Planetlines

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astrological magazines. The astrological renditions of these maps would occasionally add other planets along with the eclipse paths, but did not, as a rule, show more than one or two bodies at a time. More recently, in 1957 Donald Bradley's "What's Ahead for the World" feature in the 1958 American Astrology Digest included hand-plotted maps showing the rising setting and culminating lines of all planets over the entire world at the time of the 1958 ingress of the Sun into Sidereal Capricorn. After that, on occasion Bradley would publish world maps with only one or two lines on them which he wished to emphasize, or detail maps showing planetary influences for a region in which a notable event had occurred. In 1966, in his "Solunars" column, Cyril Fagan laid out a precise description of the purpose and method of the mathematical and interpretive techniques underlying Astro*Carto*Graphy, as he approached the problem of how a young woman of his acquaintance could improve her lot in life by relocating to a place where benefics rather than malefics were angular, as they were in her natal chart. Though he did not use a map per se, Fagan explained the method of constructing one using rise-set data from an astrological almanac. In that same year, a computer-drawn map generated by astrologer and programmer Gary Duncan was used for a mundane forecast in Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book. Unaware of these predecessors and their work, Jim Slayden (Jim Lewis) came to astrology in the early 1970s, taking up work for American Astrology's Personal Service Department in 1971. Here, he became personally acquainted with Bradley and with the work of Fagan, who had died the previous year. Their emphasis on the importance of planetary angularity and on referring all elements of the birth chart to the place of current residence later led Slayden independently to the idea of plotting rising and setting lines for natal charts on a map of the world and applying them to natal work. Fagan and Bradley were, of course, proponents of the sidereal zodiac, so it's worth noting that Jim himself disagreed heartily with them on this point, despite his admiration for their work with the planets. Exactly what we mean by "lines of rising and setting" can be seen in this illustration showing areas of daylight and dark across the globe as it would look on an early morning in fall for Central Time in the US. The leading edge of sunrise can be seen on the left of the curved line, while the place where the sun is setting can be seen on the right where the light area is divided from the dark. The line in the middle shows the place at which the sun is directly on the meridian at local noon, while a similar line on the opposite side of the globe would show the place where the sun was directly on the meridian at local midnight. When we extend this mapping idea to the planets, we have the basic principle of the Astro*Carto*Graphy map - that at any time, including the time when a person is born, the sun and all other planets have lines representing rise, set,noon and midnight positions. The noon and midnight positions are more commonly called upper (noon) and lower (midnight) culmination.

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