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BeginnerTime Zones, War Time and DST: The Silent Birth-Chart Wreckers
A birth chart can be wrong even when the birth time is right, because the conversion to Universal Time uses the rule that was in force then, not now. We measured what an hour actually costs: between 10.6 and 60 degrees of Ascendant.
8 min read·Aug 7
BeginnerThe Trutine of Hermes: The Ancient Link Between Conception and Birth
The Trutine of Hermes is the classical doctrine linking the Moon at conception to the rising sign at birth, and astrologers still use it to rectify an uncertain birth time.
9 min read·Jun 14
NatalBirth Time Rectification: Finding an Unknown Birth Time
A birth chart needs a birth time. When that time is missing, astrologers do not guess. They reconstruct it by matching the angles of the chart to the events of a life. The method is called rectification.
8 min read·May 15