Koval: Fate & Fixed Stars
earthly matters. The biggest clue to dividing mansions by right ascension, measurement on the equator, is the one degree mansion between Spica and Arcturus. They are over 12ยบ apart in right ascension. The ancient Egyptians first defined the mansions. Their starting point was Alcyone, one of the Pleiades in 29ยบ s. This is significant on a couple of counts. Egypt flourished in the Age of Taurus, so it is not unlikely that the first star in the constellation, s, going backwards, should become the fiduciary star. Mansions have a tendency to define good periods and bad within the trading year. Important stars within that system often time tops and bottoms. The decanates also came from ancient Egypt. There are 36 of them. Sirius is the fiduciary star for the decanates. Though it is associated with decanate thirty-six, we may be seeing a backward motion here, too, as the end of the 36th decanate is also the beginning of the first. Sirius was, of course, an extremely important star in ancient Egypt. Its culmination signaled the flooding of the Nile. As to the question of influence, it did not cause the Nile to flood and fertilize the fields, it merely timed it. The decanates also have a tendency to define relatively short trends in trading averages. There is a discrepancy in the decanates. If you notice decanate 31 is followed by decanate 34. The stars given as decanate indicators did not quite fit the whole 36. It may be that the decanates follow ten-day periods because their right ascension degrees do not give an even number. There is no D5 either, although Regulus would fit the space, which makes that star even more important.
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ERTAIN STARS seem to have a life and power of their own. In ancient times the four Royal Watchers of the heavens were Antares, Aldebaran, Fomalhaut, and Regulus. Each Great Age has its defining star and constellation. In the Age of Taurus the defining point was Alcyone, a star of the Pleiades in the constellation, s. Because Regulus' name means regulator it may well have been the fiduciary star in the Golden Age, when man and gods interacted as told in the Iliad and Odyssey. The fiduciary star of our age is Spica, which is the brightest star in the constellation, h, a sign of precision and opposite our defining constellation. The thought occurs that the fiduciary star is the one that should start the parade of Mansions and Decanates, but the complications and interpretations would be extremely difficult in the light of the question of the 1ยบ mansion and its rulership as well as subsequent ones. If you notice the sequence of rulerships you see that the nodes occupy a position of dividing the sequence into a balance. In the case of the Stock Market they often mark a mid-point in a price move. To move those mansions and rulerships could mean the loss of centuries of observation and experience. To go back to Regulus it is not only the brightest star in the constellation g, it is also on the ecliptic, so its function as a regulator is timeless. It may well become the fiduciary star of the b Age
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