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THE

Spherical Basis of Astrology BEING

A COA\PREHENSiVE

TABLE OF HOUSES LATITUDES 22

TO 60

WITH

RATIONAL VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS. EXPLANATION AND INSTRUCTIONS CORRECTION OF WRONG METHODS, AND AUXILIARY TABLES

BY

JOSEPH

G.

DALTON

SEVENTH EDITION

Incorporating Tables for Latitudes to by the courtesy of the publishers

60°,

of Raphael's

TABLES OF HOUSES

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MACOY PUBLISHING AND MASONIC SUPPLY COMPANY

Copyright, 1893,

By JOSEPH

G.

DALTOK

Copyright, 191 i.

By

SARA LUCE-(SPEXCELEY) HI rights rcsert:»i.

S«LB URL

VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS.

There appears to be a wide and increasing interest and perhaps there are some who wish to study it with as much exactness and tlioroughness as the i)eculi;ir subject is

concealed under the name of some angel or star to prey

capable

principal branch the doctrine of nativi-

upon the credulous, and

this age,

progress for hundreds of

to scien-

wagon

of, in its

now

inclining to

few as yet, the spirit of submit the occult and elusive

tific

scrutiny,

likely to breed

ties.

If

such are is

ver}'

them

Ita

conspicuous in the salable books ind almanacs of the elusory charlatans who commonly lurk coarser aspect

As

The

ere long.

a universe so full of wonders and mysterj'.

in

in regard to Astrology in this country,

present writer has studied

it, in quite a private way, from a rational point of view and with careful induction, for many years, talcing its fundamental ideas as probable hypotheses and using a strict mathematical method according to the best works on spherical astron-

is

to a star," but

in

it has made no They "hitch theit

whose hands j'ears.

remain in the mire and the mist. gammon. Astrology Ls eternal

practised for gain and

truth

in

and demoralized, disgraced by its its foes, and thus ever in deserved with sensible jjeople. It was in the same distress

friends, despised ill-repute

by

dismal plight in Bacon's time,

who

said that

it

"

is

so

"arcs of direction" and the events of a person's life, when the data are known to be con-ect. As geometrical

anything sound can be discovered in it, though we judge it should rather be puiged than absolutely rejected." Bacon also looked for what he calls " Astronomia viva, a living astronomy, an astronomy that should set forth the nature, the

laws shape everything, this

motion, and the influences of the heavenly bodies, as

full of superstition that scarce

omy, with the intent particularly of testing with scientific caution what correspondence there is lietween

is

the part that can probably

made nearly an exact science. The rest of it rejecting the mouldy old nonsense and jargon, be

—

—

they really are."

after

the

the hint of a

wrise

ideal all

its

;

ments. In 1882 Prof. Newcomb said, " the increiwing discordance between theory and observation is a field

;

which greatly needs to Iw iiivestig.itcd." Tlie showy astronomy was mainly devoteerplexities and hindrances like any other scientific It needs an invigtirating infusion of nuHloni of the right kind to give intellectual students tlunigiit, aims and methivls; minds with the to it« respectabilitv

inquiry.

aversion concerning these ancient ideas of "spherical

predominance," which the unsophisticated multitude treat with innate sympathy, and which many great a.s

is

extreme excellence of material means, does not fulfil. It is a vast and complex growth of declared exact science, but all mechanical and soulless, empty of divine reason and human meaning. It has been wanting in the tcf}' precision which is its cliief pride. That the tabular ])ositions of planets were erroneous, and getting more and more wide of tiicir observed places, was seldom mentioned except in official docu-

ments and lies of the books is mostly deductions from general and ambiguous symbols which yield little definite meaning to the intellect, though often read won•lerfully by some pei-sons who have the fine divining faculty but this insight, however real in its way, Ls a raw poetry not science, and is unreliable, especially as to times of events. I have reached numerous confident conclusions on the subject by a long inquisitorial search. Some are negative ones, indeed, yet valuable but many are drawn fioin positive proof of close accord Ix-tween planetary movements and personal events, disclosing to view the main points and lines in the geometrical l)lan of life, though giving no clear picture of anything. Astrology is far from being a baseless and refuted pretension, as the cyclojui^dias and scientists, with "orthodox mental strut," generally assert. They condcnm it without a trial, witliout examination and experiment, confounding its e.s.sential truth witli the error and folly that corrupt it. Genteel scholai-siiip and formal intellects are natural!}' cont^^nt to abide in ignoi-aiue and

poete and thinkei-s have entertained

Here

which, after three centuries, modern astronomy, in

fig-

true soular elevation and o|>enneHi«, "not n-pnrding of any one's mocks," and able to emulate the patient and

easily credible Ul

EXPLANATIONS, INSTRUCTIONS, ETC.

