Locational Astrology - Astrogeography

Astrogeography

The topic of Astrological Geography is the astrological study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. The origins of Astrogeography may possibly go back to the roots of astrology in Mesopotamian Culture. Some relation between zodiac signs and cardinal points is highly probable to have been established for astrological weather forecasts and other purposes of prediction. Nicholas Campion names Marcus Manilius (1st cent.) and Claudius Ptolemaeus (2nd cent.) to be the first authors to deliver a system of rulership of zodiac signs for regions. Others are Al-Biruni (11th cent.), William Lilly (17th cent.), Raphael (19th cent.), Green and Sepharial (20th cent.). An important systematic approach to astrogeography was developed by various astrologers such as Sepharial(Walter Gorn Old) in England, and A.M. Grimm in Germany. Both these systems assume that the Greenwich Meridian in metropolitan London has a 0° Aries fixed local MC, leaving the various regions of the globe to correspond with the 12 signs of the zodiac. There are subtle differences between the system of Sepharial and Grimm which are not noticeable in many classical astrology methods, but may be noticeable in precision methods such as those of Uranian astrology or cosmobiology. The Sepharial system was later popularized by Canadian astrologer Chris McRae, and American astrologer Joyce Wehrman. The Canadian astrologer L. Edward Johndro also worked with this method at various points throughout the 1930s and later years, and vacillated between the starting reference point at Greenwich and one near the greater pyramids of Egypt; there is controversy over which system he actually decided upon in later years. In the course of the development of computer technology which made it easier to calculate more elaborate astrogeographical maps the so called Andersen system was published in 1974. It included 11 newly developed world maps valid for one planet each.