Sinister. A left-handed aspect - not, however, with reference to the proper motion of the aspecting body, but to
its apparent motion. v. Dexter.
Slow of Course. v. Planetary Motions.
Sol. The Sun.
Solar Astrology. The presumption that the Solar Horoscope is of value only as a make-shift when an exact
hour of birth is unobtainable, is rapidly giving way to a realization of its genuine merits. Strictly speaking, it is
not an hour-scope but a day-scope; yet it is the same cycle of hour-to-hour dally experiences through a rising
series of sensitive points, whether it begins with an ascendant degree or with the omnipotent Sun degree.
When the Arabians devised their system of Parts, it evidenced a realization of the importance of the
relationship between a planet's position and the Sun's position. The Part of Fortune merely locates in a Rising
Sign Figure the position the Moon occupies in a Solar chart. Similarly the Part of Commerce or Understanding
is the Solar house position of Mercury: the Part of Love, that of Venus; of Passion, that of Mars; of Increase,
that of Jupiter; of Fatality, that of Saturn; to which the moderns have added the Part of Catastrophe, that of the
Uranus position; of Treachery, that of Neptune; and of Organization, that of Pluto.
The Sign positions of the planets are an important clement in any horoscopic analysis and these are the same in
a Solar chart as in a chart based upon an ascending degree. Likewise the birth aspects, and even the aspects of
transitory planets to birth sensitivities, remain the same. Thus the entire daily cycle of sensitive points is
identical, except for those of or based upon the ascendant and Midheaven.
To appraise the relative importance of Ascending degree and the Sun's degree as a point of beginning, consider
the first return of the Ascendant degree on the second day of life: With the Sun advanced to a new position, one
senses the incompleteness of the sidereal cycle, and the added four minutes necessary to complete a solar day.
One must either advance the Ascendant by one degree, or retard the Sun four minutes. The next day and each
succeeding day repeats the process. A year later the Ascendant has gained a day, but while one can revise the
memory of a Rising degree, one cannot order the Sun to stand still.
In a few years the unvarying regularity of the Sun's return begins to exercise a rapidly augmented potency.
Since life is lived by the Sun - the Giver of Life in a keenly actual sense - it is no make-shift that one gradually
finds he reacts less and less to the reiterations of the advancing Ascendant cycle, and more and more to the
eternally unchanging cycle of Solar returns.
This helps to explain why the Rising Sign influence is so largely physical, pertaining to bodily growth during
the first plastic weeks and months of life, and why individuality and character take on the quality of the Sun
Sign as we approach adulthood. It also explains why some young people undergo such radical changes of
individuality on their approach to the age at which they are said to have attained their majority, for when an