Meantime, we are getting ahead of ourselves. This is good deductive reasoning but not conclusive in the absence of actual chart work or other documentary evidence.įor much more on the origins of draconic astrology, Pam Crane’s The Draconic Chart is essential. He (Fagan) concludes…that the Babylonians considered the positions of the planets in the Draconian Zodiac, i.e., with their distances measured from the Nodes, were of consequence, that in Babylonian times there was indeed such another zodiac. Back in the late 1970s, Dennis Elwell – author of the classic book Cosmic Loom – contributed an essay titled ‘Multidimensional Transits’ on draconic astrology to the UK-based The Astrological Journal, citing astronomical antiquities expert Cyril Fagan’s 1951 title Zodiacs Old and New. Its origins are not entirely clear though there are faint clues from ancient Mesopotamia. It’s a specialist but little known or understood technique set on an ambitious objective: to discover an individual’s life or soul purpose(s) encoded in the horoscope. How else to explain the curious dimming and occultations of the luminaries? Astrology starts in myth and its symbols, so in draconic (shortened to ‘draco’ – itself a Latin word for dragon or serpent) we have fork-tongued dragons. Once upon ancient times, people thought lunar and solar eclipses were the result of a dragon living in the Moon’s nodes which periodically ate the Sun and Moon (what we now know as eclipses). © Victor Olliver - Timelords Magazine, 2022 / A (very) brief history
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