Post by glaucus on May 19, 2022 7:48:19 GMT
I just got the used version of Magi Society's Ephemeris. It's in good condition. It doesn't really look all that used except for some highlighting which was noted. I actually like where it was highlighted, and it was actually helpful for me. I am very satisfied with my purchase of this book. This book has been selling for over 300 dollars. I bought it for 60 dollars.
I like Magi Society's sole emphasis on Planetary Geometry with no focus on houses nor zodiac signs. This is the path that I've been on in Astrology. Unlike the Magi Society, I have been using the Sidereal Zodiac for over 6 years after reading Gavin White's Babylonian Star-lore which noted the constellation Aquarius represented the water god Enki/Ea and and that the constellation Libra represented the sun god Utu/Shamash, and those things that are mentioned on many Astronomy sites but not on Astrology sites. Even before my conversion, I preferred to work with Tropical Zodiac as just a frame of reference to measure aspects and the timing of Lunar and Solar Return charts. I also like Harmonics. Aspects cannot work without Harmonics.
In Magi Society's Ephemeris, Magi Society wrote that a planet is crossing the midpoint whenever it is 0, 30, 60, 120, 150, 180 degrees in either direction from the midpoint. They also consider the parallel, contraparallel in Declination with midpoint crossings.
Magi Society acknowledged that the Hamburg School popularized midpoints and deserves a great amount of credit for having done so. Even though they respect what the Hamburg School and Reinhold Ebertin did for Astrology, they claim that their research tells them that Hamburg School and Reinhold Ebertin took the wrong turn. They claim that their massive computerized research shows that the midpoint contacts of 45 degrees and 135 degrees are not anywhere nearly significant as the midpoint contacts of 120 and 60 degrees which are completely ignored by the Hamburg School and therefore have been ignored by standard Astrology.
They point out that the Hamburg School also completely ignore the the 30-degree and 150-degree angles when analyzing midpoints, but they find them to be more powerful than the 45-degree and 135 -degree angles which they found to be slightly negative in nature while all contacts at 30 degrees is beneficial in varying strengths. I am not sure what to think about that. I had been strongly influenced by Cosmobiology, Uranian Astrology, and Noel Tyl Astrology to observe all the 8th Harmonic series of aspects as being important with Midpoints and to dismiss the soft aspects. Noel Tyl didn't consider only the 8th harmonic series of aspects with midpoints. He also included the 165 degree aspect (which he referred to as the Quindecile which was name already given for the 24 degree aspect which is the 1/15 aspect) with midpoints, and I never agreed with him on that. Why work with only the 165 degree aspect and not also work with the 15 degree, 75 degree, and 105 degree aspects too? It's like how some astrologers work with the Quintile and not the BiQuintile or work with both but give smaller maximum for BiQuintile even though both are 5th Harmonic aspects.
I have been working with only conjunction and opposition with midpoints which is the way Midpoints are looked at in Vibrational Astrology.
Magi Society agree with the Hamburg School on the importance of midpoint-midpoint conjunctions, oppositions which they refer to as Magi Quads and are referred to as IsoTraps by Vibrational Astrologers. They believe that even the midpoint-midpoint parallels, contraparallels are important and are Magi Quads too.
The maximum orb for longitude Midpoint Crossings is 2.5 degrees. The maximum orb for declination Midpoint Crossings is 1 degree.
The maximum orb that they use for longitude Magi Quads is 2 to 2.5 degrees. The maximum orb that they use for declination Magi Quads is 1 degree.
I was never a fan of big orbs. I don't even use more than 5 degree orb for conjunction, opposition, and square for the regular aspects, and that's from my being influenced by Robert Hand's book, Horoscope Symbols. Magi Society uses an orb of 3 degrees for the 30 degree series for the regular aspects. I used a 1 degree maximum orb for longitude Midpoint Crossings and a 15 minute maximum orb for the Declination Midpoint Crossings. I used a 30 minute maximum orb for longitude Magi Quads and used a 7 minute maximum orb for declination Magi Quads. David Cochrane recommended a 30 minute orb for Magi Quads which he refers to as IsoTraps (Isosceles Trapezoids). In David Cochrane's Vibrational Astrology, the maximum orb of 30 minutes seem to be used for the Midpoint Crossings (referred to as Midpoint Structures in Vibrational Astrology) that have strong astrological influence, and only conjunctions and oppositions are considered. In Vibrational Astrology, a maximum orb of 1 degree is used for planets conjunct, oppose IsoTraps. The maximum orbs that Vibrational Astrologers recommend resonates with me. They consider Midpoint Structures and IsoTraps in Harmonic charts, but I am not into doing that. After reading one of the of the Vibrational Astrology books that I just recently ordered, I realized that I don't want to work extensively with Harmonics which I have been exploring quite a bit while investigating the harmonics of the aspects based on the Golden Section that Theodor Landscheidt came up with. I just want to be a Geometrical Astrologer. It's The Geometry in Astrology that grabs my attention and never lets go. Planetary Geometry is my path in Astrology. It actually has been my path for over a decade.
