Post by glaucus on Feb 26, 2019 5:03:05 GMT
At Asteroid Astrology facebook group that I am an admin of , creator of Prometheus astrological software Gavin Burns asked some questions and raised some interesting points that I have been thinking about.
He asked:
1. Many asteroids have eccentric orbits and very high latitudes. This leads to many of the same problems faced by sidereal astrologers in finding relationships with stars to planets. Are the same approaches best used ? For example in-mundo aspects are very important in finding relationships of stars to planets, especially to the major angles. As are techniques such as Parans(which for those who dont know is finding rising/setting/culminating/anticulminating time for a given planet and finding stars also at angles at that time).
So the main question here is "What are the best techniques used to find relationships between asteroids and planets?".
One of my main concerns is that purely zodiacal aspects and projection onto the ecliptic seems like a weak process for objects of high(+-) latitude. Are zodiacal aspects common and useful ? Would true 3D aspects be better suited ?
2. How do you factor in the fact that most asteroids are invisible to the eye ? With stars there are such factors as heliacal phase and so on which is important as the heliacal rising of a star acts as a kind of conjunction for a period of time after it occurred(7 days is the usually stated amount). Is there any type of analogous concept when working with asteroids ?
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I have a multi-dimensional approach to Astrology that includes the use of ecliptic longitude,declination,Right Ascension and parans. I am strongly considering using 3D aspects for minor planets that have high latitudes. I am also looking at minor planets in Right Ascension, Declination, and parans. I believe that those methods can be useful with minor planets.
I thought the purely zodiacal aspects and projection onto the ecliptic work with objects of high latitude just like some people think that they work with stars.
Fixed Star expert Diana Rosenberg said the following in an interview:
"After years of research, it has become apparent to me that all of the sky belongs to all of humanity, without strictures or curtailments relating to birth latitudes, longitudes or visual passages. The universe is not ‘out there’ - it is within and a part of all of us, our co-creation with God; each of us resides at the focal center of our personal universe, and the entire cosmos is both within and without each of us. Every member of the human race, whatever his or her latitude of birth, is heir to, and part of, the entirety of the cosmos.”
I think she makes a good point. I am open to the idea of focusing on 3D aspects along with the Declination,Right Ascension, and parans for high latitude objects though.
Prometheus software is really great stuff. I have been using the demo. I love it.
I like the starglobe and you can use aspects (including even true 3D aspects) with it.
It also gives star parans in the same way that Bernadette Brady's Starlight software does, but it uses the modern day method as the default.
Like Starlight, Prometheus finds parans to the actual objects rather then their natal degrees.
It gives rising,setting,culminating,culminating times for a lot of objects. I have been using them to look at parans with stars,asteroids,and transneptunian dwarf planet/candidates.