Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

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The following is the planet data from my chart as calculated by TMSA 1.0:
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Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang FG
Mo 2Ar18'11" 2N 4 +12°30' 23°46' 12N 8 92°48' +26°11' 333°47' 4% b
Su 17Pi31'46" 0N 0 +59'12" 10 ...

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A rather strange decision. Trump was found to have committed sexual assault but not rape (which I assume requires penetration). What most likely happened was some non-consensual lady part grabbing. I think Trump's "she's not my type" assertion helped sink him. Truth is, I think anyone human, female ...

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Great the way the weekend started. Sorry about the gross old men. I endeavor never to be one of them. Some other residents of my assisted living facility do not mind being gross, the majority but by no means all of them are men.

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I found Idiocracy free on the internet Archive and rewatched it myself. Laughed my a** off and then cried over the fact were going to get there a lot sooner than 2500, we are a fair way along by now. If the trend continues, it will be full wrought by 2100 and maybe a good deal sooner. Idiocracy did ...

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For convenience, here's a link to the Wikipedia article for Idiocracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

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The class 2 pairs are suggestive. One point I would raise WRT class 1: Mercury-Pluto-Eris seem to form a triad, and I'm not sure how Mercury fits, while Pluto-Eris seems to be a natural pair. Singling out from the collective vs. the collective itself (focusing on a single dimension). Perhaps what Me ...

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Steve, I think the root of the problem is that the lowest common denominator in America has gotten way lower. Much of education has degenerated into inculcating ideology (left or right according to who's in charge of a particular school) and falling down on teaching facts and the importance of fact ...

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I hadn't known that about Springer as I didn't watch his show in the early days, and only sporadically in the latter days (usually when someone else in the room wished to). Springer's show is a great analogy for the news. The lowest common denominator among humans is, bluntly, stupid people. Fox ...

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I suspect the fallout from the Dominion settlement isn't over. Even a giant corporation feels 3/4 of a billion dollars quite strongly. Mainstream media reports the firing was ordered by Rupert Murdoch himself. Carlson was a proponent of the vote-rigging conspiracy theory, though it doubtful that he ...

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Is he aware of the science and are Tibetans in general aware? The Dalai Lama is not a scientist. Neither am I, and I didn't know this until I verified it with reputable internet sites just now. I've never kissed a child on the mouth (excluding one time when I was myself a comparable-aged child--we ...

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A job where the only duty is to keep one's heart beating? I can do that.

Not quite true, you'd need to bang the gavel when the Senators are arguing to obstreperously, and even have to vote when they are 50-50. And God help you should you outlive President Veronica--not least because toxic ...

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I notice Antares at 15 Sc 1 would be the closest fit to the SVP were we to use it as a fiducial today, given the prerequisite that a fiducial must be 0 or 15 degrees of some constellation. I can see why the Aldebaran-Antares axis was used anciently. Withing the limits of unassisted naked eye ...

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Plus the problem that whatever its position that position is not 0 Cp. BTW what is the sidereal longitude of the apex according to best estimates? It's hard to credit a fiducial that isn't 0 or 15 of some constellation. Indeed, that last is important in the history of the Fagan-Bradley Sidereal ...

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All I know is the system we have now needs to change, and the Arisolar may represent a new phase in those changes. The process will not be easy or pleasant. In the name of the Love at the Heart of the Universe, can't either party produce a candidate I can vote for rather than voting against their ...

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It seems the solar apex has a fatal flaw as a fiducial of any kind: its precise position varies quite a bit according to how it's defined. This is not true of other candidate fiducials: we can give very specific locations for Spica, Aldebaran, and even the vernal equinox beloved by Tropicalists. But ...

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Strange. Nominatim may not be having an issue with TMSA per se but may be having traffic issues with their servers (they're quite widely used by both individuals and programs (most of which are non-astrological). BTW, TMSA queries Nominatim with one of 10,000 random ID, this avoids multiple requests ...

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Has the SSR for the previous year been analyzed? It may be that the evil decisions that led to Diana's death were made prior to the time, towards the end of the previous year? I seriously doubt the murder was truly random--few are.

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I have followed the politics and it confirms what astrology is saying. Both right and left are becoming increasingly authoritarian and suppressive of the ideas of the other side. The time is past where one can be a Democrat without being called a communist, both by Republicans and by extreme left ...

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I can relate to that reaction, Veronica, though it didn't hit me quite that way. And doubtless Mary would have saved Jesus from the cross were it in her power. I rather doubt the Roman soldiers or the largely hostile crowd would permit it, and the Romans had some very pointed arguments (their swords ...

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Per program.

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For manual lookup, Astrodienst has an excellent database but the will not allow programatic lookup. TimezoneDB allows lookup by place name for $5/month or $50 per year.

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That may be the best alternative of all if we could afford to license it.

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The problem is on Nominatim's end, I have been experiencing the same issue with 1.0. They have tightened their terms of service, a license may be required. Doubtless Solar Fire has the necessary licenses--they can afford it. I will be searching for alternatives, and getting quotes if no free ones ...

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Regrettably pyinstaller only works the first time on a clean install of Python, it breaks on subsequent builds. So I will need to distribute executables via cx_freeze, which additionally installs Python library files and python.exe, but these will be out of the users' sight in the installation ...

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Working today. I have upgraded to 32-bit Python 3.11 and this necessitated some very minor code changes, but pyinstaller is working again (unfortunately timezonefinder still isn't), so I can once again build single file .exe's with no need to install any python libraries, as was the case with ...

