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HOW TO READ YOUR

ASTROLOGICAL NATAL HOROSCOPE

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The basic tool of a personalized astrological forecast is an individuals natal horoscope, composed fora persons exact time, date and place of birth. These charts are pretty easy to obtain at bookshops thathave special books on metaphysics or over the Internet. For a small fee, or sometimes free, if you wantto get a chart, you will be asked for this data. Then a set of mathematical computations will reveal thefollowing: The sign in which each planet plus the sun and moon is placed: and the zodiac signs whichare on the 12 houses of the chart.

A horoscope is really a wheel, which resembles a clock, giving you the key, technical information that aprofessional astrologer would use to delineate and forecast for you. This chart is unique to your time,date and place of birth and will be used in making your personal astrological projections for your entirelife.

With this information, the persistent student can decipher even the most complicated astrology book.The secret to learning about astrology is that with your unique chart you are not just learning the artof prediction but the art of predicting your very own future. Thus study produces instant insight.Learning astrology has many of the same problems and satisfactions of learning a new language. Andit is a language a language of the heavens. In olden times the language of astrology was used whendifferent people did not speak the same tongues, but wanted to share insights and information.

Before you start looking at the data in your chart, remember the chart displays mathematicalcalculations needed to read your chart. The chart is the final product of all these processes. It is not asubstitute for an astrological reading, which is what an expert gives, based upon this chart information.I explain what goes into drawing up your chart for two reasons: First, in learning Astrology, many verytalented and gifted astrologers are discouraged by learning all the mathematics required in doing thistype of chart. Since computers can do this, I thought, why should people with the interpretiveastrological abilities be sidetracked and put off by the difficult math? And, although serious astrologersshould eventually learn how to do these calculations themselves, I feel that it is not necessary to dothis at the beginning of your studies. Secondly, these charts can be expensive, and explaining how youcan get one on your own will help defray your costs so that you can concentrate and put your moneyinto astrological books and services that will be more practical now. After all, I assume that you areinterested in interpretations and forecasts, and not the ins-and-outs of professional astrology? Not yet,anyway!

ONE NOTE: For any but the practiced astrologer, completely focusing on forecasting from your chart isdifficult; not because it cant be done, but because thinking that one can read a horoscope

immediately is like assuming that someone who is accepted to medical school would be ready toperform surgery. I say this because I do not want you to become discouraged. What may seem like anunnecessary, uninteresting bundle of information will become increasingly meaningful. And, as youread astrology books and start applying the astrological principles, youll gain more appreciation of howknowing your special chart can make predictions even more personal and applicable to your way oflife.

READING YOUR CHART

The first point to look for when first reading your chart is the RISING SIGN. The rising sign is theastrological sign rising on the eastern horizon at your time of birth. (On your chart it would be in the 9oclock position.) The sign describes your personality: How you look, impress others, and how othersthink of you. This is the way the world sees you. If your rising sign and sun sign are the same, you

have few personality conflicts, as your inner and outer natures are similar. The degree of the risingsign is only meaningful in advanced astrological studies.

PLANETS IN THE SIGNS

This information is vital for reading astrological texts of all kinds, and tells the astrological sign that thesun, moon and planets are in. For brevity in astrology, the sun and moon obviously not planets aregrouped under the generic term planets for ease in communication. As with the rising sign, thedegree of the planets has to do with their placement within the sign, and has no bearing upon how theyaffect you. A person with their Venus in 1 degree Scorpio has no more luck or advantage (or less, forthat matter) than someone with Venus in 29 degrees Scorpio.

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