Learn from my error!

[Guest guest]

Dear colleagues,

 

A recent private e-mail exchange with a redoubtable astrologer inadvertently threw light on something that I'd been doing fundamentally wrong all the while without realizing it, and thought I might share it, in case there's someone else too who's off the rails.

 

 

Not sure how it had come to register in the mind, but I'd been consistently thinking that for Sun and Moon, it was the leading-edge longitude that's to be used in computations (in fact, I thought JH listed leading-edge longitudes for Sun and Moon!). Not so, I now have been advised, and the credentials of the advising person leave me with no doubt that I was wrong. If Sun or Moon " enter " a sign or nakshatra, it actually means their central longitudes have entered, not the leading-edge. My understanding of sunrise is thrown to the cleaners too.

 

One major wrongly ingrained concept to be unlearned here for me. If you are taking your initial steps, you have one path you know now to steer clear of. Stick to central longitudes.

 

Respects,

 

Ramapriya

ayirpamar

 

[Guest guest]

Jaya

Jagannatha

 

Dear

Ramapriya,

 

Namaste

 

What you are

suggesting is that the point of count is from the exact middle of Sun’s

disc, yes? If this is the case, then all lagnas should

be worked at 15 degrees, right? Wrong.

 

What I’ve

come across is the Surya Cakra

and the mid point is considered.

 

Can you

provide any references?

 

Love,

 

Swee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Behalf

Of Ramapriya D

Saturday, May 21, 2005 8:03

AM

 

[Jaya Jagannatha] Learn

from my error!

 

 

 

Dear colleagues,

 

 

 

 

 

A recent private e-mail exchange with a redoubtable astrologer inadvertently

threw light on something that I'd been doing fundamentally wrong all the while

without realizing it, and thought I might share it, in case there's someone

else too who's off the rails.

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure how it had come to register in the mind, but I'd been

consistently thinking that for Sun and Moon, it was the leading-edge longitude

that's to be used in computations (in fact, I thought JH listed leading-edge

longitudes for Sun and Moon!). Not so, I now have been advised, and the

credentials of the advising person leave me with no doubt that I was wrong. If

Sun or Moon " enter " a sign or nakshatra, it actually means their

central longitudes have entered, not

the leading-edge. My understanding of sunrise is thrown to the cleaners too.

 

 

 

 

 

One major wrongly ingrained concept to be unlearned here for me.

If you are taking your initial steps, you have one path you know now to steer

clear of. Stick to central longitudes.

 

 

 

 

 

Respects,

 

 

 

 

 

Ramapriya

 

 

ayirpamar

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

My dear Swee,

 

I've already admitted my error. What was an unconscious assumption got confirmed as wrong, that's about it. I guess the genesis of the error was my flawed understanding of what sunrise is, which I somehow thought was the point at which the tip of the sun emerges from the horizon, and not when the longitude of the Sun coincides with the lagna. I thereon unconsciously carried the leading-edge analogy on to other things like rasi and nakshatra entries. You'll doubtless concur that this is a minor issue at best, and affects the Sun and Moon only, because of their diameters and terrestrial proximity.

 

 

I'm not certain what you meant by lagans being worked at 15 degrees… what am I missing?

 

And you know I don't have the erudition enough to provide references J

 

Respects,

 

Ramapriya

ayirpamar

 

On 5/21/05, Swee Chan <swee wrote:

 

 

 

 

Jaya Jagannatha

 

Dear Ramapriya,

 

Namaste

 

What you are suggesting is that the point of count is from the exact middle of Sun's disc, yes? If this is the case, then all lagnas should be worked at 15 degrees, right? Wrong.

 

What I've come across is the Surya Cakra and the mid point is considered.

 

Can you provide any references?

 

Love,

 

Swee