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- From: hughes@gloin.cis.udel.edu (John Hughes)
- Subject: Re: question from beginner
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:08:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.151246.7358@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> tjc@hrcce.att.com writes:
- >>he tells you to use a birth time of 6am if you do not know the exact
- >>time of birth. he states that this will provide a solar natal chart
- >>which is still pretty accurate. why 6am? and how accurate is this chart?
- >
- >A solar chart is one with the sun on the ascendent, which is where
- >the sun will be at (roughly) 6am. (And it will be at the midheaven
- >at noon and the immum coeli at midnight.)
-
- To clarify a little:
-
- "Sunrise" is a local phenomenon which does depend on all of time, season,
- lattitude, and longitude. The sun is always on the ascendant at sunrise; the
- ascendant is defined as the point where the ecliptic (the apparent path of
- the sun) crosses the horizon.
-
- The error lies in assuming that the sun always rises at 6:00 am. This only
- happens on the morning of the Spring Equinox, at logical time zones (multiples
- of 15 degrees longitude, different from standard time zones which snake all
- around to miss cities and sometimes whole states) basically like Mr. Chapin
- describes. Everyone has experience, however, of how the sunrise hour changes
- throughout the year; earlier in the summer than in the winter. To cast a true
- solar chart, which along with noon charts some astrologers do admit as
- acceptable in the absence of a known birth time, requires knowing the exact
- time of sunrise at the birthplace on the day in question, which most printed
- reference texts don't bother to include. Programs like astrolog will calculate
- this, however.
-
- Probably more preferable to both, however, is chart rectification-- an
- oppressive, hideous, but ultimately rewarding task.
-
-
- John
- hughes@cis.udel.edu
-