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Sidereal and tropical are two different ways to calculate where the zodiac begins. There are several different sidereal zodiacs.

The tropical zodiac uses the moment of the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere to mark 0° Aries, the beginning of the zodiac. https://twitter.com/kopanomashishi/status/1354794081206075397
Sidereal zodiacs use the position of fixed stars to mark 0° Aries, the beginning of the zodiac. Vedic calls these different calculations ‘ayanamsha’. The most used are Fagan-Bradley and Lahiri.
Vedic means ‘of the Vedas’, which is the scriptural text of Hindus. Vedic astrology (or Jyotish) is a methodology for using the sidereal zodiac native to India.
Anyone can use the sidereal zodiac(s). But up until I began divining and crafting a way to use the sidereal zodiac, no one had created a cohesive system and methodology for using it besides the one developed over time by Indian astrologers.
Western astrologers who have used the sidereal zodiac(s) have either appropriated the tropical framework, methodologies, and interpretations, or appropriated Vedic.
I have challenged the tropical framework + zodiac as an artifact of white supremacy and patriarchy. And I have pushed back against the use of Vedic astrology in the west because it is cultural appropriation.
My story nor my identities were acknowledged or considered in the tropical and Vedic frameworks/methodologies. Were yours?
The decision to make the tropical zodiac the standard was made by someone who was a white man + not an astrologer. The framework cultivated as a consequenceof this standardization is a byproduct of white supremacy + patriarchy. http://Orcle.me/liberation 
What is the evidence of white supremacy + patriarchy in the tropical framework?
1. The Sun representing men, fathers, and kings, yet ultimately becoming the singular way we come to identifying ourselves through astrology. Why not the Moon? Or, Ascendant? Why a singular placement?
2. The binaries of gender being central to how planets and signs are identified.

3. Tropical birth chart is seen + interpreted as a reflection of the individual, erasing the political, economic, and cultural aspects of their being which are inherently communal + relational.
For me, the choice of zodiac has very little to do with astronomical or mathematical accuracy. Whiteness is obsessed with measuring things so that it can be manipulated and controlled. That ain’t my ministry. Instead, this choice is a moral, political, and spiritual choice...
...For me, the choice of zodiac is a statement about your politics, your moral compass, and your spirituality. These things are all deeply intertwined. A politic without a spiritual and moral mandate is a politic without a conscience.
I call my work #DivinationForLiberation because liberation is the function, not a feature.

My astrology does not require a rationalization of its patriarchal and white supremacist elements because it demands a continual commitment to decolonization.
I call my work #DivinationForLiberation because it demands that I reject the expectation that I assimilate to someone else’s cultural or language that did not and does not consider me and my experiences...
... Colonization has forced me to adapt by learning someone else’s language. And I refuse do that with astrology!
My ancestors were forced to hide their gods in the religions and practices their were forced to learn. #DivinationForLiberation seeks out those hidden gods and practices to be lived out in the open.
My ancestors used oracles as a means to empower themselves in a world where they were violently physically overpowered and disenfranchised from participation in society at large economically and politically. Oracles were ALWAYS a tool of liberation. #DivinationForLiberation
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