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NEWSLETTERNOW WEEKLY! with Art by Vera ! from the Astrology Center of America / Astroamerica.Com NEWSLETTERNOW WEEKLY! With art by Vera ! from the Astrology Center of America / AstroAmerica.com January 24, 2012 ARCHIVE — Subscribe/Unsubscribe Email [email protected] Newt wins nice summary of Hellenistic astrology. With both Dykes’ medieval texts, and Brennan’s ASTROASTRO South Carolina Hellenistic approach, we are asked to learn A to Z a great many techniques but the result is only MED O NOT underestimate the power of a a slight improvement on what we could do MEDFROM C.E.O. CARTER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA Dfull moon with a mission (Gemini- twenty years ago. Sag). This is Newt’s last hurrah and he This is in large part because the people Mental Deficiency. The fundamental knows it. Saturday’s win has put a taste of at the forefront of these movements are ei- indication is Saturnian affliction to the victory in the man’s mouth. He will be the ther traditional psychological astrologers 3rd house either by his being posited next president or will destroy the Republi- (either directly, or their teachers) or are uni- therein, his being in affliction with its can party if he is denied. There was record versity professors rather than actual astrolo- ruler, his afflicting it by cuspal opposi- turnout on Saturday, so I got that one wrong. gers. So, on the one hand, Chris Brennan has tion, or by Saturn’s sign being on the And the daffodils, which were 2½ inches, a largely aspect-dominated astrology (which cusp. Very often there is an additional are still 2½ inches, only now with ice. seems to date from Charles Carter’s 1930 affliction by one or more of the other Hellenists masterpiece, The Astrological Aspects), on malefics, but it is to be observed that the the other, Benjamin Dykes gives us a strictly Moon and Mercury are by no means al- Medievalists academic approach, which, quite by accident, ways afflicted; in some cases they are ITH the arrival of Ben Dykes’ The is heavily larded with academic politics. strong. The same may be said of the Sun WBook of the Nine Judges, and Chris Properly used, houses, signs, planets, and the ascendant. Venus is very fre- Brennan’s article on Hellenistic astrology in dispositors and rulers produce such an amaz- quently in square to Mars or Saturn, and the new issue of the Mountain Astrologer, ing and powerful amount of detail that I can- the watery triplicity is nearly always I’m starting to wonder if the revivalist move- not understand why I would need to fuss connected with the 3rd house by sign or ment has not peaked. Prof. Dykes has given with either the medieval or the Hellenistic planet. The 22O of mutables, as in In- us a translation of a translation that was not approach. Virtually every serious book pub- sanity, is often involved in affliction. very well done the first time, and Ben re- lished in the last 300 years has the essence Numerous examples are given in Mod- grettably did not take the opportunity to of this system already laid out, but the books ern Astrology, July 1915, from which we improve things. Mr. Brennan has given us a that teach how to use it are few: Patti Tobin may select three: 6:00 pm, October 18, 4 Brittian’s Planetary Powers is brilliant. 1906, Bolton. Jupiter is conjunct Nep- 2012 MAYNARD CALENDARS Hamaker-Zondag’s House Connection is tune on the cusp 3rd opposite Uranus; Time is running out! Click here to order. okay, if dated. Morin’s Book 21 will intro- Mars is in 22O Virgo semi-square Moon duce you to his system. I should be lectur- and Mercury. Venus square Saturn ex- ALMANACKing at UAC, but that will not happen, as there act. — An Encyclopaedia of Psycho- for the week (all times GMT) logical Astrology Notes are somethings my full moon cannot do. 24 00:55 ¥ SR 09:23 ¢ Ï ª I OOO 25 08:34 ¡  © Void I 09:12 ¡ œ S T A R O F T H E W E E K 26 13:13 ¡  ¤ OOOOOOOOO 27 04:53 ¡ à ¥ Void GIEDDI alpha Capricorni 3 ç 56 09:20 £ Å § Notes: A multiple star, yellow, ash and lilac, situated on the south horn 18:12 £ › of the Goat. Symbolically called the Slain Kid 18:29 ¡ ‘ Influence: According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Venus and Mars. It gives benefi- 28 04:42 ¤ Ð ¥ cence, sacrifice and offering. 10:01 ¡ Æ ¢ With Sun: Peculiar events, unexpected losses and gains, sometimes great good fortune. 18:26 £ Æ ¨ With Moon: Peculiar and unexpected events, eccentric, public criticism, new and influen- 29 04:08 £ Å ¦ tial friends, valuable gifts, love of respectable women but difficulties and sometimes pla- 30 06:09 ¡ Æ © Void tonic marriage. 