My Fixed Star Astrology Method

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My Fixed Star Astrology Method


Use only The 64 Mythologically Bright Stars - Bernadette Brady

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No use of Ecliptic Longitude - Bernadette Brady, George C. Noonan, Kenneth Bowser

Use Right Ascension Conjunctions -L. Edward Johndro, George C. Noonan, Kenneth Bowser

Use Parans - Bernadette Brady, George C. Noonan, Kenneth Bowser

Solar parans(conjunctions,opposition,and squares) - Bernadette Brady, George C. Noonan, Kenneth Bowser

Luminary/planetary parans (only paran conjunctions) - George C. Noonan

use body motion - Bernadette Brady

use only visible stars from location - Bernadette Brady

Using modern day (midnight to midnight) method for parans - George C. Noonan, Kenneth Bowser

4 minute time orb (1 degree) for star parans - George C. Noonan

8 minute time orb (2 degrees) for angles - Kenneth Bowser

Including Rising, Setting, Culminating, Anticulminating - Bernadette Brady, Kenneth Bowser




Books that I read about the fixed star methods:

Brady's Book of Fixed Stars by Bernadette Brady

Star and Planet Combinations by Bernadette Brady

Fixed Stars & Judicial Astrology by George C. Noonan

Introduction to Western Sidereal Astrology by Kenneth Bowser

The Stars: How and Where They Influence by L. Edward Johndro




Looking at only the Luminaries, Personal Planets, Angles

Interpretations from Star and Planet Combinations by Bernadette Brady





My Stellar Astrological Nativity:





Birthdate: October 29, 1971

Birthplace: San Francisco, California

Birthtime: 3:20 AM





Midheaven

Aldebaran conjunction in Right Ascension - 4 min, 25 sec of Sidereal Time

Aldebaran Culminating - 4 min, 18 sec of Civil Time

alpha Taurus, The Bull

To face moral dilemmas which challenges one's integrity and honor on a daily basis. To depend on one's principle's and integrity as the compass and foundation of life. To be the noble warrior.



Sun

Arcturus conjunction in Right Ascension - 2 min, 13 sec of Sidereal Time

Arcturus Culminating conjunction paran - 38 sec of Civil Time

Arcturus Anticulminating conjunction paran - 2 min, 34 sec of Civil Time

alpha Bootes, The Hunter and the Farmer

A Pathfinder, to break new ground and be willing to explain unheard-of options. One who will either embody the spirit of adventure or be drawn to those who do. Strong or new leadership emerges.

Acubens Rising-Anticulminating square paran - 1 min, 39 sec of Civil Time

alpha Cancer, The Crab

The Healer, a person who sees life as sacred. To identify oneself with the perspective that lifeand its many expressions is sacred. Matters of the protection or sacredness of life take center stage.

Castor Setting-Anticulminating square paran - 1 min, 11 sec of Civil Time

alpha Gemini, The Twins

Skilled with language, a profession linked with writing and communication. A story-teller, a poet or song writer, one who loves to learn. A speech is given, a writer is honored.



Moon

Fomalhaut Culminating conjunction paran - 1 min, 3 sec of Civil Time

alpha Piscis Australis, The Southern Fish

To catalyse idealistic or romantic feelings in others. To have illusions about what other people need to do, or are able to achieve. A time when patriotism is stressed by the media.



Mercury

Vega Rising conjunction paran - 1 min, 33 sec of Civil Time

alpha Lyra, The Lyre

A visionary with a very persuasive and/or charismatic ideas. To be interested in the secrets, fantasy writing or the mythology of different cultures. Euphoric news, or news that cannot be believed.

Diadem Setting conjunction paran - 38 sec of Civil Time

alpha Coma Berenices, the Woman's Crown

One who values ideas more than money. To be non-materialistic, to work for or donate to charities. The needs of the people win through.



Venus

Zuben Elschamali conjunction in Right Ascension - 2 min, 1 sec of Sidereal Time

Zuben Elschamali Anticulminating conjunction paran - 1 min, 46 sec of Civil Time

beta Libra, The Claws turned to Scales

To feel strongly about what is right and what is wrong. To have strong opinions about fashion, social customs or acceptable behavior within society. Social customs are challenged.



Mars

Vega Rising conjunction paran - 2 min, 30 sec of Civil Time

alpha Vega, The Lyre

Mars-Vega - An imaginative, inventive person, or too idealistic. Not allowing the limitations of others to restrict one's creative ideas. The glorification of an invention, or a hero.

Fomalhaut Setting conjunction paran - 3 min, 38 sec of Civil Time

alpha Piscis Australis, The Southern Fish

Mars-Fomalhaut - An idealistic warrior or a mystical hero; to seek or admire the path of the spiritual warrior of the potential to become a blind fanatic. The actions of a fanatic, or a dream take center stage

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Robert Hand writes about parans and their connection to diurnal cycles in his book, Essays On Astrology.

page 65
The second major datum that went into this hypothesis was my personal encounter with parantellonta, or parans as they are called. These are simultaneous bodily transits of two or more bodies over the Horizon or Meridian Circles of a given place at the same time. A paran-related pair of planets does not have to be actually on the angles at a given time to be in paran. They merely have to to be potentially capable of transiting the angles at that latitude at some time during the day. The fact of the matter is that with the possible exception of the Moon, because of its rapid motion in the zodiac, all bodies that are in paran will transit the angles simultaneously somewhere within the twenty-four hours of their being in an exact potential paran relationship.

