lesson one

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Lesson one

 

1. The seasons change due to the tilting of the earth to and

from the sun. This allows that the line of the sun's being directly

overhead, called the ecliptic goes in a curve from the tropic of

Capricorn on the shortest day in winter 21.December-winter solstice,

to the vernal equinox where the days have the same length and the sun

is directly above the equator, to the longest day in summer in the

northern hemisphere- 21.June -where the sun is directly over the

tropic of cancer, to the autumn equinox where the sun is again over

the equator and there is again 12 hours of sunlight and of night.

After this the earth tilts again in the north away from the sun so

that the line of the ecliptic reaches again the tropic of Capricorn

on 21st December for the shortest day of the year in the northern

hemisphere. This cycle repeats itself every year.

 

2. Above the arctic(Antarctic) circles, ca. 66° north (south),

the sun goes down for several months in the northern hemisphere winter

(summer), and stays up for several months in the northern hemisphere

summer(winter). This is because the declination/tilt (Kranti) of the

earth to the sun is so much in one direction that the polar regions

remain always light, respectively always dark.

 

3. The fixed stars are made up of constellations (nakshatras)

along the ecliptic (9° wider as south and north), of which there are

27 (28 technically speaking), one for each day of the lunar cycle,

i.e. the sky is divided into 27 parts of 13° 20" of 360° total. This

circle of constellations is referred to as the zodiac. The zodiac

follows the fixed stars in Vedic astrology and changes according to

the procession and is not permanent or according to the yearly

seasons (tropical) as in western astrology. The planets (grahas),

however are movable in the sky mostly along the ecliptic (zodiac)

although a couple of the outer planets , not used in jyotish, have

more eccentric movements.

 

4. The terrestrial latitude is 147° 43" westerly from Greenwich

and 64°50" northerly from the equator. The season is winter, 13 days

before the vernal equinox. It is in Fairbanks Alaska at this time of

year ca.1-2 hours before sunrise. Above the horizon are the planets

above the Ascendant /descendant line- meaning Mars, Neptune, Uranus

and Pluto.

 

I had trouble adding the chart from Astrodienst but my births specs.

as follows 8th March, 1965 at 0500 (-10 hours) at 147w43 64 n 50 in

fairbanks Alaska.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Ed Boyle