I don't really think it's a stretch. There's a lot of other things happening on this forum where people are practicing most likely false beliefs. To me it's just strange because that turns it into fiction, when there is a faction to astrology and that's what astrology (at least the true part of it) is.
Basically astrology is that everything is metaphysically connected and forces in space have an effect on everyone's personality.
To see people practicing ideas that are 100% wrong, is kind of strange. It then turns into a personal story fan-fiction forum.
In my previous reply I actually chose ALL the similar sounding signs for each planet. Some of them weren't even that similar. So maybe there was 4 signs per planet, and that made it even MORE obvious that the current rulerships are actually the most similar sounding word out of any of the other ones that had the slightest similarities. If you go back over that list,
look at the one's that were only very slightly similar out of the 12, and for nearly every set (disclusing the moon and neptune and perhaps even aqua's set because they got their sign rulerships simply because of the process of elimination, "we have to assign aqua to somewhere else so let's do it to this")
Anyway out of the 4 slightly other close words, for each rulership, it's actual current assigned rulership was the closest one. I could sound it out for each one if you want
Venus Sagittarius. Or Venus Aquarius. Or Venus Pisces.
OR Venus Leebra. Or Venus Taurus.
Out of all of those, libra and taurus sound the most same.
If you do that with every set, (besides maybe moon, neptune, cancer since those may have been signed cause of elimination and not having any other signs left) the ruler that has been assigned is the most similar.
What scientific explanation can anyone give that was cause this rulership effect?
It sound completely rediculous to think that having your asc in aqua, uranus in capricorn, will make saturn your final depositer.
Imagine how that would actually scientifically work.
How is this exchange of energy being bounced around.
It's completely irrational imo. There is always things that I dont understand. But I doubt this is one of them. Which is why I asked if you could explain it scientifically- cause everything else in astrology i can explain scientifically, even if its vague (metaphysical pull of a planet's body, you feel the planet inside you because you feel everything in the universe, quantum entanglement similar)
*ETA: So it's basically a fact that the signs that are assigned to each planet for rulership ARE indeed the closest
If you truly disagree I challenge you to make a new list using the closest possible sounding/looking words and show me that I'm wrong.
Also that 'descendent isn't where it should be' thread was made because I didn't really understand the whole earth spinning and how the planets line up with it.
That was always my biggest wonder that my brain just couldnt 'get' of why the MH was not always exactly square the ASC. I just couldn't figure it out. But then realized it's because the sun's path is rarely ever actually aligned with the ecliptic path, yet the sun is always on it, but the eclpitic path moves in reference to the earth as the earth spins, yet the sun's daily path is fixed.
This lead me to further understand astrology and feel like nothing is left out, that thread actually lead to one of my greatest understandings. And i was actually right, that the place where the sun sets is NOT where the descendant lies (unless the sun is right at the desc during birth)
While many definitions labelled the descendent as the part where the eclpitic goes below the horizon, and seeing as how the sun creates the ecliptic path, I thought it meant the daily path and not the yearly. So I wasn't too off. And i didn't "back away" i merely realized what i was trying to figure out and moved on.
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Using my planets exact conjunct sun thread, its possible to see the actual planet's energy strongly in an individual. It doesn't have to be conjunct the sun i find out now, the way to get the full power out of an aspect is that it has to be making an aspect to a body more massive/powerful (in gravity likely) than itself.
Such as Jupiter opposite an asteroid will not get the full opposition energy that jupiter possess.
The moon opposite jupiter however will get jupiter's full strength opposition, because it can receive it's full pull.
Anyway even on my dinosaur pluto thread i showed jupiter extemely strong people, with pluto extremely strong people, along with sags and scorps.
Jupiter people didn't look mutable. They didn't have the same mutable eyes that sag has. They also looked a lot nicer, while sags look a bit mean.
Even scorp people seemed very similar to these jupiter dominant people. In fact i've already done it several times that I compare different signs to each person dominant in a planetary energy, and they all show similarities, none of them "exceedingly more".
And rationally, jupiter's energy, which can be seen in the photos, is not mutable, it's not fixed, it's not anything like that because it's effect is created because its a planet.
It's not a sign. THEY FALL in signs which coat their energy.
If it does NOT fall in a sign, it's energy can not be coated by that sign.
Body rulerships are using a different concept for how they work. (Which are real)