More on Sidereal Signs

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THE NEW INSTANT ASTROLOGER by James A. Eshelman and Tom Stanton

 

I've looked over the Sun and Moon sign interpretations in THE NEW INSTANT

ASTROLOGER, and I'm not very impressed. Eshelman and Stanton seem to have

made the same mistake that Tropical astrolgers make: giving far too many

interpretive details to the signs when these details belong only to the

planets. (However, most of the material in this book on the planets and

synastry is quite excellent.)

 

I agree with Juan Oliver and other siderealists that planets are more

important than signs of the zodiac. **Psychology** is in the planets, but

the signs do have a say in our **activities.** A sign is important in

showing how a planet will express. In the sidereal zodiac we have

alternating 'male' and 'female' signs. These are better described as signs

that are more focused and concentrated ('male') or dispersed and many-sided

('female'). It's well known that women can attend to several activities at

once while men generally are able to focus on only one activity at a time.

The male and female brains are structured differently.

 

So if the Sun, which expresses as more focused energy, is in a male sign

such as sidereal Aries, the Sun is happy there and can be productive. But

if the Sun is found in a female mutable sign like sidereal Pisces, then

there will be trouble keeping singleness of purpose. Concentration in one

direction will be difficult. The Sun is caught, so to speak, in a sign of

lunar energy.

 

Now take the Moon. The Moon is a planet of change and variety. The Moon

will have free expression in sidereal 'female' signs. Taurus, for example

is like variable Tropical Gemini. The Moon is happy in this sign. But put

the Moon in Leo and it's likely to be too rigid and fixed. (However, the

lunar mansions are more important than the signs for the Moon.) The

'female' signs simply partake a little of the changing lunar energy.

 

The next question is: If the Sun is in a particular sign, say in the 10th

house, does the life emphasis of the person reflect the sign? If Sidereal

Libra is 'mystical,' (as is said of Tropical Scorpio) are people with many

planets in this sign astrologers or mystics or inclined to the metaphysical?

 

I'll post a few sign examples a bit later.

 

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