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A NEwsletter DEvoted to DEclinations:
the Warped View of Astrology
For Astrologers with Inclinations for D e c l i n a t i o n s
" A Newsletter with Many DEmensions "
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DECEMBER 1996 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!
HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!!!!
And as one lamb said to the other: " Fleece Navidad!!!"
Xmas 1996
Wednesday, December 25, 1996 12:01:00 PM
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Planet: DEC EQUIVALENTS/ Declinations|NatalPositions
Sun.........25Sag48.......04Cap12../.. 23 S 22 | 04Cap12
Moon........20Tau23.......09Leo37../.. 17 N 50 | 13Can46
Mercury.....18Sag38.......21Cap22../.. 21 S 44 | 18Cap53
Venus.......04Sag21.......25Cap39../.. 21 S 01 | 10Sag35
Mars........08Ari48.......21Vir12../.. 03 N 28 | 27Vir02
Jupiter.....08Sag11.......21Cap49../.. 21 S 40 | 23Cap44
Saturn......04Lib27.......25Pis33../.. 01 S 46 | 01Ari03
Uranus......29Sco35.......00Aqu25../.. 20 S 04 | 02Aqu56
Neptune.....01Sag15.......28Cap45../.. 20 S 25 | 26Cap36
Pluto.......22Lib31.......07Pis29../.. 08 S 46 | 04Sag10
A somber Christmas?? Full moon square Saturn within a degree, Sun
squares Saturn, ---best have your parties a few days ahead when Venus
and Neptune conjoin. Mars trine Jupiter by dec. equivalents and Mercury
parallel Jupiter means excellent traveling though!!!!
Mercury out of Bounds until the 20th of December (since November 21)
and THEN, it goes Retrograde on the 23rd!!!! Let's just not ***THINK****
about it!!!
For those just learning to convert declinations to longitude notice
that it appears that Venus would be parallel both Mercury and
Jupiter,with all three at 21S declination, but after conversion we see
that Venus vibrates at 25Cap 39 while Jupiter and Mercury are lagging
behind at 21 Cap.
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OOB
THE LOST ARABIC PARTS
MARS + NEPTUNE -THE PART OF SENSE= THE PART OF INEBRIATION
ASC - DEGREE OF INEBRIATION + JUPITER=THE PART OF HANGOVERS
FIFTH HOUSE CUSP + NEPTUNE + VENUS= THE PARTY PART
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Declinations And Earthquakes
from Thomas Seers
For the record, in studying Earthquakes I have found Mercury
to be the strongest KEY, Venus comes second. On 11/12/1996 with Mercury
in parallel with Uranus/Neptune and Moon/Sun Parallel there were two major
quakes one in Alaska 7.4 in the early morning, 6.4 in Peru at noon
time.
In the timing of Earthquakes using declinations I have been led to
believe man's determination of time leaves a lot to be desired. I
haven't put my finger on it yet, but there is a three minute<
discrepancies in
time calculation and the cause eludes me.
I wrote this just so there is a record of what I've been doing
for about 5 yrs now. TheVenus/Mercury keys I got from Beth Hughes who
lives in Oceanside, CA and used to be on Prodigy and I helped her a lot
with horary charts. I want her to
have credit also, she wasn't well and may not be around. She is an
Aquarian.
Just in case some says it doesn't work:
11/16/1996 5.0 0r better /RESULTS/ OK, On 11/16/96 there were two in S.
CA- 3.0 aftershock at 3:30 AM in San Fernando, 2.9 ( not an aftershock )
out by Monrivia, CA
Blessings, Thomas
Further Earthquakes to / for DECLINERS to check out via Declinations:
A CALIFORNIA-NEVADA BORDERREG
96/11/30 22:14:31 18.38S 177.85W 600.0 5.0Mb
B FIJI ISLANDS REGION
96/12/01 00:17:36 15.73S 75.47W 33.0 4.9Mb
B NEAR COAST OF PERU
96/12/01 23:09:41 30.39S 179.84W 353.7 5.4Mb
B KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
96/12/02 04:08:49 34.38N 32.28E 33.0 5.0Mb
A CYPRUS REGION
96/12/02 22:17:57 31.80N 131.22E 33.0 6.7Ms
A KYUSHU, JAPAN
96/12/02 23:33:11 40.06N 119.57W 5.0 4.3Ml
A NEVADA
96/12/02 23:35:51 40.01N 119.67W 5.0 3.7Ml
A NEVADA
MORE AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/quakes
For longer background back to 1910 this is the place to be.
http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cnss/catalog-search.html
You can only make year to year searches: i.e.: 1996/01 (to) 1997/01
URLS COURTESY OF ERIC
For those further interested in this type of study, you can find a
listing of dates and places for volcanoes at: Recent Volcanic History
Perhaps someone wants to see if declinations correlate with this
phenomena.?????
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/
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A LIMERICK
There was a young lady named White,
Who could travel faster than Light.
She went walking one day
In a relative way
and returned on the previous night.
