for anyone who wants to replicate the chart in solar fire - i put in 345pm and the location - utrecht, netherlands..

I use solar fire. I didn't have to adjust anything. I just put in the coordinates. There is no way to "set it" so coordinates can't be used, much less have to guess the location and adjust the time. Are you running the MS DOS version? The dialogue box just pops up. You fill in the information. It's easy.

Had he used the nodes, the logic would be much simpler.
SN by it's retro motion has just entered the 2nd house and has a long way to travel.I am not sure where the SN would be in the Ram system of houses.

The nodal axis runs across 2/8 houses.

In another forum, I read that Dutch astrologers have the ephemeris tables for his three Ram points

PD

tom

solar fire 7.3.1 running on a windows platform..

james_m wrote:tom

solar fire 7.3.1 running on a windows platform..

your post is shrinking , James

I am not at my computer and so only have access to astro.com. I also don't have the time to read through the actual article at the moment but will do so later. What I notice is that setting the time for 3:14pm and using Campanus cusps that the POF is now in late Taurus, that Mars is conjoined the 11th house cusp, with Jupiter much closer to the MC, that Saturn/Venus are in the 7th house, not the 8th. What is striking to me is that Mars is no longer in the 10th and so has basically no influence on the native's career/public persona. Instead Jupiter does and Jupiter, though peregrine, is the sect benefic and is in a masculine sign and is not afflicted (I'm not considering Uranus); he is also trine the Moon, who is the exalted dispositor of the POF in late Taurus. This is just a cursory analysis but I am thus far convinced, without doing much more, that this would significantly change things for the better. The same time using Regiomontanus cusps gives us Mars in the 10th but again Jupiter is much closer to the MC. Astro.com does not give me the correct chart using 3:24pm and I believe someone else mentioned the correct time was 3:45pm using Solar Fire? In any case there are clearly discrepancies in the language employed. "A few minutes" is a very relative statement and if it was employed nonchalantly then it could mean a half hour or even more, based on some of the other comments (Sun/Mercury in the 7th?). We cannot project our understanding of that term onto someone writing in the 1930s. People make these mistakes all of the time even today. The most common is when people exaggerate and say things like it was 10 hours when it was actually 2 etc. We should keep in mind that perhaps this paper wasn't meant to be published or that the person who wrote it never thought it would receive the attention it is receiving now. Just a conjecture.