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Detriment: A Questionable Distinction | Part 1: Historical Development

February 2, 2020September 9, 2020 Ant 12 Comments abu 'ali, Abu Bakr, Abu Ma'shar, adversities, al-andarzaghar, antiochus of athens, arabic astrology, ben dykes, chris brennan, debility, detriment, dignity, domicile, Dorotheus, exaltation, exile, fall, firmicus maternus, greco-roman astrology, greek astrology, Hellenistic astrology, hephaistio, hephaistion of thebes, liber hermetis, manetho, Masha'allah, medieval astrology, Paulus Alexandrinus, persian astrology, porphyry, ptolemy, reconstruction, rhetorius, Robert Schmidt, roman astrology, sahl, serapio, teucer, theophilus of edessa, umar al-tabari, Valens, wabal, zodiac

Update 9/4-9/20: A little over a month ago, this article was mentioned on a podcast where its arguments were misrepresented,

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The Origin of the Zodiac

June 21, 2019February 7, 2020 Ant 5 Comments 360-day calendar, abraham, administrative calendar, agriculture, astrometeorology, Babylonian zodiac, declination, enlil, equinox, ideal calendar, length of day, manilius, minas, parapegmata, phases of the fixed stars, precession, prophetic year, schematic calendar, sidereal, sirius, solar year, solstice, triangulum, tropical, vettius valens, zodiac, zodiac history, zodiacal releasing

Introduction In a prior article, I discussed the history of the tropical zodiac. That article was centered on the research

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How Old is the Tropical Zodiac?

March 20, 2019February 1, 2020 Ant 3 Comments antikythera, callippus, equinox, euctemon, Eudoxus, Geminos, geminus, hpparchus, kallippos, Neugebauer, ptolemy, sidereal, solstice, tropical, tropical zodiac, Valens, zodiac

Introduction The original regular twelve-sign zodiac was a Babylonian invention. It was strongly shaped by both the tropical year of

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Why Use the Tropical Zodiac?

December 21, 2018February 1, 2020 Ant 8 Comments ayanamsa, ayanamsha, Babylonian astrology, fagan-bradley, Francesca Rochberg, Geminos, Hipparchus, Mesopotamian, Neugebauer, origins of tropical zodiac, ptolemy, sidereal, signs, system A, system B, tropical, zodiac, zodiac origins

Introduction: Contentious Choices The practice of astrology is riddled with contentious choices. Which one of the dozens of house systems

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Twelve Easy Lessons for Beginners | 4. Signs and Stakes

September 6, 2012June 10, 2019 Anthony 22 Comments 13th sign, astrology lesson, barack obama, bill clinton, bounds, constellation, domicile, equinox, ophiucus, quadruplicity, sidereal, signs, solstice, stake, terms, triplicity, tropical, zodiac

The Signs of the Zodiac So far we’ve looked at the origins of astrology, the meanings of the planets, planetary

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Astrological Sign Classifications | 4. Lustful Signs

February 3, 2012February 7, 2019 Anthony 3 Comments dignity, lecherous signs, lechery, licentious signs, lust, sex, sexuality, zodiac

Introduction Scorpio often gets a bad rap in modern astrology for being particularly sexually intense. To be fair, connections between

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The Bounds | Tables and Origins

January 17, 2012October 29, 2018 Anthony 1 Comment bounds, egyptian bounds, terms, zodiac

The Bounds The bounds are a system of dividing each zodiacal sign into 5 unequal regions. The regions are called