Min's Light & Sound - Chapter 9 of 10
Ph.D.
Chapter 9
13 Baktun
THIS CHAPTER involves a little more math and geometry
than my previous chapters. You could probably skip it
and go on to the final chapter, number ten, if you're
not comfortable with mathematical subject matter. For
those who got A's in highschool algebra, trigonometry,
physics, etc, that should suffice to understand these
principles of charting daily horoscopes, transits and
identifying their prevailing themes for any given day.
It also helps if you've had years of musical training,
music theory, and a working background in composition.
Depending on the software you are using, examples can
be reliably charted from circa 2000 BC, up to 2331 AD.
For this exercise, we'll use an upcoming date that is
relatively near to the present, December 21st 2012 AD,
better known as the "final day" of the Mayan calendar.
First, it should be noted that the Mayans were expert
astronomers, rivaling even surpassing the Babylonians,
who were top-notch astronomers and astrologers albeit
these sister disciplines used to be considered merely
a subset of mathematics, as was music, as was perhaps
everything...mathematics being the universal language.
Expert astrologers were referred to as mathematicians.
And because math is the common language of the cosmos,
it is imperative that the sovereign astrologue learns
to read, write and speak this language from his youth.
And while we're on that subject, ancient languages of
the world commonly used the neuter gender to describe
what we call his/hers, him/her, simply as his, or him.
Got it? It's well-understood that the Gods created us
male and female, to wit the first scroll of the Torah.
It's like the fifth house, that of "sons" which means
the house of sons & daughters for all you laymen. See?
We'll dispense with these minutiae for brevity's sake.
As with all of my astronomical calculations I've been
using Astrolog version 5.41g with swiss ephemeris, as
this combination of freeware is easy to use and gives
astronomically accurate & reliable results every time.
The long-awaited Mayan calendar date of 13 Baktun has
been the subject of books and much speculation. There
is little consensus with regards to what might happen
on this date which by the Gregorian correction to the
old Roman (Julian) calendar turns out to be precisely
on the winter solstice of 2012 AD, Friday December 21.
In a sense this date is somewhat arbitrary since I've
selected it by virtue of its ever-widening popularity,
a date in our not too distant future which most of us
will live to see--if not in the flesh, then in spirit.
The significance of Dec 21, 2012 is at the very least
astronomical, i.e. literally astronomical. The winter
solstice of 2012 coincides with our own Sun's transit
on the Mayan "Sacred Tree" at five degrees caelestial
Sagittarius. More than mere coincidence, but this day
marks the end of the seventh precessional age and the
beginning of the eighth precessional age which by the
Mayan long count is charted per the long-term average
as counting five equal ages of the Sun per great year.
As long-term predictions of sidereal-synodic-tropical
multiples were well known to the ancient world, it is
probable that the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, and
other advanced civilizations had common access to the
long-term ephemeris which may have come from Atlantis,
since antediluvian science was more advanced than JPL.
I've already written extensively on this subject, and
we have other charts to study for this lesson. But if
you'd like to study the Mayan Long Count & Precession,
you can find more detailed information on these links:
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Now, we'll chart the two sidereal-hour interval using
the winter solstice 2012 as the center of calculation,
and the Great Pyramid at Gizeh for our local meridian.
Again, this location is somewhat arbitrary since this
horoscopic progression holds true for any location on
Earth, given that only the local ascendant and descen-
dant varies with latitude, and any change in location
longitude is dependent on sidereal time -or- distance,
where meridians of longitude plus or minus this local
meridian at the Great Pyramid in sidereal angle-hours
describes a geographical longitude per relative angle
as measured along the reference plane of the ecliptic.
First we plot the horoscope for the local meridian at
southing at the time of the winter solstice. Note the
reference to the Great Alnitak Pyramid is used as our
prime meridian exactly 00E00:00 longitude. Our modern
measurement from Greenwich can be converted by adding
the modern value west of Greenwich, or subtracting it
east of Greenwich, with the Pyramid at 31E09:00 there-
from. E.g., as in our first chart below, we're taking
the meridian of southing on the winter solstice, 2012,
which is 11:43:46E of Greenwich. We subtract 11E43:46
from 31E09:00 to get the meridian west of the Pyramid,
which is 19W25:14 at southing (Sun post meridiem LAT):
Fri 21-Dec-2012 11:11:23 UT 11E43:46 G.M.
