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posted October 10, 2009 08:35 AM         

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I wonder since when people have known of/when they came up with the idea of Ascendants..

Because it looks like in older times one wouldn't know the exact time of their birth- it's must be the last century or so when hospitals began recording the exact time of births.

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posted October 10, 2009 11:06 AM         

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Hmm interesting. X3 I don't know anything about the history of astrology nor when ascendant is "discovered", and I also don't know if the western countries do register the birth time or not, but for example, in the Chinese astrology, time of birth has always been registered and given a big importance in the fortune telling field since the ancient times.

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posted October 13, 2009 04:54 PM         

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You don't need to have been born in a hospital to have a time of birth, nor have it written down. You need someone to remember it. That's how I've got mine, it wouldn't be recorded on my birth certificate, English certificates never do.

In older times people would have more of a clue about the phases of the Moon, etc, and be more in touch with the passage of time in relation to nature.

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