Soulscape
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Good Morning Everyone!
Soul - I have a question about Ivy's method of measuring distance/location.
I keep eyeballing that trailer park due east of Haleigh's house by .5mi....it's right across the tracks, and the street. Would be a good easy access point for someone to hike over there to her house, hide in the woods, and wait for them to go to sleep, then drag her back through the woods and leave her there afterwards, going back to the trailer across the street unseen.
How do you determine if the measurement unit is miles, feet, yards, etc. when you're calculating? Does Ivy-G specifiy miles? I know on the Corrie Anderson thread, because the distance is referenced to the gas well, it's probably feet or yards - you used 'unit of measurement' there. X times the distance from the well.
So in Haleigh's case, there are four units of measurement from Haleigh's house to where she is now...four degrees of separation...I wonder if that could be 1/10s of a mile? Also on Caylee's case, you used an alternative method of calculation (from a different astrolger's source) when you did the calculation...I wondered if that would be appropriate here?
I'm such a newbie at this stuff, I'm trying to moderately educate myself through seeing you and the rest of our wonderful Astrosleuths in glorious action!!
TIA :blowkiss:
Beck,
I'm gonna have to dash your hopes -- for a couple reasons.
First, in Haleigh's case, there is no good astrological reason to consider units of measurement other than miles. Ivy's method is very clear and while not 100% foolproof, it works more often than it doesn't. If you were to turn the wheel making House 5 (Haleigh) the Ascendant, you would find VENUS in the last degree of turned 11th House, conjunct within 33 minutes of 12th House cusp. That would give direction of EAST SOUTH EAST. So now we have two possible directions: NNE and ESE.
Ascertaining which is correct is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
All I can do as a forensic astrologer is make educated speculative guesses based on my own experience of examining charts from a forensic perspective for over 10 years now and listening to my intuitive hunches.
While one might think Ivy's formula can be applied exactly to any case with good results, it cannot, at least in my own experience. I have to take this location/distance business on a case-by-case basis. It involves thoroughly immersing myself in a case, my personal background/experience and my intuition. I always start with Ivy's method because it basically works for me, and adjust if/when internally prompted.
My best advice would be for you to continue working with charts and experimenting with different astrologers' methods until you develop your own "method" which will likely be a unique synthesis of what you have studied and what you have learned from hands-on experience working with charts.
Thanks,
Soulscape