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When our work on celestial partitioning is compared to reading IMMANUEL KANT, it is a high compliment—it requires resolving a series of cognitive dissonances in order to enable reality to present itself to us as it is, rather than as…
The Archaeological Fallacy, or Antiquity’s Handicap An ingenuous bias prevails amongst “traditionalist” practitioners: the conflation of archaeological frequency with epistemological truth. Because the majority of extant ancient charts depict symbolic, sign-based boundaries—frequently demarcating solely the Ascendant (Asc) and Midheaven (MC)—many…
The contemporary traditionalist approach to celestial mechanics is marked by an unprecedented historical irony. The very foundation of Hellenistic astrology rests upon the hōroskopos, whose literal translation from ancient Greek is the “hour marker.” However, in dismissing the Ptolemaic methodology…
In 1998, Deborah Houlding rightly maintained, “[…] most of us would find that our ability to prove one house system works is a great deal stronger than our ability to prove that another system doesn’t” (p. 106). In order to…
Acknowledgments. Before commencing, we must extend our profound gratitude to Philip Graves, curator of the Historical Archives of Astrology, for providing the primary source scans transcribed verbatim in this analysis. Those interested in acquiring the original versions of these documents,…
The term isophasal derives from the Greek isos (equal) and phasis (phase). In the context of celestial mechanics and the Placidian (Placidus of Titis) method of coordinate transformation, an isophasal curve is the line drawn in the three-dimensional sphere connecting…
