Hi all,
Amzolt,
I think it's more than "fashionable". It's just like the fact that when you pass a given birthday, you're "growing" or "working on" the next whole year. I just "turned" 60 but now I'm in my 61st year of life...
Okay, so perhaps 'fashionable' might have been the wrong word to use, perhaps 'conventional' would be a better expression. As it is only a convention, as many do not round up the degrees.
I do understand your point, however. There have been discussions before upon whether degrees should be rounded up or not, and here is a quote from Tim (which I hope he won't mind), as an argument for those of us who do not round up degrees.
If I have $1.06 I do NOT have $2.00 (no matter how much I would like to convince the stores I shop at! ). And I DEFINITELY have at least a $1.00. Even if I have $1.99 I STILL do not have $2.00. Only when I have $2.00 do I have $2.00 (sounds a little like Zen! ). Similarly, if a planet is in 1.06 degrees of a sign, it is at LEAST in the 1 degree mark of the sign and NOT in the two degree mark. Only when the planet reaches 2.00 degrees is it at 2.00 degrees.
.........And that is why on every astrology program planets and points are numbered from 0 - 29 degrees, not from 1 - 30 degrees. Since the planets are numbered this way, it seems appropriate to use the astrological information as given, rather than rounding up. Maybe your point was that, for the purposes of Sabian symbols it is important to round. In my opinion, since it makes no sense in astrology to "round up" sign degrees, it doesn't make sense to use rounded up degrees to interpret Sabian Symbols, which are supposed to be based on astrological degrees.
I just quote Tim because he put it better than I could have done.
See what I mean? I just go with this view myself. I appreciate that you are older and wiser than I am, an you have a wealth of experience which leads you to round up degrees, but for now, I just don't
feel right about rounding them up. I must go with what I
feel, unless my future experience should pursuade me otherwise.
Interesting discussion none the less, even if we must agree to disagree.
By the way, I followed the link into your new forum. It looks really interesting. I'll be looking forward to some interesting discusions. I don't know what I'll do now with another astro forum about, I spend far too much time on here as it is! I'll never be off the internet! :?
Pix,
Thankyou for the link to that SS site. It's so much more oracular having descriptions.
Your sig. reminded me, a week ago I think they found another mysterious man who refused to give his info, floating off the shore...It was the day Moon conj. Neptune! lol He either doesn't want to tell, or his memory has been deleted. He spoke English, on a US built boat, in Europe.
Really? Wow. I'll have to look this one up. You must have been doing quite a bit of reading. I posted that 'mystery man' thread ages ago now, before you joined I think. You must have been checking up on my posts.
Anyway, I'm off to explore Alex's new forum.
Draco
