etc. I recently find agreement by using my Natal (Sidereal Zodiac) Chart for June 30, 1969 with Campanus Houses and then I followed by looking at a Progressed (Sidereal Zodiac/True Solar Arc in Right Ascension) Chart for today’s date, July 11, 2019 and I seem convinced, at least for now that this system seems to appeal to the theory of the continuation of a Soul’s Initial Natal Chart to exactly how long? How long would it take for me to reach my exact original birth date and time, and would this be indicative of the potential length of a human being’s Soul’s “lifetime”. I also looked at my Transits (Sidereal/Campanus) Chart, as well as the transits on the day of death for someone close to me, along with his natal and progressed charts (done as above) and the results were in a word, uncanny. He passed away at 45 years old and I can’t help but believe he is still living in this World (for in my opinion, the material and spiritual worlds are one, are side-by-side, both right here!) and this proved to me that at least lookin back in time these charts proved by cluesaand signs to be correct enough. So, why wouldn’t the chart continue for at least 360, to some others say, 26,000 years, with every being having their “reserved time slot” just for them for a certain amount of time? It is interesting and what I enjoy most about Astrology, the potentiality for a myriad of possibilities and new understandings regarding our lives.
Hi Brigitte – those are some pretty interesting thoughts and occurrences.
Astrologer Tad Mann has come up with a theory about the chart of a person after their death, though his Timeline calculation is unique to him.
It may have been Tad Mann as well, who investigated some famous people, whose creations (for example a piece of music or something they had written), came to prominence after their death, and this showed in their horoscope. It may have been another astrologer, though.
My personal belief is that we are all immortal.
So I don’t actually ‘understand’ this by merely reading it on a conscious level, but at the same time I feel this subconscious deeper understanding of exactly what you’re saying here. I’m pretty green in my studies right now, but this is right up my alley. Do you have a blog or is there any way of getting more knowledge on this from you? Genuinely fascinated to find out more!
I’m a beginner in astrology and have found a lot of confusion in the zodiac systems. Neither sidereal nor tropical systems are compliantly astronomically correct.
I looked into sidereal astrology because it divides the signs up based on the arc degrees that their correlating constellations span but after some though I realized that this division wasn’t correct either.
I did my own calculations and divided the signs based on how long the sun stays in each constellation and added the 13th sign you mentioned above. I realized after doing this that the other planets do not follow the ecliptic exactly so to get it “right” I would need to do the same thing for each planet. Some planets will go through other constellations too. If I am to continue with this experiment, I will be writing a script to do it for me (I’m currently using pen and paper).
From this I also realized that the signs got their qualities though years of observation and perhaps the signs have nothing to do with physical stars but with sections of the sky.
I will probably end up throwing the signs away also.
Study the astronomy of recent comets. They are calibrating us.
Observe
Experiment
Calibrate
Thanks so much for this!!! You are saying what I have been saying for a long time! I agree entirely that the constellations of the zodiac are merely a useful reference system, that the rulership, fall, detriment and all that has no basis BUT I dont agree about the elements… I think they along with the cardinal fixed mutable things are valid, due to sub-divisions of seasonal characteristics.
In the way that we can (presumably) agree that what we refer to as signs do have discernable characterisitcs… and can spot the traits of what is described as the signs, but is actually coming from the earth#s seasons….. I can recognise an earthy, or non-earhty person, a fiery or not fiery one, etc…. but agree quite joyously that these traits are not due to the influence of the constellations.
Thanks again!
I think the point of the post is that Jamie thinks that neither the tropical zodiac nor sidereal zodiac are valid zodiacs for determining signs and traits. He doesn’t that a star-based zodiac nor a season-based zodiac are valid in Astrology.
“In the way that we can (presumably) agree that what we refer to as signs do have discernable characterisitcs… and can spot the traits of what is described as the signs, but is actually coming from the earth#s seasons”
What you are referring to is the tropical zodiac, and that is something that Jamie doesn’t agree with.
He doesn’t agree with the sidereal zodiac which is based on planets against the backdrop of stars
the tropical zodiac is invalid because of the precession of the equinoxes
Ptolemy based his Tropical Zodiac Astrology on the Northern Hemisphere seasons without knowing the Southern Hemisphere. If he did know, he chose to ignore it.
Jamie is in Australia,and so he lives in Southern Hemisphere. He understands the issue with the seasons.
You can’t just apply Euro-centric model to everything else on Earth.
I think the traits are a mix of the seasons and the constellations. I also agree with you about the elements. I definitely get the sense of a fiery or an earthy person. But as I am married to someone of the southern hemisphere it does somewhat turn everything on its head when it comes to taking the season thing too literally.
I see the astrological wheel more as lunar phases.
The New Moon
The Crescent Moon
The First-Quarter Moon
The Gibbous Moon
The Full Moon
The Disseminating Moon
The Third-Quarter Moon
The Balsamic Moon
It’s the same story. It’s all about cycles and the growth and death of a plant. Tropical astrology was devised in the northern hemisphere. But I do see the polarities in the zodiac as being the same. I see pisces in Virgos and Leos in Aquarians. The mode is the same. Also Causcasian Australians are hardly indigenous I think their cells still respond and resonate with a northern hemisphere system, although I think there could be a case for considering whether the opposing sign may fit them more while they are in the southern hemisphere! Specially stelliums. I feel more sunny Leo in Oz! I can see the Pisces in Virgo Jamie too. I’ll see if he is more Virgo in London when he comes. lol!
Back to the Moon/seasons analogy. Its 8 phases rather than 12 (Months). But division by 8 was also some of the early house systems. Also the pagan seasons are divided 8fold, in tune with the lunar cycle.
I think it is no coincidence that the majority of fixed stars astrologers these days are from the southern hemisphere, Australia mainly: Bernadette Brady, Rob Tillett, Anne Wright, and us! (Marina is a Londoner but spends a lot of time downunder).
I just found your web site, and I’m getting more exited as I read!
