Thanks EdF for your reply.

EdF: No offense taken by your response. Remember the Local Apparent Time thread (which I started) a while back? You made insightful and informative posts in that discussion and I appreciate your expertise in this area. Basically what I was trying to find out in that thread is if the generally availa...

Kirk, a very excellent and insightful post! Zoller (and others) have made much of this very issue, and I lean strongly to this point of view. PS: That the MC was not (and need not be) necessarily connected with the 10th house, was widely known throughout the Classical Antiquity period of Western ast...

[quote="Kirk"]Hi Geoff, Here's another one for you, same date but different location: March 5, '10 5 am Montreal, Quebec DESC: 07 LEO 11 Mars: 00 LEO 28 Mars' altitude is only +00? 26' in this case, but is well over 5 degrees from the DESC. As I mentioned in my earlier posting in this thre...

I very much agree with the point of view expressed in JanieAxtell's well expressed posting.

Refer to the "Maximum declination of planets" thread in the Nativities section of the Forum.

http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5101

Pretty tough questions! I cannot say what the old timers would do-what they would consider happening-in Kirk's example, but (for whatever its worth) here's how I would look at it: -I use Whole Sign exclusively; relating to house allocation in Kirk's example Mars would unquestionably be considered (b...

An rx planet is self-conflicted; according to Ibn Ezra, it is like"a defiant and rebellious person"; I personally accept this opinion. Mercury rx? On an electional-type basis I avoid certain operations (such as Tarot divination) and certain types of undertakings during that time: HOWEVER, ...

Astrojin: excellent illustrative analogy!

(Disclaimer: I have virtually no experience in the area of sports/contest/financial astrological prognostics-my field being almost entirely astro-therapeutic-perhaps it would have been more lucrative if I had applied myself to these other fields! However, my little suggestions here are based upon ap...

Thanks for your interesting posting; I welcome you aboard!!

The idea of casting parts from the antiscia of planets is rather interesting, but it sounds as if we are moving out into a far wing. (That's me alright: Far-out Farr! :lala) Careful with loose ends or else we'll end up judging matches from the charts of the gals the guys last bedded! :lol: (Maybe y...