Sidereal Longitudes for Fixed Stars

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Hello, everyone.

 

Using the information from Michelsen's _American Sidereal Ephemeris_, and the

Tropical Zodiac longitudes for some of the fixed stars found in Lineman &

Popelka's _Compendium of Astrology_, I came up with the following:

 

Aldeberan -- 15 Taurus 02'59 "

Castor -- 25 Gemini 30'05 "

Pollux -- 28 Gemini 28'47 "

Regulus -- 5 Leo 05'29 " (Regulus, btw, sits on the Ecliptic -- could this

have been the one of the reasons why the ancients thought the Sun " ruled "

Leo?)

Spica -- 29 Virgo 06'05 "

Antares -- 15 Scorpio 01'23 " (Since only the first few degrees of Scorpio are

on the ecliptic, with most of the constellation well below both the Ecliptic

and the Celestial Equator, and with its " tail " in Sidereal Sagittarius, I can

see why the ancients thought Scorpio was " secretive " ).

 

As noted in an earlier post on , Aldeberan and

Antares are in virtual partile opposition to each other. If you have a star

globe, you can do what I did last week. Using dividers, mark off 15* in both

directions from the point on the ecliptic that marks Aldeberan's and Antares'

longitudes. This will give you the 30* spans that roughly equate Sidereal

Taurus and Sidereal Scorpio. Then, reset the dividers for 30*, and then you

can determine the spans of the other signs.

 

Well, enough yackity yack from me for today. I hope you all enjoy the

season, whatever you personally call the holiday.

 

Later,

Kevin/Baraka