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- From: chapin@cbnewsc.cb.att.com ( Tom Chapin )
- Subject: Re: StarSigns??
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:55:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.205538.15731@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
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- GAVIN KING writes:
- >A question for all you astrologers: do you think that the predictive power
- ^^^
- It would appear that you have had little contact with astrologers.
- A few notes... Most astrologers these days do not use astrology for
- its "predictive power," but as a device to psychological classification.
- Only a few are into technical analysis of the stock market or timing
- earthquakes.
-
- >of astrology has been harmed by the fact that, due to the precession of the
- >Earth about its axis, the Sun is no longer positioned in the constellation
- >which is assigned to a person when they are born, on their date of birth. (a
- >bit of background for non-astrologers: in ancient times a person's star sign
- >was chosen on the basis of the constellation in which the Sun was positioned
- >at a person's birth. Since then, precession has altered the date at which
- >the Sun moves into each constellation,
-
- Astrologers--just about all of them, even the utmost novices--have
- been well aware of the precession of the equinoxes since before
- scientists believe themselves to have existed. Ever hear the phrase
- "the Age of Aquarius"? Hardly invented by a scientist, eh?
-
- Scientists--evidently believing that no knowledge can be valuable
- if it is not contemporary--are abysmal when it comes to historical
- research. So they never bothered to notice that the "signs" are
- and always have been uniform 30-degree segments which were always
- based on the equinox and merely named for convenience after the
- constellations occupying those regions back when the classification
- was being established. If the scientists were using common sense
- rather then demonstrating malicious distortion, they would have
- noticed that while the signs are always of uniform size, the
- constellations are not, further supporting the idea that the signs
- are little connected to the constellations except by historical naming.
-
- >but no attempt has been made by
- >astrologers to alter the star signs of people born between the ancient and
- >present dates.
-
- In reality there are some astrologers who feel the signs should be
- based on the fixed stars rather than the equinox--they are called,
- reasonably enough, "siderealist astrologers." And Hindu astrologers
- have been siderealist as far back as is known.
-
- But most astrologers see little connection between the signs and
- fixed stars, preferring to see the greater symbolic correspondence
- between the birth and progression of the seasons, and the birth
- and progression of life experiences.
- --
- tom chapin tjc@hrcce.att.com
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