Oddity
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The problem with traditional astrologers is that they are slaves to tradition.
Very nice. Very helpful to the conversation. Perhaps you understand, or simply don't care that we have a traditional board. But you decided to troll anyway.
For example, they swear by an obsolete 12th house system, without realizing it was done for practical considerations, to make the calculation of aspects simpler. Not because it made sense from a timing perspective.
You know how placidean houses work, right?
Many of the old techniques were created according to the needs and possibilities of the time. Hellenistic (and Roman) mathematics were very limited, until the they got the number system and other numerical tools from the arabs.
Do you know how the Greeks calculated aspects? They only took into account the relative positions of planets in the houses, not their accurate positions.
Aware of this. Aspects depend on signs more than they do degrees in many ways. Is it a sextile from 29 Aquarius to 1 Taurus, or a square? The answer is going to depend on which system you follow.
P.S. The research of Michel Gauquelin invalidates much of traditional astrology, in specific the house systems. He found special significance on the angles instead, not the traditional houses.
Pretty sure astrology (the traditional kind, anyway) has emphasised the angles as powerful points in charts.