Understanding Astrology and the Natal Chart
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart.
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8% of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy source (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” skeptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole.
Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?
Change History
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should be consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart. ?
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8 of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” sceptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole. Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should be consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart. ?
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8 of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” skeptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole.
Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should be consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart. ?
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8 of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” skeptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole.
Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart.
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8 of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” skeptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole.
Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?
So I guess the next obvious question would be.. but wait, so if the zodiac and the ecliptic “match” to make a perfect circle (it’s not a perfect circle, but in our heads it works best to see it that way), then what is the need for both houses and zodiac signs if the houses are based on the same things the zodiac is based off of?
It’s a good question.
The answer is proper motion. At some point the realization came that constellations are not actually fixed in their 30 day, 12 month cycle, but they do in fact shift over time so that now, thousands of years later, if you look at the last constellation in the sky around your birthday just before the sun rises, you will not see the one that matches your zodiac symbol because of the subtle shift of the belt that the constellations move on. This is.. proper motion.
So while the house system is pretty fixed because the sun doesn’t like to stray from it’s natural path, save for leap years, the zodiac is not, and the two cannot possibly match up for this reason. This is why we have both the house wheel and the zodiac wheel, though they should consist of roughly 30 degrees each, and also why we have degrees in a natal chart.
Do you have a headache yet? Sorry. I’m trying to break it down as simply as I can.
So the next thing I’d like to discuss is how and why do we use the planets and luminaries in astrology. Well, being that the sun is the basis for astrology all together (thanks, sun, I appreciate you), and also the largest luminary we have, taking up a whopping 99.8% of the mass of the solar system, and is our main energy (note the key word energy there), it stands to reason that we would look to the OTHER giant masses in the sky for our other sources of energy.
“But why would you do that?” skeptics have asked for decades.” You can’t base your mood off of what some giant mass of rock and gas in the sky does!”
Why not? I ask.
My grandfather was a farmer. I can remember him telling me that you could dig a hole in the ground, leave the dirt out, and come back on a different cycle, or rhythm as farmers call it, of the moon and try to fill the hole with that dirt and guess what? On some cycles of the moon, it wouldn’t fill the hole. On others there would be too much dirt to fill the hole.
Why is that? Energy.
It is a scientific fact that the moon controls the tides of the freaking ocean. Why is that?
Energy.
So why doesn’t it make sense that we humans, us literal walking bodies of water and energy, aren’t in some way, shape or form affected by the sun, the moon, and all the other planets?
It makes perfect sense. And this is why I study astrology. This is the basis of it and the first things to understand before jumping into.. but what do all these aspects mean for my life?