great to be patronised 
All in good fun. I'd rather be cute than arrogant
We agree that the ancients were great. Much greater than us today. We've become lazy, but this is what naturally occurs as society becomes more advanced and sophisticated. We're comfortable now, with our nice technology.
The thing is, every bit of "ancient" technology that you refer to is only impressive in its context. The fact that the ancient's had this technology is what makes it so impressive. But none of it holds a candle to what we have today.
Even SunConjunctUranus' Egyptian friends don't have space crafts that compare with anything in Nasa's arsenal today.
Hipparchus was obviously a beast. He was probably heavily influenced by Aquarius, putting him ahead of his time. But I can do all of his trigonometry that's stored in his hundreds of columns and rows with one line of code. Btw, I'm not referring to me specifcally, before you call me arrogant.
I'm just hypothetically speaking
I can take the content of all of his gadgets and maths, and store it in one of my folders in my laptop. I can then run machine and/or deep learning algorithms on them, allowing me to rank every feature in order of correlation to each other and relevance to the result I'm looking for. I can do all of this in seconds. I can use AI to learn what Hipparchus spent his entire life trying to figure out.
I can then take this model and apply it to the findings of every other brilliant ancient that you can find.
I can do all of this while playing video games, smoking a blunt, and discussing astrology with friends on the internet.
It's not fair. I know. Even less fair would be if you brought Hipparchus to the present day and taught him how to use a computer. Remember a tool is only as good as its user. You want to see magic happen? Give the ancients a modern day computer and a tutorial.
I have great respect for you but no, I dismiss your other suggestions before you explain to me logical reason to why Sagittarius, a fire sign, divided into snowy season in December?
And then I asked you one more, it's just only 2 questions combined. Do you know that Tropical Zodiac was build upon elements of the season/weather?
Please answers these 2 questions before going to far.
Fine, I'll bite.
The problem is that you're focusing on the star sign of Saggitarius when Tropical zodiac is about the houses. The tropical zodiac represents time and space relative to the Earth, us.
December isn't about the star sign of Sagittarius, it's about the 9th house; The 9th space in time; The final stage of Fall. This has nothing to do with the volatile weather that's influenced by various earthly factors. Btw, I'm EST and haven't seen a single flurry of snow yet. I think I saw snow one time last year.
Fire isn't just about physical heat on the earth. Fire is about expansion, growth, and philosophy, when relative to the 9th space in time. Sagittarius is the hunter, the archer, who uses philosophy to survive in rough times. If you look at the happenings of the world during this time, you will see that the current events also reflect this energy. That's because the characteristics of the seasons (beyond weather), don't change.
The proof is the fact that we live in unison with these spaces in time. We start planting our seeds in March, during the time of Aries, the 1st house. The first fire sign is represented by the increase of daylight. When summer begins in the 4th house, synonymous with Cancer, we're enjoying the fruits of our labor. Fall begins in the 7th house, synonymous with the energy of Libra, where we plan, weigh and balance our options in preparation for the Winter. We say it's because of New Years resolution's, but for some reason, every January 1st, the gyms are packed full, as people are emitting their Capricorn energy; Hard work and discipline in preparation for the warmer months when they can show off their bods.
The stars represent our astronomy. The mistake that Siderealist's make is in assuming that astrological energies and influence come solely from the stars in the skies.
The stars in the skies represent the astrological influences, but they don't necessarily emit them.
This is proven by the fact that the tropical zodiac works. If the stars were what is influencing the earth alone, then the tropical zodiac wouldn't be so accurate since it's not exactly aligned. But obviously there are other factors, beyond what we can see, that have major influences.
Hence the problem with deciphering the universe's secrets with a diagram.
We're all ambassadors of the stars. We represent the stars on earth in the same way that the houses also represent the stars in space and time.
So the tropical houses are given names to represent each stage of every season in the same way that we are each referred to by our sun sign. When we call person A an Aries and person B a Libra, it doesn't mean that they are the physical constellations in the sky...It means that they represent that energy on earth.
Remember, Sidereal uses the same time and space as the Tropical Zodiac because it must make predictions relative to us on Earth. That's why the houses are the same in a Sidereal chart.
But the rising sign is calculated by the sun rising in the east, reaching the highest part in the heavens (MC), and then setting in the west. All of this is relative to the houses of the Tropical zodiac. So how do Siderealist's even have a Rising sign without considering the Tropical Zodiac? They don't. Sideralists basically borrow the house positions from the Tropical Zodiac and replace the name of the energies with the names of the locations of the stars in the sky.
It all still works. Why? Because astrology is mostly ratio's. If you refer to a large enough range when making prediction's you'll be accurate enough. Hence my original point.
Is there any Sidereal-based method that uses one degree at a time to make predictions? Because the Tropical zodiac has a couple to my knowledge.
Plus what david starling said... "we have to stay warm somehow."