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The portion of the piecewise main angularity curve for bodies near the main angle is cos(6*x) where x = distance from nearest angle while for minor angles it is cos(20*x) TMSA 1.0 is shifting to a very similar but slightly different more complex formula that yields very similar but "more satisfying ...

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My mop up period prior to this SSR has been rather impressive. Monday night I had an incident. For the second time in a row my gurney transport company was grossly late taking me to dialysis and picking me up from dialysis, in all four cases due to being double-booked. In the last instance, the crew ...

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Jim Eshelman wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:59 am ...On a minor point (LOL), Jupiter angular is the foremost indicator of weddings - especially the kind you want!...

Your mouth to God's ears, Jim.

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Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang G
Transiting Planets
Mo 6Le45' 4" 4N38 +12° 3' 155°32' 15N 9 312°10' -25°25' 147°20' 0% b
Su 17Pi31'46" 0N 0 +59'11" 11°35' 4N58 91°29' +11° 5' 348°55' 70%
Me 3Ar 6'13" 1N16 ...

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Will do, I'll find more info when it gets closer to release, during development and testing, my free account key is more than enough. The procedure seems simple enough: you would purchase a $5 monthly subscription and receive a key, which you will send me via PM, so I can embed it the TMSA code, in ...

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The online time zone DB I'm working with looks like it will do the job. While I'm developing my free account will give me enough queries and then some, but when it's time to release, solunars.com will need to pay the $5/month for premium access which says no limit on queries. This page gives details ...

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Offhand, I'd rank the pattern suggestive but not determinative, probably enhancing the chances of politically feasible matches but not conclusively ruling out anyone. Frankly, the way Biden and possible alternative Democratic candidates are looking in the opinion polls, I think the Republicans will ...

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Out of curiosity, who were the exceptions? (Other than of course Washington, who had no predecessors.)

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Is it generally bad if the woman's sun is "illuminating" the man's moon? (In a heterosexual relationship).

Any general take aways about this pairing?

Some older books may treat this as somewhat problematic (as compared to the man's Sun on the woman's Moon), but this relies heavily on ...

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Jimmy Carter entered hospice care 2/13 of this year. He will likely not survive until his next SSR. At 98 he is the oldest ex-president of the US.

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The problems with timezonefinder continue. On Windows 11, loading it causes the Python interpreter to crash with a null pointer exception. Previously versions of TMSA built on Windows 10 will still run on Windows 11, but I can't built or test a new one unless I disable the timezone lookup feature ...

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The difference in the foreground (the most important area) is attributable largely but not entirely due to the edge of foreground scaling to ~80% rather than my 75%.

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Now the same values for piecewise Lagrange interpolation, much more symmetrical and more natural than my previous piecewise linear interpolation, though the numbers aren't grossly different from piecewise linear which I had been using:

0.0 100%
1.0 98%
2.0 95%
3.0 92%
4.0 90%
5.0 88%
6.0 85%
7.0 82 ...

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Not so hard. Here are the angularity values for each 1 degree increment in the quadrant, Lagrange interpolated. The key points are right, but the foregrounds are grossly asymmetrical. Trying different interpolation methods.

0.0 100%
1.0 84%
2.0 73%
3.0 67%
4.0 64%
5.0 63%
6.0 64%
7.0 66%
8.0 69%
9 ...

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Oop, scipy had a build error. I'll have to do it the hard way with numpy (which doesn't require building).

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The Python package scipy has everything I need. Downloading now, it will take 2 or 3 hours to learn to use it.

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0 -> 1
10 -> .75
30 -> .5
40 -> .25
60 -> 0
70 -> .25
75 -> .5
80 -> .75
90 -> 1

Gives all the key points (where -> is "maps to"). A non linear 9 point curve fitting of those values gives a smooth single curve. Bessel won't help me here, it requires uniform intervals on the left side. Lagrange or ...

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Yeah I checked that in the new quanitication of angularity thread, and I see we want center of middleground at the succedent cusp. Implying the succedent cusp portion of the middleground is a bit foreshortened.

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Background finished. When the middle ground between angle and cadent cusp is easy, the middleground at the succedent cusp is trickier, is the center at the of the middleground at the cusp? I have already allowed for the background extending further into the succedent house than into the cadent house ...

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I have changed the foreground portion of the main angularity curve to your more accurate aspect formula and restored minor angularity curve to the aspect formula with a three degree max orb. Still at work adapting the MG and BG portions of the MAC. So in principle, everything is computed by the ...

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Eureka. Instead of the checking a box, those chart types using a separate listing of non-foreground partile aspects will have a orb of partility in minutes (0 or blank meaning don't list these), default 60'.

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One case for defining partilty comes to mind: non-foreground partile aspects. If we are going to use them, TMSA needs to know what the boundary of partility is. The idea of changing the way angularity is displayed is not that important, single digits for the remote background is eye-catching and ...

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In a nativities and solunars, do you consider a planet 2 degrees from a minor angle the same strength as it would be at 3 degrees from a major angle?
No, I consider it the same strength as a major angle at about 7. - Same in ingresses EXCEPT for the dormancy question which then would seem not ...

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Yes I am trying to force alignment, but that doesn't seem necessary. The minor angle curve remains a question. The major angle curve is the same as the aspect curve with respect to the foreground (middleground and background are more complicated).

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I need a few more sanity checks for class boundaries. 4/5/6 would produce very weird % numbers for the class boundaries, but in practice the user will be setting the class one boundary at around 40% of max orb, and the class 2 boundary at around 2/3 of maxorb (with whatever inexactness is induced by ...

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