It was not to long ago I “found out” about sideral astrology, and realized tropical astro is, well, it is just a mockup! So I was kind of discouraged when you refer to the tropicla signs – why don’t you refer to the sideral signs, as they more are in line with the starry sky – and WAS going to ask you about your opinion on sideral astro. And now I find you have discarded even that, and gone back to the true roots – the stars! 😀
But then I wonder… Are you saying that even sideral astro is off? Are you saying the stars have wondered even more than the 1°/72 year?
And to be practical: I use this astro program, and have set the 0-point as 15° Taurus, since I found this info somewhere and it resonated with me. But then I use Geocentric calculation. Should this better be heliocentric? Or what? And so where/how do you get your data??
I want to learn and understand this much more, but I’m still just scraping the top layer…
Funny thing is I’v always been interested in astrology, but have NEVER managed to learn about the houses, but have only dealt with planets and aspects. I start to think I had some unconscious clue here… 😀
Would really appreciate some clues, tips, and links to others with your approach, to learn more! 🙂
Thanks! And… Wow! 🙂
Hi Jamie – I found this interesting page today regarding precession and thought of you because I always liked your explanation. What always amazes me is how different the planets are in the Vedic astrology charts – and yet people always say that both systems work! :o) FYI:
“… to bring in continuity, we need the Ayanamsha Correction.
The western astrology follows tropical zodiac – which the Vedic system follows a sidereal one. Throughout the history of astrology in India and other countries of Indian subcontinent, the capabilities of the sages in terms of observation made them realize that there is a slip, or a wobble in the earth’s axis. There was a need of introduction of a factor in calculations called Ayanamsha Correction. This mathematical correction, which amounts to the slip in zodiac over a period of time converts the system from tropical to sidereal. After application of this factor, things fall in place. Sun, according to the sidereal system can really be observed within the zodiac sign that the calculations point to.”
more:
http://www.planetarypositions.com/notes/2005/08/27/western-and-vedic-astrology/
“In ancient time, down to as late as the 5th century A.D., all revolutions were computed in terms of the fixed or sidereal zodiac, which is not affected by precession; whereas in modern times these returns are computed with reference to the tropical zodiac invented in error by Hipparchus about B.C. 139 and which the author [Claudius Ptolemy] of the Tetrabiblos (2nd century A.D.) strove to popularize.” http://www.westernsiderealastrology.com/#!tropical-vsidereal-solunars-/c1nbt
Thank you, Jamie!
from your link:
“It was the tragedy of the Greek genius that it could never divest itself of the conviction that the equinoctial points, which perpetually rose and set due east and west respectively were fixed absolutely in space; hence their invention of a series of tropical zodiacs. Had they suspected otherwise they would have discovered that the earth itself was moving.”
http://www.westernsiderealastrology.com/#!tropical-vsidereal-solunars-/c1nbt
Hi Jamie,
That’s very interesting. It makes a lot of sense. It’s practical and scientific. I do believe in marrying the occult with science; otherwise I will always have a level of doubt about something. I can have much interest in a certain area of ‘the occult,’ but I will always question it. Things have to be realistic. I don’t like to be fooled. You told me some time ago that my closest star is Izar (28 degrees in Libra). Does this mean that I’m a sun sign Libra? My birthday is the 24th October, 1988, Southampton, England at approximately 6:06pm.
Does this mean that many people are different sun signs to what they thought they were?
And yes, it doesn’t make sense that the 12 equal divisions of the zodiac are supposed to fit the irregularly shaped and sized constellations. I wouldn’t want to be ignorant and ignore the importance of the stars. It’s just a shame that more isn’t written about my closest star Izar.
Very curious. A lot to ponder…
Katie
P.S: I’m very much interested in astronomy too and in the past, when I’ve looked up at the constellations and observed the differences in the size and shape of the constellations, it has made me wonder, when it comes to the precision of the zodiac.
Katie, yes your Sun Sign is Libra, decan 3. You actually have no major fixed stars within orb of your Sun.
People are always the same Sun Signs but they will have usually have a different constellation. For example you are Libra Sign but Virgo Constellation. Sounds like you would love researching archeoastronomy. You can study it in the UK now, it at some University and run by Nick Campion.
You will have other stars in your chart for example Moon conjunct Alpherg, Venus conjunct Alkes and Pluto on the astrologers star Acrux.
Hi Jamie, where I’m born on the cusp, does that mean I’m Sun sign Scorpio too? And will I also have Scorpio traits? On these websites where you put your date of birth in, it gives me 1.33 degrees Sun in Scorpio. I don’t mind being a Libra, I’ve just always been used to being Sun sign scorpio (on the cusp). And also, does that mean that I would have Virgo traits too? I can be overly critical of myself, I have worried a lot over the years and I’m a perfectionist like Virgo. My black moon Lilith is in Virgo and also Venus.
I’ll look into Archeoastronomy. I can’t go on any courses at the moment, as I’m busy trying to run my design business (I’ve only set it up in the last year), but I look into courses in the future. I can always read books for now in my spare time. I will also look up these other stars that you’ve listed.
Definitely Sun sign Scorpio but the point is that there are no Scorpio or Libra traits. Signs have no energy so cannot influence you. Look up at night and find 30 degrees Libra. Stars emit the energy, more so even than planets. Planets act like conduits for the stellar energy. degree
So where the Sun is concerned, the energy emitted to me at birth is from Libra 28.06 degrees in Izar. And the Sun aspecting planets in my chart, which are Sun opposite Moon, Sun Sextile Saturn and Sun Sextile Uranus.
People say; “I’m a Sagittarius… so I’m like this or that,” for example. So that’s not really true? Or someone’s a Sun sign Gemini, so they have a ‘dual personality.’ Sorry for all the questions, but if I didn’t appreciate what you had to say, I wouldn’t ask. My sisters a Sun sign Leo, but has never felt that her personality is like a Leo and I completely agree with her! I don’t feel that I’m that much like a Scorpio either, but feel that my personality is more Libra.
Thanks for all your input, it’s helping me figure things out! I want to get it right in my mind, if I’ve learn it the wrong way all these years. But I am an amateur at astrology, I don’t know that much about it.
Also, should I read up Libra Decan 3 and Scorpio Decan 1 in the future? If someone asks me if I’m a Scorpio or Libra, I don’t know what to say.
