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Serious Astrologers

If you work for a space agency or company and want to take my hypothesis seriously that astrological charts are geocentric maps of the solar system which can be used as Gravity Maps for improving navigation, you should get a sailor experienced with sailed vessels and a serious astrologer who knows the math to help you figure this out.

The punchline is it was a lat-long (latitude longitude) calculation and I knew he was wrong because I'm an astrologer. Calculating lat-long for WHERE someone was born or the event in question took place is part of every chart.

I was getting my Certificate in GIS from UC-Riverside which shares staff with ESRI because ESRI is in the same gepgraphic area. They are essentially co-located, or close enough for ESRI staff to moonlight as UC-Riverside professors for the occasional class here and there. 

ESRI is the world leader in GIS software, so I have world class GIS education and I was better than my classmates at understanding things like lat-long calculations because I hand casted horoscopes back in the day when I was first learning this hobby.

If you are an astrologer who can cast charts by hand, you will know lat long etc.

If you only study the personality profile stuff and rely on a program to do the math, you're probably not even good at "interpretation" as a psychological profile because you're in no position to go "That isn't making sense to me based on what I know of your life. I wonder if it miscalculated your rising sign because daylight savings time threw it off by an hour?"

I check that by putting MY birth info in and seeing if it matches my info correctly. If the Rising Sign is off by 15 degrees, the program is off by an hour for some reason, probably related to daylight savings time somehow. 

Because you convert local birth time to sidereal time or star time to cast a chart by hand, sort of like how the US Air Force exclusively uses Zulu Time so everyone is on the same page. This means adjusting birth time by lat long position AND STUPIDNESS like daylight savings time. 

The rising sign changes signs every TWO HOURS because there are 12 signs and 24 hours in the day. Being off by an hour means half the people will be told the wrong rising sign. And ALL people will be told the wrong degree which impacts aspects and transits.

If the time and place of birth ACTUALLY leaves a mark on your personality, HALF the information in the chart is rising sign and the house system which imposes a second circle over the top of the first.

The house system lists twelve houses similar to the twelve signs. So interpreting a chart involves looking at both the sign and house a heavenly body falls in, plus any major aspects between bodies.

There are many different house systems. I use Placidus which adjusts for how far you are from the equator and thus makes some houses larger and others smaller.

Some house systems use 30 degrees for all houses. If you are born at the equator, Placidus will make all houses 30 degrees. 

How much stupid madeup nonsense is introduced by astrologers being fundamentally wrong about house systems will vary from one chart to the next. If Placidus is wrong and stupid and Even House systems are the real deal, some planets will fall in the same house under both calculations. 

If you interpret personality information with no means to check the math, you probably have years of experience spouting nonsense and turning a blind eye to how it doesn't match what you are seeing in people. 

So if you rely on a program to do your calculations, you are probably poorly equipped to go "Oh, yes, that makes sense! Applying transits are more stressful than separating ones and I can readily see that as a space weather high pressure system and you do get astrological turbulence when things go Retrograde or Direct. I can see that as exactly like if you are on a ship and there's a storm and people are puking their guts out and people begin tracking things associated with puking their guts out to try to cope better while the captain is oblivious to the waves mattering to navigation."

Because if you don't do the math, then what happens is you accept that they have Taurus rising when sometimes it's really Aries or Gemini and you get used to predictions being unreliable and hand wavy and not matching up to observed reality.

So you probably need astrologers who can do the math in order to get someone whose experience of astrology is not spouting BS that doesn't match observed reality.

I have an Aries Rising. I get perceived as fighty or inspirational no matter WHAT I fucking do. I try hard to not be confrontational but I'm not going to go along to get along with idiotic bullshit when I know it's broken.

I try to just walk the fuck away but even that is a refusal to cave and gets interpreted as bitchy behavior.




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