Ancient Whispers from Chaldea by Arthyr W. Chadbourne of Intelligenesis Publications

	TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Discourse on the possibility that Babylonian astrology and/or Egyptian principles may have not been taught to the Greek scholars. Views of today’s problems with current astrological thought processes.
	PART ONE
Chapter 1:	Intelligenesis	1
	Description of early basic ideas about the cosmos. The conflation of Egypt and Babylonian principles. The emergence of astrology through Berosus and Sumerian myths. Brief outline about the Babylonian and Egyptian chapters in Part II.
Chapter 2:	Initial Basics	32
	General information about this work. Opening statement with simple story lines to familiarize the reader with astrological symbology, planetary meaning and aspects.
Chapter 3:	The Sun	63
	The significance of the Sun as an indicator of time in the sunset chart. Clear instructions on setting up the sunset chart with explanations on the origins of the house meanings. Sunset chart compared with the birth chart and their aspects to each other. Instructions on the process of "rogression" for timing major events in the life.
Chapter 4:	The Moon	87
	The Moon’s influence in the chart. Importance of tertiary and minor lunar progressions and lunar returns. A neo-astrological approach using new concepts about the lunar mansions with clear concise instructions.
Chapter 5:	The Planets	114
	Appearances and disappearances. Planetary meanings as they pertain to this system. Retrograde motion. The importance of the planets by their placement in the 30° wheel. Discussion on the trans-saturnian planets with regard to their effect on generations and indirect effect on individuals.
Chapter 6:	Exalted Strength	141
	Long considered outdated by many astrologers, the graph on exalted strength clearly explains planetary positions as increasing or weakening in strength. A quick study on esoteric information giving the planets and houses various definitions by their placement in the chart. The comparison to the sunset chart.
Chapter 7:	The Lunar Nodes	186
	Long considered as the "hidden one" in many ancient celestial ore, the Nodes are considered and explored as a pre-existing archetype for the "soul" and its reason for incarnation and fulfillment. The Node is further reviewed on the basis that is represents the personal attractions we seek for our learning experiences.
Chapter 8:	Chaldean Sunset System	210
	The importance of sunset charts and how they are derived. The eight steps to chart construction: an overview with rules. The foundation matrix for registering personal planetary meaning and purpose based on sunset. Further instructions on "rogressing" the chart to identify important periods. The basic concept of interpreting the timing of events in a natal chart. The 30° wheel and its value in chart interpretation. A look at compatibility using different charts as examples.
Chapter 9:	Chart Interpretation	267
	New planetary reference and rogression as deduced from the foregoing chapters. In this discussion we will review the charts of John Lennon, Adolph Hitler and Mohondas Gandhi with full chart interpretation and illustration.
Chapter 10:	The Solar Return	330
	This unique Vedic system shows the reader how to divide the year based on the solar return into planetary periods. The sunset method of solar return as compared with the Vedic system.
Chapter 11:	The Horary Chart	349
	The single most powerful tool ever devised was the Ascendant for the horary chart as developed by Ptolemy. The mathematical calculation of the Ascendant became so powerful that it has endured through the centuries to become the chief means of charting for genethliacal astrology today. The chart "for the chart of the moment" is compared to the sunset method.
Chapter 12 :	Harmonics	372
	The Vedic system of house division harmonics covering the first twelve divisions and their interpretation. The Western view on harmonics based on John Addey’s research and its uses. The sunset use of the harmonics and how it compares with the first two systems. PART II: HISTORY
	Overview	404
	Philosophical discussion on the author’s research material as he explores Babylonian and Egyptian philosophical views. Astrology was based on principle laws that may have permeated each culture and why these principles are important to astrologers today.
Chapter 13:	Chaldean Astrology	416
	Beginning from the land of Sumer through the Babylonian development of celestial phenomena. Mathematical principles and technical development of lunar tables for astronomical and astrological purposes. The advent of omina and its influence on astrology. Listing of the Babylonian names of the week, months and their meanings. List of names of the planets and their mythological meanings. Summary.
Chapter 14:	Egyptian Cosmology	458
	Explanation of hieroglyphics and the apparent lack of Egyptian mathematical skills. Egyptian calendars and cycles as understood by today’s standards. Methods of observation, the three seasons and decanate system. Esoteric Egyptian principles. List of names of the gods as planets and stars. Summary
	Index	499
	Bibliography

CHAPTER 3

THE SUN

Do more than look, observe.

