Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

TheTheoricus Grade 267
But one must also correct for the movement of the Planet from its listed
position in the Ephemeris and the time which the person was actually bornwhich
in the case of the Moon may be considerable. This is accomplished as follows
using a Noon Ephemeris:
Step 1: Find the Interval between the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and
NOON on the GMT DAY(which may be different from the date of birth). This is
the GMT Interval.
Step 2: Find the actual travel of the Planets in 24 hours by subtracting the
position listed for the Planet at Noon on the day previous to GMT from the position
listed at Noonfollowing GMT.
Step 3: Use the Interval found in Step one and the Rate found in Step 2 to
determine the actual travel during the interval. Use the Tables of Diurnal Planetary
Motion published by the American Federation of Astrologers.
Step 4: If the GMT is PM, add the results to the position of the Planet as
listed for Noon on the GMT DAY. If GMT is in the AM, subtract the results from
the position listed for GMT Day.
Example:Abirth on January 2, 1953in Oakland, California at clock time of
4:25PM. The GMT will be 12:25AM on GMT DAY (january 3).
Step 1. 11:60 (eleven hours/sixty minutes or NOON)
- 00:25 GMT (if GMT is 12 something, drop the 12.)
11:35 = GMT Interval
Step 2. Find the actual travel of the Planets. In this example we will determine
the daily motion for two of them, the Sun and the Moon.
Sol
Luna
D M S Sign D M Sign
12:49:58
-11:48:49
~ 19:19
-zaa
Jl
1:01:09 = 61':09" 11:56 = Daily Motion
Note that the Daily motion of the Sun is converted into minutes and seconds.
This is because the table of Diurnal Planetary Motion for determining the
Sun's position is formatted in that manner.
Step 3. Now we need to take these two bits of information and adjust the
position shown in the Ephemeris for the actual time of birth.
First the Sun: Use TABLE I in the Diurnal Table for the Sun (and only the
Sun). Across the top of the page of Diurnal Table I, find the description of Minutes
and Seconds which is closest to the Daily Motion computed above in Step
2-(61'12"). (Table I has two separate columns of figures-one for Hours and one
for minutes.)
Find the number of Hours of the GMT Interval and move to the right until
you are in the column represented by the Daily Motion of 61':09" and record the
resulting figure below on line A.