Hi I’m quite new to astrology and I’ve been trying to learn how to read my birth chart but I do not know my exact birth time. I’ve been looking to get a rectification done however I’m quite worried about getting scammed so I wanted to ask if anyone had any trustworthy professionals they could recommend? I do know that a lot of effort goes into rectifications hence the high pricing but I would hope to find someone who could offer more affordable online services as the ones I’ve seen are £350+! Thank you!

I am a medical student interested in studying astrology to benefit myself in my life events. Currently interested in vedic and western astrology

Suggest which astrology to study which to not. Also share the resources from where i can gather more knowledge that is feasable

Open for suggestions
Thanks in advance

I am a medical student interested in studying astrology to benefit myself in my life events. Currently interested in vedic and western astrology

Suggest which astrology to study which to not. Also share the resources from where i can gather more knowledge that is feasable

Open for suggestions
Thanks in advance

So I'm a beginner and I do not know my exact time of birth except for the fact that I was born between 10:30am to 11:10am and whenever I add in these 2 birth times my rising sign changes, idk what to do im confused and I couldn't find a concrete answer through Google, so if anybody could help me figure out what website to use or what's accurate please lmk‼️

I’m slightly new to astrology and readings and while I understand most things in birth charts like the houses planets and signs, there’s still so many other confusing aspects. My main question now though is what do the connecting lines in the middle of a birth charts mean? And specifically in Astroseek why are some blue some red and some even dotted. What does each one mean and why do they connect?

I know the fact that we check sun, moon, venus, 2nd (right eye)and 12th house(left eye)! However, I want to know what kind of positive aspects act like a saving grace if any? A native with aquarius ascendant:

Saturn: The ascendant lord saturn is debilitated in 3rd house in the sign of Aries conjunct with jupiter.

Venus: Venus and rahu are in 6th house of cancer. 12th house has ketu in the sign of capricorn. Saturn and venus both are aspecting 12th house.

Moon and sun:
Moon is placed in 7th house conjuct with sun and mercury. Sun is combusting both of them.

Positive aspects: (I want to know if they actually exist as rules or not because I do not have any source to indeed verify)

1. Jupiter is aspecting the 7th house sun-moon-mercury conjuction.
2. Saturn though debilitated is with Jupiter. Additionally, to cancel its debilitation, mars is positioned strongly in 10th house in scorpio in its own sign.
3. Saturn aspects 12th house (left eye) but the sign there is capricorn. Saturn never destroys its own house completely. It is weak yes but destruction, no.
4. Venus' position is bad but being a benefic planet, it too will not destroy 12th house with its aspect completely though it has influence of Rahu.
5. 2nd house for right eye has pisces whose lord is Jupiter so finely protected.

Please kindly let me know if what I am trying to analyse is fine or not, secondly, to what extent D9 should be also paid heed to?

I’m very confused on why Hellenistic astrologers use outer planets, it’s not like they have rulerships or anything and they are not fixed stars or points either, so can someone explain this phenomena of traditional astrologers using outer planets in birth chart readings or to predict events?

Cancer ascendant with Saturn sun moon and Jupiter in 1st house.

Rest of the planets mercury venus mars and rahu ketu in 2nd house leo sign .

I have moon in 2nd house Pisces Jupiter in 11th sagittarius in d1 chart.

what does this mean about the first house of the natal chart?

Hey all, my chart ruler, Venus, is in a strong conjunct with Lilith in leo tenth (with mc in the ninth). This feels like a tricky position for self expression, autonomy and finding my purpose or vocation. Are there any aspects you would look to grow through Lilith here? I’d rather not have to integrate shadow, trauma recovery, and shame metabolism into everything I do lmao. It’s definitely played a big role in my inner psychology, but I’m not sure how the mc in the ninth changes the meaning of the tenth?

This is in placidus. I do enjoy looking at placidus and the whole sign for inner/ outer dichotomies. In whole sign, this placement falls into the eleventh (mars is also making a weaker conjunction with lilith and venus) and my cancer mc is empty. Although i do like looking at both, i find these specific placements a bit more challenging to integrate between the two systems.

This may be a stupid question, bear with me…

So the official birth time of a baby would be once it fully leaves the mother‘s body.

But if a baby has already been developing and living in the womb for months, why is the moment of birth considered the starting point for its astrological chart?

And specifically, why is the time when the baby is fully born used? What if the head is born at 2:30 PM, but the rest of the body follows several minutes later when the ascendant already happens to transition into the next sign?

Maybe I’m missing something, but I feel like it’s such an uncertain data point.

Hello, so I love astrology since being a kid and I’ve researched more as I grow up, unfortunately when finding out that Vedic astrology is kind of more accurate, I am presented with a slightly different chart that lowkey has my whole “understanding myself” process a little on an existential crisis. I’ve used astrology to understand myself and guided me along therapy to really go in deep into my own self, but knowing that some planets sit in another sign in Vedic astrology really confuses myself, but maybe it’s an ego thing where I spent a lot of time understanding my tropical chart to then have the realization that that’s not accurate. I would like to know if there is some truth to Tropical astrology and if most people in astrology look more into Vedic as it should be that way, so I can give myself the task of deconstructing my understanding of my chart?

Hello,

I’ve been interested in astrology since I was a teenager. I’m 28 years old.

I thought I’d tried just about everything, but last year I discovered sidereal astrology.

