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Originally posted by Kannon McAfee:
SaturnFan, thank you. That is insightful. I think I need to watch some video footage of him. In a sense we all have to read declinations as separate since we are given the data separately, rather than in picture-based form.
The only reason we'd wonder if they should be 'mixed' is if we forgot these two data/positions aren't separate but are two pieces of information (sign/longitude and declination) to know exactly where a planet/point is. So yes, you must mix the two to get an actual location.
Sign position alone does not tell you where a planet/point is except along an east/west line. You need the other part of the coordinates. Just like if I told you meet me at 122 west. Do you go to California? Oregon? Washington state? British Columbia? All of those territories have locations at 122W. You also need to know how far north and south to know where a planet actually is.
This is why I see sign-based astrology as misguided and sloppy. If we locate a chart along two coordinates, we must also do it for those things in the sky we consider so important to put place in the chart and interpret.
Declinations are always 100% indispensible to interpreting any chart -- natal, progressed, transits, etc.
It will take some getting used to.
Mercury-Neptune parallel is interpreted to be similar to Mercury-Neptune conjunct for instance. And that is a whole different world.
Lindaland
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posted October 30, 2016 02:51 PM
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