AN ALTERNATIVE HOROSCOPE
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Bored of your own horoscope? Perhaps you never had one! After reading our proposal, you will surely have a different view of the universe, horoscope and everything.
Would you agree that the natal ascendant is the eastern star? The constellation rising over the eastern horizon at birth is the natal ascendant. If we have agreed upon thus point, let us proceed into determining your natal ascendant.
Everybody knows that we don’t need astrology in order to perform miracles in daily life, but in the case we want to perform some serious future changing we often scan the future in order to know when to avert the bad transits that will thus never come.
How is the eastern rising constellation determined? The easiest way is to use a compass to determine the east point. Astronomers use observation or simulation. The simulation of the starry sky is provided by any astronomic program for the PC.
What will the program show at east? That depends on when do we set the time of the nativity. If we assume a recent birth then the program will show one among the constellations that rise at due east at the present epoch.
If it is acceptable to you that the starry skies are not only changing due to Earth’s daily rotation but also across long periods of time, then you are ready to accept a basic astronomic phenomenon known as precession.
It is due to precession that different periods of human history that we call epochs display a variety of constellations over the eastern horizon.
It must be exciting to discover one’s true ascendant for the first time!
There are precisely 16 constellations rising over the eastern horizon for the present epoch. Some of these constellations are familiar to astrologers but some are less known to the public. One of the known ascendants is Pisces while Cetus may be less known to the wider public.
The set of eastern ascendants has nothing to do with the zodiac. The academic zodiac has been carefully measured as a separate set consisting of 22 IAU constellations.
The academic zodiac has 22 constellations, while the present ascendant set has only 16. Some of the constellation feature in both sets; thus, Cetus is both an eastern ascendant for the epoch, and zodiacal constellation.
As concern planet Earth, the zodiac is a fixed set of constellations, while the ascendant set is a variable. We consider the 16 rising eastern constellations to be valid for the present epoch, while other epochs can have a completely different set of ascendants.