Mansions and Fixed Stars

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At 08:55 PM 5/9/06 -0700, Liath wrote:

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>1. Does the Western Sidereal astrologer use the Jyotish boundaries and

>meanings for the mansions or is there a set of western meanings?

 

Hi Liath,

 

Generally western sidereal astrologers don't use lunar mansions. But if

they do, they tend toward the 28-fold division beginning with Taurus.

There's an old xeroxed booklet floating around by John Mazurek: 'An

Introduction to the Lunar Mansions.' (1974) The delineations are based on

planets associated with the mansions, but aren't related to the stars or

asterisms like the Indian mansions are.

 

>2. Is there a reference work for meaning of fixed stars?

 

There's a wonderful internet site that's extremely comprehensive and

includes most of the fixed star material by various authors. If you do a

search for 'Anne Wright fixed stars' the site will come up. But many of the

traditional meanings associated with the stars may be wrong or partly

incorrect. We have a lot of research to do on the stars.

 

Anne has done a wonderful service of pulling material together from several

sources. I printed out the main pages for every single star from her site,

changed the longitude to sidereal, and spiral bound the booklets by zodiac

sign.

 

Therese

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Thanks Therese! That's the lady I've been looking for. I came up with

http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ for Anne Wrights site. What a great site!

I'm using the Kepler softwre and it will give me the aspects of

planets/lights and fixed stars so I can reference Ms Wright's meanings. IIt

would be good to eventually do as you did and get proper longitudes.

 

According to Fagan's " Primer of Sidereal Astrology " one should calculate

the Ayanamsa by subtracting the SVP (Synetic Vernal Point) from 30 degrees.

Then subtract the Ayanamsa from the Tropical longitude to get the Sidereal

longitude. So far so good, I guess.

 

What is needed is the SVP longitude for either 1990 or 2000 I think, and

then I'm off and running. Googling around a bit didn't come up with a site,

table, software or whatever that didn't cost money.

 

Would someone be so kind as to provide the SVP for 1990 or 2000?

 

How might one acquire the Mazurek booklet? Wouldn't it be cool if it was

posted on the web somewhere?

 

Thanks again

Liath

 

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It has just occurred to me that Kepler supplies the numeric

Fagan/Bradley Ayanamsa so I can just do a chart for Jan. 1, 2000 and

get the Ayanamsa from Kepler, trusting the software to know the SVP.

 

Thanks

Liath

 

, " Liath Macha "

<liath.macha wrote:

 

> According to Fagan's " Primer of Sidereal Astrology " one should

calculate

> the Ayanamsa by subtracting the SVP (Synetic Vernal Point) from 30

degrees.

> Then subtract the Ayanamsa from the Tropical longitude to get the

Sidereal

> longitude.

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At 11:29 PM 5/9/06 -0700, Liath wrote:

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>According to Fagan's " Primer of Sidereal Astrology " one should calculate

>the Ayanamsa by subtracting the SVP (Synetic Vernal Point) from 30 degrees.

>Then subtract the Ayanamsa from the Tropical longitude to get the Sidereal

>longitude. So far so good, I guess.

 

Hi Lilath,

 

That's the hard way to change from the Tropical to sidereal zodiac! It's

far easier to take the difference between the two ayanamsas and ADD it to

the Tropical position, then go back one sign or 30 degrees. The

Krishnamurti value for 1900 is 6 degrees 14 minutes. So you'd add that to

Anne Wright's 2000 positions and go back one sign.

 

However...If you are using a different ayanamsa, then you'd subtract a

different value. The Fagan-Bradley value is 5 degrees 16 minutes.

 

>How might one acquire the Mazurek booklet?

 

I don't believe the booklet is worth bothering with. It's based on an

original theory by the early sideralists, and in my opinion the

interpretations simply don't work. If you're going to experiment with the

mansions, it's best to follow the Indian mansions which have been in use

for thousands of years.

 

If you really want the booklet, I can photocopy it for you when my broken

copy machine is returned. As a matter of fact, I'd give you the original

and keep the copy for myself, because I don't like the paper it's copied

on. $7.00 postpaid in the U.S.

 

Therese

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At 10:13 AM 5/10/06 -0700, Therese wrote:

>That's the hard way to change from the Tropical to sidereal zodiac! It's

>far easier to take the difference between the two ayanamsas and ADD it to

>the Tropical position, then go back one sign or 30 degrees.

 

Whoa!! I didn't explain that right. The small figure to be added to the

tropical value is the difference between the ayanamsa for the epoch and one

sign or 30 degrees. Got to get more sleep...

 

Therese