Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 Sidereal List Members, Since I am really curious about Bradley's rainfall study, I checked around the Internet for rainfall data. I discovered that the tabulation of rainfall data is no simple matter. Apparently rainfall is tracked by the minute and hour, and these complex and extensive records are sold on various sites. You can get records of average monthly rainfall for several years on the Internet, but that isn't really much help since the CapLunar can happen at any time during the month. Often the records combine several years into one monthly average. After some searching I found a site that astrologers can use to check a few CapLunar charts. The rainfall is listed daily for San Francisco from the years 1960 to 2003. I'm going to try setting up a few charts for maximum rainfall and no rainfall including the lunar cardinal ingresses and New Moon charts for comparison. If anyone is interested in setting up a few charts, here is the URL: http://ggweather.com/sf/daily.html#2002 Bradley used Geocentric Latitude, but Gary Duncan disagreed with Bradley and believed the best approach was to use Geographic Latitude. This is the latitude given in our astrological atlases and the easiest for astrologers to access. As Matthew Quellas pointed out, there isn't much difference between the two kinds of latitude. I'm not sure how Bradley did his study, since he couldn't have set up thousands of horoscopes in the years before computers. But we can easily calculate a few charts just to get an idea of Jupiter's position in heavy and low rainfall charts. San Francisco has months when there is no rainfall at all. I think it would be interesting to compare the two kinds of charts--heavy and non-rainfall months. Sincerely, Therese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 Maybe you want to look at solar ingresses instead of lunar ingresses when it comes to rainfall... There are certin months of the year when you can anticipate precipitation over others... San Francisco is typically warm during Sept. and Oct. Its the best time to visit... Not much rainfall as I remember... Then Jan. & Feb. are typically wet... Juan --- Therese Hamilton <eastwest wrote: > Sidereal List Members, > > Since I am really curious about Bradley's rainfall > study, I checked around > the Internet for rainfall data. I discovered that > the tabulation of > rainfall data is no simple matter. Apparently > rainfall is tracked by the > minute and hour, and these complex and extensive > records are sold on > various sites. You can get records of average > monthly rainfall for several > years on the Internet, but that isn't really much > help since the CapLunar > can happen at any time during the month. Often the > records combine several > years into one monthly average. > > After some searching I found a site that astrologers > can use to check a few > CapLunar charts. The rainfall is listed daily for > San Francisco from the > years 1960 to 2003. I'm going to try setting up a > few charts for maximum > rainfall and no rainfall including the lunar > cardinal ingresses and New > Moon charts for comparison. If anyone is interested > in setting up a few > charts, here is the URL: > > http://ggweather.com/sf/daily.html#2002 > > Bradley used Geocentric Latitude, but Gary Duncan > disagreed with Bradley > and believed the best approach was to use Geographic > Latitude. This is the > latitude given in our astrological atlases and the > easiest for astrologers > to access. As Matthew Quellas pointed out, there > isn't much difference > between the two kinds of latitude. > > I'm not sure how Bradley did his study, since he > couldn't have set up > thousands of horoscopes in the years before > computers. But we can easily > calculate a few charts just to get an idea of > Jupiter's position in heavy > and low rainfall charts. San Francisco has months > when there is no rainfall > at all. I think it would be interesting to compare > the two kinds of > charts--heavy and non-rainfall months. > > Sincerely, > Therese > > > > " How can Pluto be in Sagittarius when it's so close > to Antares? " ----- > > Post message: > Subscribe: > - > Un: > - > List owner: > -owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > / > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 At 10:15 PM 2/9/04 -0800, Juan wrote: >Maybe you want to look at solar ingresses instead of >lunar ingresses when it comes to rainfall... > >There are certain months of the year when you can >anticipate precipitation over others... -------- Juan, This makes a lot of sense. Actually, when you look at the rainfall patterns, they often seem to break near the middle of the month, which would be the solar ingress dates. Then sometimes the rainfall patterns are about a week in length. So breaking the solar charts into four and/or setting up the lunation charts--new, full and quarter Moons--might be important too. There are really three possibilities: (1) Solar ingress charts alone or divided into 4 quarters (2) Moon phase charts (4) (3) Lunar cardinal ingress charts (4 per lunar month) There's so much work to do. I rather doubt now after looking at a few yearly records that one lunar ingress chart for the month will be descriptive enough. Rainfall is very variable. Earthquakes are isolated events and should show up better in a single ingress chart. Traditionally the Moon is related to rainfall, but it could be the Moon in the solar ingress chart or the lunar phase charts themselves. I tried your suggestion with a couple of dates. Jupiter wasn't near the angles in either the F-B or K charts in the Caplunars for heavy rainfall dates. But the solar ingress charts looked more intersting. For a wet Nov-Dec (Scorpio ingress) 2003 the Moon was elevated in both the F-B and K ingresses: K: Asc 24 Libra; Moon 23 Cancer opposed by Neptune at 17 Capricorn (MC 4 Leo) F-B: Asc 18 Libra; MC 25.5 Cancer; Moon 5 Leo (Opposed by Uranus at 5 Aquarius) For a totally dry Sep-Oct 2003 (Virgo ingress) no planet was near the MC or elevated in either the F-B or K charts. Pluto was 15 degrees from the MC (K) or 18 degrees away (F-B), not close enough to count. This is only one set of charts, so just a mere suggestion of another way to look at rainfall patterns. Then there are the four lunar phase charts... My current astrological program doesn't compute either ingress or lunar phase charts. (I have to manually adjust the longitudes.) Does Solar Fire easily calculate these charts? I may have to shell out the cost on my VISA card. Therese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 --- Therese Hamilton <eastwest wrote: > > My current astrological program doesn't compute > either ingress or lunar > phase charts. (I have to manually adjust the > longitudes.) Does Solar Fire > easily calculate these charts? I may have to shell > out the cost on my VISA > card. > > Therese > Solar Fire computes ingress charts for all planets, and lights. Also for some astroids. It does lunar phase charts as well as lunar phase progessions & return charts... Its Solar Maps feature is very helpful simply because it helps locate the angle locatons of the planets & lights throughout the world at a glance. It also informs you where(latitude) the various angles cross. very useful tool... Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 - " Juan Oliver " <jivio Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:52 PM Re: Re: Modern Rainfall Records > > --- Therese Hamilton <eastwest wrote: > > > > > My current astrological program doesn't compute > > either ingress or lunar > > phase charts. (I have to manually adjust the > > longitudes.) Does Solar Fire > > easily calculate these charts? I may have to shell > > out the cost on my VISA > > card. > > > > Therese > > Yes, Solar Fire will do ingresses charts. If you are going to shell out on your VISA, shell out for Solar Maps as well and watch the angulairity lines for verious locations Bert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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