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crimsoncurrentI also really like Ascendant Arc directions. Although I don't have any empirical evidence for it, based on experience, they seem to be more to the point than Solar Arcs in a practical sense. In a person's chart, the S.A. seems more related to personal development and charts a person's general path in life, where the Asc Arc seems more relational--interaction with the world, other people and events that deal more with one's social development, rather than events that relate to a person's purpose/path/psychological development. That's just a working theory I have for the two Arc directions, but I really don't have a body of evidence to suggest it's 'real'.
MARS RISING CHARTS
SATURN RISING? JUPITER RISING?
SOLAR RETURN MONTHLY TIMING -VAL EVANS
INGRESS CHARTS
SUNRISE CHARTS - SUNSET CHARTS?
LUNATION COMPOSITES
all kind of COMPOSITES
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Signs in the sidereal zodiac have never been defined in the rather elaborate way that the tropical signs have been in modern astrology. A system of triplicities (fire, earth air and water) has been observed in the tropical zodiac which cannot be applied verbatim to sidereal signs. We can, however, use the astrological history of triplicity lords as a tool to define the nature of sidereal signs.
The four triplicities, dividing the zodiac into four triangles, originated in Mesopotamia. These triangles, groups of signs whose celestial longitude differed by 120 degrees, were associated with the four winds. In the Greek world these triangles first appeared in Dorotheus (presumed 1st Century C.E.), an early compiler of Hellenistic astrological doctrine. Dorotheus assigned two planetary lords to the four triangles, and one cooperating lord. We have no information on the origin of these assigned planets, but in western astrology they were carried through the medieval and Renaissance periods to the English period in the 18th and 19th centuries. Only in modern practice have they disappeared. Dorotheus writes:
I tell you that everything that is decided or indicated is from the lords of the triplicities, and as for everything of afflictions or distress which reaches the people of the world and the totality of man, the lords of the triplicities decide it....1
Given such power in the earliest days of the zodiac, it seems that the lords of the triangles should have an observed expression in signs of the zodiac. These trigon lords do seem to bestow perceptible energies on the signs which can manifest either in the life activities of a person or as a general psychological tonal quality to the personality.
In addition to triplicity lords, Vettius Valens (2nd century C.E.) was the first astrologer to connect elements to the triangles. But in western astrology these have been changed from the Stoic elements where each element had only one quality (hot, cold, wet, dry) to Aristotle’s system which gives a mix of two qualities to each element. This system is entrenched in western tropical astrology, but there is now a serious question as to whether this element assignment may be in error. In his commentary on Book 1 of Ptolemy’s Tetribiblos, Rob Hand writes:
The text does appear to be saying that Hot = Masculine, Wet = Feminine, Dry = Masculine, Cold = Feminine. If Ptolemy is completely in accord with standard Aristotelianism in which Hot and Cold are both active whereas Wet and Dry are both passive, then Ptolemy here classifies Hot = Active & Masculine, Cold = Active & Feminine, Wet = Passive & Feminine and Dry = Passive and Masculine. If this analysis is correct it has all manner of interesting symbolic consequences for astrology. 2
Taking a hint from Rob Hand’s commentary, a workable sidereal perspective links Aristotle's basic four qualities to the triplicities. However, Aristotle’s four qualities of hot, cold, wet and dry have nothing to do with weather, temperature or seasons. They are psychological in nature.
MARS RISING CHARTS
SATURN RISING? JUPITER RISING?
SOLAR RETURN MONTHLY TIMING -VAL EVANS
INGRESS CHARTS
SUNRISE CHARTS - SUNSET CHARTS?
LUNATION COMPOSITES
all kind of COMPOSITES
===========================================================================
Signs in the sidereal zodiac have never been defined in the rather elaborate way that the tropical signs have been in modern astrology. A system of triplicities (fire, earth air and water) has been observed in the tropical zodiac which cannot be applied verbatim to sidereal signs. We can, however, use the astrological history of triplicity lords as a tool to define the nature of sidereal signs.
The four triplicities, dividing the zodiac into four triangles, originated in Mesopotamia. These triangles, groups of signs whose celestial longitude differed by 120 degrees, were associated with the four winds. In the Greek world these triangles first appeared in Dorotheus (presumed 1st Century C.E.), an early compiler of Hellenistic astrological doctrine. Dorotheus assigned two planetary lords to the four triangles, and one cooperating lord. We have no information on the origin of these assigned planets, but in western astrology they were carried through the medieval and Renaissance periods to the English period in the 18th and 19th centuries. Only in modern practice have they disappeared. Dorotheus writes:
I tell you that everything that is decided or indicated is from the lords of the triplicities, and as for everything of afflictions or distress which reaches the people of the world and the totality of man, the lords of the triplicities decide it....1
Given such power in the earliest days of the zodiac, it seems that the lords of the triangles should have an observed expression in signs of the zodiac. These trigon lords do seem to bestow perceptible energies on the signs which can manifest either in the life activities of a person or as a general psychological tonal quality to the personality.
In addition to triplicity lords, Vettius Valens (2nd century C.E.) was the first astrologer to connect elements to the triangles. But in western astrology these have been changed from the Stoic elements where each element had only one quality (hot, cold, wet, dry) to Aristotle’s system which gives a mix of two qualities to each element. This system is entrenched in western tropical astrology, but there is now a serious question as to whether this element assignment may be in error. In his commentary on Book 1 of Ptolemy’s Tetribiblos, Rob Hand writes:
The text does appear to be saying that Hot = Masculine, Wet = Feminine, Dry = Masculine, Cold = Feminine. If Ptolemy is completely in accord with standard Aristotelianism in which Hot and Cold are both active whereas Wet and Dry are both passive, then Ptolemy here classifies Hot = Active & Masculine, Cold = Active & Feminine, Wet = Passive & Feminine and Dry = Passive and Masculine. If this analysis is correct it has all manner of interesting symbolic consequences for astrology. 2
Taking a hint from Rob Hand’s commentary, a workable sidereal perspective links Aristotle's basic four qualities to the triplicities. However, Aristotle’s four qualities of hot, cold, wet and dry have nothing to do with weather, temperature or seasons. They are psychological in nature.