I am going to try to start a discussion on the Precession of the Equinoxes. I cannot remember anyone mentioning it on H-CHAT before. I will NEVER finish this in one message so I will patiently precede. It is a bit complicated so it will take a little while to explain and get your head around it. It is just as important to Astrology as it is Astronomy and most Astrology is based on Astronomy.
The precession of the equinoxes is how our TROPICAL Zodiac we use in the west moves against the background of the Sidereal Zodiac. It is NOT the abstract academic theory that many people may think it is. When it comes to major transits over our natal positions and precessed position it can give some very useful information.
At the moment the 0 Aries 0 of tropical Aries moves backwards on the Sidereal zodiac is now roughly about 5 degrees of Sidereal Pisces and heading very slowly towards Aquarius (Hence the so called coming Aquarian Age) Whether there is any validity to that I just don't know. The so called vernal point of 0 Aries 0 takes nearly 26,000 years to travel around the 360 degrees of the the zodiac at the rate of ABOUT 1 DEGREE OF zodiacal longitude IN 72 years the exact time is just under that but it is rounded up for simplicity.
This equals ABOUT 50 seconds of arc in one year of real time. (5/6ths of a minute) I will give the exact figures and edit them in in time.
If it moves at this rate backbacks then our natal positions are moving FORWARD at the same rate and these are called our PRECESSED POSITIONS in relation to our natal charts.
So at the age of 72 our natal positions move forward at about ONE DEGREE at half that AGE of 36 years our precessed positions have moved forward at half a degree or 30 minutes of arc. So the older we get the bigger the gap between our natal positions and our precessed positions This is why the older we get the longer transits seem to linger on after exact.
For example a simple example is if our Natal Sun is 15 degrees Taurus at the age of 36 years or precessed Sun will be about
15 deg Taurus 30 mins. ALL our natal positions will move at that same rate and according to what ever age we are.
A transit over our precessed Sun or any planet is just as valid as over our natal Sun or positions . So as I said the older we get the longer transits seem to LINGER on. But very few people experience much more than one degree difference between our natal and precessed positions. I have observed transits OVER my natal and precessed positions and found this very true.
I will emphasise I am talking PRECESSED positions which has nothing to do with progressions and it hardly touches progressions at all. So if you think a MAJOR transit is lingering on longer than you think it should this is why. The slower moving the planet the longer it lingers and of course there are retrogrades and further hits etc make it linger even longer.
I had better post this now before I lose it but more another time . Any opinions welcome please.
Fingers crossed for a successful posting ...........Ernie
The precession of the equinoxes is how our TROPICAL Zodiac we use in the west moves against the background of the Sidereal Zodiac. It is NOT the abstract academic theory that many people may think it is. When it comes to major transits over our natal positions and precessed position it can give some very useful information.
At the moment the 0 Aries 0 of tropical Aries moves backwards on the Sidereal zodiac is now roughly about 5 degrees of Sidereal Pisces and heading very slowly towards Aquarius (Hence the so called coming Aquarian Age) Whether there is any validity to that I just don't know. The so called vernal point of 0 Aries 0 takes nearly 26,000 years to travel around the 360 degrees of the the zodiac at the rate of ABOUT 1 DEGREE OF zodiacal longitude IN 72 years the exact time is just under that but it is rounded up for simplicity.
This equals ABOUT 50 seconds of arc in one year of real time. (5/6ths of a minute) I will give the exact figures and edit them in in time.
If it moves at this rate backbacks then our natal positions are moving FORWARD at the same rate and these are called our PRECESSED POSITIONS in relation to our natal charts.
So at the age of 72 our natal positions move forward at about ONE DEGREE at half that AGE of 36 years our precessed positions have moved forward at half a degree or 30 minutes of arc. So the older we get the bigger the gap between our natal positions and our precessed positions This is why the older we get the longer transits seem to linger on after exact.
For example a simple example is if our Natal Sun is 15 degrees Taurus at the age of 36 years or precessed Sun will be about
15 deg Taurus 30 mins. ALL our natal positions will move at that same rate and according to what ever age we are.
A transit over our precessed Sun or any planet is just as valid as over our natal Sun or positions . So as I said the older we get the longer transits seem to LINGER on. But very few people experience much more than one degree difference between our natal and precessed positions. I have observed transits OVER my natal and precessed positions and found this very true.
I will emphasise I am talking PRECESSED positions which has nothing to do with progressions and it hardly touches progressions at all. So if you think a MAJOR transit is lingering on longer than you think it should this is why. The slower moving the planet the longer it lingers and of course there are retrogrades and further hits etc make it linger even longer.
I had better post this now before I lose it but more another time . Any opinions welcome please.
Fingers crossed for a successful posting ...........Ernie
