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President’s Letter:
Looking
Back to go Forward
Astrology is endlessly fascinating. If
you get bored with one way of doing charts, there’s always another
approach. Just read the Mountain Astrologer, or take a gander at all the
books out there and you’ll find literally hundreds of different
approaches. There’s always something to learn.
I’ve been playing with a different
method of erecting and reading charts, using one that is recommended by
Robert Hand. In it, you use whole sign houses rather than one of the other
systems (like Koch or Campanus) where the ascendant is the cusp of the
first house, the Midheaven is the cusp of the 10th house, and
various methods are used to calculate the other house cusps. In the whole
sign houses, the ascendant is placed in the first house and the Midheaven
is wherever it falls in its sign. (For me that is in the 9th
house.) There are no intercepted houses and all of them begin with 00:00
of the signs. With some charts, it moves the planets to different houses
and with others it doesn’t actually move any of them. If you have
intercepted signs, it will change the signs on four or six houses.
That’s significant.
This whole sign system is , of course,
the method used by the Indian astrologers in calculating their charts
using the sidereal time.
Hand claims this method increases his
accuracy amazingly. He began working with it because of his research into
ancient methods as part of the Project Hindsight team, and found that
those famous, highly accurate astrologers of the ancient world used whole
sign houses and sidereal time. The modern Western system didn’t come
into use until long after astrology almost died out in the European world.
(He is a stickler for accuracy – and says what we actually practice is
not Western, but Middle-Eastern astrology.) The men who began reviving it
did so with very little background into the previous methods. Much of that
information was lost to them.
So what I have learned in studying it
with a few charts (including mine and my family’s charts) is that he is
correct. In fact I’ve been quite amazed! In my daughter’s chart,
it moved most of the planets into different houses and changed four house
signs... Read
more >>
ASNT
Articles:
Astrological
Treasure
Here you can find astrological writings published in our monthly
newsletter. Enjoy! Read
more >>
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