From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 19:46:06 EST
Quoting Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>:
Pluto sign U+2647, so it may be worth considering
> adding a separate character for the astrological Pluto to Unicode
> instead of simply treating this a glyph variation.
Is it used as a seperate character to U+2647? Otherwise how do you justify it
as
a seperate character?
I have myself seen it used to mean Primum Mobile in one astrological text (I'm
pretty sure it was Crowley's Liber DXXXVI, but it predates the use of Pluto in
astrology - indeed it was one of the first to tackle the subject of Uranus and
Neptune). I haven't seen it used in this sense elsewhere, and without a case of
it being used alongside another glyph for Pluto I would just consider them all
to be glyph variants.
Likewise the glyph variant for Uranus (I've only seen them used as such), the
variant for Vesta (I'm not familiar with the variant) and for that matter the
variant of U+2641 EARTH which is an encircled cross.
I've no particularly strong opinions about the rest of your proposal (yet)
except some alarm at the thought of were this could lead us (there are quite a
few asteroids charted in some ephemerides as you say - as well as hypothetical
planets and a few other features which individual astrologers have invented
symbols for). Though it has made me think that it would be nice to gloss U+206A
ASCENDING NODE with "Dragon's Head" and U+206B DESCENDING NODE with "Dragon's
Tail", if only because the terms are so poetic.
-- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> *Thought provoking quote goes here*
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