A question about exaltation

[Kaiousei no Senshi]

I think there is some desire for there to be 12 planets so that each sign has one planet as ruler.

Most likely only because the system we have now seems incomplete and off balance. Every planet except for two have only one Sign of domicile (going uber-modern here), so it's to be expected that everyone is on the lookout for two others to take Gemini, Virgo, Taurus, or Libra.

So far this does not seem to be the case, and even if you include the mythological Vulcan it still only adds up to 11 bodies, and with the recent "demotion" of Pluto (which I completely disagree with) to a minor we are stuck with 10 at most.

Well, Vulcan is another subject entirely. We don't even know if it exists, and at this point it's nothing more than an unproven theoretical planet. However, being so close to Sol would have it eternally Combust, so I definately feel sorry for such an object. I don't feel the demotion of Pluto extends beyond word meanings and social connotations with titles.

I would have thought that by now, with the massive advances in astronomical observation, we would know all the planets in the solar system - if there is a trans-Pluto planet we should have identified it by now.

We have found her, her name is Eris. She rules the Scattered Disk like Pluto rules the Kuiper Belt and Ceres the Main Asteriod belt, I believe that would make twelve. This, again, is just a system of names to define them as 'dwarf planets', but perhaps, still rulers in their own right. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have asteriodal belts rung around their orbits; Trojans. So, it doesn't really seem that there is such a difference between the 'dwarf' and 'giant gas', save the size difference between the rulers and subjects.

[lillyjgc]

I'm just wondering what would happen if we didn't divide the sky into 12 equal segments.? What if it was divided in the way it actually exists.?
For example, pisces would take up 38 deg, cancer 20 deg etc....How many slices of the pie would there be then?
It seems to me we have more *signs* than planets for them to rule and be exalted, or otherwise in...(of course we could always knock off a couple of signs and solve the problem that way!)
I am just curious as to what sort of map we would be looking at if it was mapped *mathematically* instead of according 30 deg to every sign, when that's not the reality.
cheers,
lillyjgc

[Kingsley]

I like the system we have, the old system that is. It has survived in tact 2000 plus years. The system was devised on the basis of what was 'seen' in the sky. I kind of like that system even with the modern planets and asteroids etc.

kingsley

[Kaiousei no Senshi]

Originally Posted by lillyjgc

I'm just wondering what would happen if we didn't divide the sky into 12 equal segments.? What if it was divided in the way it actually exists.?

Well, I think there are 118 constellations, so that divided by 360 is just over 3°, but we'd probably take declinations more seriously as the North our South position of the planet would probably put it in a different constellation.

Originally Posted by Kingsley

I like the system we have, the old system that is. It has survived in tact 2000 plus years.

Me too, me too.