Many astrologers appoint the Sun as the native’s chief significator in the chart. So with today’s approach, anyone born on or after July 23 or before August 22, has the Sun in the sign of Leo. Secondly, if the Moon was located in Pisces it will have an overtone of Leo. However, if the Moon rules a chart at night or it is placed in a elevated position it is the stronger of the two. Then, in that case, the Pisces Moon carries the undertone of the Leo Sun sign. This same idea generally applies to the rest of the planets. This formula has basically evolved from the Ptolemaic discovery of the horary chart. Tropical astrology uses the Sun to indicate the person and their ego needs and to tell the native’s general disposition by sign and house placement.

The sunset chart focuses on the Sun in rather a different fashion; it’s the "time focus" around the wheel. We rotate the entire sunset chart in a clockwise manner using the Sun as the significator of age at the rate of five degrees of solar arc for each year of life. The rotating planetary positions will aspect themselves and describe our ever-changing life pattern, which in turn reflects the changes we experience while remaining in congruity with our sense of who we are in the birth chart.

The major difference is that we use the same chart based on the entire 24-hour period of the day of birth as well as the chart for the time of birth when available. In the Sunset chart, at the time of an event we, too, placed a fixed point on the horizon but it never stays "fixed in place." It remains in motion as do our lives. The Sun indicates the various times in our lives by its changing position, just as the Sun indicates the hour during the 24-hour day. By rotating the sunset chart, we can designate not only an Ascendant, but an ever changing Ascendant to reflect the changes in our personality and our many changing viewpoints based on the changing position of the entire chart. In this fashion we can denote our life’s experiences astrologically, all based on the original event—the sunset before birth.

This book discusses only the Sidereal calculations for the zodiac using the equal house system. The Tropical zodiac is ineffective using this method. To set up Sidereal charts, simply set your computer to Sidereal calculation; the Sun should be conjunct the seventh house cusp (actual sunset is preferable). If you do not have a computer, a quick, near accurate method for converting a chart form Tropical to Sidereal is to add six degrees to all the planetary degrees (including the houses) in the Tropical chart and fall back one sign. Thus, 14° Taurus in the Tropical chart becomes 20° Aries in the Sidereal chart and so forth.

The Chaldean Sunset Chart

The Chaldeans were simple and direct. They combined only seven planets against the patterns of stars. The timing of rising, culminating and setting for different planets and asterisms gave Chaldean observers the information they needed to establish their omens. They did this without using any elaborate house system. Yet the Chaldeans were famed throughout the world as the masters of the heavenly oracle.

In reflection of this though, we also want to be simple and direct. The sunset chart method recognizes that each complete house, consisting of 30°, is equal to a six-year period. Therefore, when timing events, especially at the moment transits or rogressions are being considered, the cusps of the equal house system provide a quicker "read" than any other house system. The equal house wheel is a time oriented device only.

The general overview is that we want to start from the point of sunset which is symbolically represented by the seventh house cusp. To readily see the aspects between the planets, we use a biWheel chart system with the exact same sunset positions in each chart. We then rotate the smaller chart inside the larger in a clockwise manner (into the sixth house then the fifth and so on). Each house has the value of six years. This will be explained in the following paragraphs. For now, cast a biWheel chart for sunset.

Setting Up the Sunset Chart

If you were born before midnight, (with the sun in the sixth, fifth, or fourth house) calculate the Sun at sunset for the same date. If you were born after midnight, calculate the sunset for the previous date. When the chart is calculated properly, the Sun will be placed on or near the seventh house cusp by degree of longitude. Rotating the smaller chart clockwise within the larger is called rogression. If you have a computer, cast a chart for sunset and duplicate it. Then call up the biWheel and print two copies. Cut out the smaller chart from one print out and place it in the center of the other.

For those of you who do not have a biWheel format in your program, follow these instructions. Make two copies of the sunset chart and size one smaller so it will fit inside the larger chart, similar to the biWheel. Cut out the smaller chart and place it inside the larger chart. Make sure that the smaller chart is small enough to see the planets in both charts. Find the center of both charts and align the angles (first, fourth, tenth and seventh) to each other making sure that the Suns in both the larger and smaller charts line up on the seventh house cusp. You are now ready to rogress the chart.

