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Revolutionary Additives [DeVore]

For computing the time of the return of the Sun to its radical longitude, the following table gives the amounts to be added to the sidereal time of the meridian of the radical map to ascertain the meridian for the solar return for any given year of life:

 

Revolutionary Additives
YearsH.M. YearsH.M. YearsH.M. YearsH.M. YearsH.M.
  1  549 191436 372323 55  810 731656
  21138 202025 38  512 561359 742245
  31728 21  214 39112 571948 75  435
  42317 22  83 401651 58  137 761024
  5  56 231353 412240 59  727 771613
  61055 241943 42  429 601316 7822  2
  71645 25  132 431019 61195 79  352
  82234 26  721 44168 62  054 80  941
  9  423 271311 452157 63  644 811530
101012 28190 46  346 641233 822119
1116  2   9  049 47  936 651822 83  3  9
122151 30  638 481523 66  011 84  859
13  340 311228 492114 67  61 851448
14  929 321817 50  33 681150 862037
151519 33  06 51  853 691739 87  227
1621  8 34  555 521442 702328 88  816
17  257   51145 532031 71  518 8914  5
18  846 361734 54  220 72117 901954

 

Continental astrologers use a table in which the Revolutionary Additives are given in degrees, to be added to the degree of the Midheaven in the Radical Figure to yield the Midheaven degree of the Solar Revolution Figure. The relative cusps are then taken from the Table of Houses.

Revolutionary Additives, in Degrees
Y° Y° Y° Y° Y°
  187    16315    31183    4651    61279   
  2174    1742    32270    47138    626   
  3262    18130    33358    48226    6394   
  4349    19217    3485    49313    64181   
  576    20304    35172    5040    65268   
  6163    2131    36259    51127    66355   
  7250    22118    37346    52214    6782   
  8338    23206    3874    53302    68170   
  965    24293    39161    5429    69257   
10152    2520    40248    55116    70344   
11239    26107    41335    56203    7171   
12326    27194    4262    57290    72158   
1354    28282    43150    5818    73245   
14141    299    44273    59105    74333   
15228    3096    45324    60192    7560   

 

By referring this meridian to the sidereal time at noon on the given anniversary of birth, one determines the time before or after noon for which to erect the figure, and to calculate the planets' places.

An adaptation of this principle is to cast the Figure for the day when the Sun is nearest to the longtitude it had at birth, and the hour and minute when R.A. of the M.C. is the same as at birth, whereby the cusps will be the same as those in the Radix. The one method employs the Sun's position as the measure of time, and is equivalent to placing the transitory positions of the planets in a Solar Nativity; the other, to placing the transiting positions of the planets in a Geocentric Nativity. If Primary Directions are to be considered within the year, from either Figure, the time of day on which the revolution will be complete (either the Sun's return or the Ascendant's return), and the places of the planets, must be computed with great exactness for that precise moment. Otherwise it suffices to insert in the Nativity, the current noon positions of the transiting planets.

Modern practice considers that a lingering aspect from a Transitor, a slow-moving major planet in transit, to a radical sensitivity produces displacement of equilibrium; which is activated by an additional aspect from a Culminator, a faster moving body such as the Sun or Moon, to the same or another planet, thereby precipitating the externalization. The interpretation, however, is based not alone upon the aspected planet, but upon the entire radical configuration in which it participates, and which is thereby altered by the addition of the transiting planet's influence.

See also:
♦ Return ♦ Solar Return ♦ Revolution

 

 

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