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Old 05-December-2007, 04:57 AM
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[Snip!] The annual wave function of our planet is observable in its effects on surface cycles such as temperature, plant growth, etc. The purpose of this crude model was to illustrate how this annual wave could contribute to the internal structure of a much longer wave function produced by the axial wobble. This is a legitimate empirical hypothesis which has been ignored due to ‘guilt by association’ with pre-modern concepts.
Unfortunately you wreck your own case by bringing in the earth-air-water-fire, fixed-mutable-cardinal twaddle from traditional long-discredited western-style astrology.
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Looking back at these older thought forms, it is legitimate to ask if their wholesale rejection by science may have dismissed some ideas, such as the signs, which reflect an unknown underlying mathematical reality.
The equinoxes and solstices have obvious meanings; the signs do not. Twelve is a convenient number for division, but so are 24 and 30 and many others. For example, Chinese astrology divides the sky into 28 mansions of heaven, representing (roughly) the motion of the Moon in one day. Anything beyond the solstices and equinoxes is purely arbitrary.
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