Astrology in Practice
Astrology In Practice is the new incarnation of our well-known site www.1horoscope.com. We hope that you will find it as useful as before.
Aristotle, Ptolemy, Ficino, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and Carl Jung all practiced astrology. Jung, who used astrology extensively in his psychoanalytic practice, wrote, "I do not hesitate to take the synchronistic phenomena that underlie astrology seriously," while contemporary psychologist James Hillman agrees that "Astrology provides the best descriptions of character qualities. More than any other field, astrology gives background for the psychology of personality."
Casting a Horoscope
Casting a horoscope is an ancient and noble art. Most scientists from antiquity and the middle ages to our time were actively involved, earning their living in the world of astrological exploration, calculation and delineation — a world that gave birth to infinite areas of human knowledge.
Developing an online chart involved a team of experts, astrologers and programmers, who spent years studying and developing computer programs according to ancient astrological knowledge and complex astronomical calculations. The result lies in front of you: your "natal horoscope".
Natal Chart
We observe personality as an "image" of the combined influence of planets and constellations at positions on Earth at the moment of your birth. This "image" is unique, unrepeatable — it belongs solely to you, and its interpretation: that's you.
Reading your "natal horoscope" you will find interpretations of the most important areas in your life, together with the complete result of astrological calculation for those with advanced knowledge of astrology.
"The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind."
In this "natal horoscope", as in many others, you may find some seemingly contradictory characteristics. People cannot be completely good or completely bad, and neither are the conditions always the same: in some periods they may be better, in others worse. In interpreting your horoscope we have tried to offer guidance — if you find things you don't like, trust that it was well meant and think about it: if you do nothing, you remain under the influence of stars.
Calculating the Chart
"Anything born in the moment of time carries the quality of that moment."
The data of your birth are the basic data which, through complex astrological mathematical formulae, give a complete calculation of the position of planets, constellations, houses and their relations. Such calculation is the basis for interpreting the horoscope.
A horoscope is simply a chart of the heavens calculated by the rules of astronomy. It shows the positions of the planets and zodiacal signs in relation to the earth. The Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at varying rates — their positions relative to each other are constantly changing. Every moment the heavens are different. The positions of the planets at any given moment will not be exactly duplicated for approximately twenty-six thousand years — the "Great Sidereal Year".
"A physician without a knowledge of astrology cannot rightly call himself a physician."
It is further evident that time is not the same the world over. When the Sun rises at the place where you live, it is setting elsewhere. This makes another difference in horoscopes of children born at the same moment but in different parts of the world. Planets above the horizon have more direct influence than those below — thus time and place are the basic factors in a horoscope. The more accurately we determine them, the better we can delineate character and make predictions.
In noting the time of birth it is advisable to have the clock set as accurately as possible. The time of birth in the astrological sense is not the moment of delivery but the instant when the infant gives its first cry — the completion of its initial breath.
On other pages of this site you will find a number of additional characteristics connected to the relations within the chart. Some have a stronger and some a weaker influence. In order to define the strength of the influence, direct contact with an astrologer is needed — in our case this is left to you, since we assume that you know yourself best of all.
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You must take in consideration that two opposite stars reinforce each other in the rulership of human beings, unlike the stars of fate. And this is what we take in consideration of all that was said by that man. - Picatrix (Andalusia, ~1000.AD)