Body Houses RUL. Veloc. Decans r
Venus : 4Pis50 (e) +1.250 14pis30 e
Mercury : 13Pis33 (F) +1.480 10can40 -
/Sun : 29Pis60 (-) +1.018 0pis00 -
\Midheaven : 0Ari00 | ______ 0ari00
Pluto : 9Ari37 (-) +0.035 28ari51 -
Mars : 28Ari24 (R) +0.781 25sag13 -
Neptune : 2Gem47 (d) +0.022 8gem22 d
East Point: 0Can00 | ______ 0can00
Uranus : 4Can20 (-) +0.007 12can59 -
Moon : 13Can17 (R) +12.27 9sco50 d
OsciLilith: 27Leo52 (-) +0.567 23ari36 -
Jupiter : 7Vir19 (F) -0.118 21vir58 f
MeanLilith: 9Vir42 (d) +0.111 29vir07 d
IC : 0Lib00 | ______ 0lib00
Saturn : 6Aqu30 (R) +0.090 19aqu30 r
True Node : 23Aqu30 (R) +0.023 10lib30 -
Remember, our latitude north or south makes no differ-
ence to meridian transits of the planets, but it only
effects the local ascendant and descendant thus every
Arabic part which references the local ascendant. The
only time we include part of Fortune, etc. to adjudge
any horoscope, is for event charts, natal, death, etc.
All latitudes north of the arctic circle and south of
the antarctic circle simply turn to retrograde motion.
Same transits, same horoscope. It makes no difference.
Remember that the daily horoscope is effective on the
whole world, since we're dealing with the predominant
rulerships of the planetary Gods by hierarchical rule
over the period of one sidereal day. We needn't chart
the entire day to analyze this since any two sidereal
hour interval is generally reiterative for all twelve
such intervals on any given day. The exception is the
Moon since she traverses Earth's caelestial firmament
much faster than any other planet. On occasion, we'll
find that Mercury has entered the fray, by transit on
any one of the meridian house-cusps, as with the Moon.
By contrast, more distant planets like Mars & Jupiter
move more slowly over the course of a day, thus their
daily meridian transits are more consistent, and less
likely to affect changes in the predominant horoscope.
Where the Moon & any other planet is likely to change
the horoscope per acquiring proximity to a house-cusp
is most readily found by comparing synodic velocities
of the planets as shown near the right-hand column of
Astrolog's "standard list" charts. How much time they
spend dominating the horoscope over the course of any
two sidereal-hour period as calculated within the day
in question, and which direction the planets are seen
to move towards or away from their proximity to cusps
(as with planets in retrograde), such are the primary
considerations which the astrologue must examine, and
judge, ergo the term "Judicial" astrology. Understand?
Rather than spend several arduous hours charting each
planetary transit over a two hour period, it's vastly
preferable to use the convenient animation feature of
Astrolog. It's very easy to do. Hold <Alt+r> to bring
up the "restrictions" dialogue box & click on "toggle
cusps" to un-restrict any previously restricted cusps.
Uncheck any cusps which got toggled to the restricted
status. You can save these settings in your "parallel
transit restriction set", then simply click the "copy
from other restriction set" button to recall this set.
Set animation jump rate to minutes and jump factor to
one, enable "show graphics" and you're ready to study
the horoscopic transits of the planets for that daily
horoscope. Simply look for the most ruling planets at
any time of day. The planets that you must include in
your examination are, and in no particular order, the
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn. We
must also include the head & tail of the dragon since
these rate on par with other planets in the horoscope.
Take the true node, and mean lilith, for these values.
The exception to this is when mean lilith is near the
cusp -AND- oscillating lilith is more than about five
degrees into the adjacent house; in those cases it is
prudent to use oscililith <Enter -YL> for calculation
(true lilith is never more than ~5* from mean lilith).
Notably, the Moon and head of the dragon decided what
rulerships apply to our southing chart as shown above.
Outer planets are not considered until after you have
determined the predominant horoscope (Moon to Saturn).
