To quote from the first issue of The Tradition journal:
The purpose of this regular feature is to highlight and examine some of the fallacious arguments used to support certain astrological practices. This is done not to criticise, but to demonstrate that they are modern constructs having little to do with the Western Tradition. What has become known as Modern astrology dominates the field, as does the promotion of its methods which has led to a great deal of confusion, not to mention heated argument, about the Western Predictive Tradition. With the growing popularity of the Tradition, there has been an amount of mixing of the two systems which has led to a ‘blurring’ of the boundaries. It is hoped that this series of articles will help to correct these misunderstandings and clearly define and distinguish one from the other system.
In the first issue we dealt with the houses and in the second the accusation that Traditional astrology is fatalistic or, deterministic. We would very much like to hear your opinions about this regular column; perhaps there is a subject that you would like to see addressed, if so please let us know in this web log. Should there be a number of suggestions, we will take a vote to choose the topic for the next issue. So, please let’s hear your views.
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23/05/2009 at 9:32 pm
Bogdan Krusinski
The modern myth that needs to be addressed is that slow planets jupiter and saturn have only societal meanings and even slower planets like Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Kora have esoterical or generational meanings only.
24/05/2009 at 7:30 pm
The Tradition
Thank you for your comment.
As Traditional astrologers, we at the journal, do not use the new planets, however your remark concerning Jupiter is of interest.
Jupiter is probably the least understood planet of the Traditional seven and this can be as true in the Modern system as it can be in the Traditional. In our experience, students find it a difficult planet to delineate.
10/06/2009 at 3:39 pm
yuzuru
the myth that the general signification of the planets is connect with the “natural” rulership of the houses by the signs.
For instance, that the sun would have some general signification for “children”, because the sun is the “natural ruler of the 5th house”.
10/06/2009 at 4:28 pm
Sue Ward
Thank you, Yuzuru, we will consider this. You’re right, this subject needs to be addressed on a fairly regular basis.