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Parallels of declination have been discussed in many
astrology books. In fact, that old classic The A to
Z Horoscope Delineator by Llewellyn George, provides
three references to parallels. Everything he said is
good and valid, but it was incomplete. Much more recently,
Ivy M. Goldstein-Jacobson devoted a considerable amount
of space to this subject in almost every one of her
numerous and excellent books. William Lilly mentions
it and even Ptolemy discusses parallels of declination
– very briefly.
It is a subject that has been around for a long, long
time during which no one ever really addressed or understood
the dimensions and import of declination and its parallels.
But even more importantly no astrologer and no astrology
book ever (at least in the last thousand years or so)
has really defined and described the overpowering importance
of declination until my 1975 book, Declination: The
Other Dimension appeared. No one has ever recognized
the definite and definable influence of declination
which would then allow us both finite and infinite knowledge
about the reality that is taking place in the heavens
around us. This subject is not an old technique rediscovered
– unless we are referring to thousands of years old
and long-lost techniques (in astrology this is always
a possibility.) My work is a 'current' look at the heavens
and declination in a novel fashion.
The most remarkable aspect of this work is the fact,
manner and means of examining/understanding and applying
a new comprehension of the importance of the extremity
of the orbit of the celestial objects that comprise
our charts. This extremity is of major importance in
defining the effect of the planets in each chart. Some
of the planets are capable of such extreme orbits that
they almost intersect the Equator at a right angle,
and in doing so they often swing far into space beyond
the maximum declination of the Ecliptic. These orbits
are enormously important in the influence or lack of
influence of aspects. In addition, these orbits identify
those periods when a planet is Out-Of-Bounds (OOB) because
it has escaped from the maximum limits of declination
of the Ecliptic. In going OOB these planets have a very
definitive influence on the character, personality and
intelligence of the individual born at the time that
a planet was OOB.
With one exception, everything that has been written
about parallels of declination has not addressed the
subject correctly and completely. The work that Ivy
M. Goldstein Jacobson did was almost 100 percent on
in mundo parallels - and it was powerful and important
and perfectly correct and complete for in mundo work,
but was very limited because parallels in mundo are
a very different matter from declination and parallels
as a whole, as they are presented in my book, Declination:
The Other Dimension.
It is precisely this extremity of orb that renders
invalid so much of the work that has been done on declination
in the past, for the simple reason that no other astrologer
has ever recognized, researched or written about the
OOB planets. In addition, all mathematical calculations
were done on the basis that declination didn't matter,
so those periods when one or more planets were OOB were
simply ignored. As long as the planet remained within
the ecliptic limits the calculations were all right
(no guarantees about the correctness of delineation
however) but as soon as the planet exceeded 23N/S28
declination the calculations and delineations were incorrect.
In addition, no other astrologer has ever presented
a mathematical formula for identifying the exact degree
on the Ecliptic that an OOB planet is aspecting from
beyond the maximum Ecliptic declination. Strangely,
astronomers had the formula but didn't have a real use
for it. To them it was a source of information that
had no real value or meaning. We astrologers had no
formula but did have a great need for it! For us its
significance is highly important and informative!
For these reasons it is incorrect to label my presentation
in that book as a new way to do old tricks as some have
done, and doing so only reveals their lack of understanding.
In future articles I will also provide and explain
a 'real,' and 'accurate' declination chart: the Boehrer
declination chart designed by the author in 1974 and
copyrighted in 1975. There is no other correct and accurate
declination chart. Let me add that Linear Graphs are
very helpful and very interesting but not nearly as
informative as the Boehrer Declination Chart. However,
the astrologer who wishes to work with declination will
find the Linear Graph of great interest and quite informative,
although fairly limited. 'Til the next article, then,
I remain, KtB, the Declination Lady Copyright: Kt Boehrer
KtB, the Declination Lady
Copyright: Kt Boehrer
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