You are always still Libra Sun Sign.
Those aspects to your Sun describe your personality much much more than any Sun Sign or even Constellation would.
This problem has concerned me for a long time. Ever since college days when a friend offered to teach me how to do a chart in the 70’s. A few points if I may, not inorder of importance: I don’t understand the seasonal controversy. If the sun is somewhere in the heavens on the day of your birth, is it not in the same spot relative to the earth no matter where you are? A point drawn out from the center of our planet to the sun at the exact time of your birth is really all that is needed to place the sun somewhere against the back drop of the stars, in some 60 degrees of some sign. The house relationships would account for hemispheric differences just fine since they are relative to the earth not the sky.
Second: I don’t see why we have not corrected for procession by now with all the other changes in our understanding of astronomy since Ptolemy. Can’t we just do the math on this for our sign placements? I recently did the calculation for the fixed stars in my chart. Thank you Jamie for coming up with an amaizing new tool! Accounting for procession of the planets was a simple matter. Why can’t we have a formula like that to process the signs in our charts for our birth date and time? It’s really tiring to listen to the old arguments for sidereal, tropical, Asian and other formulas.
Lastly I have a technical question about the ephemeris we use today. Is it accurate? Does it give us the proper placement of the planets? Because if it is off too, I think we really should throw out the baby with the bath water and start all over again with accurate tools.
On The question of the division of the sky into 12 equal parts and keeping the 12 signs I come down in favor. 12 is a spiritual number and a good way to balance the heavens. While it’s true that actual constellations take up differing amounts of space in the sky, that is just part of their charm and will find expression in reading them. Now that we have a better understanding of fixed stars and we can add that layer over top, there’s no need to rescale the heavens.
Well said. The software I use is Solar Fire which has an option to account for precession when doing transit and return charts.
I also have some sympathy for 12 divisions. Mainly since I heard that the core of Earth, a single Iron crystal the size of the Moon, is a dodecahedron.
I think the sessional controversy has to do with what point is considered 0 degrees longitude or the first point of Aries. The seasons are opposite in the Southern Hemisphere so the spring equinox in the north is the beginning of fall in the south. The thing about the tropical system is that it is based on the seasons and has nothing to do with the actual stars. We are measuring the suns position relative to the spring equinox which is also the suns north node.
I have also done the calculations for my chart with the signs matching the constellations. It got rather complicated. The latitude (distance from the ecliptic) of the planets was the biggest problem I had. I wasn’t able to draw a comprehensive chart.
After learning about trans neptunian hypotheticals, I realized that the signs were points of interest like the hypotheticals. I did some investigating and found the tropical zodiac used in astronomy in a book from the 1700s. They knew that the constellations weren’t 30 degrees in arc length each by then. The signs were used simply as a Sort of unit of measurement. The sidereal zodiac is the same, only, it is based on the position of a star.
The Ephemeris on Astro.com are correct and up to date. NASA has tools they use to track planets and planetary bodies and Astro.com gets their data from them. I think that Solar Fire is made by Astro.com so it should also be correct.
I hope this helps.
You should check out Synoptical astrology. I haven’t looked too far into it but I know that it uses the zodiac signs and the constellations.
So if July 26 1979 do I need to make adjustments?
Add 0°18’to your planets to get to the yr 2000 fixed star positions.
When working out your precession corrected transits, add 0°31’to your natal planets.
Jamie, thanks for your reply. That’s interesting about the earth’s core. I found one here: http://learnsolidworks.com/wp-content/uploads/1_solidworks_dodecahedron_tutorial.png
I am starting to come around to your way of thinking on the signs, for now. Since the sun and the ascendant represent the ego it’s natural that its effect would encompass a large area, whether or not it falls within the lines. But that won’t work in 2000 years! (Of course an Aquarian would worry about that!) The same kind of thinking goes for the size of each constiillation/sign even though the stars don’t comprise the same areas. It should still be equally divided.
So, is there a formula for birth chart that accounts for procession while maintaining equal signs?
Sorry I meant to write precession.
YOU cannot equally divide the sky. Leo is opposite Aquarius in sign but opposite Capricorn in straight line. The pan-handle of Aquarius and the both horns of Capricorn are the same whole 30 degrees. Only the bucket extends past Capricorn. Leo the lion (horse, sheep) was created rising east, but Taurus was created setting west two horns up in the sky. Gemini was also created standing west. Others have two names, the dog is west but stand like a man Anubis in the east.
It never has been a 30-day system because the animals were created first (Ur 2207bc not 2637bc because 2637bc was fabricated as 1200 years before 1437bc when instead it was only 600 years of 360-day (592 years) back to 2029bc as flight our of Ur in year of Monkey, tagging them as the monkey kings. The scorpion king is the name for Noah in 2040bc when he was 930 and Gilgamesh went from Uruk to Ararat to Kittim Cyprus while Mars was in Scorpio and turned in retrograde opposition. Narmer (Menes who is Narmer the Rod, or Nar the Merod) got the name when Noah died 20 years later.
Just a guess, but the day and hour is here. Christ Mass is the crossing, precession will change from impact, and the world will choose life or death by whether they obey government martial law and stay home in Sodom.
Precession of the Equinoxes was not learned via endless stargazing.
I discovered how the ancients learned of the Precession of the Equinoxes and I wrote the following paper to produce the evidence of my discovery.
http://www.slideshare.net/williamjohnmeegan/precession-of-the-equinoxes-how-did-ancient-astrologers-learn-of-it
There are two conflicting methods that are a full whole degree of precession from each other in 3000 years. The one of Babylon taken to Mayan is 1508 years of 365-day are 1507 seasonal due to a 12-day drift in going 48 years over 1460 years of 365 leap days. The other is the 400-year Seth cycle of Egypt known to Pope Gregory as 3 days per 400 years and so has the same 12-day drift but in 1600 years. As posted in another reply below, precession is quoted in books with data that conflicts because the algebra and geometry are not checked. This is like putting trig of 3:4:5 triangle into isosceles, too much quoting, and math extending without math-checks in figures. Math checks not as doing 2+3=5 twice to check it, but as in 5-3=2 and 5-2=3 and 3+2=5. No one is doing this in astronomy and this world is crashing rapidly.
