Did Casey say not to use tropical Signs?
He most certainly did. It has been determined from the Cayce readings, that we entered the "Age of Aquarius" in July of 1936.
I assume that means that the Tropical Zodiac position of 00* Aries 00' 01" then conjuncted the Sidereal Zodiac position of 30* Aquarius 00' 00". That is to say that when the precise moment of the Spring Equinox of 1937 occurred the Sun was in the Sidereal Sign of Aquarius.
After thought: It would also mean that presently, since about 2008 or '09 the Spring Equinox now occurs in the, Sidereal, 29th degree of Aquarius as it is estimated to move one degree about every 71 and 1/2 years.
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After, after thought. Yet I've always felt that I fit the description of one with a Taurus Sun, an Aquarian Moon, and with a Scorpio Ascendant.
I've come to a tentative conclusion that the descriptions of the attributes for the Signs were most likely all formulated over the last 500 to a 1000 years when the greater portion of each Sign by Tropical was actually in the preceding Sign. What has been given as Taurus attributes, strengths and weaknesses are really about the Sign of Aries...and so on... as those descriptions were most very likely based on observations of the time.
If my conclusion is correct then Tropical Gemini's should be beginning to fit the description given for Aries.
It only occurred to me relatively recently that having been born with a Taurus Sun in the 17th deg. and a Scorpio Asc. in the 18th that I have the same Sun-Ascendant makeup as Yeshu'a/Jesus of Nazareth allegedly did... that is if the natal chart I produced is truly His chart? But you all know by now how convinced I am of that.
But I have been pondering on this every since I came to that realization... and by the way, greybeard, my natal chart is quite notably similar to that of Mohandas Gandhi's, so similar in fact that when I asked the Jotish astrologers here at this forum as to what they could make of it and a few wrote that I obviously was intimately associated with him some way in my previous life. I did learn that a number of years before, through the assistance of a proven and reputable clairvoyant, that I was born and lived in India in my last lifetime and was a Hindu by faith and a rather successful , i.e. wealthy, businessman with many ties to the Sikh communities. I sought that answer as for my lifelong affinity towards the music, food and culture of India, that I was naturally drawn towards Hinduism and so adept at a number of yogic practices. I've learned, since then, that I've had numerous lifetimes in India, more so than anywhere else.
Gandhi's natal chart
My natal chart
Note the similarities as to the chart axes, his Pluto and Jupiter as to my Jupiter and Sun, the Moons' Nodes are the in the same Sign and degree [and oppsosite that of the USA's natal, PhoenixVenus' natal and my friend Suryakants' natal chart, his Moon as to my Pluto, his Venus and Mars as to my Asc, his Neptune and my Venus, our mutual Uranus placements and note that his Part of Fortune is in the same Sing and degree by Tropical placement as the USA's natal Part of Soul, which also happens to be my Part of Hyleg by the most recent New Moon prior to my birth and the Part of Hyleg derived from my "Yeshu'a/Jesus natal chart by the post natal Full Moon.
I never got around to deriving any more Astrological Parts from Gandhi's natal chart but I have no doubts that we share many of the same degrees of the Tropical Zodiac and thus Sabian Symbolism by many of the various Parts to be found. Not the same Astrological Parts but likely similar in nature some way.
[PhoenixVenus and I concluded that all four of the significant Moons, the pre-natal New and Full Moon along with the post-natal New and Full Moons are significant in a Persons' life as to the Sabian Symbol found for those degrees and what that symbolism means relative to that persons lifetime. Read my thread, "The Part of Hyleg, The King of Parts" if you wish to read more about that....and btw, PhoenixVenus discovered that the positions of three of the past and pre natal Moons that derived three of the Hyleg Parts from my chart are in the exact same Signs and degrees as three of those Parts of Hyleg derived from a composite chart of hers' and Yeshu'a's... It is an indication of karmic destiny. We discovered that we were both alive in his time and rather intimately associated with him. It is through all these very similarities that one can identify such associations from prior lives. The use of composite charts is also another study so fascinating. I discovered that the Part of retribution derived from a composite of Yeshu'a's and my natal charts is in the exact same Sign and degree of the Part of Innocence/Naivete derived from the same chart. The conclusion I had to admit to is that "vengeance" is the Lord, Gods'... at least as so far as when I am working as an emissary on the behalf of the "Prince of Peace". Yeshu'a's natal Mars, his Part of War/Rage and his Part of Ideal Love are all in the same Sign and degree... ISN'T THAT SOMETHING!?!?!]