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OUT OF BOUNDS
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Quote from Foolish Fish:
"and then there is the Cancer/Leo cusp
or CLeo=a closet leo...not quite out of the closet yet"
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Thoughts To get You Through Any Crisis:
" Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism"
"Indecision is the key to flexibility"
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FROM THE DESK OF DR. DEMENTIA:
MIDPOINTS AND DECLINATIONS
Interesting to me always, is that Ebertin uses declination midpoints in
his work. To derive the midpoint via declination he applies basically
the same rules that are applied when calculating the midpoint in
zodiacal longitude. However, the longitude goes from 0 to 360 degrees
and
declination subdivides itself into North and South declination. This
complicates things for those who are not visual. I'll try to provide
an example.
If you look at a planet - Say the Sun - and it is at 22N17 by
declination and the Moon is at 18S08 degrees by declination, finding the
midpoint could become a matter for panic . . . don't despair. If you
visualize
a circle with half of it South and the other half North and then place
your points on it - ah, remember in the tropical zodiac that the circle
starts at 0 Aries reaches apex and nadir at 0 Capricorn and 0 Cancer
and
ends at 0 Libra - this is the same in declination. On the apex and
nadir the story is just a little different. The zero Cap and Cancer
points correspond to 23 degrees and 27.5 minutes North or South. Now,
simply place the points on the map and then visually locate the
midpoint.
. . . . .. . . . . 23 S 27.5
. . . . . . . . . . . . .|
. . . 18 S 08 ____ 18 S 08
0 N 00__ . . . . . . . . .__ 0 S 00
. . . .22 N 17 ____ 22 N 17
. . . . . . . . . . . . .|
. . . . . . . . . 23 N 27.5
In the Case above, the midpoint falls more to the North than the
South... the midpoint is actually a simple subtraction in this case.
22 N 17 minus 18 S 08 = 4 N 09.
If someone's natal Uranus were at 4 N 09 (Dates for this are 1950,
56,57, 62,63,68,69 etc) then they too would have Uranus = Sun / Moon.
This is a parallel and if you read what the traditional astrologers have
to say about a parallel you will find some who believe it to be stronger
than a conjunction. Certainly the majority agree that a parallel is a
very unique blend of energy.
Munkasey says of this planetary picture, and I quote:
"Setting yourself aside from the ordinary or mundane; applying ingenuity
to complete goals or create new ways of revealing old ideas; unusual
twists of fate; the use of astrological ideas or methods.
ANOTHER METHOD
If you have a graph grid, make one side of your graph go from 30N
to 0 to 30S and draw a line halfway along the 0 axis. Plot your
midpoints. I've given examples of two of my own here. Courtesy
of Kt Boehrer's conversion method, I am showing what their
longitudinal equivalent is with the graph to the right. It is hard to
show but you need to imagine that the planets seem to move quickly as
they approach the solstice points. If you note, this represents a point
that differs in longitude from it's non-declination longitude on the
tropical zodiac providing insight into where the action is on the
ecliptic.
Declination ................ - .......... Longitudinal Equivalent
Moon......25S04 .......... - .......... 20CP55
Sun..........08S13............ - ..........21LI03
Jup..........21N56.......... - .......... 09GE49
Su/Mo.....16S38............ - ..........16SC00
Su/Ju........06N52 .......... - ..........12VI31
My orb is wider than a degree here, but using this method, the Su/Mo by
declination is parallel to my Ascendent. The Su/Ju midpoint is parallel
to my Mars. (Ma = Su/Ju, Asc = Su/Mo. Asc = 17S28, Mars = 5N32)
There seems to be some controversy regarding the calculation of these
points.
To be sure, I am using Ebertin's method for the location of the
declination midpoint.
Below is a graph which makes more sense on graph paper, but if you use
your imagination here you can picture what is going on. The position off
to the right is the position of the Sun when it is at the same
declination.
Note also that even though a planet passes through Gemini and
Sagittarius, it
does not show on a graph this scale because it enters Sag and Gemini just
beyond the 20N/S degree and the ecliptic ends at 23d N/S 27.5'. For
more
information on the out-of-bounds calculations, you may wish to order
Kt's
book or order my program.
|..30S .........................................| Out-of-bounds
|............... 25S04 Moon............| 00 Capricorn = 23d N 27.5'
|..20S..........................................| 29 Scorpio / 01 Aqu
|...............Su/Mo 16S38 ..........| 11Scorpio / 19 Aqu
|...10S..........................................| 26 Libra / 08 Pisces
| ..............08S13..Sun.................| 13 Libra / 17 Pisces
|...0 N/S----------------------| 00 Aries / 00 Libra
|...............Su/Ju...06N52 ........| 13 Aries / 17 Virgo
|...10N..........................................| 26 Aries / 08 Virgo
|.....................................................| 11Taurus / 19 Leo
|...20N ........................................| 29 Taurus / 01 Leo
|..............21N56...Jupiter.........| 00 Cancer =23d S 27.5'
|...30N........................................ | Out-of-bounds
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QUOTE:(A description of Neptune?)
"We all know that Art is not Truth. Art is a Lie that makes us realize
the Truth."
