Hi Matthew

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Hi Matthew:

Yes its been many moons since we were in touch - I hope all is well with you.

Glad to hear you are still keeping up the good work in the Sidereal world.

Best wishes

William Bussey

 

 

 

mquellas <mquellas wrote:

, Steven Stuckey

<shastrakara@s...> wrote:

>

> > Garth Allen's/Donald Bradley's use of 0 Cap, as you may already

know,

> was based on the idea that it marked the Solar Apex, or the apparent

> direction the Sun is taking as it moves through the galaxy. The

Sun, by

> the way, is moving at a rate of about 150 miles per second as it

makes

> its 225 million year circuit of the galaxy.

>

> The Apex was thought to be somewhere between 26 Sag and 2 Cap circa

> 1960.

> Mr Allen attempted to define the sidereal zodiac without the use of

the

> stars, because the stars have proper motion, or move very slightly

over

> long periods of time.

> Even a 'fixed' zodiac is not devoid of motion. Aldebaran for

instance

> has a proper motion of 3.62 seconds of longitudinal arc per century

or

> about 1 degree every 100,000 years.

>

> Because the Apex has no proper motion, it was used by Allen in an

> attempt to define the starting point of the sidereal zodiac--that

> starting point would be 90* from the Apex. Since the Apex was not

> exactly determined, Cyril Fagan noted that this definition of the

> sidereal zodiac must be regarded as a temporary measure, until the

Apex

> could be exactly determined.

>

> I believe this is the origin of the use of the CapSolar yearly

> chart--the direction of our Sun through the galaxy. Unfortunately,

> modern astronomy has placed the Solar Apex at close to 2* Cap

> Tropical!!! or around 7 Sag sidereal--so if we were to follow

through on

> this original idea of Garth Allen, we would be calculating the

yearly

> chart for December 22/23 instead of Jan 15/16.

>

>

> Despite the above more recent astronomical findings, I have

nevertheless

> had some good results with the Cap Solar in past years.

>

>

> Best,

>

> Steve

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Steve, Bill, and All,

 

I would recommend re-reading the " Ingress " file in Sidereal.zip for

Bradley's own telling of how he came to look at the Cap ingresses as

the main indicators. I think you've confused his discussions of the

Solar Apex as a possible sidereal fiducial with his evaluations of a

lot of ingress charts.

 

I still have no " rationale " as to why the Cap seems to be the

stronger indicator, but even in the *Primer* section on Mundane,

Charles Carter's influence on the choice is mentioned. Carter used

the equinox and solstice charts, but found himself that the Winter

Solstice seemed to be more indicative of the year than the Vernal

Equinox. I still look at Equinox and Solstice charts as well as the

Sidereal Ingresses; I've found them to respond to quotidian

progressions for timing as well.

 

Sidereally yours,

Matthew

 

P.S. Hi, Bill, long time no....

 

 

 

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