What is the difference between tropical and sidereal astrology?
In the sidereal system the positions of celestial bodies are reckoned from the stars it’s a fixed stellar frame of reference. In the tropical system, the positions of celestial bodies are reckoned from the equinoxes and solstices it’s a seasonal frame of reference. The tropical zodiac is known as the “moving zodiac” because the equinox is constantly drifting westward against the background of the stars. The tropical zodiac moves with respect to the stars because it doesn’t take into account one of the earth’s orbital motions: precession. Precession can be illustrated by looking down at a child’s spinning top. The top has a secondary motion inside its spin it wobbles or precesses about its spin axis just as the earth’s pole describes a complete circle with a radius of 23 and 1/2 degrees in 25,800 years. This means the equinoxes continuously point at different stars over time not the same star year after year on the days of the equinoxes. The rate of change between the equinox and the sk
