Introduction Libra Suns; 28-form mansions from zero-Taurus

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Buz,

 

I was thinking more about that chi-squared significance test favoring

the 28-fold mansion scheme and tried modeling it.

 

If one were taking 0º Taurus as the starting point of both the zodiac

and the nakshatra wheel, there is a dim but nearly-perfect fiducial

star possibility: " 13 Taurus " lies about one minute of arc from the

ecliptic. To keep our coordinates in a way that maintains easier

compatability with comparison models, I call this point 30º and match

the beginning point of Krittika there, keeping it as #3 in sequence.

This lower-5th magnitude star, visible, but inconspicuous, has the

virtue of having very little proper motion in the component of

ecliptic longitude. It takes nearly 400 years to shift a single second

of arc! In contrast, Spica shifts that much in only 15 years.

 

This model places a lot of the nakshatra stars very close to the

beginning points of each. The 28-fold system fits with a larger

ayanamsha value. Choice of 13 Taurus as beginning point of that sign

gives an ayanamsha of 27º50'48.6 " for J2000.0, projecting that the

Sidereal Zodiac aligned with the equinox points approximately at the

AUTUMNAL equinox of 4 BCE, JD=1720227. not greatly different from the

DeLuce value. I think this matches closely with one of your high-

performing models for the list of 19th century English clergymen,

because for the year 1847 or so, the ayanamsha value would be about

25º43' or 2/28 of a full circle, aligning a tropical nakshatra wheel

with a sidereal one for the middle of the 19th century. See if that

makes any sense vis-a-vis the models. I might be too sleepy to get it

right

 

, " Buz Overbeck " <buz.

overbeck wrote:

 

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> You also mention that you feel a 28-fold mansion scheme seems to

work

> better than the 27. You might be interested in a followup article

> called " The Sun in the Lunar Mansions " , which was published back in

> 1980 in Charles Jayne's Cosmocology Bulletin. It seems to support

your

> theory. You can find it here:

>

> http://members.toast.net/overbeck/Articles.html

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