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At 07:46 AM 5/8/04 EDT, erra321 wrote:

 

>To complicate matters according to Shil-Ponde in Hindu sidereal astrology

the

>Rising Point is not the cusp of the 1st house at all, for " the power of each

>house extends from a point midway between its cusp and the cusp of the

>preceding house " so that " the beginning of the First House...is a point

midway

>between the Ascendant [i.e. Rising] Point and the cusp of the Twelfth

House. " Also

>what we would call the Rising Sign is instead a lunar mansion and its

>interpretation differs according to whether or not there is a planet in

the asterism

>(the author even uses Uranus and Neptune).

 

Erra,

 

I remember struggling with Shil Ponde's definition of houses a long time

when I was learning Hindu astrology. No one has heard of Shil-Ponde since

his book was published 30 years ago.

 

First we have to define 'cusp.' This is based on the degree of the

ascendant rising over the Eastern horizon at birth. Whether we call the

cusp the center of the house (as in India) or the beginning of the house

(as in western countries) it is still the power point of strongest

influence in the house.

 

Apparently Shil Ponde invented the concept of the 'rising point,' which has

no support either in Indian or western texts, old or new. However, he is

correct that it is the 'rise' of the first Indian equal house. However, the

point itself is very weak, since it is the degree farthest from the equal

house cusps according to the traditional Indian equal house system.

 

Sincerely,

Therese

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I wonder if Shil-Ponde was a tentative Volguine as in the same book the

method for calculating the Rising Point involves the use of the sunrise time. So

perhaps it comes from one of the less well known systems of Hindu astrology -

perhaps palmleaf or Tamil astrology ??

 

 

 

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At 06:19 PM 5/8/04 EDT, Erra 3210 wrote:

>I wonder if Shil-Ponde was a tentative Volguine as in the same book the

>method for calculating the Rising Point involves the use of the sunrise

time. So

>perhaps it comes from one of the less well known systems of Hindu

astrology -

>perhaps palmleaf or Tamil astrology ??

 

Possibly! We don't know what is on those palm leaves and there's no English

transltion of most of Tamil astrology.

 

Therese

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