Re: Hypothetical astrological planets

On Friday, March 18, 1994 at 7:51:05 AM UTC-7, Paul Schlyter wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Gadfly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> > (Paul Schlyter) writes:

> > > Astrologers often claim that astrology is "universal", i.e. inhabitants
> > > at e.g. Venus could just cast a chart as seen from Venus, and have it
> > > interpreted according to the same rules as Earthly astrologers use.

> > Pure BS! Name these astrologers who "often" make this claim.

> It usually pops up from astrologers when they're attacked from this point
> of view: "Astrology is a geocentric system from medieval times, however
> the solar system is helio-centric!". The astrologers then often claim
> that e.g. inhabitants on Mars could take over human astrology more-or-less
> unchanged, but applying it to a Martio-centric system instead.

I'll definitely believe that astrologers *then* make that claim about astrology
for use on Mars, since it's a logical part of rebutting a claim that astrology
ought to be heliocentric.

I have made the crazy (?) suggestion that perhaps what is needed is what
I would call "polycentric astrology". That is: make a chart as if it were for
someone living on Jupiter - but focus on the aspects between other planets
and luminaries and Earth, considering them as factors affecting the "ray"
sent by Jupiter to us on Earth.

John Savard