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I saw it while scanning through Gems from the Equinox. I cannot find it now, because the book is so massive. I will find it through time. I mentioned it just from my memory, because if anyone has read Crowley for many years, then he would know about it.
I have read Crowley for many years and I do know about it. It isnt the 'it' I am contending, it is THIS bit :
" ...and each and everyone must find his / her own star, which is right for them."
Maybe I am reading the words wrong here ? To me that means one finds a star that they think is right for them. I would say, find the star that IS your star .
Look at it this way, with astrology, one does not read all the signs and go "Oh I like that Aquarius energy, I think I will 'adopt ' Aquarius as my sign. Ya gottta find out what your sign IS.
maybe its just the loose wording ?
In any case, I am well familiar with the concept, we did a 6 months Thelemic stella yoga workshop here years back putting the whole theory and sources together.
Hint - start with Marcilio Ficino's 'Star Magic' .
Also have a read Liber DXXXVI, which is interesting.
Have a read of it ? I worked with it for years. Tghis is the next stage I would recommend after Ficino ; ( Liber Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia ).
The next stage is Liber NV http://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib11.html
Then working with Liber 963, put it all together - Stella Yoga.
Tropical astrology? Doesn't relate to stars? What does it relate to?
12 equal segments of 30 degrees (the 'signs' ) starting from the astronomical equinoctial point , it uses 'wandering stars', the planets and ONE star, the Sun.
But here is the thing, to find the 'star' you are in the 'Thelemic system' (and this part is the theory of 'famous thelemic authors ' ... see 'The Pathworkings of Alieister Crowley' by .... ? (is it DuQuette and Hyatt and someone else ), they say to find (not select) your star by examining your natal chart, check the rising SIGN and using the PLANET that rules that as your 'STAR' .... or to use your astrological rising sign to work with the appropriate chapter in Liber 963.
Clearly neither is a Star as such. But why do I insists this wrong and it should be a sidereal application? Mostly because the original astrology was sidereal, all other astrology is sidereal ( except for modern western tropical astrology - ie. the popular sort in use today) , the original GD and Liber T astrology was sidereal and Crowley himself ( at least in Liber Yod ) directs us to 'real locations in time and space and not tropical ones ;
Liber Yod II. 6, " .... Let him face the actual position of each planet in the heavens at the time of his working."
Also, different from The 'AC pathworking book, I also content one's star need not be restricted to the ecliptic.