Ron Scott is a professional, scientific research astrologer with 48 years of experience but with a late-teen-evolving interest in traditional metaphysics, alternative religion, spirituality and the paranormal.
In the mid-1970s Ron experienced a life-changing Event that forever altered his view of reality. This was just prior to beginning his astrological study, and there was an insatiable need to find the compelling but scientific explanation of this Experience. It was within traditional Christianity that he was born and raised. But, after a couple years in a rather strict and biased Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, the planet Uranus (“the Father of Light”) began to prepare him for the Ultimate Death-Rebirth of 1976. He discovered soon enough that it was indeed Uranus Rx conjunct his Meridian 1st House cusp Who decided to reveal another Reality. In an instantaneous flash, the previous Saturnian-based view went straight out the proverbial “door of perception” - one of the doors that he had read about from Aldous Huxley.
Back then, if anyone wanted an astrological chart, it had to be hand-calculated. Ron’s preference was a scientific calculator in one hand and the USNO Astronomical Almanac in the other with the Explanatory Supplement close by. It was at this point of learning how to convert the local wall-clock time to local apparent sidereal time and UT1 (formerly GMT but synonymous with it) and corresponding using snail mail with time experts like Dennis McCarthy, P. K. Seidlemann and B. Guinot that he realized that one of these formulas (the one which enables planetary calculations) had a serious PROBLEM – it was misconstructed, believe it not, and this was apparently a problem that arose in late-1883 when time was erroneously conceptualized as homogeneous within a time zone. Before that and for all of our long human history, time was properly viewed and experienced by the common (and uncommon) man as longitude-dependent (aka local mean solar time or “LMT”). It was several men, though, within the railroad industry and ultimately in the U.S. Congress who decided to enact a “law” implementing this concept for the sake of less chaos that was emerging within a faster-paced world of travel.
It never made any sense to Ron that a single math formula should also be constructed to adapt to this rather Neptunian notion that time could be somehow homogeneous across longitudes. If time was thereafter the same throughout a time zone, as everyone was told and obligated to believe, he began to worry that someday it might become “the same everywhere on Earth,” as this Wikipedia contributor later imagined in his article on “Universal Time.” Ron knew this was disinformation not only in 1883 and in the mid-1970s, but sure enough, most if not all astrologers and a good many astronomers still believe this insidious lie. The truth of the matter, if they will accept it, is that UT1 (GMT) is the same ONLY at 0° longitude as anyone may discover from listening carefully to the time experts here (Intro., second sentence of the second paragraph). Bottom line: It is either “synonymous” or it’s NOT!
So, Ron has calculated charts implementing a revolutionary but quite simple conversion formula from fictitious clock time to UT1 (GMT) since the mid-1970s. He has shared it freely and will continue to do so in this newsletter. He will show how to construct an astrological chart using correct formulas, because without them, many of the subsequent math calculations will only generate noise, and, consequently, some of the interpretive analyses will be off-kilter, diverging from that geocentric orientation to the Cosmos that he believes is hardwired within each of us.
The implementation of the freeware Astrolog software (authored by Walter Pullen) allows for the full substitution of other calculations, in this case, from the gold-standard JPL Horizons, and the display of chosen aspects within the wheel to help in visualizing the geometric structure of the chart. As mentioned, the planetary calculations are somewhat different than what might be expected because of an adjustment to the civil or wall-clock time (Thanks! to Walter for a macro designed for this purpose), one that accounts for the observer’s longitude at the birth or other event (this is ignored by all other Swiss Ephemeris (SE)-based astrological software). This unique method is explained in more detail throughout this newsletter.
Ron is deeply indebted to IT specialist Mariana Getova for her mastery in Excel who worked with him for many months on perfecting the JPL data retrieval and display of it in the Astrolog chart and with a complementary, beautiful, interactive aspect grid unequalled in the industry using sophisticated formulas, macros, programming scripts, etc. - ALL so that astrologers could benefit from it, a shared dream!
Ron will explore many charts to be displayed here using the proper construction, with a focus on the new and already known planetary discoveries, celebrity charts, as well as current events, not to mention will delve into other innovative astrological techniques. All 744 object calculations are from the available 1.4 million discovered (to date) within our Solar System. Some are MPC-unnumbered in our very small list but still quite significant, and they are retrieved in real time from the JPL Horizons API (DE441) and latest orbital solutions, not from an outdated standalone DE431, the basis of most software-generated charts today.
Let’s buckle up and explore together “The Future of Geocentric Astrology!”
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