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This looks like a good historical review of the tropical mansions, but I don't have time to read it carefully at the moment. I would welcome posts by anyone who has studied the history of what are known as the "Arabic mansions." http://www.yeatsvision.com/Mansions.html I'm puzzled. I see ...

In a way this is a rather strange statement as no "pecularities" were given to the mansions in Al-biruni's time. What are your sources for this? You say you are not familiar with the Arabic Moon mansions, but instead use the Vedic Nakshatras. However, Al Biruni is writing as if they exist...

Thanks Therese, your comments are insightful. Indeed there seems to be a contradiction in the way Al Biruni defines the moon mansions. However, just like the tropical zodiac signs are defined after the constellations, so too the tropical moon mansions can be defined after the stars that are part of ...

Thanks Paul and Therese. Responding to Therese: I'm not sure why you mention Ptolemy because in his lifetime the tropical and sidereal zodiacs were so closely aligned that a difference in the longitudes of stars would generally not have been considered. Ptolemy was the second astronomer to understan...

Miguel, the fixed stars are only fixed in a sidereal zodiac. So it doesn't make sense to talk about fixed stars in a tropical context. You can't adjust the stars to always remain in the same place in the tropical zodiac. That is a contradiction in logic. Why not? It has been done with the zodiac si...

Thanks Paul. Good insight. I think you are right astrologers should folllow what seems right for them and see where it takes them. For now, tropical seem to make sense for me, but I might consider sidereal later. You are right tropical astrologers use some sidereal considerations on their use of fix...

Thanks Therese, I will read your article. Arvind, thanks for the follow up. Do you mean there are two different ways to calculate the tropical zodiac and that it's all subjective? It's true the tropical zodiac fails for those living around the equator, but then what's the solution? Sidereal? Siderea...

Tropical or sidereal zodiac

Most western astrologers use the Tropical zodiac, while most astrologers in India prefer the Sidereal version. Are they both uncritically following something they don't understand? After reading Fagan and Gansten on the Sidereal Zodiac I became a convert. How can tropical astrologers be so negligent...

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