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By Mark Lerner for Astrology.- Pause for a moment and take a look back at your last few days. If strange gyrations and weird events appear to have been much greater than usual for you, chalk it up to a rare phenomenon. Mercury - stopping tonight at 25 degrees of Aquarius and shifting from retrograde to direct (8:46PM PST) - has been in direct communion with the Neptune discovery degree placement from September 23, 1846. This will also continue for the next few days. The discovery placements in the zodiac of the outer planets carry enormous power and vitality - for good or ill or both! While Mercury is now the active celestial body doing the turnaround from reverse to forward, its liaison with the Neptune discovery energy-field tends to add on a touch of confusion, chaos, uncertainty or inspiration, psychic sensitivity, and creative imagination. All Mercury themes and principles - communication, transportation, business and trade, classes, learning, information programs, reading and writing, clever thinking, sleight of hand and trickery - are up for review and require extra focus. [Mercury will remain in forward motion until June 15 when it will once again go into reverse at 12 degrees of Cancer.] Now before Mercury goes through its shape-shifting routine tonight, the Moon in Libra starts a void cycle at 11:52PM PST that lasts until 2:18PM PST when the Moon enters watery Scorpio. Once this occurs, don your detective garb and visualize yourself as Sherlock Holmes solving hard-to-decipher mysteries. This is a great time of the month to ferret out long-buried secrets and get to the root of childhood or family problems. Relationships may be a little on the rocky side while Venus makes a contra-parallel pattern with Uranus (4:29PM PST). Know what you are doing and where you are going when it comes to affairs of the heart.

Traditions

Zodiac signs, 16th century European woodcut

There are many traditions of astrology, some of which share similar features due to the transmission of astrological doctrines between cultures. Other traditions developed in isolation and hold completely different doctrines, although they too share some similar features due to the fact that they are drawing on similar astronomical sources.

Current traditions

The main traditions used by modern astrologers are:

  • Chinese astrology
  • Jyotisha, Indian or Vedic astrology
  • Western astrology

Western and Indian astrology share a common ancestry as horoscopic systems of astrology and are essentially similar in content. Both traditions focus on the casting of an astrological chart or horoscope, a representation of celestial entities, for an event based on the position of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the moment of the event. The main difference between the two traditions is that Indian astrology continues to use the sidereal zodiac, linking the signs of the zodiac to their original constellations, while Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac (see section below). Because of the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes, over the centuries the twelve zodiacal signs in Western astrology no longer correspond to the same part of the sky as their original constellations (and so to their Indian counterparts). In effect, in Western astrology the link between sign and constellation has been broken, whereas in Indian astrology it remains of paramount importance.

In Chinese astrology a quite different tradition has evolved. By contrast to Western and Indian astrology, the twelve signs of the zodiac do not divide the sky, but rather the celestial equator. The Chinese evolved a system where each sign corresponds to one of twelve 'double-hours' that govern the day, and to one of the twelve months. Also most notably and uniquely, each sign of the zodiac governs a different year, and combines with a system based on the five elements of Chinese cosmology to give a 60 (12 x 5) year cycle. The term Chinese astrology is used here for convenience, but it must be recognised that versions of the same tradition exist in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and other East Asian countries.

In modern times, the three traditions have come into greater contact with each other. Chinese and Indian astrology have spread to the West, and awareness of Western astrology has increased in India and East Asia

 

Sun Signs
Use the zodiac symbols to go to that sun sign's home page.

Aries
 3/21-4/19
Leo
 7/23-8/22
Sagittarius
 11/22-12/21

Taurus
 4/20-5/20
Virgo
 8/23-9/22
Capricorn
 12/22-1/19

Gemini
 5/21-6/21
Libra
 9/23-10/22
Aquarius
 1/20-2/18

Cancer
 6/22-7/22
Scorpio
 10/23-11/21
Pisces
 2/19-3/20