Thanks, Deb. Yes, I disagree in view of the abundance of evidence to the contrary. The East facing theory is all good except for one important thing ? to determine months of the year the Babylonians faced WEST (not east). Beginning of Babylonian month was when a new crescent moon was first sighted l...

Hi Deb, Thanks. Let?s see if I can clarify this a bit further. So I just want to point out that the passage is clearly demonstrating a northern hemisphere orientation. Actually, I disagree. The passage is not demonstrating a northern hemisphere orientation? it?s demonstrating orientations from the ?...

Another addition with regard to East being to one's right (the inversion of the zodiac observed when viewing from a SH orientation) with regard to the inverted Dendera & Tunisia zodiacs (East = right): Aristotle (384-322BC) On The Heavens Book II: " Of the poles, that which we see above us ...

To add: For example, the order of planetary considerations in the old Babylonian scheme was in order: Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars. In terms of compass directions, and that in the older schemes a ?day? started at sunset, once sun had gone down: Jupiter is nocturnal ruler of the fire triplic...

Hello Phoebe, Good to see you step in here, and thanks for sharing the article. --?Going back to the idea of a switch occurring at the time of the Greeks, astrologers constructed charts using points on the landscape around their location. I imagine most of them were fortune tellers with no scientifi...

Hi Gem, Kirk & all, Sorry for late response Gem ? just doing a little catching up. :D Gem: "I wonder if it's really necessary to differentiate as you do, or divide the work into two categories: behind the scenes part and the public 'executive management' part." Well, to start I do make...

Hi Lenor, Thanks for the link, it helps clarify what you?re meaning. This is something I?d also been looking into a while ago. Appreciated. :) Actually, I'd like to see horoscopes drawn for those born in SH from an actual SH pov in this day and age in the streams of western astrology ... think it wo...

Gem, don't they ultimately involve serving other people, giving something of ourselves to society? Any work exists because there are needs/demands for it; becuase there's someone who requires it. Hence, everyone has 6th house in a chart. However, not everyone has that field emphasized. The 6th is a ...

Hi Kirk, Thanks for your warm words & kind thoughts ? greatly appreciated! :D Apologies for the delay in responding. I believe we?re very much in agreement when comes to 6th and 10th. As you've indicated, there?s interpretive differences between natal, horary, electional and to add, mundane. The...

Kirk, We hear about declination these days ? some people even use it ? but in the older works latitude seems to be what they used. I don?t remember coming across discussions of declination until the 19th century. I?ve been giving this some further thought, and what comes to mind is that our predeces...

Steven, Perhaps it would have been clearer if I?d written ?modern western? astronomers instead. From early modern times, modern (western) astronomers began to mark the stars according to tropical co-ordinate systems such as the equatorial co-ordinate system, tropical zodiac etc instead of the zodiac...

Hi Astrojin, It is my belief that the ancients consider declination for sun and celestial latitude for other wandering stars i.e. planets. With all of the explanations above (amongst others), we can conclude that the path of the sun is very much referenced to the celestial equator. I'd second that ....