Earth, which is always 180° away from where the Sun would be in a geocentric chart, is drawn in as a cross surrounded by a circle (like the symbol for the Part of Fortune, only shifted 45°). The early solar charts presented a barren appearance: There were no house divisions, no ascendant, no Sun, and, sometimes, no zodiac (because for the tropical zodiac, the first sign always begins at the spring equinox, a notion that has no meaning from a heliocentric viewpoint). Use by NASA scientists of a form of heliocentric astrology-under the rubric “gravitational vectoring”-to predict high sunspot activity was not just an important verification of astrological principles it also, because of the well-known effects of such activity on weather conditions, on radio wave propagation, and on other terrestrial events, alerted astrologers to the possibility that astrological forces impacting the solar sphere had an influence on Earth’s astrological “atmosphere.” The two factors behind this emergence were (1) the discovery that scientists had found a correlation between sunspot activity and angles between the planets (the same basic aspects that are used in geocentric astrology) and (2) the personal computer revolution, which made casting heliocentric horoscopes quite easy. This argument was persuasive enough to prevent the emergence of a true heliocentric astrology until relatively recently. The argument against heliocentric astrology is that, since we are situated on Earth, we need to focus on Earth’s relationship to the other celestial bodies-a Sun-centered astrology would make sense only if we were born on the Sun. Heliocentric Astrology (religion, spiritualism, and occult)Īlthough traditional astrology is geocentric (Earth-centered), some astrologers have undoubtedly considered using a heliocentric (Sun-centered) system ever since the Copernican revolution.
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