I was introduced to parans through the writings of Cyril Fagan, who wrote about them in the Primer of Sidereal Astrology, and in various articles appearing in American Astrology magazine. I was personally given some more data through my good friend, A.H. Blackwell of New York. From my experience with parans, through him and through my own work, it became obvious that they were extremely important and had a significance at least equal to conventional aspects.

A brief digression in order at this point. Parans are not simply another name for mundane squares, oppositions, and conjunctions. Mundane aspects such as these refer to actual relationships in the mundane sphere at any given moment. Parans are a potential relationship that will become actual when the planets involved transit the angles. At the moment that planets in paran transit the angles, they are in a mundane aspect, but otherwise they are only in a potential mundane aspect.

page 68 - 69
We are all familiar with the diurnal rhythms of twenty-four hours. It has been amply demonstrated by scientists that there are all manner of biological clocks that correlate with the diurnal rhythm. Yet we have never given the diurnal rhythm that much attention in astrology except with regard to houses. We have not paid attention to the diurnal rhythm as a dynamic element. We have looked at the movement of the planets through the signs dynamically, that is as cycles. Many of us have extensively studied the work of Dewey and the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, trying to find correlations between those cycles and astronomical cycles But the day cycle has always been looked at statistically, as in houses. However, in this model that I am not presenting, the day cycle is the single most important cycle in that it is the carrier of energies that are modulated by the zodiacal, synodic cycles of the planets.

In the first twenty-four hours after birth, the Sun, Moon, and all of the planets make a complete transit through the mundane sphere of the twelve houses. But they do not do so in phase. Depending upon the house positions of the planets, first one body will cross an angle, then another. Each body goes through in that first twenty-four hours a complete four-peak intensity rhythm in the manner described above as it transits the angles. If in the natal chart, any two planets hit angles simultaneously, there will be a constructive interference pattern between their two diurnal rhythms at that point and a paran exists.
The Hypothesis is this. Each of the natal positions in the horoscope sets off a diurnal rhythm, which has its own unique phase relationship to the diurnal rhythms of the other planets depending on the mundane or house relationship of the bodies to each other. These diurnal rhythms last for the entire lifetime of an individual, much like biorhythms, forming patterns of constructive and destructive interference with the diurnal rhythms of the transiting planets. We are used to the concept of the solar day and sidereal day, but now were are talking about a Uranian day, a Jupiterian day and so forth. At the stage of this inquiry, it is believed that the diurnal rhythms of the natal imprint are all exactly at the same length as the sidereal day correlated with the angular transits of the natal positions of the planets. However, transiting rhythms may vary according to the diurnal rate of the planet’s motion in the zodiac. It is also hypothesized that the natal rhythms should always be related to the birthplace, whereas the transiting rhythms should be related to the place of event. Parans, depending as they do upon the latitude of of the place, are latitude specific; that is a paran will exist one moment at one latitude and not at another.

page 98 -99
It is clear that planets have a fourfold rhythm of intensity. Each planet peaks in influence four times a day as it rises, culminates, sets and makes its lower culmination. Now lets suppose that the two planets are situated such that they will both transit angles simultaneously, possibly the same angle as in simultaneous rising, or different angles, as with one rising while the other sets or culminates. It would seem logical to suppose that if this situation arises, the two planets’ peaking cycles would be at least somewhat coordinated. Might this not link the energies of the two planets in a manner similar to an aspect? For example, if on a certain day Saturn rises with Mars culminating, then the Saturn rising peak will coincide with the Mars culminating peak, causing Mars and Saturn peak of energy to coincide, thus linking Mars and Saturn.

This is not merely a hypothesis. Not only have many modern astrologers checked this out and found that it works, but is in fact one of the most ancient of all astrological traditions. The Babylonians used these angle linkings long before aspects on the ecliptic. One has to remember that Babylonian Astrology was an observational one, and that the horizon and meridian circles (the circle going from north to south over one’s head) are much more easily seen outdoors than the ecliptic. Ptolemy discusses these linkings in the Almagest at great length. Unfortunately, not too much has been stated about these linkings, but there are enough ancient records left to indicate that they were considered to be important. They were called in Greek “parantellonta” in plural and “parantellonton” in singular. Modern astrologers have shortened the term to parans plural and paran singular. They appear to represent a direct and powerful linking of planetary energies, although it is not clear what differences there might be among the various types of parans.

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Considering what Robert Hand said about parans being linked to diurnal rhythms, I decided to check out my parans by looking at the Z-Analogue Diurnal Arc Charts of the Rising,Setting,Culminating,Anticulminating times (with True Altitude) of Sun,Moon,Mercury,Venus,Mars on my birthdate October 29, 1971 at my birthplace, San Francisco, California.

Parans are within 1 degree orb
Stars Rising, Setting, Culminating, Anticulminating are within 2 degree orb


Aldebaran Culminating - '58



Sun-Arcturus Culminating Conjunction Paran - '08



Sun-Arcturus Anticulminating Conjunction Paran - '46



Sun Rising-Acubens Culminating Square Paran - '22



Sun Setting-Castor Anticulminating Square Paran - '25



Moon-Fomalhaut Culminating Conjunction Paran - '22



Moon-Mirfak Rising Conjunction Paran - '27



Mercury-Vega Rising Conjunction Paran - '18



Mercury-Diadem Setting Conjunction Paran - '09



Venus-Zuben Elschamali Anticulminating Conjunction Paran - '25



Mars-Vega Setting Conjunction Paran - '28




I have aspects that correlate with the parans, angular stars that I have

In Right Ascension:
Midheaven conjunct Aldebaran - 1’05
Sun conjunct Arcturus - ‘32
Venus conjunct Zuben Elschamali - ‘30