Will the Real Zodiac Please Stand Up?!: However, it is important to understand that the convention shown above is still used among many astrologers, as if we were still in the age of Aries, and this is because the traits that make one an Aries do not actually come from the far away stars but rather from the angles of the suns rays impacting the earth at the time of year when the earth is passing through the March equinox, and the traits that make one a Cancer do not come from the far away stars of that constellation either, but form the angle of the suns rays impacting the earth as they do in the time of year when the earth is passing through the June solstice. In other words, the characteristics of the time of the earthly year and the angle of the light from the sun as it reaches the earth is determined by the earths location on its orbit in relation to the sun. As earth passes winter solstice, for example, the angle of the suns rays will be the same as they were as the earth passed winter solstice thousands of years earlier, even though the background constellations will have shifted due to precession. Therefore, the science of angles worked out by the ancients, encoded in scriptures using the signs from the Age of Aries, will still apply today even though the background stars have shifted into the Age of Pisces. This concept is clearly explained by Thomas H. Burgoyne in his 1900 text The Light of Egypt, or The Science of the Soul and the Stars, volume 2, on pages 7 through 9. There he writes: The shining Zodiac, with it myriad constellations and its perfect galaxy of starry systems, derives its subtle influence, as impressed astrologically upon the human constitution, from the solar center of our solar system, NOT FROM THE STARS which occupy the 12 mansions of space. Aries, the fiery, and Pisces, the watery, are always there, and instead of its being an argument against astrology, it is one of the grandest truths that, in all ages and in all times, Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac has been found ever the same, equally well as Pisces the last. [...] [I]t is the angle at which we, THE INHABITANTS, receive the suns light that makes all the difference [...] In other words, the constellations of the zodiac are markers for the angle of between the earth and the sun, and more precisely for the angle created by the tilt of the earths axis which, as we circle the sun, causes the ecliptic plane to move up and down across the celestial equator throughout the year, causing the sun to rise further and further north during one half of the year, and then further and further south during the other half, and to follow an arcing path through the sky that is higher and higher though one half of the year, and then lower and lower through the other half. The angle of the suns rays will be much more direct when the suns arcing path is at its highest (on the summer solstice), and more oblique when the suns arcing path is at its lowest (on the winter solstice). These angles give the different parts of the year the different character, and that character does not change when the constellation-markers behind the sun rotate due to precession. Thus the portion of the year governed by the sign of Aries does not change when the constellation of Aries is no longer behind the rising of the sun during that portion of the year: we can still refer to it using all the characteristics that the ancients attributed to the sign of Aries. It is the sun which moving through the signs that the ancient scriptures and tales are commemorating, not so much the signs themselves. - David Mathisen, The Undying Stars, pages 32 through 33. https://youtube/watch?v=hGfUYXxMDr8 davidmathisen/
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:51:31 +0000