Guest guest Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 At 03:39 PM 9/30/04 +0100, jtwbjakarta (John) wrote: > >QUESTION FROM A NOVICE: Please, anyone in the group, explain how SIRIUS is understood to be " in Cancer " . As a fixed star is this so for SIRIUS whether by Tropical or by Sidereal astrology, or is SRIUS " in Gemini " in Sidereal astrology ... Please HELP ... I'm JOHN Hi John, There are two ways to look at the location of stars. First, each star is in its own constellation. Sirius, as we know, is the brightest star in Canis Major, The Greater Dog. Now one (or more) of the founding siderealists viewed the sky as a sphere made up of orange slices. The center of the sphere (the circumferance) is the ecliptic, the path of the Sun (earth around the Sun) and the planets. The orange slices cut through the ecliptic and meet at the poles of the ecliptic. So every star is contained within an orange slice or one twelfth of the ecliptic--that is one sign of the zodiac. In the sidereal zodiac the stars of The Greater Dog fall in the *sign* (orange slice) of GEMINI. Sirius is in approximately 20 degrees of sidereal Gemini. Sirius, of course, is very far from the elciptic itself. There's an ongoing debate among astrologers as to whether the elciptic (sign) position of stars is valid or only the rising or culmination of a star, which isn't related to the star's location in the ecliptic. In the Tropical zodiac Sirius is in the sign of Cancer. I forget which of the early sidereal fathers talked about the sky being similar to orange slices. It's in one of my books, but I don't have time to check it now. Sincerely, Therese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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