Some ancients took the comet disaster of exodus (England to India with all Asian residents since 1625bc out of Babylon) and took the Hebrew 857 years to 1513bc (137+720 = 720+137) and extended them 720 as in Egypt 3090-1513bc where 1577 Julian (137+720+720 = 720+720+137) = 1600 of 360-day and China (720+720) 2953-1513bc. Israel and Egypt were not the only nations making exodus as if war with God that year. The 1600 is found in Julian with Mayan 3114-1514bc and 360-day 1600 tun as 3114-1537bc (Chinese Xia Yu) to 1437bc who actually ruled 1513-1413bc.
Thanks for the great work William. I will keep coming back to read again.
Hello my peoples! I got to this thread through the link in the comments for The Trumpster’s inauguration. Jamie I think your view on houses and signs is interesting and I have always found your insights very enlightening. Your approach to interpretation narrows the influences down to a core and concrete symbolism. I agree that houses, house rulerships and signs add multitudes of layers to interpretation that can become more ambiguous as you go. That said I have found that the equinoxes and solstices to be turning points in the flow of events (and their halfway points: 15 degrees of fixed signs). That Aries starts the new cycle at the 0 degree longitude at Vernal Equinox and continues from there in order has seemed logical regardless of the precessional advancement ( and by all accounts so do some rather gifted and experienced modern astrologers) The 30 degrees of Solar movement per sign is the time period of a lunation cycle so as hands of the clock that “space” appears to be a fit also. The archetypes and symbolism were (we presume?) empirically derived for the stars as well as the planets, signs, houses and aspects. I have personally struggled with what is the strongest and most reliable indicators in our arsenal of possible approaches and obviously you are very satisfied and successful with yours. As always thank you for the food for thought– I always gain something reading your work!
Dec 4 1984
your article is in a misconception error because the 50.26 seconds are not time of minutes and hours as in of 365.25 days or 8766 hours of time but rather 50.26 seconds of arc in a circle of 360 which amounts to time 20min 25 secs (time varies due to monthly and yearly wobble, and anamolistic speed, and tropical year angle to sun in that anamolistic year) and that is why instead you take how many degrees the axis itself has moved which is in seconds minutes degrees not hours and days.
another quote… about Hipparchus sidereal as 365d 6h 10m but that would be a 37 sec arc not 46 sec arc as shown here
46 seconds of arc per year
full 360° circle is 1,296,000 secs of arc ÷ 28,174yrs = 46secs
1°arc (of 3600secs) = 78.261 years
Tropical = 365days 5hrs 55min = 365.2465278 d
46 secs of arc = 18min 40.1242s = 0.0129644 d
Sidereal = 365days 6hrs 13min 40.1242s = 365.2594922 d
sidereal 525,973.6688min ÷ 18.6688 min = 28,174 tropical
tropical 525,955min ÷ 18.6688 min = 28,173 sidereal
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37 seconds of arc per year
full 360° circle is 1,296,000 secs of arc ÷ 35,064.6yrs = 37secs
1°arc (of 3600secs) = 97.4 years
Tropical = 365days 5hrs 55min = 365.2465278 d
( 37 secs of arc = ) 15min = 0.0104166 d
Sidereal = 365days 6hrs 10min = 365.2569444 d
sidereal 525,970min ÷ 15 min = 35,064.666 tropical
tropical 525,955min ÷ 15 min = 35,063.666 sidereal
Astronomers are silly and short-sighted sometimes (maybe THAT’S why they need those huge telescopes, hmm?). Will someone please point out to them that star positions change astronomically along the equator, just as they do along the ecliptic? (By this statement I’m actually speaking of the imaginary longitude lines all the way up to the poles, of course.) In fact, stars fairly regularly hop across constellation borders that DON’T lie along the ecliptic and its zodiac signs. The right ascension figures (and to an extent declination too) of all stars change regularly, and star maps just as regularly become outdated.
The zodiac is actually more stable in this respect because it’s tied to the (northern hemisphere’s) spring equinox.
If anything should be changed, it should be the names of the signs – but I can’t see that happening.
Can you?
I’m sure someone has already mentioned this in the comments above. I haven’t read all of them yet.
while I’m on my soapbox, I’d also like to comment on the habit of astronomers (and astrologers, too, probably) of comparing the sizes of constellations by degrees square. A degree at the equator is huge compared with a degree at the poles. In fact, right at the tip of the pole, it shrinks to zero. Don’t these people know how to calculate areas of a sphere?
And then there’s the matter of Vedic (and some other kinds of) astrology claiming to be “sidereal” (i.e. tied to the stars). they’re actually doing exactly the same things as tropical astrology, except they choose to do it a certain number of degrees further along the ecliptic.
So, how do i know my sign? If someone was born in september 22th at Libreville, Gabon, 9:30 am. Can we say he’s a virgo or a Libra? Please tell me.
Thank you for that! And sorry for my english cause i’m a french 😉
Your question does not make sense. If he was born at a specific time and location, then he’s either a Virgo or Libra, born on the cusp. You can’t have one sign in one location and another birth sign if you move data to another location! It’s like saying, I was born at 23:54 in London on March 28th, but in Paris, it’s 00:54 and March 29th, therefore when was I born? March 28th or 29th? It all depends on time zone and location at time of birth and it’s unique, it doesn’t change.
The Age of Pisces began when?
At the Birth of JuliuS Caesar? 100years before the Birth of JesuS Christ?Remarkable coincidence.
The Age of Aquarius, the beginning date I use, January 12, 1996.
There was a remarkable comet streaking Perihelion the Sun January 12, 2007, 11 years after theNewAge chart, but not much if anything, is mentioned about this …
Our Legionnaires of Authoritarian astrologers. Silent
Silent
Asleep at the switch.
Aquarius NewAge Chart, January 12, 1996. 8:34am UTC, equal houses
Ascendant 0Aqr
Uranus 0Aqr
Mercury Retrograde, Venus and Mars in Aquarius
Moon in Libra (Libra rules the 7th House)
https://www.sott.net/article/264750-SOTT-Talk-Radio-Who-was-Jesus-Examining-the-evidence-that-Christ-may-in-fact-have-been-Caesar
The radio program is over 6 years old now, and the link provides a transcript, plus a second part to the story. One of the most popular on SOTT.
