posted May 02, 2014 10:09 AM            

When I was first teaching myself astrology, I was alone many evenings with a child in the house and frankly there's only ever been so much TV I could watch...this was before much of the Internet was up and before I had a computer, in the ancient 80s. I learned to calculate charts by hand - even a calculator is difficult because of the way the chart breaks down into 30* units, in a 360* "field"

Anyway I made a lot of mistakes, and in fact the first time I did my own chart I forgot I was born in Daylight Savings, which gave me a different Ascendant, and changed quite a few things like houses and house placements...

So in those early days I did quite a few charts that were wrong...there are a lot of little facts about timezones around the world I had to learn before I could get it right...

And the amazing thing is, presented with a person you know and a WRONG chart, it is quite easy to "see" how that chart fits the person...until you find your mistake and correct it. The new chart may seem somewhat more fitting, but this little exercise showed me how easy it is to JUSTIFY how a chart works for a certain person even if it is wrong.

Many people don't have a birthtime so they rectify. It's an interesting concept and I am sure some people are quite good at it. But I have seen too many people live with one rectified chart for years only to decide a different rectification made more sense, to be entirely comfortable with using rectified charts.

posted May 02, 2014 01:04 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
And the amazing thing is, presented with a person you know and a WRONG chart, it is quite easy to "see" how that chart fits the person...until you find your mistake and correct it. The new chart may seem somewhat more fitting, but this little exercise showed me how easy it is to JUSTIFY how a chart works for a certain person even if it is wrong.

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Yeah, I went through something similar recently; I found my birth time actually written down somewhere recently, and it ended up being a little over an hour later than what I had previously for my chart, thus changing the house positions. When I first did my chart, I wasn't certain that the time I had was correct, but as I began to read about the house placements, finding important links to angles with others (like family), and matching life events, I became "certain" that it must be correct.

Well, it wasn't. I was new to astrology, and I can see how I made that mistake. Esp. when I realized that I went from having a Gem AC, Aqu MC, and a stellium in the 12th/6th, to having a stellium in the 11th/5th (Aqua/Leo), with a Pisces MC and a Cancer AC. And, I do still have my NNode and Chiron in the 12th, with Uranus and SNode in the 6th. Neptune is also now in the 6th (5 degrees off my DC).