Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

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Also called Jones patterns, bowl, bucket, bundle, locomotive, seesaw, splash, splay

Marc Edmund Jones's names for how the planets are spread round the wheel: bowl, bucket, bundle, locomotive, seesaw, splash, splay.

Jones described the shapes in 1941. They depend on the spread of all ten planets, not on aspects. The site does not classify shapes in v1.

Kind: Interpretation, History
Tradition: Modern Western astrology
In this site’s birth chart: not used

Astrodienst AstroWiki: Marc Edmund Jones (opens in a new tab) practitioner

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