Independent of the SOTT researchers, evidence has appeared, articulated by a recent commentator, that the story of Julius Caesar was instrumental in preparing the New Testaments and bench-marking the beginning of the the Age of Pisces.
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/GreenwichWeb.pdf
At the time of the Setting of the Age of Aquarius chart, ref January 12, 1996, followed by the setting of the Regulus Ingress Virgo chart, ref November 29, 2011 in Spatial relationship to Cosmogenesis Solar Eclipse at the coming Summer Solstice 2020….
… the North Magnetic pole and the Prime Meridian aligned.
This furthers the Cosmogenesis trilogy charts Rectification: As the Greenwich datum is Internationally recognized: Zero declination and Zero longitude.
“At some point in September, the agonic will meet zero longitude at Greenwich,” says Ciaran Beggan, a geomagnetism scientist with the BGS. “This marks the first time since the observatory’s creation that the geographic and geomagnetic coordinate systems have coincided at this location”
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-magnetic-north-true-align.html
September 17, 2019 by Paul Wilkes, The Conversation
“an alignment after 360 years at the home of the Prime Meridian is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.”
So as confusing as this is I am going to ask a straight up question. If I was born natally at 3° Gemini does this push my sun sign all the way back to 3° Cancer? I hope not, bc my rising natally is in Cancer and my EP is on this 3° Cancer position, and as per Sabian Symbol goes, it is a very hard degree and people would view that for me as well. Ugh! I’m trying to base it off of what you said about aries at 0° going to Taurus at 3°. So I guess actually it would make it 6° degrees for me then. Is this correct? Please and thank you. I am also still waiting to get some information about my natal yod. Gracias! It seems simiar to Hitlers as well as I have Venus conjunct Mars natally at a 0° orb. I didn’t realize the World saw him so beautiful. By todays standards i would sucker punch him as well as shave that disgusting worm over his upper lip. Taly ho, mate! 😉
The exact degree difference between sidereal and tropical sun sign positions depends on your date of birth but is probably close to 24 degrees. This would put your sun at around 9 degrees in cancer. Your rising would move too and would be at around 9 degrees Leo. All other points and planets in your chart would also move.
What information are you waiting on concerning your yod?
If Hitler wasn’t so charismatic and well liked, he wouldn’t have been able to do the things he did. You may have the same energies, it’s how you use them that matters.
Keep in mind that sidereal astrology is as correct as tropical. Zodiac signs are named after the zodiac constellations but are not aligned with them and never were. They are two separate things.
Use the system that works best for you. If you feel like a Gemini, use the tropical system. Some astrologers don’t use signs at all.
Discouragement with the zodiac, sidereal, tropical, heliocentric, etc, indicates we’ve entered a period of cosmogenesis.
The Generative Womb, has been articulated by Laviolette (1997) where the Sequence of the Signs are re-arrange to prepare us for Morphological change:
1.Taurus
2. Aries
3. Pisces
4. Gemini
5. Cancer
6. Leo
Emergence of Physical Form:
7. Scorpio
8. Sagittarius
9. Capricorn
10. Libra
11. Virgo
12. Aquarius
Note the last two. We have spatial New Age charts for these signs. The preparation into new physical form is well underway. It appears to me that we have the new software running in place, on one of its last test programs. A critical stellium this winter, is yet to occur, from which the sequencing becomes more clear.
Cosmogenesis Sequence, Initial Stage, Processes in the Energy Field/Ether, the Generative Womb*
a) Datum 21 June 2020, 8:41am, Cairo, Egypt.
b) Cosmogenesis order, Zero Point, Summer Solstice, Sun/Moon eclipse,
c) arcing semi-sextile to MidHeaven, 14Tau00, triggering the sequence start
d) (Equal Tropical Houses)
e) Elapsed time calculated from the two Spatial New Charts, rectified to 33 years summation, and further rectified to comets McNaught2007, Ison,Gault,CIBoriso, ratio 0.35
f) x-y Male-Female, Left-Right, Looking down from MC.
1.1 Taurus, Uranus 9Tau29 (9th House) Y chromosome
1.2 Taurus, Asteroid Tunguska 7Tau53 (9th House) Y chromosome
1.3 Taurus, Capulus and Algol (9th house) X chromosome
1.4 Taurus, Sedna 28 Tau12 (10th house), X chromosome
2.1 Aries, Eris 24Ari29 (9th House)
2.2 Aries, Lilith 16Ari21 (8th House)
2.3 Aries, Chiron 9Ari15 (8th House)
2.4 X chromosome
3.1 Pisces, Mars 25Pis49 (8th House)
3.2 Pisces, Neptune 20Pis58 (8th House)
3.3 Pisces, Ceres 12Pis07 (7th House)
3.4 X chromosome
4.1 Gemini, Venus Rx 5Gem39 (10 house), Y chromosome
5.1 Cancer, Mercury Rx 14Can25 (11 house) Y chromosome
6.1 Leo, Ascendant 18Leo15, Pars Fortuna 18Leo15, Y chromosome
Ref, Laviolette
Ref, Gerald/astrologyking
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f) x-y Female-Male
More on this in further posts. ref Ilya Prigogine, Brusselator.
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c) semi-square, midpoint, to the MC and Ascendent, triggering the sequence start at the MC
Emergence of Physical Form:
“The second six signs in the sequence follow the growth of this seed energy fluctuation as it develops into a sub atomic particle.” Ref. Laviolette
7.1 the Scorpio, Imum Coeli IC 14Sco00
“The revolution to overthrow the ether’s uniform state has begun”
8.1 Sagittarius, Galactic Centre 27Sag08 (5th House)
8.2 Sagittarius, Vertex 23Sag59 (5th House)
8.3 X chromosome
“The growing fluctuation of the two ether complements, X and Y, has begun to disrupt the ether’s uniform distribution At This Site (emphasis mine)”
9.1 Capricorn, Pallas Athena 26Cap51 (6th House)
9.2 Capricorn, Jupiter 25Cap07 (6th house)
9.3 Capricorn, Pluto 24Cap19 (6th House)
9.4 X chromosome
“The energy fluctuations grows exponentially as the the concentration of the one ether complement increases at the expense of the other.”