Pablo Picasso
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CAPTAIN KIRKS COUCH:
Looking to the February forecast, with 9 of the ten bodies at 5
degrees zodiacal sometime during the month, we know there is a lot of
energy going on. Mars stations at 5' 55' LIBRA , Jupiter and Uranus have
a conjunction at 5 AQUARIUS, Pluto is at 5 SAG, and Saturn is at 5
ARIES.
And of course, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Moon all get into the act at
5 '
too sometime during the month. Poor lonely Neptune may feel left out!!
Look at the Saturn transit at that time. Mars at its station
trines the
JU/UR conjunction and opposes Saturn. Saturn trines PLuto.
We have an anomaly right now with Saturn in Aries: Aries as
a sign is a South declination usually, but Saturn is vibrating in the
North declination since the shift the end of August. This continues
until
Saturn shifts once more from No to South in mid February, when it ALSO
crosses it's station point (a few weeks later).
Whenever we move towards N from S we must cross the Aries/Libra
axis, the line of the Sun at the times of the equinoxes, the changes of
seasons when we are midway between the extremes of heat and cold. The
spring
equinox is a time when we plant, the fall period is when we harvest.
N to S is seeding time, S to N is reaping time.
My further view on this is that when a planet or body hovers
near 0' of declination it is near a power point and has more energy on
the material world of substance. The 0' declination point is the point
along the celestial equator that marks the change of seasons. As does
the 23' 27.5" points of the solstices. These are all Cardinal points: 0'
Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn.
So, take this a step further and notice Saturn, though at 5'
56" zodiacal degrees Aries in late August, crossed the ecliptic and
shifted it's declination at 0' Aries.(Make a note:same degree as Mars
station in February) 0' declination equates to 0' Aries/Libra.
Saturn was at both at 5'56" and 0' Aries then. This is the premise
behind converting declination to longitude.
The shift in February will reflect this once more as the change
in declination occurs w/ Saturn at 5' 13" Aries. Yet again, this equates
to 0' Aries, a power point. yet again, this reinforces the previous Saturn
station degree and the Mars station.
Put all this into perspective with the heavy transits in
February and see how major changes can be accomplished during that time.
Note that in late January, Mars and Saturn run contra parallel before
all
these
changes, sextiles, and trines become perfect. The late January contra
parallel of Saturn and Mars shifts to a parallel in March after Saturn's
crossing . HARD WORK AND ORGANIZATION ARE THE KEY to putting the
Jupiter, Uranus,and Pluto transits to good use.
Next stop for Saturn is near 20' Aries.
FROM CAPTAIN KIRK, THE DECLINER ON THE RECLINER
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HEARD AT AN ASTRO CONVENTION:
"We started a Void Of Course special interest group, but nothing came
of it."
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GUEST DECLINER SPEAKS ON ANOTHER WAY TO USE DECLINATIONS
(The editor thought that even though many may have read this thread on
Festival, that this was worthwhile to be included here)
CYCLE CHARTS
First of all, Cycle charts are used for Mundane Astrology.
A Cycle chart is erected for each planet for a particular
place for the moment the planet crosses from South Declination
to North Declination. The time used for calculating the chart is
when the planet reaches declination 0 degrees N 0'.
Listed below are the 1996 Mundane Cycle Charts for the U.S.
All charts have been calculated for Washington DC our nation's capital.
Sun Cycle Chart March 20, 1996 3:04 AM EST, 77W01 39N53
Mars Cycle Chart March 26, 1996 9:55 PM EST
Jupiter Cycle Chart March 13, 1987 1:31 AM EST
Saturn Cycle Chart May 24, 1996 10:37 PM EST
Uranus Cycle Chart March 26, 1969 6:20:04 PM EST
Neptune Cycle Chart March 7, 1944 10:06:26 AM EST
Pluto Cycle Chart Feb. 27, 1988 6:16:25 PM EST
Charts are not calculated for the Moon, Mercury, or Venus.
Mundane information can be read from each chart according to the
planet's influence over the particular period.
For example, the 1996 cycle of the Sun (which rules the political
agenda, governments and world leaders), is conjunct the Moon, conjunct
Mercury, semi square Venus, and conjunct Mars, conjunct Saturn, and
sextile
Uranus, sextile Neptune and Pluto.
Any planet aspecting the Sun indicates specific areas of the mundane
agenda that will attain importance during the life of the chart.
Harmonious aspects suggest favorable conditions, and challenging
aspects
promote problems and difficulties.
The strongest aspect with the Sun is Saturn conjunct the Sun, placing
national and international security high on the political agenda.
If we look at the Uranus cycle chart and the aspects, it suggests that
although our country (the US ) has benefited from many technological
discoveries, there may also be a price to pay...Mercury opposition
Uranus,
(information revolution) Uranus conjunct Jupiter.. We still do not know
the effects our new technology including the Internet, etc. will have on
human beings..lets hope it is all positive.
A Cycle Chart can be progressed, using the progressions of the planet
the chart was based upon. This will indicate the time events will take
place.
I hope this gives you an idea of the purpose of Cycle Charts and how
they are calculated. For further information you can refer to the book
Mundane Astrology by C.C. Zain, Book X111.
Best Regards,
Rose Marie Kempin
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