Suzanne Boben

Ja ja stirring the pot, but if you’re going to offer people another perspective, it often means you have to shine lights on their current ones. Keep reading »

Neptune is not entering Aries. It’s quite literally at 8° Pisces. Once you realize the zodiacs, whether tropical or sidereal, are fabricated swaths of space, only named after constellations, you can’t hold them with any kind of weight after that. If you want to know which constellations the planets are actually in, you must plot them astronomically with the use of the IAU’s constellation boundaries.

Not going back. If you would like to see your astronomical planet placements, I’ll run them for you. Message me directly. But just know, you’d have to give me your birth data and that’s not information you should just hand over to people on the internet. I don’t have this part of my software available to the public yet, but it’s working in development. And for those who are wondering whether 13-sign sidereal is the same thing, it is not. Sidereal calculations are off, anywhere from 2°-10° so while sidereal-based calculations may be closer than tropical (which are off by 24°) they’re still not accurate. You must use astronomical calculations.

One other thing to consider is that, there aren’t simply 13 constellations to consider. There are only 13 for the sun, but planets like Pluto, and many asteroids, that have large declinations (vertical height above or below the sun’s path) will fall into constellations like Orion, Cetus or Serpens. Many in Gen X have Pluto in Coma Berenices. You can see in the second image here that if you ignore the declination of Ceres and only use its longitude and the sun’s path, you’d say Ceres was in Pisces. However, Ceres it so far below the sun’s path right now that it’s actually in the constellation of Cetus. Juno, as well, in the constellation of Scutum.

You see why I don’t like the “look the other way” approach that zodiacs use. In the truly ancient world, the world before Atlantis fell, we looked to the heavens as they were. It is illogical to look at them any other way.