On 5/16/2012 @ 3:25 PM, Kevin Davis doth schreibble :
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> These associations are not so much based on any one tradition as on the
> fact that most of these traditions developed in the Northern
Hemisphere.
> From this standpoint the Sun moves clockwise across the sky, thus this
> would be "lucky";i.e., the natural order of things. Widdershins is
> opposite and thus moves "against nature".
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> In the Southern Hemisphere the directions are the same, but one's
> relation to the Sun in opposite. Deosil is then backwards (as the South
> Pole is then your "up") and so on. Individual traditions have little to
> do with it; it is based on one's relation to the Sun as you stand on Earth.
Exactly! And, with regard to Astrology and Astrological Magic,
I would add, these associations are based upon one's relation
to the /Planets/ as you stand upon the Earth, as well.
The so-called 'Chaldean Order', for example, arranges the Seven
Planets according to their apparent velocity as perceived by an
observer upon Earth's surface - Moon fastest/lowest, followed by
Mercury, Venus, Sun,
Mars, Jupiter, and the slowest/highest is
Saturn.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"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
