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Hello, Juan, and welcome to the list.

 

In a message dated 99-12-11 12:27:13 EST, you write:

 

> I have tried many of the sidereal techniques, but most of the time they

> didn't work " as advertised " . As for now, I use regularly the sidereal

> returns and the paranatellontas, and am looking forward to learn how to use

> and interpret the other techniques which, although have not worked well for

> me, I want to learn better how to use them properly from people who have

> the experience.

 

Which techniques did you try, and how did they fail?

 

I've heard of tropicalists who correct for precession -- which is great! --

but what's a " parantellonta " ? (I've heard of parans, so I'm assuming this

may involve them.)

 

Later,

Kevin/Baraka

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Hello!

 

I am 42, a professional astrologer or rather, astro-psychologist, and my

favorite hobby is astronomical computing (making ephemerides and that

stuff). I have been involved in astrology since 1974.

 

I live in Costa Rica, and the astrological literature that one can get

without asking it by mail is scanty. But for many years you could buy the

" American Astrology " magazine, so I was fortunate to learn a great deal of

astrology from there. Many of the writers in that magazine were

siderealists, from whom I learned many things. Some of them I think are

among the best astrological thinkers there are, such as Jim Erickson and

Clay Reed, to name the ones I remember now.

 

I have tried many of the sidereal techniques, but most of the time they

didn't work " as advertised " . As for now, I use regularly the sidereal

returns and the paranatellontas, and am looking forward to learn how to use

and interpret the other techniques which, although have not worked well for

me, I want to learn better how to use them properly from people who have

the experience.

 

I feel --I believe-- that sidereal astrology is closer to " truth " , and I am

tuned to it, although I am a tropicalist, not a siderealist. Bu I always

work with precession-corrected transits and with sidereal returns (which I

would like to learn how to interpret better).

 

I have written a freeware program named " Riyal " which I think can be useful

or interesting to some of you. It displays the sidereal (Fagan/Bradley)

longitudes together with the tropical, for any date from 5000 BC to 9000

AD. The accuracy and the source of the calculations is fully documented.

The program also gives a list of all the paranatellontas, and although it

uses tropical positions, it calculates all transits, progressions, solar

arcs, etc., with the " bija " correction by default, i.e., it uses the

sidereal reference frame for all time calculations. It is a full-featured

program, very compact and fast, made for DOS, designed to work with all the

known centaurs (Chiron, Pholus, Nessus...) and some other new slow-moving

minor planets. But this can be disabled and it can work with the regular

planets only. The program can be found here:

 

http://www.expreso.co.cr/centaurs/riyal.html-ssi

 

I value greatly being a member of this list.

 

Juan