We determine the timing of an event by advancing the smaller chart’s Sun’s position clockwise through the houses by solar arc. The average rate of motion for the Sun is one degree every 24-hours. Using this as the frame work for motion, 25’ of solar arc in real time is equal to one month of rogression. Continuing; 1° 15’ of solar arc is equal to 90 days and 5° of solar arc equals one year. Each house is equal to six years and each quadrant is equal to eighteen years of life. If you have access to a chart with 360 degree "hash marks" so much the better to distinguish exact aspects The house meaning is read as you would any other chart except that you now have two indicators for each house: the sunset matrix and the moving inner chart as it travels within the matrix.

Some students have placed their birth chart inside the biWheel charts and, in effect, created a triWheel system. The biWheel sunset chart indicates timing while the birth chart shows the arena of events directly related to the individual through the birth chart.

The Birth Experience

On the day a baby is born, the entire 24-hour period becomes the whole potential for the time of birth. The circumstances that babies require for their lifetime are noted on the previous sunset of the date of birth. When the "right time" is determined by the child, the birth process begins. The time of birth coupled with the sunset chart is important because of the configuration of the planetary locations between the sunset and birth chart. The sunset chart becomes a fixed reference point that determines the base catalogue of an individual’s "planetary DNA experience patterns" denoted on the day of the birth. It sets the stage. The birth chart indicates the location that experience will occur on the "stage" set by the sunset chart. The combined charts indicate the quality and type of expression the native will experience in his life by virtue of the planetary placement of the birth chart in relation to the sunset chart.

A note on Caesarian section births. Both Rudolph Steiner, the famous turn-of-the-century Christian mystic, and Edgar Cayce, "the sleeping prophet", often mentioned that the incoming soul knows well in advance the circumstances it will experience in its incarnation regardless of the length of time in the physical expression. It has been often cited by many spiritual and metaphysical leaders that the child "chooses his parents" for the purpose of their unique lifestyle and gene pool. This is a touchy subject at best but, in my opinion, one that should be looked at with a metaphysical viewpoint. My position is that the mother and child have entered into an agreement at the moment of conception. Whatever happens from that moment on, both the mother and child consent. If indeed we accept the notion that the soul has come here to experience life through the process of linear time, and is in agreement with its parents, then it may be necessary to either induce labor or extract the fetus through Caesarian section to comply with the chart of the day and the hour of birth.

Regardless of the type of birth process, one’s life is still revealed by rogressing the planetary expressions within the 24-hour diurnal chart. This double chart system is like a compatibility chart for the baby and the outside world. It is the pattern on which he will base his reactions to the objective world for the rest of his life! Thus, by looking at aspects between both charts, we find the inherent propensity of planetary energies that will indicate and determine a deeper more meaningful expression for the native.

Rule. The integration between the planets’ position on the previous sunset to their positions at the time of birth creates a basic aspect that is tantamount for forecasting events in each life.

What to Expect

Using the Sun as an indicator and starting from the seventh house cusp, rotate the smaller chart clockwise at the rate of five degrees for each year into the sixth house; the entire sixth house represents the first six years of life. As we rotate the inner chart clockwise, we relate past experiences by planetary aspects between both charts as they occurred.

As the planets aspected their own positions or each other, we make note of subtle changes in their meaning as they pertain to us and our experiences (or how they described your client’s past experiences). In this way we find how to personalize and relate the meaning of the planets through the expression of circumstances by aspects. One of the more exciting revelations with the sunset chart is how the events associated with the same aspect change in the rogressed chart. Planets rogressing or transiting your natal positions will, at some level, mimic earlier experiences in life. The different levels of experience are indicated by the planet’s house positions as we rotate the inner chart.

As the life progresses, planetary aspects in the early stages in one’s development tend to reverse their influence later in life. They seem to change from "youthful" to "mature" aspects. Youthful aspects are like childhood diseases. They are simply experienced as events while mature aspects are seen as contingency plans or opportunities, depending on the aspect.

Squares at an early age indicate distractions, disturbances or obstructions which get in the way of achieving objectives. Hopefully, these frustrations teach the child how to recognize and prepare to avoid them later in life.

The consequences of those early aspects are not really judged but assimilated. During young adulthood, square aspects are uncomfortable choices generally concerning new directions and, more likely, they often determine distractions. With mature aspects there is more forethought. We are faced with making conscious decisions and, hopefully, are aware of the possible consequences of our acts. This is especially true by the time the rogressed planets reach an opposition to their original sunset configuration (age 36).

In both cases decisions must be made. Later in life, as an adult, squares can be seen as contingencies in a worst case scenario and with provisions for such.......