JKP,
Attribution noted & corrected.
Is 'highly erratic' a bit too much? Perhaps. But imagine the Zodiac man of medical astrology with his feet up top. And in regular astrology, Aries is always the first house and Pisces is the twelfth. Otherwise the sequence problems were easily resolved by displaying the symbols in a circular format. But the VMs has a linear sequence like a calendar. Calendars may include their zodiac signs, but what calendars are composed as celestial spheres?
Christian religion also uses the vernal equinox to set the date for Easter. And the effects of precession, greatly added to by the errors in the Julian calendar, had moved the date of the equinox significantly forward in the calendar. Hence the need for calendar reform finally accomplished by the Gregorian changes (well after VMs parchment dates) with the need for such change previously noted by Roger Bacon and Regiomontanus.
However, rather than looking at the specifics of each house (which is a valid area of investigation), I want to change the investigation to focus on the sequence of parings that this set of medallions creates. Then to follow on with the full set of pairings and to establish the concept of pairs. And then use that paradigm as the basis for further investigation and the discovery of additional examples of pairing, particularly as they occur in the beginning of the VMs Zodiac.
Koen,
As I see it, the point is to provide examples sufficient to establish the paradigm and to demonstrate that it is not accidental. That doesn't mean it has to go on forever. What if all the houses had pairs? Some bright fellow would say, 'Hey look, there's two of everything.' Might as well use a flashing neon sign. The information presented is sufficient to accomplish the task. It does the job. It does not need to be glaringly obvious. Indeed, subtlety seems to play an intentional role.
The second point is not to question and to long for hypothetical examples that are not presented in the illustrations. Those are things we cannot investigate. The point is to seek and discover the examples contained in the illustrations - to follow the evidence that the illustrations provide.
Attribution noted & corrected.
Is 'highly erratic' a bit too much? Perhaps. But imagine the Zodiac man of medical astrology with his feet up top. And in regular astrology, Aries is always the first house and Pisces is the twelfth. Otherwise the sequence problems were easily resolved by displaying the symbols in a circular format. But the VMs has a linear sequence like a calendar. Calendars may include their zodiac signs, but what calendars are composed as celestial spheres?
Christian religion also uses the vernal equinox to set the date for Easter. And the effects of precession, greatly added to by the errors in the Julian calendar, had moved the date of the equinox significantly forward in the calendar. Hence the need for calendar reform finally accomplished by the Gregorian changes (well after VMs parchment dates) with the need for such change previously noted by Roger Bacon and Regiomontanus.
However, rather than looking at the specifics of each house (which is a valid area of investigation), I want to change the investigation to focus on the sequence of parings that this set of medallions creates. Then to follow on with the full set of pairings and to establish the concept of pairs. And then use that paradigm as the basis for further investigation and the discovery of additional examples of pairing, particularly as they occur in the beginning of the VMs Zodiac.
Koen,
As I see it, the point is to provide examples sufficient to establish the paradigm and to demonstrate that it is not accidental. That doesn't mean it has to go on forever. What if all the houses had pairs? Some bright fellow would say, 'Hey look, there's two of everything.' Might as well use a flashing neon sign. The information presented is sufficient to accomplish the task. It does the job. It does not need to be glaringly obvious. Indeed, subtlety seems to play an intentional role.
The second point is not to question and to long for hypothetical examples that are not presented in the illustrations. Those are things we cannot investigate. The point is to seek and discover the examples contained in the illustrations - to follow the evidence that the illustrations provide.