Babylonian Zodiac:Sidereal

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Dear Group Patrons; Namaste, Ahimsa. There were some comments about the western

Astrology thing.

 

    It should be clarified that archealogist Van der Vaarden in the early part

of the twentieth century stated: The Babylonians clearly had a sidereal zodiac

that consisted of 12 signs, each thirty degrees by which the measured

astronomical events along the ecliptic. This astro-archealogical research and

findings have very much been confirmed the last fifty years by western scholars

and academics.

    More recently, Babylonian Horoscopes have likewise been cataloged in the

Sachs-Hunger translations; and other doctorial dissertations by Rosenberg,

further demonstrating that the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Chaldeans all

utilized a sidereal zodiac defined by fiducials namely, Antares, Aldeboran,

Regulas, Spica, etc. dividing the zodiac of 360 degrees and 12 houses, i.e.,

sidereal signs equal 30 degrees each.

    This was all hot & controversial stuff when Cyril Fagan published in his

Solunars column in American Astrology Magazine 1953 the Sachs translation of

Chaldean Horoscopes circa 300 B.C. exemplifying that the earliest or first found

recorded horoscopes were "sidereal" and simple. Since that time many have

continued to argue about the data, but clearly the origins of twelve sign zodiac

we know of today was sidereal and a Mesopatamean invention consumated by the

Assyrians & Babylonians.

    I so very much appreciate the boon of this Astrology Group, and only wish

to give an academic perspective in citing some discoveries that gave precident

to the Western Sidereal Astrology School, albeit this information is rapidly

fading and may soon all be forgotten.

    I hope I've not offended our Vedic colleagues by stating facts from the

last century, as they did assist the early western sidereal movement in many

ways. Still to date the earliest written horoscopes appear to be no earlier than

300 B.C.

    I am aware of the Palm Leaves libraries in India, and hope to pilgrimage to

one some day, but I have no empirical or other data supporting that those

depositories of horoscopes were written before the Chaldean texts discussed.

Though, I've read claims that they are of great antiquity, and may prove to be

so someday.

    It is my hope these comments give clarification to an debate that was long

forgotten, and mis-information still going around about.

    Blessings & Salutations of the Highest, Namaste, Sidereal Bob.

 

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