By looking at the chart of a female friend of mine, I noticed that Venus and Mars are in opposition and also squared by Saturn, Uranus and Neptune thus forming 3 T-squares. On the other hand the both planets are in the signs of their rulership. Still I found it to be a quite interesting pattern and I would really like to hear what you guys would say about it and if possible your comments about the chart in general.
Thank you.
Unfortunately the birth time is unknown, but since I noticed the unusual planetary configuration in the chart I thought to ask for some comments on it nevertheless.
The intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit around the Sun with the earth's equatorial plane that you have mentioned, in fact occurs twice annually at the Spring and Autumnal Equinoxes and the 'Aries Point' is another name for the Vernal Point aka the Spring Equinox
Miquar there is currently ongoing discussion of this very topic at this link http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41281&page=4 and I recall posting in some detail on the Vernal Point and its relation to the sidereal background of constellations.
The crossing of the Ecliptic by the Celestial Equator occurs twice a year at two points directly in opposition to each other – these two points demarcate the Spring Equinox and/or Vernal Point and the Autumnal Equinox and/or Autumnal Point - (Unfortunately, when our Sun is at these points we must not look at it – in fact we must never look directly at the Sun)
Approximately two thousand years ago (or thereabouts) a few hundred years prior to the time of Valens, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Hipparchus et al one of these two points was indeed 0º Aries.
That point is or was the Vernal Point
however - since then - because
(a) Earth orbits the Sun
(b) Earth is tilted on its own axis
the result is
- no matter how 'distinct exact mathematical and actual' the crossing of the great circle of the Ecliptic by the great circle of the celestial Equator may be –
(c) that event no longer takes place at 0º Aries or thereabouts as it once did over two thousand years ago a few hundred years prior to the time of Valens, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Hipparchus et al.
instead
(d) the crossing of the Ecliptic by the celestial Equator currently occurs at approximately 6º Pisces (exactly 5º Pisces 05' 31”)
Nevertheless Tropical astrologers continue to describe this point as 0º Aries.
The error originates from the controlling Church-state view two thousand years ago that insisted that the Sun orbits Earth and is presumably not tilted on its axis.
Historical note
Hipparchus (190 BC – 120 BC) had compiled a catalogue of 850 stars and then decided to compare his catalogue of stars with the star catalogues of two earlier observers Timocharis and Aristillus detailing observations covering the previous 150 years. Timocharis and Aristillus had created their own different methods of keeping track of the sky: Hipparchus realized that in order to compare data and/or discuss observations with others - as well as pass accurate observations to later generations - there was a need for a common or conventional map of the sky.
The most fundamental point on a map is the “Origin” – the (0) location.
Hipparchus selected the Vernal Equinox as the Origin for his map of the sky and fixed it at 0º Aries even though he did observe and also recorded that the Vernal Equinox was drifting very slowly westward (being by then at approximately 12º Aries or thereabouts
Hipparchus noticed as well that all the stars seemed to continually change their places with reference to his Origin (0) point – the Vernal Equinox - but he offered no written explanation. Hipparchus and others undoubtedly conjectured that an explanation was that our Earth must have moved - but all refrained from mentioning that officially for fear of the Church-state retribution which - two thousand years ago - would have burned them at the stake for the sin of Heresy.
Robert A Powell's book “History of the Zodiac” contains the information that an agricultural calendar of seasons based on the Vernal Point and developed at Athens by the astronomers Meton and Euctemon gradually merged with Hipparchus astrologically orientated map of the sky which had also based itself on the Vernal Point As time passed, the original calendar months merged with and/or were replaced by the twelve signs of the zodiac. Unfortunately however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the Vernal Equinox (aka 0º Aries aka The Vernal Point aka The Aries Point) has moved about 30 degrees toward the west since the time of Hipparchus and is now (September 2011) located precisely at exactly 5º Pisces 05' 31” . These are the origins of 'The Tropical Zodiac' of modern astrology.
The average time it takes for the Vernal Equinox to move from one constellation of the zodiac into the next is known as an Astrological Age. Astrological Ages exist as a result of precession of the equinoxes. Approximately every 2,150 years the sun's position at the time of the vernal equinox will have moved into a new zodiacal constellation. dr. farr has previously advised us that zodiacal constellations are not uniform in size and also that there is overlap between zodiacal constellations which has led some astrologers to surmise that the corresponding ages should also vary in duration. In 1929, the International Astronomical Union defined the edges of the 88 official constellations and the edge established between Pisces and Aquarius technically locates the beginning of the Aquarian Age around the year 2600. However this is a contentious issue amongst astrologers.
Link to diagram http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Seasons1.svg
