Date: Sat,
2 May 1998 21:44:17 +0000
Hi Steve, Lea & Fellow Uranians:
For anyone who would like the answer to seconds, the following
formulae works. and if anyone is sufficiently interested I will
provide a worked example.
To find Vertex:
Cos e = .9174
Sin e = .3979
Cot L = .7942
tan-1 ( cos R.A.M.C / (( sin e * cot L ) - ( cos e *
sin R.A.M.C.)))
R.A.M.C. = LST * 15
Regards,Ron
One of the standard astrological definitions for the Vertex
is "fated encounters." I have interpreted this to mean that when
one is in
a rut in life, and can not see your way out of that, then there is
a
mechanism of mind which connects all minds together, which opens and
allows
an outside influence to come in and disrupt certain portions of our
otherwise seemingly peaceful existence. The situations described
where
spiritual people were given messages by the universe from an outside
source
to "move on" is typical of how the Vertex works in people's lives.
There is
no reason to invent something new about the Vertex to describe these
events.
The standard definitions work quite well. The Vertex sets
up an axis which
causes us to respond to external events. It is not like the Ascendant.
It
is quite different from the Ascendant. It offers an active chart
axis, as
does the Ascendant. Often when the natal Vertex is activated,
outside
influences come into our lives complicating our inner world and causing
us
to use time and energy which often we would want to use in other ways.
But,
very often we are forced to respond to Vertex activity, and to use
time and
resources when doing this. If we anticipate a Vertex call for
action then
we can avoid such upsets. However the Vertex exists primarily
as a reminder
that if we do not pay attention to other "calls" then the Vertex will
allow
an outside influence to upset our current circumstances. That
is how the
Vertex works. I give the Vertex an association with the planet
Venus --
which also demands that homage be paid, or else the human will pay
the
price. There is also a lot of vanity and jealousy which works
through the
Vertex axis.
Michael
Date: Mon, 04
May 1998 08:12:19 -0600
Hello all,
About the Vertex - several years ago in an astrology class we discovered
that 3 out of about 12 of us had a solar eclipse hit their Vertex at
some
point in time. In each case, the person was driven out of a spiritual
community/job for saying essentially that the emperor had no clothes
to
naked emperors - they really hate that... in one case someone
was forced to
testify against severe unethical behavior and abuse of power and resources
on the part of her boss who she adored til then, and lost her job for
that.
In another case, a very spiritually aware and erudite person became
the
target for a collective projection "witch hunt" (and the words witch
and
evil were used). In the other case a person challenged and accused
his
spiritual teachers of a lack of ethics, tho in this case they were
well
within their boundaries and responsibilities.
The recent Mercury station conjunct Mars and Saturn tightly opposed
my 6th
house Vertex and conjuncted my 12th house Admetos, and everything that
was
new and growing in my life flat-lined and things got difficult at work,
and
strange physical symptoms and energy problems (which all checked out
ok,
glad to report). Now all those planets are past that 21^ mark,
but Saturn
is transiting my 12th house, and within 1 1/2 degrees of (applying)
squaring
my Moon, less than a degree of squaring my MC, and my Ve/Ma, Ur/Pl
and Ad/Ha
midpoints. Might I say I've had more pleasant times? I'm
just staying very
fluid, and hoping for signs of life (my mother's health, my health,
relationship concerns) once it is past, then past my Hades at 29. I
know it
revisits at the end of the year...
I agree that the Vertex can be a real kicker, would appreciate more
input on
it. The eclipse/Vertex phenomena was fascinating to me - anyone else
have an
eclipse hit theirs??
Thank you!
Janis
Date: 3 May
... I did run a data base of some 601 people (data from Lois Rodden's
information), and evaluated and weighted these 601 people so that I
have
their midpoint evaluations with the Vertex in a sorted order.
I also did
this earlier with the 220 people and events used in my Midpoints book.
