Post by whisperix on May 11, 2017 19:09:55 GMT
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Maybe you are interested in the article of the FB group.
Many astrologers speak of the Pluto return of the United States as though it were just around the corner. The tropical position of Pluto for the various times used for the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 27⁰ Capricorn 34’. According to contemporary tropical ephemerides, transiting Pluto will reach this position on February 22, 2022. That is straightforward and uncontestable until one notices that the orbital period for Pluto is 247.686 years.* That means Pluto will not have completed an entire orbit since July 1776 in February 2022 even though a tropical ephemeris will indicate as much, because only 245.64 years will have elapsed since July 1776 in February 2022.
The position of Pluto in terms of sidereal reckoning on July 4, 1776 was 5⁰ Capricorn 57’. According to sidereal ephemerides transiting Pluto will reach this position on February 22, 2024. If one adds the portion of the elapsed year when the Declaration was adopted which is 1776.505 to 247.686, the result is 2024.191 which produces the February 2024 date. So what is happening here? The sidereal position corresponds to Pluto’s orbital period and its correct position in terms of sidereal reckoning, but the tropical position is correct for the tropical frame of reference.
This apparent contradiction is an example of one of the Earth’s motions: precession. The Earth’s spin axis wobbles, or more formally, precesses, like a child’s spinning top due primarily to the gravitational tugs on the Earth’s bulging equator by the Sun and Moon, as well as lesser gravitational perturbations by Jupiter and Saturn. The wobble is exceedingly slow and takes approximately 25,800 years to complete a single cycle. Precession continuously changes the orientation of the Earth with respect to the stars that comprise the zodiac at the rate of 50.25 seconds of arc per year, one degree in 71.6 years and an entire sign of the zodiac in approximately 2150 years, which illustrates the difference between tropical and sidereal reckoning. According to sidereal reckoning, the zodiac is defined by the positions of the stars that comprise it. The sidereal frame of reference stays aligned to the sky. According to tropical reckoning, the zodiac is defined by the seasons, which disconnects that entire frame of reference from the sky. The result is perfectly illustrated in the case of Pluto’s return to its natal place in the horoscope of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
More than three and a half degrees of precession will have accrued in 2024 since 1776 (3⁰ 37’ 35” between July 4, 1776 and February 22, 2024). Tropical reckoning does not take precession into account. The result of disregarding it is that the tropical position of Pluto in February 2022, which shows an exact conjunction of transiting Pluto to its natal place in 1776, is actually two years short of an exact conjunction; thus the U.S. Pluto return is incontrovertibly in 2024, not 2022. The point is that tropical longitudes cannot be used to describe era to era comparisons. Precession very quickly—in this case in less than one complete Pluto orbit—produces enormous errors in terms of where planets really are in the zodiac if a moving standard like tropical reckoning is employed. If sidereal reckoning is ignored as the over-arching frame of reference, astrology itself becomes divorced from the sky and astrological timing becomes confounded especially as people—and countries—age.
The position of Pluto in terms of sidereal reckoning on July 4, 1776 was 5⁰ Capricorn 57’. According to sidereal ephemerides transiting Pluto will reach this position on February 22, 2024. If one adds the portion of the elapsed year when the Declaration was adopted which is 1776.505 to 247.686, the result is 2024.191 which produces the February 2024 date. So what is happening here? The sidereal position corresponds to Pluto’s orbital period and its correct position in terms of sidereal reckoning, but the tropical position is correct for the tropical frame of reference.
This apparent contradiction is an example of one of the Earth’s motions: precession. The Earth’s spin axis wobbles, or more formally, precesses, like a child’s spinning top due primarily to the gravitational tugs on the Earth’s bulging equator by the Sun and Moon, as well as lesser gravitational perturbations by Jupiter and Saturn. The wobble is exceedingly slow and takes approximately 25,800 years to complete a single cycle. Precession continuously changes the orientation of the Earth with respect to the stars that comprise the zodiac at the rate of 50.25 seconds of arc per year, one degree in 71.6 years and an entire sign of the zodiac in approximately 2150 years, which illustrates the difference between tropical and sidereal reckoning. According to sidereal reckoning, the zodiac is defined by the positions of the stars that comprise it. The sidereal frame of reference stays aligned to the sky. According to tropical reckoning, the zodiac is defined by the seasons, which disconnects that entire frame of reference from the sky. The result is perfectly illustrated in the case of Pluto’s return to its natal place in the horoscope of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
More than three and a half degrees of precession will have accrued in 2024 since 1776 (3⁰ 37’ 35” between July 4, 1776 and February 22, 2024). Tropical reckoning does not take precession into account. The result of disregarding it is that the tropical position of Pluto in February 2022, which shows an exact conjunction of transiting Pluto to its natal place in 1776, is actually two years short of an exact conjunction; thus the U.S. Pluto return is incontrovertibly in 2024, not 2022. The point is that tropical longitudes cannot be used to describe era to era comparisons. Precession very quickly—in this case in less than one complete Pluto orbit—produces enormous errors in terms of where planets really are in the zodiac if a moving standard like tropical reckoning is employed. If sidereal reckoning is ignored as the over-arching frame of reference, astrology itself becomes divorced from the sky and astrological timing becomes confounded especially as people—and countries—age.
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