So Cairo 31,40 E is 0 degrees Aries,Therefore 0 degrees Taurus would fall approximately in Extreme Western Pakistan,Extreme Eastern Iran,West Afghanistan and along the Eastern edge of the Ural mountains in Russia approximately?
I use the Great Pyramid at 29° N 58'45" and 31° E 31' 08'
http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geoh...08_03.69_E_region:EG_type:landmark_scale:2000
If you consider the land mass of Earth, all the continents and islands out in the seas and oceans, 50% of all land is north of the Great Pyramid, 50% south, 50% east and 50% west.
That was mentioned in an article in the October 1974 edition of Science or Scientific American (I can't remember which) which also claimed that it was oriented to True North but off by 8' of arc and they attributed that to the tectonic plate rotating (it rotates counter-clockwise).
Ptolemy used a demarcation line running East-West right through the Mediterranean Sea starting at the midpoint of the Strait of Gibraltar dividing Earth into North/South, and then another line running through the Red Sea, Lake Pontus (in Turkey) and the Sea of Azor (just north of the Black Sea in the Crimean region) to divide the Earth into East/West.
The region you mentioned he referred to as the Northeastern Quadrant governed by the Air Triplicity of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius and the Planetary Rulers were Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
The area around Armenia and north he gave to Gemini/Mercury, the area west centering on Afghanistan was Saturn/Aquarius, and then the remainder of the northeast area from about the Caspian Sea out was Libra/Venus.
He called the area in the southwest of the whole Northeast Quadrant as having affinity with the Water Signs (Scorpio, Cancer and Pisces). That would essentially be western Turkey, and what is Kurdistan in Iraq/Ira.
Ps:What books do you recommend that are better than, and more up to date than 'Mundane Astrology' by Campion, Baigent and Harvey to study Mundane Astrology these days?,Ive been meaning to buy some new books for ages.And after what Bob said,and my recent attempts to get charts for certain countries proving difficult i feel its imperative.
I'm not sure there are any books. For Campion et al, their logic is really obtuse. When Iran gets a new constitution and new form of government, we
must construct a new chart, but when Romania gets a new constitution and new form of government,
we are not allowed to cast a new chart. And likewise for a whole slew of other countries.
Their logic and reasoning is totally inconsistent and completely subjective.
We
must use the Sibley Chart for the USA, in spite of the fact that the phrase "United States" never appears anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, and in spite of the fact that the Declaration quite clearly and in plain ordinary English and in no uncertain terms specifically states that what is being created are 13 independent self-governing countries, not one single country. When those 13 countries do unite several years later, we aren't allowed to cast a new chart for that, and then years later when there is a new constitution and new form of government, we aren't allowed to cast a chart for that either.
So when do you cast a new chart? Nobody seems to know. There are no guidelines, it's wholly arbitrary.
So I don't really mess with country natal charts, and use Ingress Charts instead, and then I've found that Ascension Charts for when a political party comes to power (that would be most western democracies) or when an individual comes to power (in the case of dictatorships) work really well.