From Neil Michelsen's _American Sidereal Ephemeris 2001-2025_

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" In 1944, Cyril Fagan discovered the superiority of Sidereal Solar and Lunar

Returns ('Solunars') over their Tropical counterparts. These returns,

calculated in a precession-free framework, yield quite different results from

Tropical returns. For example, the difference in the time of a Solar Return

amounts to a whole day at age 72. Fagan began fovoring the use of a

sidereal, or non-precessing, zodiac such as Eastern astrologers have used for

centuries. He felt it made more sense than continuing to use a precessing

(Tropical) zodiac but deleting precession for prediction purposes. Sidereal

sign-placements also began to provide solutions for many confusing problems

of astrological symbolism . . .

 

" Donald Bradley entered the scene in the late 40s. Then an advocate of the

Tropical zodiac, Bradley undertook what was at the time the largest, most

carefully-performed statistical examination of astrology's fundamental

precepts. Published in 1950 as _Profession and Birth Date_, Bradely's study

of 2492 eminent clergymen surprised him by indicating that, while twelve

equal divisions of the zodiac do exist, their boundaries are not where

Tropical tradition places them. In fact, Bradley suggested that, in this

century, a new sign begins about where Tropicalists mark 24* of each sign,

not 0*. "