The Sidereal Shake Up

There comes a time in every little deep astro goer's heart where they come across the topic of the Sidereal Zodiac.

Only a lucky few have the privilege of keeping their dear sun sign identities in tact (Cancer, Taurus etc)

My question is, have you looked into your sidereal sign? Did you relate? Did you adapt your theories to coincide with sidereal's method/explanation of the zodiac? If not, why?

I've learned sidereal deals with progression, the position of the stars rather than the sun at your birth time, and that since our calendar system had been altered by the roman empire, we may actually be super far off regarding understanding our signs. This makes a lot of sense to me actually.

I'm personally crushed this system doesn't respect my Scorpiana aesthetic. I don't feel like a libra, i wouldn't have been surprised by a being a virgo, but lib? Interesting.

What are all yall's opinions regarding the sidereal v tropical debate?

I did, can't relate, I think I was a cancer or something, don't remember.

anyway, there's no way the actual position of some stars, thousands of light years away are influencing us lmao, heck even the light we see from them is all wrong, it takes so much time for their light to travel here, that those stars could pretty much be gone right now, we just haven't see it yet.

the sun is closer and makes some more sense.

my biggest problem with the tropical system is the seasons and the southern hemisphere, but that's another topic.

Posted by tiziani

Yes I only use fixed star and progressed astrology.

It's simple and consistent even if flawed like everything else.

Once I knew stars, it was easier to be intuitive about planets. You can cut out a lot of superficial info at that point which is a time and thought saver.

Interesting! I assume you began with the tropical system first. Do you find you relate to your sidereal better? Could you drop some links, or maybe a read on sidereal astro?

Posted by Endless

I did, can't relate, I think I was a cancer or something, don't remember.

anyway, there's no way the actual position of some stars, thousands of light years away are influencing us lmao, heck even the light we see from them is all wrong, it takes so much time for their light to travel here, that those stars could pretty much be gone right now, we just haven't see it yet.

the sun is closer and makes some more sense.

my biggest problem with the tropical system is the seasons and the southern hemisphere, but that's another topic.

My issue with tropical astrology is that it bases itself upon the idea of linear time and the calendar system we use today isn't even accurate. For the life of me though, i cannot relate haha