10.1 Libra, Arcturus/Spica (3rd House), Y chromosome
“Because the ether complements X and Y are produced by two mutually interlinked reaction processes, the increase in abundance of the one complement being limited by the decrease in abundance of its partner. So, as the initial discrepancy spreads radially outward, the balance begins to swing the other way, allowing the other partner to have the upper hand.”
11.1 Virgo, Deep Space Galaxy Cluster (2nd House), Y chromosome
“X/Y energy potential wave pattern is refined and made Regular (emphasis mine) in its nurturing ether is womb; it develops into a mature subatomic particle of precise wavelength.
12.1 Aquarius, Saturn 00Aqr40 (6th House), X chromosome.
“The process of matter creation repeats through the interplay of form-generating and form-stabilizing processes; evolution proceeds, and materialized particles are disseminated through space.”
Tarot Major Arcana 0 -10 and Cosmogenesis
“Creation science concepts are presented in the major arcana” ref Laviollete
The starting Point with the 3rd chart of the new age trilogy, the Summer Solstice/Solar Eclipse, 21 June 2020, 8:41am Cairo, Egypt:
0 the Fool, Sun/Moon 0 point Summer Solstice.
1 the Magician, Taurus
2 the Priestess, Aries
3 the Empress, Pisces
4 the Emperor, Gemini
5 the Pope, Cancer
6 the Lover, Leo
7 the Chariot, Scorpio
8 Justice, Sagittarius
9 the Hermit, Capricorn
10, the Wheel of Fortune, Libra
——- Virgo
——- Aquarius
Note, This is not the LaViolette sequence, which shares signs and sequence to give zodiac homes to 0 to 10 in the arcana.
The Absence of arcana to the last two signs is an adjustment, reflecting the impact of the two spatial new age charts, Virgo and Aquarius.
Asteroids of Cosmogenesis:
Picasso 4221
January 12, 1996, Aquarius
MC 1Sag46
IC 1Gem46
Picasso 16Leo35
November 29, 2011, Virgo
MC 1Gem08
IC 1Sag08
Picasso 6Tau38
June 21, 2020, 0 Point
ASC 18Leo15
MC 14Tau00
IC 14Sco00
Picasso 1Gem45
Note Picasso 4221 in all three charts. How he paints, at the time of Cosmogenesis, especially on the Gravity axis. And how he picks up his tools and paint on the Ascendant.
“Meta-games* are rarely played in their pure form. The Art Game ideally is directed toward the expression of an inner awareness loosely defined as beauty. The awareness is purely subjective. One man’s beauty can be another man’s horror. The beautiful of one age can seem ugly to another. But bad players of the art game have no inner awareness at all. They are technically proficient and imitate those who have awareness, conforming to the fashion whatever that fashion may be. The whole Art Game, as played today, is heavily tainted with commercialism, the greed of the collector pervades it like a bad smell. It is further complicated by the tendency to show off that afflicts almost all contemporary artists, whether they be painters, sculptors, writers or composers. As all traditional concepts of the beautiful have been abandoned, anything goes, just so long as it is new and startling. This makes it almost impossible to tell whether a given work of art corresponds to some inner awareness of the artist or merely shows that he was trying to be clever.”
Ref. Robert S De Ropp(1968)
*Meta games hierarchy:
-Master game, awakening
-Religion game, salvation
-Science game, knowledge
-Art game, beauty
There is a photo art visual of the Cosmogenesis model posted on the Canadian dating site pof.com.
Location: Cowichan,
Identity: Mosture69
Ref. Art Basel
Maurizio Cattelan
When does the Age of Aquarius begin?
Posted by Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | January 9, 2019
Astronomers and astrologers may agree that the Age of Aquarius starts when the vernal equinox point moves out of constellation Pisces and into Aquarius. But when will that be? There’s no definitive answer.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin
A commentator named Jason posts a chart a few days ago of the February 4, 1962 chart with the October 28, 2019 New Moon transits. And he thinks he sees something.
This is stupid. There’s a reason ancient astrologers opted to ignore this, Astrology was made on a premise that planets of our system orbit planet Earth. This premise cannot be changed. And with time people chose to ignore this fact because its the only system that astrology knows. This too should also be ignored. Just like mercury retrograde only looks like that, we know it does not actually move backwards…
https://www.astro.com/astrology/ivccn_article191122_e.htm
“Pluto transiting Capricorn in the Sidereal and Tropical Zodiacs over Thousands of Years. What are the Lessons for our Times?”
Roy must of been reading astrologyking forums, went off to play the Tarot, pulled up a Reversed Heirophant, and had a holy shit, altho maybe not in that sequence.
Astronomers and astrophysicists are not going to explain everything, I’m getting tired of their God like complex.
Traditional astronomers laid the ground work for them and did not interfere with or trash talk astrology because they had better things to do, they did not have taxpayer funded technology doing all the work leaving them idle.
Idle modern day astronomers should stop sticking their noses in astrology and focus on the fact that they are out of touch and without astrology very few would care what they are on about.
Some Americans have already questioned NASA’s relevance to their daily lives and asked why should they continue to finance its expensive missions.
We are not really interested in Pluto being a dwarf planet, we want to know what Pluto is about and how his energy affects us, based on the observations made from a group of people who have Pluto placements and aspects.
Psychology works on the same premise.
Astronomers tell us the sun is so many million light years away from earth.
Who cares about that? What matters to people is what father sun does for and to us. It gives us light, it keeps us warm during the day, its the best sanitiser, its good for our mental health, over exposure is not good for the skin, etc.
Medical scientists did a better job of defining the relationship between living organisms and the sun. That’s just one example of someone else succeeding where astronomers have failed. IF modern day astronomers and astrophysicists think they have answers for everything.
Astrology works for me and no astronomer or astrophysicist is going to tell me otherwise.
