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30 Jun 2011, 8:32 am

http://www.cafeastrology.com/sabiansymb ... nings.html

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The Sabian symbols were produced in 1925 by clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, and they are the most popularly used set of degree symbols today. They are symbolic of the meaning of each degree of the zodiac.


I am quite fascinated by these little 'symbols' they are like little meaning poems; like a textual tarot card. Some examples:

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15-16 deg Taurus

An Old Teacher Fails To Interest His Pupils In Traditional Knowledge


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27-28 deg Virgo

A Baldheaded Man Who Has Seized Power


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17-18 deg Aquarius

A Man's Secret Motives Are Being Publicly Unmasked


I thought it would be a wheeze to illustrate them, but there being 360 of the swine, it would take a lot of time, even as sloppy as my art tends to be.

My friend had the idea of making it a communal project, and I thought it was a great idea!

So basically, pick a symbol and illustrate it in your own style, with materials chosen by yourself, and then post it here. Maybe I'll collate them all on a website, or maybe someone intelligent could do that for us? Who knows. For now, just do a drawing for fun, yeah?

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30 Jun 2011, 8:48 am

Ok, astrology numpty here. Do the degrees relate to a particular date? For example someone born on the 4th of July would have the 13th-14th degree in Cancer as theirs?

Or is it way more complicated than that, and my brain would implode if I tried to comprehend it?



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30 Jun 2011, 9:03 am

Henbane wrote:
Ok, astrology numpty here. Do the degrees relate to a particular date? For example someone born on the 4th of July would have the 13th-14th degree in Cancer as theirs?

Or is it way more complicated than that, and my brain would implode if I tried to comprehend it?


Yep, sun sign cancer 13-14th degree.

The symbol for the degree of the sun on my birthday is this one

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26-27 deg Virgo

A Group Of Aristocratic Ladies Meet Ceremonially At A Court's Function


If you go to astro.com and find the free horoscopes part, you can get a whole chart computer drawn which will have the degrees of all the heavenly bodies at the time of your birth.

Whether the Sabian Symbols are actually usefully relevant in an astrological sense is not something I would like to make a statement for or against at this point. They just tickle me.


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30 Jun 2011, 9:07 am

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I just thought, the USA was effectively born on the 4th of July, right?


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30 Jun 2011, 9:26 am

God I'm an idiot. I thought this thread was going to be about these:
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30 Jun 2011, 9:40 am

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30 Jun 2011, 11:59 am

Annoyance! I did another terrible picture, but being a numpty I did it in a programme that wouldn't let me save it. Grr@me


Anyway it's for

23-24 deg Cancer

A Woman And Two Men Castaways On A Small Island Of The South Seas


Which I think is my doobry as I was born on the 14th of July. Sounds quite tempting doesn't it? Maybe I should turn it into a Personals ad.


The link to the pic is here Press Skip to the End to miss all the boring faffing.



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30 Jun 2011, 12:05 pm

Henbane wrote:
Annoyance! I did another terrible picture, but being a numpty I did it in a programme that wouldn't let me save it. Grr@me


Anyway it's for

23-24 deg Cancer

A Woman And Two Men Castaways On A Small Island Of The South Seas


Which I think is my doobry as I was born on the 14th of July. Sounds quite tempting doesn't it? Maybe I should turn it into a Personals ad.


The link to the pic is here Press Skip to the End to miss all the boring faffing.


Wow...


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30 Jun 2011, 12:45 pm

Henbane wrote:
Annoyance! I did another terrible picture, but being a numpty I did it in a programme that wouldn't let me save it. Grr@me


Anyway it's for

23-24 deg Cancer

A Woman And Two Men Castaways On A Small Island Of The South Seas


Which I think is my doobry as I was born on the 14th of July. Sounds quite tempting doesn't it? Maybe I should turn it into a Personals ad.


:lol: Sounds like a recipe for either trouble or a threesome.


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The link to the pic is here Press Skip to the End to miss all the boring faffing.


That's awesome! I like the painty program. Bookmarked!


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30 Jun 2011, 12:50 pm

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God I'm an idiot. I thought this thread was going to be about these:
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That's a cymbal dude!


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30 Jun 2011, 1:47 pm

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30 Jun 2011, 2:24 pm

6-7 deg Cancer

Two Nature Spirits Dancing Under the Moonlight


[img][800:513]http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac243/merrypippin2009/flame.jpg[/img]



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30 Jun 2011, 2:26 pm

I need to get myself a piece of paper, some color pencils and my camera. I don't like being shown up. :-P


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30 Jun 2011, 2:32 pm

Henbane wrote:
6-7 deg Cancer

Two Nature Spirits Dancing Under the Moonlight


[img][800:513]http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac243/merrypippin2009/flame.jpg[/img]


That is beautiful!



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30 Jun 2011, 3:20 pm

One more from paint, then maybe I'll actually do some drawing. :lol:

[img][800:525]http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/YourMaya/untitled-1.jpg[/img]

4-5 deg Aries

A Triangle With Wings


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30 Jun 2011, 3:25 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
One more from paint, then maybe I'll actually do some drawing. :lol:

[img][800:525]http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/YourMaya/untitled-1.jpg[/img]

4-5 deg Aries

A Triangle With Wings


I have a totally different view of "triangle with wings" in my head... I assumed a golden triangle among the clouds with the wings of an angel lol..

The opposite of this

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