Ffortiwn
I wonder if this may justify exploration into divinatory methods to glean birthtime information from mystical sources.
Yes, I truly regret that Sun sign data is all I have for many of these folks. But I thought some trends might show up and still be useful. I'd be curious to know how useful it could be, potentially.Minderwiz said:Sun signs are too restrictive for genealogical research (and really for everything else)
You might start off with Erin Sullivan's 'The Astrology of Familear=y Dynamics' and I seem to remember a series of articles in the Mountain Astrologer two or three years ago.
Fascinating stuff. Coming from a perspective where science and spiritual practices/beliefs agree in theory, I would want to probe their explanation for why the accurate readings worked out so well, but I don't have that book yet. For one thing, what time did they actually use and what event or idea did that time actually correspond to?On the importance of birth time I have also long held the view that an accurate time is essential, however this was shaken a little by the account of the release of the wrong time of birth for Lady Diana Spencer on the occasion of her engagement to Prince Charles. Astrologers used the wrong time of birth in good faith yet still came up with quite accurate readings. The account can be found in Geoffrey Cornelius' 'The Moment of Astrology' and his point is that this wrong time still had astrological significance for the 'moment of the engagement'
joya250 said:Do many of you know your exact time of birth?
Ffortiwn said:Recently I started inputting Sun sign data into a medium-to-large sized family tree database I have. I plan to create a special report illustrating the results. It's very sad to have so few options for determining other planetary placements (especially Rising). I suppose this sort of data gathering will only eventually become possible through good psychic investigation or some form of time travel.
Has anyone else studied Sun sign patterns in families?