Guest guest Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Juliana, Steve, DS, et al, Good point on De Fouw's Scorpionic interpretation. I'm less enthused about assigned sign exaltations to the nodes. I generally ignore the effect signs altogether, preferring to look at the immediate influences of dispositors, starlords and aspects to the nodes. I wonder how would we prove the sign exaltations anyway? Now there's a fun rainy day project for someone with some good software. We'd have to find some occupation or life situation that embodied the essential nature of each node. Ketu perhaps would be spiritual life, and Rahu perhaps innovation of some kind. These are areas of contention among astrologers. Chris - "Juliana Swanson" <omhamsa <valist> Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:19 AM Re: Jupiter Ketu Conjunction-Dark*Star > You make some excellent points about the dignity of the lunar > nodes...further adding to the controversy of this great mystery. > > Re: "the Hindu early on chopped off the exaltation degrees of some > of the planets so that their total would not exceed the Golden Sum," > I would like to read more on this topic if you would kindly refer me > to a good source. > > Hart DeFouw also adds controversy to this topic in _Light on Life,_ > when he argues that, following the framework of pairs of planets > having opposite signs of neecha and ucha, the nodes should both be > debilitated in Taurus and exalted in Scorpio. His argument goes like > this...for example, Sun is exalted in Aries where Saturn is > debilitated, and vice versa, Mercury is exalted in Virgo where Venus > is debilitated, and vice versa, Mars is exalted where Jupiter is > debilitated, and vice versa, and so it follows that the Moon's > scheme is juxtaposed against that of the nodes, so that logically, > the nodes are both exalted in Scorpio and both debilitated in the > opposite sign of Taurus. > > Once I heard James Braha speak about this topic, and I believe that > he said in his experience, the nodes are definitely exalted in both > of Mercury's signs, but that anything else about their dignity is > inconclusive. This makes sense too, as the nodes have an affinity > with Mercury. Anyway, I think all of these theories, including the > ones you have shared, are probably true, and thus is the nature of > the parodoxical nodes. > > Thanks, > Juliana S. > > > > > > > Links > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release 7/2/04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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