Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Jumping in very late to this thread, I am wondering what the astrology for Trump and Biden is for the inauguration? It is on 1/20/2025 (I believe it is at 12pm in Washington DC)

Since there is no official time for the actual election, but an actual time for the inauguration, it could be treated ...

Not sure if this is the best spot to ask this question because there are so many great posts on here about Angularity but here is my question:

Does anyone have any experience with or information on planes other than the ones Jim is talking about. Specifically, the one I am interested in is the ...

Sorry, I had it backwards. And I meant to say Solar (Civil?) Day.

I guess what I am asking is if there is any info or statistics on the difference of timing between using Tropical Year vs Sidereal Year on Secondary Progressions. And yes, there is also the Q2 vs Q1 option, so the 4 options would be ...

According to my calculations, the Solar Fire Bija correction, causes the progression to be 1 Sidereal Day/1 Sidereal Year. Does anyone have any information on progressions that are 1 Tropical Day/1 Sidereal Year? I ask this because I too think the Bija (Q1) correction is less valid than Q2, but that ...

I feel like I am understanding the "pieces" of all of the major angles and points, but it would be great to have a visual of the entire thing put together. I can only find parts of it on the internet.

One additional question I have is that in Solar Fire, under Reports, the Right Ascension of the ...

The Midequator is the celestial longitude of the points where the celestial equator intersects the meridian (the 10th and 4th cusps of the Morinus house system).
The East Point and West Point are the points where the celestial equator intersects the prime vertical.

Where are the points where the ...

Thanks Jim. I wasn't trying to re-open a debate about whether the nodes are important or not. Although that is a good topic IMO.

To me, they are more like angles than planets. Specifically they are more similar to the Aries Point (0 degrees Aries) and Libra Point (0 degrees Libra) that western ...

Is there any evidence to support the existence of an "angle" perpendicular to the moon's nodal axis?

I'm not sure if the north node/south node is considered (or labeled) as an angle.

I've been spending a lot of time working with the 12 angles Jim talks about (including the EP in RA) and since they ...

Thanks Jim, this is very helpful.

So one point I just want to be clear on is that these 3 things:

1) the square to the MC (which is the 1st house cusp in the Morinus house system)
2) the equatorial ascendant
3) the East Point (measured in Right Ascension)

are all basically the same "point" but ...

When measured in Longitude, the Ascendant (Asc), Descendant (Dsc), Zenith (Z) and Nadir (N) are all 90 (or 180) degrees apart from each other. The same is true about the set of: Vertex (Vx), Anti-Vertex (Av), South Point (SP) and North Point (NP) (when measured in Longitude).

However, MC and IC are ...

That is very helpful! Thank you. I just ran it and it works perfectly.

What I can not figure out is how to run it to generate the Mean Quotidian angles (for Tropical).

When I run it for the Mean Quotidian ascendant it produces different results than when I secondary progress the Mean Quotidian AC ...

I am looking for a way to progress the angles in both RA-Naibod and also mean quotidian in the same chart (simultaneously). [2 different progressed ascendants, for example, in the chart] I have Solar Fire but you can only do them one at a time. Is there an application or an internet site that will ...

OK, thanks. If I do find info on how to calculate the mean node, I will post it here.

I understand why the mean rate is what it is but I don't understand how the position is oriented. For example, if I were to make my own version of a Moon's Mean Nodes ephemeris and I was going to orient it to the next time the Moon is on the ecliptic (December 3rd 2021) and then print out the ...

Do you have a web page that has the equations for the calculation of the Mean node?

Hello,

Can someone please tell me what the "starting point" for the mean north node of the Moon is? I have tried to look this up online, unsuccessfully.
I understand that this node moves retrograde at a constant (mean) velocity over its ~18.6 year cycle. What I can not figure out is how was the ...

Thanks for all of the info.

I’m not sure what you mean by:
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But.... ah, now I think I see your problem. The Q1 vs. Q2 distinction does seem to be affecting the angles. Probably the Q1 setting (which I'm sure the programmers never expected to be applied to user rate) is simply slowing the ...

Oh right! That's makes sense why Q1 and Q2 are the same because they are not even part of the calculation. Got it!

OK, thank you for your replies and sorry that I am having trouble describing this so here is the data for the 1st question that I have:

The chart is for 1/1/2000 at 0:00 am in New York, New York.
I am using Solar Fire v 9.0.29

The Natal Ascendant is 8LIB52.

And when I progress it to 8/19/2021 at ...

Thanks Jim.

I have tried it for several different charts and they all give similar results. So you can duplicate it with any chart you like.
I am just trying to understand why the position (in Solar Fire) of the Mean Quotidian is not the same as the position of the AC using a User Rate of 1.0. And ...

One thing I have noticed is that if in Solar Fire I do User Progression Rate of 1.0, it generates progressions that are exactly equal to transits. And this is what I expected (so I am glad that it works!).

However, the only peculiarity is the progressed AC. I assumed that this User Progressed (rate ...

Thanks. That is helpful. So I have a few more questions, because I am really trying to understand all of this. (And I do have a good background in geometry BTW).

One thing I have noticed is that if in Solar Fire I do User Progression Rate of 1.0, it generates progressions that are exactly equal to ...

Hello all,

Could someone please tell me a little more about how Mean Quotidian is calculated by Solar Fire?
Since it is mean, does that indicate that it is Naibod. And is it Longitude or Right Ascension?

I use it all of the time, but I can't find anything about how it is calculated.

Thanks so ...