Astrology

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Astrology

• By Dr. Harold Williams
• of Montgomery College Planetarium
• http//montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/

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Personal Prejudice

• These are the rights of pagans of which my soul
  has no faith. Geoffrey Chaucer Treatise on the
  Astrolabe 1387
• Men at some time are masters of their fates the
  fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in
  ourselves, that we are underlings. Cassius, scene
  ii Act 1 Julius Caesar by Williams Shakespeare
  1599
• I am a member of the First Baptist Church of
  Silver Spring and an adult Sunday School teacher
  and an ordained deacon.
• I am an astrophysicist and natural philosopher
  and applied mathematician.

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Some Internet Resources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CategoryAstrology_by
  _type
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_sign
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotisha
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_and_Persian_astr
  ology
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astrology
  

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Questions to be answered to Cast a horoscope

• What date and time is it and where is it?
• What is the sun sign?
• Where is the sun along the ecliptic, what
  zodiacal constellation is it in? This depends
  mainly on the date unless it is near the cusp
  division between, zodiacal constellations. The
  answer to this question depends upon weather you
  are using tropical or Jyotisha (sidereal) or IAU
  (International Astronomical Union)
  constellations.

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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
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Now adding more detail

• Use where and when you now determine which
  zodiacal constellations are on the meridian
  (midheaven) and coming up (ascendant) and going
  down (descendent)
• So now you have 4 zodiacal constellations.
• You now have the following signs Sun, Ascendant,
  Midheaven, and Descendant

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Now add planets and the moon

• Particularly if those planets or the moon are
  above the horizon.
• Each planet and the moon are also in a particular
  zodiacal constellation
• If a comet or alignment or occultation is going
  on you can add more. This too occurs in some
  constellation somewhere.

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So far you have only done positional astronomy

• Now you have to interpret these things for your
  client who feels a sense of authority since these
  things are celestial and over their head.
• Here you either use some stuff written in some
  old musty book or make up your own stuff like the
  original musty book writer did.
• The latter method is fraudulent the former
  method is foolish, unless the musty book writer
  explains how the correlation was arrived at.
  Seen any data?
• Now you see why I stop at the positional
  astronomy! Not wanting to be a fraud or a fool.

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Gainesville, Florida, USA, August 23, 1950
61102AM

• Sun sign Leo
• Ascendant sign Leo
• Mid-heaven sign Taurus
• Descendent sign Aquarius
• Planets above horizon
• Pluto in Leo
• Venus in Cancer
• Uranus in Gemini
• Moon not up.