Which Ayanamsa to Use?

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Good afternoon, everyone.

 

Tropicalists like to defend their skepticism towards the Sidereal Zodiac by

claiming that " no one really knows where the Sidereal signs begin, " but this

turns out not to be true.

 

From Niel F. Michelsen's _The American Sidereal Ephemeris_:

 

" In 1956, a dozen years after (Cyril) Fagan's initial discovery (of the

Sidereal Zodiac), (Donald) Bradley began investigating Sidereal Solar and

Lunar Cardinal Ingresses. the accuracy of his calcuations was naturally

dependent on the exact locations of Sidereal 0* Aries, Cancer, Libra, and

Capricorn. A half-degree error in these points would displace the timing of

a Lunar ingress by about an hour, or of a Solar Ingress by about 12 hours.

Initially, the Solar Ingress results were quite disappointing. Sidereal

Lunar Ingresses, however, wer exceptionally illuminating. Bradley found that

by adjusting the zero point by only 0*06', these Lunar Ingresses were often

nearly PERFECT in their symbolic representations of socio-political events

and natural phenomena. Spica (a bright star in the constellation Virgo --

K/B) was temporarily redefined as marking 29 Vir 06.

 

" These six minutes altered by 2 1/2 hours the timing of Solar Ingresses,

miraculously transforming them, like the Lunar Ingresses, into valid mundane

charts. A further adjustment of only 5 " produced the most significant

" polishing " improvement on this already pleasing technique. Spica was

therefore re-situated at 29 Vir 06'05 " for the epoch 1950.0, placing the mean

longitude of the Vernal Point at 5 Pis 57'28 " for the same point in time.

 

" This is the basis of the Synetic Vernal Point (S.V.P.) utilized by Western

Siderealists since 1957. It is presumed to be in error by no more than a few

seconds, if that much. Thus, no longer are the boundaries of the 12

divisions of the Sidereal zodiac even nominally dependent on any single star

with its own proper motion, but rater on A TRULY SIDEREAL MATRIX which

encompasses the totality of space.

 

" Two important corroborations deserve mention in closing. One, statistical

in nature, arose from a discovery mady by Bradley after his initial

experiments with Sidereal ingresses. Investigating Sidereal Lunar Capricorn

Ingresses ('CAPLUNARS') for record rainfalls, he found that Jupiter appeared

near the angles of these charts at the localities of the cloud-bursters many

times more than normal expectation would allow. Further pursuit of this led

to a grant from THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION administered by New York

University to continue this research and related studies. This 'Jupiter

Effect,' awesomely replicated in Bradley's larger-scale studies, naturally

depends on the correct placement of the Sidereal zodiacal boundaries, and

lends considerable support to their defined locations.

 

" The second corroboration, from archaeological sources and non-astrological

scholars who study the history of astrology and astronomy, was unknown to

either Fagan or Bradley during their lives. In 1958 (a year after Bradley's

determination of the S.V.P.), Peter Huber published some noteworthy findings

on the Babylonian zodiac. The Babylonians are acknowledged by most modern

scholars as the originators of astrology. In order to determine the

boundaries of the zodiac used by the Babylonians, Huber compared the

calculated dates of planetary ingresses into the 'Sidereal signs' to the

calculated dates of planetary conjunctions with certain stars, as recorded in

Babylonian astronomical texts. Huber's conclusions, published in the German

Journal CENTAURUS (1958, Vol IX, pp 192-208), were that the Babylonian

zodiac, adjusted to the epoch -100, placed the Vernal Point at 4 Ari 28 +/-

20'. The Fagan-Bradley S.V.P., for the same epoch, locates the Vernal Point

at 4 Ari 27, agreeing WITHIN 1' OF ARC! "

 

Later,

Kevin/Baraka