the Sun is exerting a pull upon the Earth, it is moving at right angles to the direction of its pull. If in response to
the pull the Sun exerts upon the Earth at this particular moment we were to plunge precipitately in that
direction, by the time we arrived the Sun would be gone. From the continuance of such a pursuit an elliptical
orbit must necessarily result. However, both radiation and the gravitation from the Sun, considered alone, are
constants. To introduce differences in different portions of the Earth's orbit, other and changing factors must be
introduced.
As to the Sun's energy radiations, we have long recognized the differentiating effect of variously combined
reflections from the planets, each of which by virtue of its chemical components absorbs certain bands of the
spectrum and thus emits an altered ray. Hence aspects are the differentiating factor that alters the constant of
the Sun's energy radiation.
To find the differentiating element in the constant of the Sun's gravitational influence, suppose we consider
relationship between two known orbits: those of the Moon and the Earth, and the Earth around the Sun.
The constant of the Earth-Moon gravitation is altered by the Sun-Earth gravitation whereby at the lunation, the
Sun and the Earth are pulling from opposite sides of the Moon, while at the Full Moon, both Sun and Earth are
pulling in the same direction. Furthermore from the dichotome at the end of the First Quarter to that at the end
of the Third the Moon's travel is faster than that of the Earth, its own motion added to that of the Earth, while in
the other half of its orbit it is traveling slower than the Earth. Thus the dichotomes are the points where the
Moon's orbit intersects that of the Earth.
Applying this to the Earth-Sun orbit, one sees that the direction of the Sun's travel, and at right angles thereto
the source of the gravitational pull that governs the Sun's motion, are the missing factors necessary to an
explanation of the changes of conditioning in the various arcs of the Earth's annual orbit, the so-called signs of
the zodiac, the heliarcs into which the Ecliptic path is divided.
If we assume 0° Capricorn to be the direction of the Galactic Center, then the Aries-Libra cusps must represent
the line of the Sun's travel. The fact is that the Galactic Center has to be 0º Capricorn, or astrology needs
revision. Assuming this factor, let us see what we discover: The inclination of the North polar axis in the
direction of the Galactic Center suddenly appears to have a plausible justification. Also it explains the
coincidence of the Equinox (when the inclination is at right angles to the radius) and the points where the Earth
crosses the Sun's path.
Tracing some of the conditions the Earth encounters in the course of one annual cycle, we see that when the
Sun is at 0° Capricorn the Earth is actually at the opposite point 0° Cancer, hence at its greatest distance from G.
C. From this point it moves toward and in the direction of G.C. accelerating to its maximum speed at the
midway point, and slowing down to a dead center when the Sun reaches 0° Cancer, where it reverses its motion
and for the next half year travels against the gravitational pull from G.C. This identifies four points at which a
motion in a given direction comes to a dead center and reverses itself. From Aries 0° to Libra 0° the Earth
would travel slower than the Sun-its orbital motion subtracted from that of the Sun; and faster than the Sun
during the other half of the orbit. Also that with the Sun at Capricorn 0° the Earth is farthest from the Galactic
center, hence the gravitational pull from the Sun and the G.C. operates in the same direction. After traveling
half its orbit in the direction of the Galactic Center the Earth comes to the closest point where the gravitational
pull from the two centers comes from opposite sides of the Earth.