by: Jorge Angelino[1]
In 2004, after extensive research, I realized that the historical records, both of the Continental Congress and local Philadelphia newspapers, clearly confirm that American Independence was decided by the Congressional afternoon[2] vote in favor of the Lee resolution on July 2, 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I boiled down to three possible sidereal rising signs and then proceeded to choose the one I have based on countless examples that to this day, continue to be spot on, based not only on the transits (to ONE degree) but on the planetary periods used in Jyotish[3].
To ascertain the sidereal rising degree, I checked more than two hundred events that have occurred since 1776, and the precise time that USA have assumed independence is 04:48:46 PM, LMT, on July 2, 1776, in Philadelphia, PA, which gives a rising degree of 15º 30’ 53’’ in Scorpio constellation, as the Jyotish horoscope[4] indicates:
In 2004, after extensive research, I realized that the historical records, both of the Continental Congress and local Philadelphia newspapers, clearly confirm that American Independence was decided by the Congressional afternoon[2] vote in favor of the Lee resolution on July 2, 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I boiled down to three possible sidereal rising signs and then proceeded to choose the one I have based on countless examples that to this day, continue to be spot on, based not only on the transits (to ONE degree) but on the planetary periods used in Jyotish[3].
To ascertain the sidereal rising degree, I checked more than two hundred events that have occurred since 1776, and the precise time that USA have assumed independence is 04:48:46 PM, LMT, on July 2, 1776, in Philadelphia, PA, which gives a rising degree of 15º 30’ 53’’ in Scorpio constellation, as the Jyotish horoscope[4] indicates:
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Considering the existing Lahiri ayanamsha[5] of 20º 44’ 00’’, the equivalent tropical rising degree is 06º 14’ 53’’ in Sagittarius sign:
[1] Jorge Angelino´s Mundane Charts in http://satva.blogspot.com/ and email: Jorge.Angelino@gmail.com
[2] Upon further investigation and with the assistance of the extensive review of 150 years of academic and popular research on this question, as provided by Mr. John T. W. Battalana, I learned that the research consensus indicates a voting time moment during the afternoon, following the timely arrival in Congress of the Delaware delegate, Caesar Rodney: http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org/leeresolution/
[3] Jyotish – Vedic or Hindu Astrology.
[4] The Jyotish horoscope uses the whole signs house system.
[5] Ayanamsha – Degree difference between the Tropical and Sidereal zodiacs.
