ASTROLOCALITY ASTROLOGY

In the course of his work as an engineer, business consultant and

sportsman, Martin Davis has travelled widely and lived in many different
countries. He is a well known lecturer and practitioner in this area of
astrology and his energy and enthusiasm for it have encouraged many
others to investigate the subject further. Martin is currently the European
representative for Matrix and Cosmic Patterns computer software. He
currently resides in the Netherlands.
Martin Davis may be contacted via his websites:
www.matrixastrology.com and www.astrologymapping.com
or via email:
martin@matrixastrology.com or martin@astrologymapping.com
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ASTROLOCALITY
ASTROLOGY
A Guide to What it is and How to
use it
Martin Davis
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First published in 1999 by
The Wessex Astrologer Ltd,
4A Woodside Road
Bournemouth
BH5 2AZ
www.wessexastrologer.com
© Martin Davis 2014
Martin Davis asserts the moral right to be recognised as the author of this
work.
Cover Design by Jonathan Taylor
Back cover photograph by Iris A. de Leeuw
A catalogue record for this book is available at The British Library
ISBN 9781902405056 First edition
ISBN 9781902405933 Second edition
Astro*Carto*Graphy (A*C*G) and Cyclo*Carto*Graphy (C*C*G) are
registered trademarks of Jim Lewis.
Local Space (LS) is a registered trademark of Matrix Software.
Maps and wheels courtesy of:
Sirius © Cosmic Patterns
Horizons © Matrix Software
Solar Maps © Esoteric Technologies Pty. Ltd and Astrolabe Inc.
Janus © Astrology House
All the information kindly submitted by other authors remains their
copyright.
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No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any
means without the written permission of the publisher. A reviewer may
quote brief passages.
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TIME AND SPACE IN ASTROLOGY
An Introductory Comment by Nicholas Campion, former President of
The Astrological Association of Great Britain
Jung’s oft-quoted dictum that ‘whatever is born or done at this moment of
time, has the quality of this moment of time’
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is, perhaps, the presiding
manifesto of modern astrology. But, we may ask, whatever happened to
space? Jung had nothing to say about the quality of the place at which an
event happens, at least not in relation to astrology.
Students of astrology are taught that the three items of data required for
the calculation of any horoscope are time, date and place, and those
concerned with astrology’s advanced technicalities argue the pros and cons
of different house systems, yet for these purposes space is treated as
neutral, as a means merely of working out the ascendant and midheaven.
But apart from this, spatial questions scarcely ever make an appearance in
contemporary astrology. Yet it was not always so. The placing and
construction of sacred sites from Megalithic circles to Egyptian, Greek,
Mesoamerican and Hindu temples, reflect a concern with both the
universe’s metaphysical structure and observations of horizon phenomena.
The beliefs of the architects and builders responsible for these monuments
indicate a concern with space that equals that with time. And that this
concern was once widespread is demonstrated in the evidence provided by
the modern historical disciplines of archaeo-astronomy and ethnoastronomy. When we turn to astrology
itself, we find that the Babylonian
astrologers were deeply concerned with such questions as the direction in
which a celestial omen was observed, the part of the sky in which it took
place, or the quadrant of the Moon which was obscured during an eclipse.
The Babylonians, armed with this knowledge, believed that it was possible
to ascertain the region in which an omen’s significance would be
experienced. Ptolemy rationalised and simplified the Babylonian model,
inventing a crude system in which the twelve zodiac signs corresponded to
twelve regions and peoples. Medieval horoscopy retained the allocation of
houses to different places, and horary astrology has preserved the link
between the four angles and the cardinal directions. Yet ninety-nine
percent of twentieth century western astrology has focused on the inner
journey rather than the outer experience. The question that psychological,
natal astrology has failed to answer, for all its perceived advantages, is