They make mockery of astrology saying its not science, well, it doesn’t have to fit their narrow definition of science to work for me.
At some stage psychology was not regarded as science because it did not fit the narrow definition.
Astrology should have evolved and have been formalised, the major problem is that every jack and jill can create a website and claim to be an astrologer and post a lot of unsubstantiated junk based on their personal experiences.
You are not going to dispute observations and cases documented by consulting astrologers. If you are going to do that you may as well dispute those made by psychologists.
Psychologists worked hard to make psychology what it i today, astrologers should do the same.
Astrology is growing, if astronomers don’t like that that’s their problem to solve not with formulas that make no sense.
Lastly, precession is noted but our sun signs will stay, its not just about the location of the planets, sun, moon and fixed stars. It’s also about the archetypes. If you are going to shoot down the archetypes you may as well shoot down a lot that psychologists have documented.
the difference bet
Today we have Biblical astrology, Medical astrology, psychologists are embracing astrology and there’s nothing astronomers can do to stop that.
They are impressed, and Mother is dancing, we move up several notches. Our galaxy shines very bright right now.
Hi, Jaime: i just posted a comment on your natal aspects page (Sun square Uranus aspect) and then discovered THIS page, which was what I was really seeking.
‘Precessional’ astrology was the term I sought.
I converted from Tropical about 10 years ago after reading Vasilis Kanatas’ excellent book ‘Astrology of the 13 signs of the Zodiac’.
He is a physics/mathematician/science guy. He makes the mistake of simply re-assigning the traditional definitions of the signs to the sign following: ie. The meanings given to Tropical Aries are now the meanings of the Precessional Pisces.
No. That isn’t on. Being Uranian I threw that baby out with the bathwater and attempted to unravel the cat hairball I faced. I spent months trying to redefine the entire horoscope. Eventually threw it all out, except the aspects and the four angles.
I have discarded house meanings as well.
Aspects, angles and locations relative to those angles is about it for me. It is working out very nicely when I interpret charts.
Leos and Scorpios are indignant though, losing their ‘specialness’ to their way of thinking.
I am so glad to have stumbled onto your site.
Jeff
Yay! We are on the same page 🙂
Good bye, old man, age of Pisces. just over ten hours now, and the light goes out. That new Aquarius blur, ready to hit the streets running…
Old man, look at my life, Im a lot like you were, (taking a kneel)
“Carl Jung struggled to determine an exact date and he assumed the length of a Platonic month as 2,143 years, but he could not determine which star to use to begin the calculations.”
note 40, https://jungiancenter.org/understanding-what-were-dealing-with-jung-on-the-antichrist-archetype/
From Jamie’s Neowise:
“Comet NEOWISE Perihelion – The comet made its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on July 3, 2020, at 16:21 UT. [3] This places the comet at 29°54′ Gemini…. comet NEOWISE predictions can be interpreted from its perihelion position …”
is this comet not beautiful? May God bless all souls, brave people.
Hi Gerald. I really wish I could see it but unfortunately it is not visible from down under.
See it in your soul… look at the photos, and read the striae.
Neowise is an exit comet, unlike Hale Bopp, which was an entrance comet.
Gerald, that’s a very intriguing comment: “Neowise is an exit comet…”
Could you explain what you mean by this, to a person who knows nothing about Cosmogenesis?
It will cost three pieces of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and four Rice Crispy Squares, I’m starving.
Ok great.
For the KFC, dial 3 # 173 * on your phone. Keep open mouth close to the phone, chew and swallow as the items are delivered.
For the Rice Crispy Squares, dial 4 # * 839 etc.
Works on Android and iPhone.
Anxiously awaiting your reply…
Thanks, and one more item. Some banana bread. Measure the loaf, calculate phi, and pass over the lesser amount. Namasté
Ok then. Attach your 3D printer for delivery.
Ok, here it is: Sun/Moon heliocentric position Cusp of Mystery and Imagination, 00Aqr33 at the closest comet Neowise, Mosture 69 AU, exit soul train.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=2hZBu9r7f1E
“The filmmakers decided to reference the Art Basel Miami Beach banana “Comedian” in the cover imagery for the documentary—originally conceived by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s art installation of affixing a banana to the wall of the show with duct-tape and sold it for US$120,000. By taking and then manipulating a digital image of the banana itself, the directors performed their own work of conceptual art which they call “Stole”. Their goal was to let the art live beyond the end of the event, and to give the iconic banana image a new life in the official cover of Art Backstage. ” benzinga.com
thank you, you’re a beautiful audience Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you very, very much
Elvis Presley, What ‘d I Say, August 22, 1969, Las Vegas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZVMvzZH6k
“a star will move one degree forward through the zodiac… because the Earth is tilted and moves around this axis every 26,000 years” — an accurate description but hardly comprehensible to the lay person. Neither is this, but at least I’ll try:
The Earth spins like a top and, as a top does, it wobbles. Over short timeframes — say a few centuries, the earth’s axis seems to point in the same direction. However, over one 26,000 year wobble cycle the earth’s axis points toward different stretches of the sky. Today, the axis through the north pole points nearly constantly toward Polaris. Over 26,000 years, the Earth’s wobble changes our orientation such that Polaris isn’t always the North Star. Likewise, the Sun no longer is in Gemini in June, as it was 2000 years ago. Congratulations, you’re now an Aries.
“In December of 2020, we are in for the beginning of a new age, [as] Saturn and Jupiter will be aligning in the sign of Aquarius”
‘the Age of Aquarius for decades now… many astrologers believe that the monumental “great conjunction” talking place on December 21, 2020 is the cosmic event that’s officially heralding it in’
https://www.bustle.com/life/age-of-aquarius-2020-astrology-chaos
The Age of Aquarius, January 12, 1996, on December 21,2020
Progressed Moon 05°Vir00″ 05′
This left me scratching my head: 5 degrees, 5 seconds?
There is the trinity and now add a fourth for the ‘official’ beginning of the New Age on December 21.
Where is the fifth date?
