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ACADEMIC ZODIAC & PRECESSED ASCENDANT SET
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The mystery of the zodiac has haunted authors since Hipparchus. An
orderly dissemination of the zodiacal constellations is a matter of
observation and culture.
Already Hipparchus used to rebuke the contemporary authors because of
their lack of observation and therefore poor adjustment for
precession. Today we know that the skies are apparently rotating due
to the phenomenon of precession. The rising constellations are thus
distributed into different sets covering an appropriate epoch.
The ascendant set defines the racial initiation for the epoch, thus at
the time of King Arthur; Aries ascending meant a hero was born, while
Crater ascending called for Grail pursuit in a knight's horoscope.
Crater rising in the horoscope of a king alternatively meant baptism.
Monarchs like King Clovis could be baptized under the portents of
Crater.
Nowadays Aries is no longer rising at due east, thus "No more heroes
anymore." At the time cursed with a cowardly pharaoh, Lepus rising in
his horoscope would define the fall of a dynasty. Thus, the ascendants ...