06:29¡ ’ With Mercury: Romantic, psychic, vacillating, bad for gain, many love affairs some of Extracted from AstroAmerica’s Daily which cause notoriety, may elope with married person. Ephemeris, 2000-2020. Get yours! With Venus: Many strange and unexpected events.– . .from Fixed Stars, by Vivian Robson Astrology Home Newsletter Archive New Astrology Books New Vedic Books New Tarot Decks Top Ten Books Copyright © 2012 by David R. Roell. All rights reserved. Buy the book! Meet the author! Headlines, graphics, book titles & authors are all clickable. So click already! Go places! IVY’S Whole Sign Houses % GEM HERE were a number of requests to Second method: But if you don’t like expand on my notes last week on the first method, Valens has others. His next Twhole sign houses. On Friday the method is to take the Sun’s degree position OF Mountain Astrologer for February/March and add to it the rising time of the sign the arrived and in it I found an article by the in- Sun is in. Rising times are essentially Al- estimable Chris Brennan on Hellenistic As- cabitius houses. The system was invented, THE trology, including notes on the Hellenistic use not by the Arabs, as you might have been of whole sign houses. told, but by Hypsicles (ca 190 BC – ca 120 The primary difference between my ap- BC) who divided the day into 360 equal parts, proach, and that of Chris, is that he has read where each part was equal to four minutes of Ivy M. Goldstein-Jacobson 1893-1990 WEEK and studied and seeks to apply what he has clock time. Why does Valens not use this as learned. Whereas I skim books and invari- a house system? Presumably because he had ably fall asleep in class. To compensate, I not a number system that would let him. The make things up and then try them out to see various Greek number systems were little The TYPE if they work. There are disadvantages to both more than hash marks. Roman numbers were of these systems, as we will quickly learn. already an improvement. But I have di- “Whole sign houses” is a Hellenistic term gressed. of aspect and we will therefore start with the Hellenis- Anyway, my rising time for Aquarius at tic definition: We take the degree of the as- klima 4 (my latitude of birth, expressed in The square, semisquare & sesquare cendant and apply it to all the other house Ptolemaic notation) is 22:00. (These are four cusps. Isn’t this the same as Equal houses, minute units. The actual rising time is 88 HESE are PHYSICAL aspects in you ask? Not exactly. Equal houses start minutes.) Add 21 for the Sun to get 43. which the native’s reaction in time with the degree on the cusp, and continue to Count off from the Moon in Leo and I get Tof trouble either makes or breaks. the degree of the next cusp. Aquarius rising. Which is to say, a sunrise He goes to extremes of effort, spends too Whole sign houses start with 0O and con- birth. But no exact degree. much time or energy or money of his own tinue to 30O. The degree on the cusp is merely Method no. 3, find the number of days volition, running the danger of causing re- an interesting artifact. The exact degree on from August 30, the Egyptian New Year, to sentment or alienation or exile. There is the ascendant is a sensitive point, but that the day of birth (never mind what that num- always some loss attached according to the seems to be about as much as the Hellenists ber is). Multiply the hour of birth (7, in my houses involved and only a good accompa- mess with cusps per se. case, counting from sunrise, not midnight) nying aspect or a mutual reception can miti- Since the ascendant is going to be impor- by 15 and add this to the number of days. gate the severity and see the native home tant, the first thing we need to do is not grab Count from Virgo, giving 30 to each sign. safe. At such time he should bend every our existing ascending degree and slap it This results in Taurus. effort, count the cost, and speak softly. ‘round the chart, but instead use Hellenistic Fourth method, for the “mystical, com- The sextile and semisextile techniques to find out what our proper as- pelling ascendant”: Multiply the hour of birth HESE are MENTAL aspects, each in- cendant should be. And while the Hellenis- by 15 (7 x 15 = 105), add the degree of the Tvolving common-sense recognition of tic ascendant should be the same as the mod- Sun (21) to get (126). Divide this by the ris- a prevailing situation or condition, espe- ern ascendant, I don’t think we should over- ing time of the Sun’s sign at the klima of birth cially as viewed from the standpoint of a look this step.
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