At 8:20 this morn Raleigh is about 54 minutes into the downward half of its
daily rotation on Earth’s axis. Xining,
China- on the opposite side of the northern hemisphere is
about 54 minutes into its upward rotation.
In Xining, folks can look due south and see Jupiter (Jupiter is
at bottom of chart in 10degrees Cancer) peaking in its nightly arc across the
sky.
This chart, for Raleigh at 8:20 am,
almost an hour after we reached 0degrees Capricorn on the midheaven, shows
13degrees Capricorn 25minutes on the MC.
Medium Coeli is Latin for middle of the sky. In order to show that Uranus and any thing
else in 22degrees Aries is coming up north of east, instead of exactly east, where
a planet in 0degrees Aries rises, we move the line for the midheaven to the
west a bit. This also indicates that
Mars in 27degrees Libra is setting a little bit south of west instead of
exactly west.
So the line sticking up from
the top of the chart is just a marker to help us see exactly how much the
ecliptic is skewed to east or west depending on where we are in our daily
rotation. Since Raleigh is descending, we can see a bit more of the ecliptic
rising in the east than what is setting in the west. When we finish the first third in our daily
fall to the bottom, 0degrees Pisces will be on the MC and that stick will be
situated so far to the west that there will be an arc of 110 degrees between
the Ascendent and the MC. That will
happen at about 11:30 this morn. When the first degree of Capricorn or Cancer
is on the MC the stick stands straight up making a 90degree angle with the
Ascendent.
East is in the left side of the chart. You can see the symbol for Uranus at 10degrees Aries 55 minutes. The 22nd degree of Aries was coming up over the horizon in Raleigh at 8:20am. It is now 9:36 as I prepare to leave for work and the moon at 10 degrees Taurus is already above the horizon. The sign Aries rises quickly.