That means you can ignore Uranus, Neptune & Pluto for
the time being, but be sure to include them for final
analysis. For this example, set your date to December
21, 2012, and set your time to 11:11:23 UT. Longitude
is set at 11E43:46, in order to match the solstice to
the Sun at southing on the local meridian. Click okay
and you're ready to animate the horoscope. There's an
option to pause and unpause simply by typing p. Since
by now I've done several hundred horoscopes using the
Astrolog program, I've always found it more efficient
to manually toggle the chart using the - or + keys on
the numeric keypad. You'll notice that since you have
enabled all twelve house-cusps as objects, every time
a planet transits a cusp, it swaps sides with the num-
ber that shows which house-cusp that planet transited.
Until your familiarity with the signs and the planets
becomes second nature to you, and you can readily see
which planets are dominating the horoscope, and doing
so for the greater part of any two hour interval over
any given day, you'll discover that by animating your
chart in two hour intervals, with "show graphics" off,
that helps immensely to narrow down by process of eli-
mination the most prominent horoscopes in that day as
they will have the most ruling planets--this irrespec-
tive of how many planets are fallen, debilitate or ex-
alted. What counts is RULERSHIP: The more the merrier.
Just look for the most R's appearing under "House Rul."
In the above default horoscope, with the Sun southing
on the winter solstice 2012, it's Mars' transit about
11:05:10 UT which adjudges Mars ruling in first house.
This theme holds until the Moon's transit 12:05:23 UT,
giving us a one hour window from the time Mars reigns
in the first house till the Moon abdicates by transit
on the cusp. The Moon's momentary synodic velocity at
the time of transit is 12.26 arcdegrees per solar day,
just a little faster than the Moon's average velocity;
which reminds us that the Moon progresses by a little
more than one arcdegree every two hours, delaying the
lunar transit times, on the daily average three and a
half minutes in horoscopic succession. In effect this
proves that Mars is hierarchically acquiring his rule
in the first house, Moon fourth, Saturn eleventh then
tenth house (Saturn's inferior & superior rulerships),
and head of the dragon eleventh house. Therefore, the
horoscope of Mars first house will be dominating come
Friday, December 21st, 2012, beginning after 11:05 UT.
Thus with Mars cornering the horoscope for the second
part of the day on December 21st, 2012, then which of
the planets abdicate to make room for this Red Planet?
Actually, the answer is Mars, who yields his reign in
the eighth house to seize his rule in the first house.
Remember that the five planets of evening and morning
make two courts of rulership apiece. In this instance,
Mercury's transit at 10:04:52 UT, which was about one
hour before Mars' transit at 11:05:10 UT, put Mercury
ruling in the sixth house, Mars in the eighth house &
Jupiter in the twelfth house. This theme is decidedly
more malefic than Mars first house, on account of the
Moon fallen tenth house and Saturn fallen fifth house,
albeit the head & tail of the dragon enjoy exaltation
for this interval before Mars transits the cusp about
11:05 UT as noted above. The key to this "changing of
the guard" is the Moon's comparatively rapid velocity
which is widening the window for Mars first house and
closing the window on Mars ruling in the eighth house.
Because Mercury's synodic velocity is many times less
than the Moon's e.g. at Mercury's transit 10:04:52 UT,
Mercury's momentary synodic velocity is +1.48 degrees
per day while the Moon is charioting along over eight
times that. Thus the Moon's transit window is opening
as Mercury's window is closing relative thereto. See?
But wait! Remember that we are only doing a horoscope
for one day. The Moon's acquiring reign in the fourth
house is only temporary since she's moving so rapidly.
The Moon's window will soon be closing and separating
from the dominant theme. This Lagrange point is found
when the Moon's transit delta passes square with Mars,
the following day December 22, 2012 about 12:56:46 UT.
But we must understand that this is the daily average.
Transits on a local meridian cusp will naturally vary,
as much as by nearly five degrees of arc on MC and IC.
Now the cusps of Earth's houses are where her equally-
divided meridians intersect the ecliptic. Because the
obliquity of Earth's rotational axis is nearly 23.44*,
then her meridian cusps, which average thirty degrees
of arc around the Earth along the ecliptic plane, are
perpetually oscillating relative to the east point or
first house-cusp and seventh house-cusp, which remain
stationary at opposition east to west on the ecliptic.
