Saturday, October 1, 2011

Do Astrologers Need an Distinct Birth Time?

By Kevin Foster


When you consult an astrologer, you are often asked for 3 things. Your date of birth, your time of birth and your place of birth.

Astrologers will say that a chart reading is of limited use without having a time of birth, to your range of reasons. We have to know what areas of life is going to be affected by the Sun, the Moon and the planets. We do this with reference on the physical horizon, and the horizon will do a complete circle in twenty-four hours.

So all elements becoming equal, an individual born at midday will likely be extremely focused on being successful, even though an individual born at midnight are going to be more introspective, and may well put security prior to success. There's also the question from the rising sign. This is the sign that may be on the eastern horizon at birth, and it describes our persona, and also the way in which we interface with the outside world.

On average, the rising sign, always called the ascendant, changes sign every two hours. It is for that reason crucial to acquire some idea of what time you were born.

As far as doing predictions is concerned, timing is crucial. In Western astrology 1 on the primary predictive systems works over a basis that approximately four minutes of time equates to one year of life. So for every minute that your birth time is out, the prediction will probably be out by 3 months.

However I'm not convinced that a entirely accurate birth time is often required. If you've got your birth time to within quarter of an hour that needs to be enough, and if you do not need predictions, and you might be only interested in character analysis, then a rough time is often great enough. Such as 'early morning', or 'late afternoon'.

Which brings me towards individuals I write about in some of my articles. Even though I can always get preserve of accurate birth times for enduringly famous people, I generally need to deal with charts without having birth time whatsoever. So how can I justify utilizing these kinds of charts?

I would argue that if you have someone's date of birth, you possibly can tell a excellent deal. You'll know what sign most, if not all, on the planets are in, and if this individual has done something incredible, extraordinary or terrible, you are able to use their non-timed horoscope to try to generate sense of what has happened.

To go back to my original question, I think that astrologers are able to work with only a birth-date, provided they and their clients realize the limitations of what they're doing. You'll get the broad picture, but detailed predictions is going to be thin on a ground.

Archie Dunlop is a professional astrologer. He has written books on astrology, and has taught the subject at all levels




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