IV

severe sagacity that has reached the admirable results It requires no high matheof the established sciences.

liability to error, this

but such as will be enamoured of much matical dry ciphering if it lead to a real advance by gradual For the sake of such students, to furnish them steps. a new and ample instrument, and to diminish their

empty

ability,

volume

is

issued.

Drink deep,

or taste not, the Uranian cup of mystical science

;

the

and dubious flavor are mostly on the surface. Tarry not in the dim region of fallible conjecture, but proceed to mathematic certainties. Ars vera est, sed pauci artifices reperiuntur. froth

EXPLANATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS. WITH USEFUL TABLES. The twelve astrological Houses are formed by trisecting each of the four natural divisions of the heavens the meridian and horizon.

made by

It is as if the east-

ern horizon were tilted up to ^ and to f the distance, and then down in like manner. This makes six equal sections on the east of the meridian, the others being opposite.

directly

The

celestial

equator

is

equally

divided by these into arcs of 30° each ; the ecliptic on account of its obliquity is unequally divided, hence the present Table which gives for each latitude the intersecting points of the ecliptic with the eastern horizon

and those other great

circles, to

longitude on the meridian and

each degree of ecliptic

its

proper sidereal time.

only general one of the kind ever made.

It is the

The

covers from 10° to 60° of latitude, but the limits here, 22° to 56°, include the whole civilized globe. original

MS.

such tables have been for some one latitude, and they but rudely serve within narrow bounds. Its usefulness therefore is very obvious in making a diagram of the heavens at a given date and locality to get the mundane positions of planets and stars foi astrological purposes or any questions that require such a figure. An immense amount of laborious calculation has been necessary, and systematic method and the utmost care was used to insure its correctness. The ascendant, or first house, was strictly computed to the nearest tenth of a minute at a suflBcient number of points (according to the more or less unifomi variation), and then interpolated downward and across the page by second, third and often fourth differences, insuring general accuracy to the nearest minute. The other and minor houses were many similarly fixed at points to the nearest hundredth of a degree, and interpolated for accuracy to the nearest tenth. More than a thousand operations in trigonometry, by seven or ten logarithms each, were performed, between which to fill in by the quicker but correct process of interpolation. The ecliptic obliquity used was 23° 27' 15", its mean value in 1885. On account of the very slow decrease in this angle, I find that for dates at Hitherto

all

was adapted from that for getting the longitude of " the nonagesimal," or ecliptic point 90° from the hori-

tions

zon, as given in the appendix to Bowditch's Navigator,

Problem IV (old editions). It is substantially the same by which the ordinary tables are made for single latitudes but I have examined many of these and find them erroneous in several ways,* and they betray a defective method in not showing the exact recurrence of the series of differences and the consequent agreements of one quadrant with another. That the simple mathe* as that

;

matical facts of these conformities appear in the present

Table

is

a means of detecting any copying from

it,

pretence of original work, by that sort of pei'sons

make

the usual tables.

pacity of the computers,

and worse than

The

is

on

who

These plainly show the incawho do more than is needful,

endurable.

astrological books are so erroneous

and various making a figure, that it is well to have here some instructions and cautions for getting the true sidereal time in any case, with which to use this Table. Hardly a single one of those books mentions the correcin the rules for

tion to be applied for distance in longitude from Green-

wich

!

and most

mean time

of

them ignore

also the correction of

Neglect of the first one makes an error of 47" at Boston and of 1" 20' on the Pacific to sidereal.

which in arc equals 12' to 20', a difference of four months in directions to the " angles." To neglect the

coast,

other correction

may

cause a further error of 67'

— about

making and the entire process is as follows: To the Greenwich sidereal time at the previous mean noon add the correction for longitude of the place, taken from table A, and you have the sidereal time of the same noon at the given place. (East of Greenwich this correction is minus.') To this add the interval between that noon and the given time, and by the same table its The sum is the sidereal time or right ascencorrection. sion of the midheaven for the given place and time. a whole year.

I

give the usual table here for

these corrections,

It is to enable students to be accurate,

when

necessary,

least sixty years before

that these details of precision are given, as otherwise

will

and after that year the Table hardly err anywhere more than 1' on the horizon,

they must be gathered from several sources.

and

this

mostly in the highest latitudes. It will serve still for a century more either way and be but a trifle wrong sometimes. The formula used in the computa-

• is

Some

Of course

give the sidereal time to the nearest minute only, which

often an error of seven minutes of arc, to start with

1

EXPLANATIONS, INSTRUCTIONS, ETC. they can be omitted in making a rough figure for general and then the rule ia Gr. sid. t. at previ-

consideration,

+

ous noon

:

=

time from same local noon

Add

required.

2 or 3 minutes, and

it

approx.

sid.

t.

will be nearer

right on the average.