That means that planets transit the first and seventh
cusps at 360*/day minus a planet's momentary velocity;
to wit planets in retrograde transit that much faster.
Also the maximum oscillation is on the local meridian
from midheaven to antemidheaven. The rotational cycle
of these cusp-oscillations repeats once each sidereal
day. Notably the local Ascendant and Descendant cycle
above and below the east point and seventh house cusp,
alternately over the course of each sidereal day, and
is how "fliptypes" for Arabic parts or Greek lots are
determined--which also indicates magnitude, since the
Ascendant's oscillation increases with latitude above
or below the equator but that's not important for now.
We are doing daily horoscopes, not event charts. This
makes it much faster to look for changes in horoscope
scenarios for any given day by looking at the planets'
synodic motions, since the meridian houses average 30
degrees of ecliptic arc per sidereal day. This is the
daily average of rulerships or global daily horoscope.
This helps us to quickly identify dominant rulerships,
but is only a quick approximation. There's more to it.
The synodic motions and velocities of the planets are
compared to their transits over the course of one day.
As one horoscopic window closes another is invariably
opening. The Sun at southing on the local meridian is
the de facto measure of a day, but the progression of
the horoscope is essentially independent of the solar
day, and is instead totally dependent on the sidereal
day, and the aforesaid synodic aspects of the planets.
For daily horoscopes, it's much easier simply to look
at planetary synodic aspects, and adjudicate based on
these alone. But in order to reference planetary tran-
sits to a specific location, this requires exactitude.
And in any case we must always refer to a calendar of
one kind or another, whether it's gregorian or julian
date, jewish, or islamic, mayan or aztec, or whatever
other calendars you might prefer. Using the gregorian
improvement to the old Roman calendar is the one most
people are familiar with, hence the date Dec 21, 2012.
But even the best calendars need a reference meridian!
In this day and age it's the greenwich prime meridian
that is our universal time-standard. In ancient times
it was the giza pyramid, yet in more remote antiquity
who knows where the prime meridian might have resided?
Catastrophic crustal displacements can only leave one
to wonder. It's really just an arbitrary meridian but
is our contemporaneous majority consensus which makes
it become recognized as a prime or universal meridian,
our reference standard by which the Earth is measured,
hence the Earth's rotation and orbital motion is like-
wise referenced. The point being, that it's customary
to reference the Sun at southing as the center of day,
no doubt since the style or gnomon that casts shadows
on the sundial is oriented toward the nearest pole of
Earth's rotational axis--parallel to the Earth's axis.
Weather permitting, at twelve o'clock noon the shadow
extends momentarily straight off the end of the style
in opposition to the Sun. That's 12 PM LAT and is the
gospel of ephemeris time. It's the caelestial witness
to the fact that it's twelve noon on that day, and at
that geographical longitude. With the DE406 ephemeris
so refined and exacting, you can calculate the Sun at
southing for your local meridian, then test it to see
if the southing Sun doesn't cast a perfectly straight
shadow due north off the gnomon of your sundial, that
is assuming you have one. If you don't, and you would
like to experiment with this, you can download a very
precise freeware program for making sundials off this
link: http://web.fc-net.fr/frb/sundials/gb/defaut.htm.
Or you could just set a plumbbob above a straightedge
pointing due north, but that takes all the fun out of
it. You will find the JPL-DE406 ephemeris is accurate.
In conclusion, there are two basic methods for making
the daily horoscope. Using planetary aspects alone is
convenient but less accurate. The local method is far
more accurate, but is more tedious and time-consuming.
For quarterly or yearly almanachs with meteorological
and astrological prognostications, you'd probably use
the greenwich meridian and coordinated universal time
for all calculations. You needn't fully chart the Sun
at southing but at least identify what time it occurs
for each day in question. After you've charted and ad-
judicated several hundred horoscopes you'll become an
expert in no time...just practice, practice, practice.
- From near the Continental Divide
of Central Colorado, USA
This 21. of April, 2003.
Done by Daniel Joseph Min
(c)opyleft 2003
first edition, 2003
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