Guest guest Posted October 5, 2001 Report Share Posted October 5, 2001 Paola, Welcome! Regarding your question: Fixed stars do have different placements in the zodiac depending on whether it is the tropical or sidereal system. For example, in sidereal Antares is in Scorpio and in tropical it is in Sagittarius. Not sure the exact degrees. I am not one for acuracy, though I have a pretty good grip on many of the cosmological concepts. The sidereal system is the more accurate one because Antares is a star in the constellation of Scorpio. But because the tropical system is set to the equinoxes and the sun, it has gradually moved so that it does not represent the observable constellations. This is due to the wobbling of the earth's axis and the procession of the equinoxes. Other examples: In tropical, the Galactic Center is in late degrees Sagittarius, in sidereal it is in early degrees Sagittarius. In tropical, the Pleiades are in late degrees Taurus, in sidereal they are in early degrees Taurus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Ray Woodstock, NY 12498 bluerodent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----Original Message Follows---- serafime New Member Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:52:56 -0000 hello everyone! i'm very excited to be here. i'm a friend of john van zandt's and just recently met jack contreras in light of the recent national tragedy (the WSN plea). i was told to check this place out. my name's paola lopez and i've been enacting some of the main tenants of astrology into my life for about 10 years now, though only running charts for about 2, maybe 3 (so i guess the real number is two/three :-) i've been a sidereal astrologer for about the same (2 yrs.) i still consider myself very much the amateur as there is much i still haven't learned (ingresses, for example, what are they?) and even more i'm intensely curious about. i'm dedicated, however, and thrilled to find a place to speak and share with other astrologers, *particularly* sidereal ones. i look forward meeting all of you. :-) -paola _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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