There

liability to fall into

much

On

Nov. 18, 1883, Standard Time was adopted in this country, and lime-pieces no longer indicate mean solar time, though they measure it. Any given standard time must therefore firet be corrected to larger errors.

mean

Boston, for example,

time.

the

in

is

Eiistern

meridian of which is five hours west longitude, and the new time throughout that division is fixed at five liours earlier than Greenwich time. As Boston is east of the centre, with longitude or timeDivision, the central

4''

difference of

too slow

amount it is

by

44"" 15', its

1.5° 45*.

Philadelphia

the same division, but a S""

is

At New York

time.

3°" 58'.

centre, in longitude

standard time

Therefore, add that

mean

to get the

too slow by

in

is

the

of

tvest

little

0" 36"; hence stand-

ard time there is 36' too fast.

So of any

place in either of the five hourly divisions: the long.-diff. of cent, merid. and place to

mean

and

t.,

and minus

if

if

west, of the meridian.

if

it

wrongly

ap[ilied

make an error of double that

tically

This

care, as

about half an hour near the bor-

to

der of a division, and

may

= corr.

the place be east,

must be made with

correction

amounts

plus

is

many

there are

certainties in the use of

I

Prac-

exceptions and un-

our standard time,

also lial)ilities to large error for such places as

many

where

in

it

Maine, Ohio and Pennsylvania,

was not

years after.

In

fully adopted until several

"

Guide," of Boston, fonnation as to

Now

its

The Pathfinder Railway lliuro has been much in-

local use, with a

map.*

with the sidereal time and the geo-

graphic, or the geocentric, latitude (as

may think

proper), the Table

is

you

used like any

Sid. T., with its equivaeach degree on the meridian or 10th house,

table of double entry.

lent

arc,-)-

to

heads each main column.

"II" below

other houses, and on the side

is

indicatlicatod from the previous pago to escape the awkwardness of reckoning lietween columns so situated.

some purposes, and if

they differed too

their

much

columns would not look well in that respect from the as-

cendant.

however, of late a

is,

There is hardly any obvious use in having the minor houses so closely calculated, but it might be needed for

These Explanations,

The

etc.,

are

now much amended, 1908.

geogra[>liical latitude is certainly

not to be used

for primary directions, for all such calculations as are

affected by the earth's rotation will be

when

wrong except

the equinoctial points are near the horizon.

For

those purposes, therefore, the latitude must be corrected

shape of the earth by table B, to conb}' "the angle of the vertical," aa astronomers do in computing eclipses, for which fact see the same chapter in Bowditch, before ro for the spheroidal

vert

it

into the geocentric latitude

EXFLASATIOXS,

YI

jySTJiUCTI02fii, ETC.

is obtained directly from that, the other houses can be had precisely only by a trial-aiul-error process from a mean or approximate pole to begin with, because the poles are factors in the operation that

the ascendant

depend upon the very thing sought for. Now the usual table of poles is not made for an average case, but for is on the cusp or vj the extreme one, that is when s ago, and alxjut a century one the blunder of some has been blindly copied ever since. are large for liigh latitudes. are a

mean

lx;tween those of

and those when is had when B

25

is

there.

The

errors therein

The proper average

T

poles

on the cusp of a house, that a near average

I find

22, or any point of same declination, is on the cusps. The table I) below is made accordingly. The fonnula for 11th and 3d houses is tan pole =

rinejaac

diff.

p

.

ton decl.

Ecliptic obliquity

ation for

give in

many

all

^^^ ^gth and 2d,' |s is

is

put instead of iL r

taken at 23° 27' 15", but its varihas little effect. This table will

yeai-s

cases nearly true results * directly by the

usual formula, especially if account be ferences between the tabular latitudes.

made

of 2d dif-

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF HOUSES

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 22° TO 2

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 4

UPPER MKKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56'

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPKR MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56=

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 6

UPPER MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22=

lOth H.

TO

56= 7

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 8

UPFEK MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22"

10th H.

TO

56"

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPKR MKKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°. 9

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 10

UPPEK MKRIDLA.N, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES

22°

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56' 13

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 14

22°

UP1»EK MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF 10th H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 16

UPPEK MKKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 18

UPPER MKUIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 20

UPPER MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

10th H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER MEUIUIAN, CUSP OF

lOth

22' II.

TO

56°. 21

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 22

UPPER

22°

MEKIDLA-N, CUSP OF lOth H.

TO

56°

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 24

UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

lOtli

22° H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56' 25

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 26

UPPER MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPElt MKUIDIAN, CUSP OF

22^

lOth H.

TO

56'. 27

|

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 28

UPPER MERIDIAX, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56"

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°. 29

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 30

UPPER MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER MKUiniAN, CUSP OF

22=

lOth H.