Here
are the results of those 220 people and events weighted for the importance
of their Sun/Vertex midpoint (I have such data for all PSPs and planets):
Su/Vx
1 Steve Allen
2 Amadeo Modigliani
3 Albert Camus
4 Shirley Jones
5 Bjorn Borg
6 Bob Newhart
7 Dr. Francis Regardie
8 Edgar Degas
9 Ritchie Valens
10 Carl Sandburg
11 Paul Newman
12 Jean Cocteau
13 Ernest Pyle
14 Richard Byrd
15 Enrico Caruso
16 Mary Martin
17 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
18 Moshe Dayan
19 Sigmund Freud
20 Rollo May
21 Neil Diamond
22 Ralph Waldo Emerson
23 Ulysses S. Grant
24 Jerry Reed
25 Liberace
26 Albert Schweitzer
27 William K. Douglas
28 Gustav Dore
29 Albert Einstein
30 Ivar Kreugar
31 Rex Harrison
32 Guglielmo Marconi
33 John Paul I
34 Nikola Tesla
35 Helen Reddy
36 Peter Max
37 Abraham Lincoln
38 Henry Kissinger
39 Maurice Ravel
40 Herman Melville
41 Glen Campbell
42 Audrey Hepburn
*** *** *** ***
208 Rossano Brazzi
209 Lawrence Welk
210 Sandy Koufax
211 Yehudi Menuhin
212 Dr. Sam Sheppard
213 Ida Rolf
214 Jack Schwartz
215 Merv Griffin
216 Enrico Fermi
217 John Glenn
218 Jimi Hendrix
219 Edmund Halley
220 Johann Von Goethe
The procedures and methods used for the overall weighting are explained
in
my Midopints book. Biographical information and sources for these
people
are listed in an appendix in my Midpoints book.
There are many people who are writing this and that on this PSP, or
that PSP
-- and I encourage all of this research. What I do not encourage
is
preliminary publication of results based on only a few cases or incomplete
research. True, research is time consuming. One is often
called to publish
information before it has been evaluated. But in the end it is
the
information which has been tested and evaluated which proves to be
the most
enduring.
Michael
Date: Thu, 30
Apr 1998 17:24:23 EDT
Hi Steve, Lea & Fellow Uranians:
What follows my comments here is a copy of a post from a bulletin board
on
America On Line by Martha Lang-Wescott on calculating the Vertex.
This may be helpful for you, Lea. I think your description of
Vertex/Vulcanus sounds about right. I also see the VX as a VERY
fated point in a chart which does indeed actas another Descendant.
Its almost as if you HAVE TO come together in some way with the
person who activates this point in your chart... I have mine in the
8th, and I have helped two people to "pass over" to the other side
in
my life -- both very deep & spiritual relationships. Both
people had
their nodes exactly conjunct my Vertex-- one was North Node and other
South Node.
The "fated" quality of the associations may be overemphasized by the
8th house position of my Vertex, but in calculating the composite or
relationship charts of many of my clients, I find continually that
the vertex -- whether it is the parties' natal, or the composite or
relationship vertex, nearly always conjoins one or the other parties'
personal planets OR is on the descendant of the
composite/relationship chart... I would think a Vertex/Vulcanus
connection would feel even MORE fated/heavier, due to that "HAVE-TO"
feeling of Vulcanus, and agree with the feeling of "pressure" re:
whether we are talking about tornadoes or personal relationships!
Hope this sheds some light.
AstroVal (Valerie Irving)
And now onto Ms. Wescott's post:
>>Subject: Re: Vertex: Calculation
Date: Tue, Mar 3, 1998 1:23 AM
From: <A HREF="aol://3548:TreehseMtn">TreehseMtn</A>
Message-id: <19980303052301.AAA22568@ladder02.news.aol.com>
1. Take the birth latitude and subtract it from 90 (this result is then
called the "co-latitude")
2. Using the chart's IC, look it up in a Table of Houses as
though it were the MC
3. Move down the Ascendant column in the Table of Houses to the co-latitude,
treating it as though it were an actual latitude.
4. The Ascendant given at that co-latitude (with the IC treated as the
MC)
is the Vertex. It is always located on the right side of the
chart.
5. It's opposite point is the Antivertex. (And you can then use a
"Derivative Midheaven" based on the Antivertex...and the Eastpoint,
for that
matter.)
I am supposing that these directions were what you wanted and not those
that
require ATAN functions!!!! Do investigate the Vertex as an adjutant
"Descendant"-- a point of encountering others---and all that is thus
implied!>>
Val
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