From: TTrotsky@aol.com
Date: Wed 24 Sep 1997 - 00:48:14 EEST
<< Me:
It does away with all the dawning of the Age of Aquarius stuff for a
>It takes around 25,000 years for the equinoxes to precess around a full
>circuit.
Steve Martin:
<< Unless I fumbled my Use Microsoft Calculator roll, that is 1 degree of
change every 70 years, which is _extremely_ significant in terrestrial
astrology. So, this is a big difference in Glorantha, since this change
is apparently not present. >>
start, which is a pity. OTOH, I should explain that RW astrologers ignore the
precession of the equinoxes when drawing up horoscopes (you may think it's
extremely significant, but they evidently don't) so in that sense it's
absence makes less difference than you might imagine.
Oh, and I had a think about finding something to parallel the 'division
of the houses', using the Southpath and so on, but I have to confess to
defeat. It just can't be done as far as I can see. Them damn semiarcs just
don't want to trisect with any variability (I only say that to show off my
knowledge of the jargon :-)). There's probably quite a bit you can do with
the angles of the planets, but even then you get less richness than in the
RW, not to mention a cycle that repeats on a fairly short timescale. Throwing
Jugger into the calculation creates some unpredictable variation, but only
when it's visible.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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