Why Is Astrology Wrong: The Case Against, Stated Fairly
The arguments against astrology are strong and worth setting out properly: there is no mechanism that survives inspection, controlled tests found nothing,…
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Birth charts, life path numbers and what the traditions actually say — written to be read, not decoded.
Chinese Zodiac Animal Years: The Twelve and Their Elements
Twelve animals, one per year, with five elements running underneath them to make a sixty-year cycle. Here are the years, the boundary…
Chinese Zodiac Relationship Compatibility: Trines and Clashes
The animal pairings are not arbitrary — they come from where two animals sit in a twelve-position cycle, which produces the same…
Out of Bounds Moon: What Extreme Declination Describes
Declination is the coordinate a chart wheel leaves out. When the Moon's carries it past the furthest north or south the Sun…
Lot of Spirit: The Hellenistic Counterpart to Fortune
The Lot of Spirit is calculated from the same three points as the Lot of Fortune, with the luminaries swapped. Here is…
Day Chart vs Night Chart: What Sect Changes in a Reading
Sect turns on whether the Sun was above or below the horizon at birth. Which planets belong to which side, what changes…
How to Find Birth Time: Where the Record Lives and What Shifts It
The date and place are usually known; the time is the input that goes missing or gets rounded. Where to look for…
Traditional Ruler of Pisces: Jupiter, Neptune and Why Both Are Used
Jupiter holds Pisces as its nocturnal domicile in the older seven-planet scheme; Neptune was assigned to the sign after 1846. Where the…
Retrograde Shadow Period: What Happens Before and After the Station
A planet covers the same degrees three times around a retrograde: forwards, backwards, then forwards again. What the shadow period names, how…
Lilith in Aries: What the Black Moon Point Describes
Four different points share the name Lilith, and two of them can put you in different signs from the same birth data.…