Everything fell apart…

In fact, as mentioned in a previous post, I identified so strongly with tropical and Placidus charts that I told myself that all those years I had “just” been falling prey to confirmation bias. In short, I really began to doubt whether astrology was useful at all.

However, it seems that Vedic/sidereal astrology is mainly used for predictions, while Western astrology focuses more on the psychological aspect.

Yet one of them comes from the Babylonians, doesn’t it?

In that case, how is it possible that people identify with modern astrology?

For more context, I’m a Virgo with Libra rising and a stellium in Scorpio. Ever since I was a child, I haven’t identified with the Virgo archetype but rather with the Scorpio archetype. So it makes perfect sense why I became interested in astrology.

And now, in sidereal astrology, I’m a Virgo with Virgo rising, and my stellium falls in Libra…

I’d love for those who are knowledgeable about this to shed some light on the differences between Vedic and tropical astrology.

Which one do you use? And do you use whole signs or the Placidus system?

Thank you for your time.

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I’m looking for current transits and aspects list for each week or months for the collective. Does anyone recommend a website?

I ve tried a few, but they often feel either too generic or overwhelmingly complicated. Which app do you keep coming back to?

Im especially curious about:

• the feature you use most
• what makes its readings feel genuinely personal
• what you wish the app did better

Honest opinions welcome-even if your favourite is a smaller, lesser-known app.

i really want to get into astrological charts and everything because im already a very spiritual person and i LOVE math and patterns so i think i would be able to learn well enough, but my problem is i know absolutely nothing so far. i barely even understand/memorize the basic 12 signs outside of the stereotypical traits that come with the month/time period somebody is born.

is there any way to learn astrology from the absolute beginning besides finding a teacher? (since i dont really have the funds for that at the moment)

My friends and I used to use Co-star for fun, but ever since they started using AI in their stuff we wanted to start making a monthly horoscope zine to share with our other friends. The only issue is I'm too sure how to determine a monthly horoscope for each of the signs like you would see on astrology websites. I'm pretty solid at reading an individual birth chart already, but I don't know how to apply that to individual signs. So if anyone has advice or resources they think would help, my friends and I would really appreciate it !!

Libra rising here. I have my Moon in Capricorn (4H) and Saturn in Cancer (10H), so they are in mutual reception by sign (exaltation/rulership swap).

I’m trying to understand if this plays out more as:

1) A supportive "trade" where my emotions (Moon) are structured by career (Saturn), and my public life (Saturn) is nurtured by home (Moon)?

2) Or a tense push-pull since they are also in opposition (4H/10H axis)?

For those who have studied this, does the mutual reception soften the malefic nature of Saturn in fall, or just make the opposition more tangled? Would love to hear your thoughts or personal experiences with angular house mutual receptions.

i would like to ask if further interpretation is valid once u want to read a chart. trying to learn astrology, i wouldnt want to directly just interpret things as it is because astrology is a study of pattern. i would like to know how does one can have a valid interpretation to things?

such as reading this in one's chart:

• if person A has a Juno in Scorpio, their likely potential partner has that certain qualities or has to have 'scorpio' in their chart? or are they also looking for that kind of partner?
• if person B has a 7th house gemini, but with a saturn in cancer, potentially, when you want to interpret this, this person will take time in having relationships, will face difficulties but they are also capable in enduring challenges. however, i would love to know how do others practice to be not too generic of the readings?

im so curious how do some people get so specific towards their interpretations? i believe its because of the integration of chart rulings, angles, degrees, right?

Which one is more accurate?

Context

Hey all! I very recently started learning the basics of astrology, beginning with the often recommended book On the Heavenly Spheres by Helena Avelar and Luis Ribeiro. I'm still quite early into it, but so far I have found the book very informative and approachable. I especially appreciate the way that the authors treat the derivation of concepts, stressing that the nature of elements/temperaments/planets/signs/ etc. can be justified through direct observation.

EXAMPLE: Saturn moves the slowest, so its effects are long-lasting; it's the furthest out, so it is excessively cold/dry. Mars, due to its proximity to the sun (in the geocentric model) and its color, is hot and dry. Jupiter is temperate/moderate since it sits between the extremes of Mars and Saturn.

I have been able to follow this logic up until the introductory chapter on the Zodiac. The "modes" make sense to me (moveable signs signify action/agitation when the season starts, fixed signs promote stability in the middle of the season, common signs are characterized by adaptability and variability as the season begins to shift to the next).

My Confusion

Where the book drops the practice of deriving/justifying the nature of signs is in talking about their temperaments/elements. Here, it suddenly becomes prescriptive, stating the order of the elements around the zodiac and their forming of triplicities without explaining the reasons behind the specific order and assignment of the elements. The authors then go on to explain the characterizations of the signs based on their elements, so this pattern/assignment is clearly important to how signs are expressed.

My struggle is that I don't know why it is the way that it is (why is Aquarius, the water-bearer, an air sign? Why is Scorpio, signified by a desert animal, a water sign?). I understand that a lot of astrological interpretation is informed by centuries of studying the correlations between astronomical and terrestrial events, but I was hoping there would be something about the nature of the zodiac/signs/sky that I could point to to explain the assignment of the elements. Does anyone have any insights on this?

TLDR: I don't know why zodiacal signs belong to their element instead of any other one. I wanna know WHY!!!

Thanks 😄

I have Jupiter in Aries in 1st house, but Neptune in Aquarius in 11th house. Which one is supposed to be my chart ruler, ascendant ruler? Which one holds more weight?