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Hello Western Siderealists,

 

I continue to be bothered by the fact that siderealists continue to

proclaim that Cyril Fagan discovered the one true ancient sidereal zodiac,

but no one on this list has yet shown any real evidence for this. In an

earlier post Ken Bowser cited Epping, Strassmaier, Kugler and

Schaumberger's work as the references for this claim. But their work was

published around the turn of the 20th century!! We are now in the 21st

century and a new book has seen the light of day which is dedicated to

these very men from whom Cyril Fagan drew his conclusions.

 

This new work, ASTRAL SCIENCES IN MESOPOTAMIA in no way supports Fagan's

claim. Rather ASTRAL SCIENCES makes clear that the ancient Babylonian

zodiac was a rather hazy matter, at least within a degree or two.

 

It's one thing to read on an astrological list that someone named " Therese "

pointed out this difference of opinion. It's another matter to actually see

the star positions printed out in a book written by scholars and backed by

a great deal of research.

 

So if anyone would like to see these lists of star positions, some of which

I posted earlier this year, please feel free to contact me. I will be more

than happy to send photocopied pages. I can also send copies of relevant

posts that appeared on this list. If you are interested, please e-mail me

at eastwest. ASTRAL SCIENCES is a $100 book and I don't think

that many siderealists would want to shell out that much money to learn

that Fagan's statements may not be true.

 

It seems to me that all siderealists need to know the latest research on

the ancient zodiac. Otherwise we're just like the many Tropical astrolgers

who simply accept what they are told without question and continue to

parrot back what an 'authority' wrote 20, 50 or more years ago! We can do

better than to sound like broken records. (For anyone who's old enough to

remember what a vinyl record is!)

 

Sincerely,

Therese