Very interesting. However I have to suggest that there is a problem with
using the seasons rather than the zodiac. That is that there aren't four
seasons everywhere, while the zodiac never changes, except in the
direction it rises.
Hardly anywhere here in Australia has four seasons. Many Aboriginal
cultures describe six, or even eight, seasons...
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology and Social Work
University of Tasmania
On 12/05/2012 4:54 AM, Khem Caigan wrote:
> Hi, David!
>
>
> My own take on the circumambulation issue proceeds
> from my experience as a practitioner of Mediaeval
> and Daemonic Astrology. We view the world as did
> the Stoics, as cycles nested within cycles.
>
> Taking Astrological Elections as an example, we
> consider and select occasions that correspond with
> the beginnings of astrally congruent cycles in order
> to initiate tasks that fall within the purview of
> one or more celestial entities / processes; just
> as a surfer tries to 'catch a wave', so, too, do
> we apply the momentum of the Cosmos to our Mundane
> moments.
>
> The Astral Magic of the grimoires is founded on
> Tropical Astrology which is, in its turn, based
> upon the Rotation of the Stoics' Four Classical
> Elements throughout the Day and the Year, and as
> experienced by a Practitioner located upon the
> surface of the Earth.
>
> First, we consider the Height of the Sun above
> the Horizon, and that Point at which the Sun is
> at its Height is the 'Noon' of both the Day and
> the Year, and this is the Angle of Fire.
>
> Noon is the Warmest and Brightest time of the Day,
> and Summer is the Warmest and Brightest time of
> the Year.
>
> In the Northern Hemisphere, this is in the South,
> and in the South, this is in the North.
>
> Likewise, the Point of 'Midnight' for the Year is
> the Angle of Water.
>
> Midnight is the Coldest and Darkest time of the Day,
> and Winter is the Coldest and Darkest time of the
> Year.
>
> In the Northern Hemisphere, this is in the North,
> and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is in the South.
>
> The Spring of the Year is attributed to Air in both
> Hemispheres, even though the Spring of the Southern
> Hemisphere occurs during the Autumn of the Northern
> Hemisphere.
>
> Likewise, the Autumn of the Year is attributed to
> Earth in both Hemispheres, although the Autumn of
> the Southern Hemisphere occurs during the Spring of
> the North.
>
> A practitioner facing South in the Northern Hemisphere
> throughout the Course of a Day will witness the Sun
> rising in the East at their left hand, and moving in
> a /clockwise/ direction as it sweeps up to Noon in the
> South and then down to the West at their right hand.
>
> A practitioner facing North in the Southern Hemisphere
> throughout the Course of a Day will witness the Sun
> rising in the East at their right hand, and moving in
> a /counter-clockwise/ direction as it sweeps up to Noon
> in the North and then down to the West at their left
> hand.
>
> Once again, it is primarily the Four Seasons and *not*
> the Signs of the Zodiac that determine the Assignments of
> the Four Elements to the Four Directions of the Compass.
>
> Spring will always be of Air, and Sanguine.
>
> Autumn, Melancholic and Earthy.
>
> Summer will be Fiery/Choleric and Winter will be Watery/
> Phlegmatic.
>
> *Elements*
> http://tinyurl.com/nyfpne
>
> *Astral Rebis*
> http://tinyurl.com/yjrkbgb
>
> 'That's a very queer story,' said Cotgrave, handing
> back the green book to the recluse, Ambrose. 'I see
> the drift of a good deal, but there are many things
> that I do not grasp at all. On the last page, for
> example, what does she mean by "nymphs"?'
>
> 'Well, I think there are references throughout the
> manuscript to certain "processes" which have been
> handed down by tradition from age to age.
>
> Some of these processes are just beginning to come
> within the purview of science, which has arrived at
> them — or rather at the steps which lead to them —
> by quite different paths.
>
> I have interpreted the reference to "nymphs" as a
> reference to one of these processes.'
>
> 'And you believe that there are such things?'
>
> 'Oh, I think so. Yes, I believe I could give you
> convincing evidence on that point.'
>
> ~ from :
>
> *The White People*
> by Arthur Machen
> http://tinyurl.com/6uouhwr
>
> /Dance, dance, wherever you may be/
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
> ~ Khem Caigan
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
> Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
> Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
> Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
>
> *Of the Division of Chaos*
> -Dr. Simon Forman
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