Sidereal/tropical signs (Was A statistical study...)

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At 12:52 AM 4/30/08 -0000, Dave wrote:

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>I'm not sure that we should jump to switching tropical Aries and the

>planet Mars for sidereal Pisces and the planet Neptune...

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Dave, if you have time, I'd like to discuss this a little more. Maybe use

actual timed charts of people with Sun plus planets on a Pisces/Aries

ascendant. When looking for sign influence I don't think it's very helpful

to simply take one planet in a sign that can be anywhere in the horoscope

wheel. But staying in the area of the ascendant might help to isolate

influences. The ascendant is supposed to be the person.

 

How **DO** we tell if one area of the ecliptic is more like one kind of

planetary symbolism?? ....in this case Mars/exalted Sun or

Jupiter/Neptune/exalted Venus. I note that most tropical books talk a lot

about signs, but very often don't say much about planetary rulers. On the

other hand, the sidereal view is that the planets are the keys to sign

meanings. I'd add that in the case of western countries Greek/Roman myths

help to understand the sidereal signs.

 

Therese