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Fixed stars are additional components. A Fixed Star report makes an excellent addition to your natal chart, containing great information about the individual. Except for focusing on the stars on the angles and cusps, precise moment of birth is not necessary.

According to Bernadette Brady, the first step is to determine whih ones are forming paran relationships to the natal chart.

Then sort out the rising stars, culminating stars, setting stars and stars on the Nadir. The

Egyptians worked with stars observing their rising, culminating and settings. They also noted the phases of the stars. They considered that a period of time was ruled by a certain star and that its rising and setting had symbolic meaning. This Fixed Star report reflects this Egyptian approach.

They deal with the four periods of life’s division. The first three being those effective during a person’s life and the last being the summation of the life work, as under:

Rising – first 25 years (early life).

Culminating – the period from late twenties till about sixty (middle years). Setting – Years after the early sixties.

The importance of fixed stars are stated to give the greatest importance on the angles. But what about the fixed stars on other cusps and houses. Do they not give positive result and enhance the reputation and rise of the native. Are there not other indications to judge their results? Whether the above method will fit in all cases is really to be seen.

It is true that fixed stars have a permanent marking on the characteristics and actions of a native. In the case of the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeskar, her lord of Ascendant, Mercury, is on the fixed star Spica, in the fifth house. She got fame and honour quite early in life. (see chart ). Further, it is interesting to note that in Chart No. , the native got fame only after the age of 48. In his chart Jupiter is on the Ascendant (Leo) on Regulas. Taking the above two current examples into consideration, it could also be concluded that effects could also be calculated according to the planetary ages of men (by Saphariel) coinciding with simultaneous transits of the planets, which are stated below:

Planets Age (period) Moon 0 to 7 Mercury 7 to 15 Venus 15 to 24 Sun 24 to 34 Mars 34 to 45 Jupiter 45 to 57 Saturn 57 to 70 Uranus 70 to 84 Neptune 84 to 99 Pluto 99 to 115

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Effects: When a fixed star conjuncts a natal planet, there is a permanent blending of the

influences of the star on that planet. When an arc, progression or transit, activates this conjunction; it will reveal the symbolism of that star.

Aspects: The fixed stars operate by position and are said to "cast no rays" or, in other

words, their aspects are said to be ineffective and their influence is to be exerted only by conjunction and parallel. Some authorities suggest aspects to the fixed stars can be read, but it is only the opposition that is thought to be of any relevance. The opposition may exert some influence due to the polarity, but the conjunction is by far the primary aspect to consider. Trines, sextiles and squares should therefore be discounted. The fixed stars are only to be read to the natal and not to progressed or arc charts. Fixed stars are irrelevant to the study of midpoints.

Magnitude System: Magnitude is the measurement of the brightness of a star. The higher

the number, the dimmer the star. The dimmest stars visible to the naked eye are about 6th magnitude. An arc minute is 1/60 of a degree. An arc second of an arc minute or 1/3600 of a degree “visual magnitude” is a scale used by astronomers to measure the brightness of a star. The term “visual” means the brightness is being measured in the visible part of the spectrum, the part seen with the naked eye (usually about 5500 angstrons). Angstrom is know as Electromagnetic radiation that traves in waves. Scientists use the length of the waves (the distance between peaks) to define the energy of the radiation, Astronomers measure this length in “angstroms,” a unit of measure equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter. It is a convenient shorthand to avoid writing lots of zeros when talking about the wavelengths of light. In everyday terms, a sheet of paper is approximately 1,000,000 angstroms thick. Visible light covers the range from 4,000 to 8,000 angstrom.

The first known catalogue of stars was made by the Greek Astronomer Hipparchus in about 120 B.C. and contained 108 stars. It was later edited and increased to 1022 stars by Ptolemy in a famous catalogue known as the "Almagest". Hipparchus listed the stars that could be seen in each constellation, described their positions, and rated their brightness on a scale of 1 to 6, the brightest being 1. This method of describing the brightness of a star survives today. Of course, Hipparchus had no telescope, and so could only see stars as dim as 6th magnitude, but today we can see stars with ground-based telescopes down to about 22nd magnitude.

When astronomers began to accurately measure the brightness of stars using instruments, it was found that each magnitude is about 2.5 times brighter than the next greater magnitude. This means a difference in magnitudes of 5 units (from magnitude 1 to magnitude 6, for example) corresponds to a change in brightness of 100 times. With equipment to make more accurate measurements, astronomers were able to assign stars decimal values, like 2.75, rather than rounding off to magnitude 2 or 3.

There are stars brighter than magnitude 1. The star Vega (alpha Lyrae) has a visual magnitude of 0. There are a few stars brighter than Vega. Their magnitudes will be negative.

Astronomers usually refer to "apparent magnitudes", that is, how bright a star appears to us here at Earth. Apparent magnitudes are often written with a lower case "m" (like 3.24m). The brightness of a star depends not only on how bright it actually is, but also on how far away it is. For example, a street light appears very bright directly underneath it, but not as bright if it's 1/2 a mile away down the road. Therefore, astronomers developed the "absolute" brightness scale. Absolute magnitude is defined as how bright a star would appear if it were exactly 10 parsecs (about 33 light years) away from Earth. For example, the Sun has an apparent magnitude of -26.7 (because it's very, very close).

This is a method of expressing the apparent brightness of a celestial object. The magnitude system is confusing to many people, since the magnitude number grows larger as the star grows fainter. The confusion will disappear immediately if the word 'class' is substituted for 'magnitude'. Obviously we would expect a 'first class star' to be brighter than a second or third class star and the term '4th class' already begin to suggest faintness and unimportance.