November 2, 2020. The heliocentric Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, “Skip the Breeding”
Remember Biden’s Aug 2 Speech? quote: “Leading by the power of our example,
Not by the example of our power”
Summary:
Trinity
Heliocentric Jupiter- Saturn 01Aqr50
Geocentric Jupiter- Saturn 00Aqr30
How many times does 30 go into 150?
‘How many times does 30 go into 150?
5 x IF the units are the same, but they are not. Seconds and minutes run to 60 not 100, obviously, we all know this.
BUT these mistakes happen often, NASA with Mars probes, AND the CDC with Covid death predictions are two examples where we see unit math errors.
No IFs ANDs or BUTs, we deal with oppositions, conjunctions and squares practically every day.
A better Proof of the trinity, if you want equal units, is to look at the Progressed Age of Aquarius:
Moon 05Vir00”05’
Hygiea 02Pis59”59’
5 public (Moon) chart bananas
Minus 3 trinity organic (Hygiea) bananas
Equals 2 Artist Proofs; heliocentric and geocentric Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions, Nov 2/20 and Dec 21/20, respectfully.
Hi Jamie, this was well done… Outstanding overview, thanks… I shared it on my fb page… I like the bit on Kepler… I was looking for where the seasonal marker is for Age of Aquarius on this Precessional Roundabout… Didn’t find anything.. . Spring Equinox still in Aries… I know the stars have mostly moved at least halfway out of their zodiac sectors… Just haven’t seen what is the scientific base for Age of Aquarius… I’d rather not be like a Christian prophet always missing the mark of Jesus’ coming!
Pantheon, 9:00 am, EST. February 12, 2021:
Trinity (arc)
1. Aquarius, Age of, January 12, 1996
2. Regulus Ingress Virgo Mother, November 29, 2011
3. Cosmogenesis, June 21, 2020
Proofs (Juputer-Saturn)
4. Heliocentric, November 2, 2020. 1:49:45 pm EST.
5. Geocentric, December 21, 2020. 5:40:30 pm EST
Henge Proclamation (Epiphany)
6. Venus Zero Point, January 8, 2021
Standard
7. Soup Can New Moon, February 11, 2021
I believe the movements of planets and stars REflect, not EFfect, events in our lives.
AFfect…
The declination of the Sun is what defines the tropical zodiac from my view. Therefore, the tropical zodiac is a way to “keep it local” and focus on our solar system. Yes, the signs don’t match their previous placements due to precession, but the tropical zodiac is just a system concerned with the effects of the local solar system. Yes, aspects are way overlooked, and fixed stars probably matter, but to write off all tropical signs as fictitious seems like an absurd “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” position.
Got it. The more I learn the less I know!
What effect does this movement of the poles have on the climate?
Hi Chip. It creates the seasons.
Jamie, I confess that I did not read carefully through the thread for a possible answer to my question, so apologies if you’ve answered this already. Is there not an astrology current/system that already uses a methodology that aligns the constellations to their actual current positions? I distinctly remember a friend providing me with a chart in which my sun was not in Aries but Pisces, almost 30 degrees from what I’m accustomed to seeing.
Cosmogenesis Comets deserve a place in the Pantheon, further to this thread.
Neowise C/2020 F3 has its own astrologyking article and is mentioned here. Perihelion MercuryRx sextile Uranus. A 24 year offset to Comet Hale Bopp and Hyakutake. Goalposting the beginning of Aquarius and the end of Pisces. Special thankyou to lawyers Kneel, Jung and Carlson.
C/2021 A1 Leonard, early 2002 perihelion ‘periwinkle’ burned bright and burned out, true to its MercuryRx sextile Neptune.
Angel C2022 E3, is mostly taken up at Corona Borealis, February 5, 2023 New Moon and Lunar Occultation of Mars, December 2021. At Perihelion on January 12, 2023, MercuryRx sextile NNode, to give meaning and purpose.
My involvement with astrology changed when I stopped making predictions. I realized that signs and planets do not make choices – people do. I also understand that at every moment there is a choice point, and it is our decisions that alter our lives. I value astrology for how it helps me understand a person, yet, I have no intention of fixing them. The intent I have is to validate their life as a means of healing. I look for better ways of understanding how the difficult aspects can be seen for the strength they offer. Some tough aspects are made for the harder jobs, like a Mars square for blowing out the deadwood and getting rid of old baggage.
I see the 12 houses as a conceptual division of the zodiac, and the 12 signs as a practical division based on the movement of the earth. It’s like a wheel within a wheel, as the conceptual houses are numbered in a counterclockwise direction while the signs follow the sun’s movement. The numbering of houses serves to bring in numerology for contrast in meaning that can be added.
The precession of the equinoxes tells a longer story, and it coincides with the new energy that has been prophesized by indigenous people around the world for thousands of years. Humanity is growing up and becoming more consciously aware. However, human consciousness is not growing as I expected in a linear fashion, it is growing in a multidimensional fashion.
These ancient cultures saw the wobble and tracked the 26,000-year cycle. I got curious and when I searched for changes in humanity at the beginning of the last precession when the sun and the centre of our galaxy were in alignment, it occurred in the upper paleolithic era in the time of cavemen. It seems that cave art and music were new human expressions at this time.
A work in progress: my thoughts on astrology at https://edcannelll.substack.com/archive
https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/ancient-epic-gilgamesh-and-precession-equinox-003957
Gilgamesh, central mythological character at the precessionary Taurus -> Aries
asteroid 1812 Gilgamesh, conjunct natal progressed Moon and Moon transit. July 16, 2023
https://postimg.cc/Z9Ft4Tcq
Mundane transits,
True NNode 00Tau18
Moon 09Can25
Gilgamesh 08Tau55
thoughts: media stories resurrecting Trade negotiater Lighthizers use of term “War of 1812”, to describe trade battles like old wars, or an asteroid to consider? Also odd timing of old crime coming to night light “Gilgo Beach”.
Great link Paul, Lots to read now. Thank you!
Dual M solar flares. Two flares, unusual and spectacular. July 18, 00:45 UT
https://postimg.cc/phQRf7ry
Jupiter, 00Tau39, a placement of recent precessionary and geocentric True North Node interest. The planet of luck nodding its head at dual Aquarius and Aries epics. The spice of life working well together at malefic dignity New Moon.