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Thank you! For your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. They point out that the Babylonians consciously chose 12 signs. In other systems there have also been signs for "Arachne" and "Cetus the Whale", notes Grant. Both the effect of precession on the zodiac and the presence of a 13th sign are stories that crop up in the press every few years, Grant explains.
And the coverage is irksome to astrologers, says Cainer. The publicising of the effect - and its use to dismiss astrology - represents the "incredible bigotry some members of the scientific community display towards astrology", says Cainer. But for all those people that believe in astrology or set some kind of lesser emotional store on the signs of the zodiac, they can rest easy. The Tauruses are still Taurus and the Arieses are still Aries.
Jonathan Cainer article. He concluded that the symbolic heavenly figures described by the constellations were originally inspired by projections of images created by the collective unconscious. Jung's psychological astrology still links the psyche to the cosmos, but it is not deterministic. Nor is an individual's everyday life ruled by the positions of the planets. He wrote "Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity".
Something which led him to develop his concept of Psychological Astrology, which Jung compared to Aristotle's formal causation , which posed that "whatever is born or done at this particular moment of time, has the quality of this moment of time".
In Bertram Forer conducted a personality test on students. While seemingly giving the students individualized results, he instead gave each student exactly the same sheet that discussed their personality.
The personality descriptions were taken from a book on Astrology. The results of this study have been replicated in numerous other studies. Precession of the Equinoxes. SIN ZI. NA GIR. TAB PA. MAH KU. Biblical References: There have been suggestions that the Bible contains hidden allegories to describe astronomical events.
Koch-Westenholz, Ulla, Mesopotamian astrology. Volume 19 of CNI publications. Museum Tusculanum Press. Modern Name. Other Early Astrologers:. Modern Astrology:. References: 1. History of Astrology. Barton, Tamsyn, Ancient Astrology. Jung, Carl G. Hugh Thurston. Early Astronomy , New York: Springer-Verlag, p. Rogers, J. Origins of the ancient constellations : II. The Mediterranean traditions. Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.
Tomkins, Peter, Stecchini, Livio Catullo. Secrets of the Great Pyramid. BBS Publ. The Celestial Key to the Vedas. If we could extend the earth's equator into space so that it could be viewed against the background of stars, we would be able to see what in astronomy is called the celestial equator. Because the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the ecliptic by The two points in the sky where these two planes cross are called the equinoxes.
We call the vernal equinox the intersection point where the Sun, in its apparent motion against the background stars along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator from south to north, usually occurring around March 21 st. Similarly, we call the autumnal equinox the intersection point where the Sun, in its apparent motion against the background stars along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator from north to south, usually occurring around September 21 st.
The first day of Spring then corresponds to the vernal equinox and the first day of Fall corresponds to the autumnal equinox. During the time of the equinoxes, we on the Earth experience twelve hours of day and twelve hours of night.
The precession of the equinox. Figure 4 The precession of the Earth around its axis. The Earth's rotation on its axis has caused the Earth's shape to diverge from a sphere, and has caused the Earth's equatorial regions to bulge out.
Because the Earth's equator is tilted with respect to the orbital plane of the Earth around the Sun, the Earth's equatorial bulge is also tilted with respect to the plane along which the Sun and Moon travel. The Moon and the Sun exert a gravitational drag on the Earth's equatorial bulge, trying to pull the Earth's equatorial region to be aligned with the ecliptic plane.
This pull, along with the rotational motion of the Earth on its axis, the revolution of the Earth around the Sun, and the revolution of the Moon about the Earth, cause the Earth to wobble about its axis of rotation, similar to the motion of a spinning top. This motion is called precession. It is the wobbling of the equatorial plane that causes the line of the intersection of the equatorial and ecliptic planes to move.
As mentioned above, the intersection of these two planes determine where on the zodiac our spring and fall equinoxes occur. This line of intersection is said to precess or move around the zodiac because of the wobble.
Figure 5 Circular path that the north equatorial pole describes due to the precession of the Earth. Figure 4 shows a schematic of the Earth's precession, this effect gradually changes where on the zodiac the equinox points fall. This precession means that the spring equinox was just entering Pisces years ago and it is about to enter the constellation of Aquarius that is the reason why many astrologers say that we are going to start the Aquarius epoch.
An extension of the Earth's axis out into space traces out a conical figure with a time cycle or period of 26, years.
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