From the Seven Stars article you posted, a sentence near the end seems to be the crux 'It is true that our early textual evidence, which is rather scant, suggests Hellenistic astrologers used a Babylonian concept of the zodiac'. All the fuss about where the Vernal Point is located is slightly irrele... Forum: Sidereal Astrology Topic: Some Questions From a Potential Siderealist Replies: 6 Views: 3814 Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:45 am Jump to post
Thanks for this, very interesting. Makes you wonder over again why sidereal ever disappeared. Forum: Sidereal Astrology Topic: Sidereal tradition in the West Replies: 8 Views: 4413 Thu Nov 21, 2019 3:24 pm Jump to post
Thanks very much Therese, that passage doesn't appear in my abridged edition of Alberuni's India ! Some irony that he's lecturing Varahamihira for treating the stars as fixed and the solstices as moving... It appears Cyril Fagan's 20th C. sidereal movement was a genuine revival without any immediate... Forum: Sidereal Astrology Topic: Sidereal tradition in the West Replies: 8 Views: 4413 Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:15 pm Jump to post
Thanks very much, I understood use of sidereal continued until the Arabic period, though I hadn't read Ben Dykes' work. I'm more curious about the Renaissance and later - the example of Junctinus proves the SZ didn't disappear altogether. And what about British astrologers in the Raj/East India Comp... Forum: Sidereal Astrology Topic: Sidereal tradition in the West Replies: 8 Views: 4413 Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:59 pm Jump to post
Sidereal tradition in the West Does anybody know how much of a sidereal zodiac tradition existed in the West before the 20th century? I notice Dr Gansten's website refers to Junctinus's SZ advocacy in the 16th C., but guessing he was an outlier. Forum: Sidereal Astrology Topic: Sidereal tradition in the West Replies: 8 Views: 4413 Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:39 pm Jump to post
Interesting discussion: does anyone know when the now-ubiquitous 'karmic' interpretation of the nodes (ie, N. Node for future evolution, S.Node for the unassimilated past) first appeared in Western astrology? Isabel Hickey popularized this approach in the 70s, but I'm guessing it originally came out... Forum: Nativities & General Astrology Topic: What do the Moon's Nodes mean? Replies: 41 Views: 20048 Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:17 pm Jump to post