Clarification on what sidereal astrology is by Agreeable-Ad4806 from the perspective of Vedic (lunar) astrology. The clarification really highlights the fundamental difference between the astronomical and lunar zodiac:
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what sidereal astrology actually is.
To begin with, sidereal astrology is not constellational or astronomical astrology. The so-called “true sidereal” or constellation-based system was created by someone who misunderstood the nature of the zodiac and what the signs actually represent. It may seem “more scientific” on a superficial level, but using that system only reveals a person is ignorant to what astrology is.
The zodiac is not a set of arbitrary divisions in space. It is a framework that projects time into space. Each sign is 30 degrees not because someone randomly divided the sky into twelve equal parts, but because the sun moves about 1 degree per day over the course of a 30-day lunar cycle. That cycle from full moon to the next is called a synodic month. It is the original basis for the concept of the month, and the twelve signs correspond to the twelve synodic months in a sidereal year.
So the signs are essentially symbolic months. There are twelve because the sun completes its journey through the zodiac relative to the fixed stars roughly once every twelve synodic months. The signs measure time through the sun’s motion, while the stars serve as a background that helps to track how much time has passed. The signs are not the stars. They are mathematical divisions of time, projected onto the ecliptic.
This is why relying on stellarium apps, or using a constellation-based zodiac to draw charts, leads to confusion. What you are seeing is the background sky, not the symbolic structure used to track time astrologically. That structure is consistent and does not change just because constellations vary in size or overlap.
There is no “thirteenth sign” like Ophiuchus because the signs are not based on the literal constellations. The constellations are simply visual guides. For example, the constellation that rises at midnight is generally opposite the one the sun is in at noon, helping ancient observers keep track of the time of year. But the astrological signs are not tied to the irregular shapes or borders of constellations. They are equal divisions of the sun’s annual journey, grounded in a lunar and solar rhythm.
The trick is that there would have been no confusion if the zodiac signs and constellations originally had different names. The basic problem is in the nomenclature. It would be better if non-astronomers named 12 zodiac signs with the names of 12 months of the year: March, April, etc.
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Clarification on what sidereal astrology is by Agreeable-Ad4806 from the perspective of Vedic (lunar) astrology. The clarification really highlights the fundamental difference between the astronomical and lunar zodiac:
The trick is that there would have been no confusion if the zodiac signs and constellations originally had different names. The basic problem is in the nomenclature. It would be better if non-astronomers named 12 zodiac signs with the names of 12 months of the year: March, April, etc.