TO

56°. 31

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 3.

22°

TO

56".

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPElt MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

lOtli

22° H.

TO

56' 33

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 34

UPPKB MEKIDIAX, CUSP OF

lOtli

22° H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 36

UPPER MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

10th H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES ?

22=

TO

56=

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 38

UPPEK MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth U.

TO

56°

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 40

UPPER MEKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES

22=

TO

56=

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 42

UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OP

lOtli

22° H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 44

22°

UPPliK 3IEKID1AN', CUSP OF lOtU H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22=

lOth H.

TO

56°.

45

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 46

22°

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 48

UPPER

22°

3IEKIDIAN, CUSP OF lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES *

UPPER MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56= 49

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 50

UPPER MEIUDIAX, CUSP OF

lOtli

22° H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES i

22°

TO

56=

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 52

UPPEK MERIDLAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER

MEltll>lA^,

CUSP OF

22=

lOtb H.

TO

56°.

53

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 64

UPPEK

iyiERlDLA.N, CL'SP

OF

22°

lOth U.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES ^

UPPEK MEKIUIAN, CUSP OF

22^

lOth H.

TO 56

=

65

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 56

UPPER

ftlKKlDIAN,

CUSP OF

22°

10th U.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES ,

UPPEK MERIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56= 57

1

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 58

UPPER

22°

3IEKIDIAN, CUSP OP lOth H.

TO

56°.

1

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER MKKIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°.

69

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 60

UPPER MKUIDIAN, CUSP OF

22°

10th H.

TO

56°

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES *

UPPER MEKIDIAX, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56°. 61

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 62

UPPER

22°

BLERIDIAN, CUSP OF lOth H.

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES *

UPPER MEKIDLAN, CUSP OF

22°

lOth H.

TO

56= 63

FABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 22° TO 64

ll'I'KK Mi:iJIl>IAN,

CUSP OF

lOtli

H.

56".

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER

22°

BIERIDIAN, CUSP OF lOth H.

TO

56°. 66

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES 66

22°

TO

56°.

TABLE OF HOUSES FOR LATITUDES UPPER H.

SID. T. 23 52 40 I

ARC

H

358° 9'.9i-'^°

359°

SL

!

M.

H.

5' •oi

X

29°

2

8

360< 0'.oJ

9,

T0°

POSTSCRIPT.

12

11

n

SL

SI

SI

O

O

I

O

t

22

6.1

7 29

23

4

7 57

24

7

8

2.5

o

o

o

I

1.5 27.6

3.0

7.0

819

28.5

o

i

As the tabular spherical basis here built fails to cover a considerable zone near the equator, and figures are

4.0

7.9

9 8

8.2

9 35

4

5

their calculation

6 10 3

7

6

little

8

7

1

3

8 46

1

2.0

8

2

6 914

2

67

8.

24 O 0] 01

1

56°.

MEllIDIAX, CUSP OF lOth U.

S.

12

11

12

11

M.

23 56 20

5^

TO

22°

3.2 29.4

may

2iS

7.1

8 53

3

9

3

S.0

9 42

3

9 1031

26

4

9 22

5 28.0

4

3

1010

4

9.2 10 59

27

7

9 51

8

4.5

6 1127

5

8

6

9 1156

7

9

9

often wanted for latitudes less than 22', the formula for

;

also be tested thereby.

7

(1) 4.2 29.8

added and can be used by any one a and any part of the Table

is

versed in trigononietiy

To

the R. A.* of the M. C. add 30°, 60°, or 90°, or

so on, according to the place of the house in order from

the meridian, which will give the oblique ascension of

28

8.1 10

20

39

4 10 50

30

7

3.1'

1

2

3.5

6 10 39

6 9.0

11

29.0

9

its cu.sp.

from

T

E.\press this in distance, forward or backward,

or

— 0,

whichever be the nearer, and

7

3 1138

1

7 10.2 12 26

5.0

nJ!

S

7 12

8

2

8

6 12 56

3

0.1

= cot A.

Then, cos d cot pole 1120

31

9.1 11 51

32

5 12 23

7

3

9 2S.4

4.0 10.0 12 39

8 29.3

And

the sum, or difference, of

9 11.0 13 26

6

2

measures from

3 13 57

8

3

reckoned from

Then, sec 1310

1

4.2,

5.0

4

5.0

call it d.

Call the ecliptic obliquity 0.

33

9 12 55

5

2

13 42

3

5

2

7 14

29

6.1

4

34

10.3 13 27

8

4 11.2

1415

6

6

3 12.1 15

1

4

5

5 15 34

7

0.6

when

B

IP or

cos

T

A

tan

(/

or £^ as

the longitude

A

(according as d

and

— = B. )

is

= .

I

I

29'

N.

69

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