I actually consider a multiple longitude coordinate approach with also working with Right Ascension (Equatorial) and Azimuth (Horizon). Magi Society and other astrologers working with only one of the two Equatorial Coordinates doesn't sit right with me at. I believe that Right Ascension should be used along with Right Ascension. After all, it is Right Ascension and Declination that are observed when tracking and locating celestial objects in Astronomy. You can clearly see how that works in astrology program Prometheus (has a 3D globe which is why I bought the program) and astronomy program Stellarium which I have been regularly using. Celestial objects that are conjunct in Right Ascension and parallel in Declination appear to be in the same spot. If they conjunct in Right Ascension but not in parallel in Declination, then the objects appear to be directly above/below each other if viewing from Equatorial amount and looking along the Equatorial Grid. They look like an alignment which is a term that star-paran advocate Bernadette Brady proposed for projected ecliptic stellar conjunctions which appear as directly above/below each other if moving the sky around looking at them along the Ecliptic Grid. The same goes for looking at alignments along the Azimuth grid from Azimuthal mount. My favorite astrologer Philip Sedgwick noted that working with Ecliptic Longitude with Right Ascension is like mixing apples and oranges. He is one of the small percentage of Astrologers that work with Right Ascension. He even recommended looking at Right Ascension conjunctions and not just Ecliptic conjunctions when looking for conjunctions to celestial objects. L. Edward Johndro went over both Ecliptic Longitude and Right Ascension conjunctions of stars in his book 'The Stars: How And Where They Influence', and it's the only reason why I bought his book.
The Hamburg School works with 8 extra objects, and they're the Hypothetical Trans-Neptunian Planets which are Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollon, Admetos, Vulkanus, and Poseidon which have circular orbits that are unnatural. I wanted to do something similar but work with the 8 largest of Pluto's fellow Dwarf Planet/candidates which all have diameters of over 900 km. The largest to smallest are Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, and Orcus. It's actually the idea that Walter Pullen went over on his Astrolog website which went over the 7 largest of Pluto's fellow Trans-Neptunian Dwarf planets corresponding with the 7 Rays which I don't work with.
It's Linda Lee Berry's Astrological Depth website that I have been using to interpret Pluto's fellow Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planet/candidates for over a decade, and I am going to keep doing that. For over a decade, I have been in agreement with Philip Sedgwick referring to the Dwarf Planet/candidates as Evolutionary Intensified Objects. He explained that Evolutionary suggests that emotional and spiritual crisis induced by the presence and passage of these bodies intends to enhance the insight, inspiration, creativity and consciousness of a person on Earth and through events on Earth containing these bodies in significant locations.
Magi Society has been considering the astrological influences of Pluto's fellow Dwarf Planet/candidates, but they interpret Sedna quite negatively. They even view Sedna as The Planet of Evil, and I just cannot agree with that. I also cannot agree with the great astrological influence that they assert about Chiron which they went over in great detail in their 3rd book Magi Astrology: The Key To Success in Love and Money. They disregard that that there are many other named centaurs in our solar system, and the largest one is actually named after the mythological Chiron's wife, Chariklo. Like Chiron, Chariklo orbits between Saturn and Uranus. I don't see Magi Society claiming Chariklo has anything to do with true love, soulmates and marriage like they claim Chiron does. Some other centaurs have names that were proposed by Astrologers, and Nessus was the first one whose name was proposed because of it orbiting between Saturn and Pluto fit with the mythology of the centaur Nessus whose revenge over Heracles led to Heracles' ascension to Mount Olympus and tranformation into a god.
There are definitely numerous reasons why I cannot be a Magi Astrologer even though I agree with their view about the great importance of Planetary Geometry in Astrology and use of minor planets as well as working with Heliocentric System like Philip Sedgwick and Michael Erlewine have been doing. There is a bit of inconsistency in Magi Astrology which keeps me from practicing it. There has been a bit of inconsistency in a lot of other astrological systems too for that matter like some Tropical Zodiac Astrologers using precession correction with Transits like Robert Hand talked about doing in his book, Planets In Transit.
With the great diversity in Astrology, there is really no One True Astrology.
To each, his/her own
