Traditional Astrological dates 2

- 2000 Av.J.C.

- 1500 Av.J.C.

- 1000 Av.J.C.

- 500 Av.J.C.

01.01. Av.J.C.

1000 Ap.J.C.

1500 Ap. J.C.

2000 Ap.J.C.

A Comparison of the Positionof the Sun Over Time

The following images display the position of the sun on 1 January at 500-year intervals. The shift is caused by the precession of the Earth. Simply put, the Earth is wobbling on its axis (just like a spinning top) at a rate of roughly one wobble every 26,000 years. This not only puts the sun in a different position relative to the stars, but the north star is drifting as well. Stargazers of 4000 years ago probably would have called Kochab the north star, at that time it was closer to the North pole than Polaris. Notice that during the time in which the Greeks started using the individual's birth date to determine personality and prediction (c. 250 BCE), and when Ptolemy wrote his works on Astrology, defining Western Astrology for future generation (c. 150 CE), someone born on 1 January would have indeed been a Capricorn. But today he or she would in fact be a Sagittarius.

The perceptive reader will notice that the leap from 1500 CE to 2000 CE is much larger than the rest. That is due to the fact that in the year 1582, when the Gregorian calendar replaced the outdated and incorrect Julian calendar, 10 days were dropped out of the month of October in order to correct the drift in the calendar caused by the fact that the Julian calendar did not include the 400-year leap years. In order to correct the situation, in 1582 the dates from 5 October to 14 October were skipped. Thus, in the Gregorian calendar (the one we use today) the day after 4 October 1582 is actually 15 October 1582.

Traditional Astrological dates

Astrologers today are working with a dating scheme that has been outdated for over two millenia--and which was never particularly accurate to begin with. The traditional dates for the positions of the Zodiac constellations are simply incorrect. But modern astrologers don't actually observe the sky the way ancient astrologers did. They simply go by ancient charts based on the position of the Sun in the stars over 2000 years ago.
As the following table indicates, the traditional dates for the Sun's position in the Zodiac are not only out of sync with the actual sky, but they are artificially separated into 30-degree segments to make each sign last an average of 30 days. As you can see in the right side of the table, the signs are anything but evenly distributed across the sky. You will also notice that there is in fact a thirteenth constellation--Ophiuchus--which is ignored by traditional Astrology.



TRADITIONALASTROLOGICAL DATES


Aries
21 Mar - 19 Apr
30

Taurus
20 Apr - 20 May
31

Gemini
21 May - 20 Jun
31

Cancer
21 Jun - 22 Jul
32

Leo
23 Jul - 22 Aug
31

Virgo
23 Aug - 22 Sep
31

Libra
23 Sep - 22 Oct
30

Scorpio
23 Oct - 21 Nov
30

Sagittarius
22 Nov - 21 Dec
30

Capricorn
22 Dec - 19 Jan
29

Aquarius
20 Jan - 18 Feb
30

Pisces
19 Feb - 20 Mar
30-31


ACTUAL ASTRONOMICAL DATESTODAY (c. 2000 C.E.)


Aries
19 Apr - 13 May
25

Taurus
14 May - 19 Jun
37

Gemini
20 Jun - 20 Jul
31

Cancer
21 Jul - 9 Aug
20

Leo
10 Aug - 15 Sep
37

Virgo
16 Sep - 30 Oct
45

Libra
31 Oct - 22 Nov
23

Scorpius
23 Nov - 29 Nov
7
Ophiuchus
30 Nov - 17 Dec
18

Sagittarius
18 Dec - 18 Jan
32

Capricornus
19 Jan - 15 Feb
28

Aquarius
16 Feb - 3/11
24-25

Pisces
12 Mar - 18 Apr
38

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Aries is a zodiacal constellation representing the ram of the Golden Fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts. The ram had originally been presented to Nephele by Mercury when her husband took a new wife, Ino, who persecuted Nephele's children. To keep them safe, Nephele sent Phrixus and Helle away on the back of the magical ram, who flew away to the east. Helle fell off into the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara, but Phrixus safely made it to Colchis on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Phrixus sacrificed the ram and presented the Golden Fleece to the king, Aeetes.

Roughly 2000 years ago, the vernal equinox was in the constellation Aries. This is no longer the case, due to precession of the earth's axis, but Aries is still regarded as the first constellation in the zodiac.

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"The Ram", is an ancient constellation which was of considerable importance since the sun passed through it at the vernal equinox.
This point has now moved into Pisces, but the vernal equinox is still known as the First Point of Aries. (As a matter of possible interest, in the year 2000 the point will be at zero degrees and zero hours; about 6.5º south of omega Psc.) In another six hundred years the point will have moved into Aquarius.
The Ram in question may have been the one whose golden fleece was the object of Jason's quest.

There is some reason to believe that the Greeks just took over a much older horned animal at this time of the year; the horn being a symbol for fecundity, renewal, and so on. As the Sun came into this constellation, at the vernal equinox, the year itself was being renewed.

Aries' stars are rather faint except for alpha and beta, which are only second magnitude stars.

Double stars:

Gamma Arietis is a well-known binary of similar stars: 4.8, 4.8; PA 360º, separation 7.8".
Lambda Arietis is a wide binary: 4.9, 7.7; PA 46º, separation 37.4".
Epsilon Arietis is a closer binary of nearly equal stars: 5.2, 5.5; PA 203º, separation 1.4".
30 Ari is a fixed binary with wide component: 6.6, 7.4; PA 274º and separation 38.6".
33 Ari is also fixed, with a faint component: 5.5, 8.4; PA 360º, separation 28.6".

Variable stars:

Gamma2 Arietis is an alpha CV type variable: 4.62-4.66 with a period of 2.6 days.
SX Arietis (56 Ari) is the prototype of a special class of rotating variables, similar to alpha CV variables. SX Ari varies from 5.67 to 5.81 every 17h28m.

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Aries is the first of the fire elements and its elemental quality is hot and dry. Its' qualities in the seasonal North are hot and wet while cold and dry in the Southern. It is masculin whose similitude is of the diurnal sect.Aries is the diurnal domicile of Mars (Ares) and the Sun is exalted at 19°. It is the detriment of Venus at 25° and Saturns fall at 21°. The ruler of its triplicity by day is the Sun followed by Jupiter. By night it's ruler is Jupiter followed by the Sun. The co-ruler by day and night is Saturn.
"Aries is . . . . authoritative, fiery, free, ascending, semi-vocal, good, changeable, administrative, public, civic, unprolific, servile, Midheaven of the Cosmos, and cause of repute. . . ."