Astrology in the Southern Hemisphere has usually been a matter of rivalry amid scholarly astrologers. The Western and Vedic astrological traditions were designed in the Northern Hemisphere, and it is from that standpoint that we interpret the movement of the planets (grahas), residences (bhavas), and symptoms (rashis). For the most part, astrologers have interpreted the motion of the planets in the Southern Hemisphere the same as in the Northern Hemisphere. But most severe-minded people today uncover this unsatisfactory. How can we use the same interpretations when, at the exact same place in time, just one hemisphere is underneath the winter season solstice, and the other beneath the summer time solstice?
By analyzing planets, homes, and indications in element, we can establish how these principles need to be used to Southern Hemisphere horoscopes. We uncover that planets and houses can be interpreted pretty much the identical as in the Northern Hemisphere. But symptoms (rashis) have to have to be completely redefined. We talk about the planets and properties in this article.
The planets/grahas exert the similar affect in the Southern Hemisphere as in the Northern Hemisphere, other than for the Lunar Nodes. To adapt the Nodes to each hemispheres, we must interpret the Nodes as ascent towards and first rate from the polar regions, not as ascent towards and descent from the North Pole exclusively. In the Northern Hemisphere, the north is seen as the top, the south as the depth. This feeling of path is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere.
In Western astrology, in the Southern Hemisphere, we would interpret the North Node as the comfort and ease zone or impediments to be prevail over, and the South Node as what we must realize in lifestyle. This is the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere interpretation. In Vedic astrology, in the Southern Hemisphere, the North Node would be interpreted as Ketu, the worldly misfortune that provides enlightenment. The South Node would be interpreted as Rahu, the resource of frenzy and dependancy.
The indicating of the residences/bhavas continues to be the exact (1st = self, 2nd = cash, 3rd = neighborhood… ). The temporal get of the residences continues to be the exact same. But the spatial placement of the residences is reversed. They are a mirror impression about the vertical axis. When we watch the celestial equator and ecliptic from the Southern Hemisphere, we see that the japanese horizon (the Ascendant) is at our appropriate, not our still left. The signs/rashis ascend or cross the Ascendant transferring counter-clockwise, not clockwise. In Western and Vedic astrology, the houses/bhavas are assigned their meanings according to their temporal sequence, the get in which they cross the jap horizon. This indicating is retained in the Southern Hemisphere. The temporal sequence is the identical as the North. But the spatial sequence is a mirror image. The first household (bhava) is down below the horizon on the suitable (not still left). The seventh dwelling is above the horizon on the left (not ideal).
Copyright (c) 2012 Franz Josef Stern
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