One of the reasons for offering the chart calculation service is to help clear up one of the most widespread scientific misconceptions of our time - concerning the definition of the signs of the zodiac. Apart from India, where the tradition of Vedic astrology still holds to the original definition from ancient Babylon of the signs of the zodiac (nowadays known as the sidereal zodiac), the rest of the world has adopted the tropical zodiac of Greek astronomers in place of the original sidereal zodiac. The historical background to this is discussed at length in History of the Zodiac - click here. The consequence of the adoption by western astrologers of the tropical zodiac, which originally was not a zodiac but a calendar, is that a mistaken conception of the zodiacal signs has become widespread in the whole world (with the exception of India). Now millions of people believe that they are born in a particular zodiacal sign, whereas in fact they were not born in that sign.
To give an example: someone born on March 25 generally believes that they are an "Aries", whereas the Sun on March 25 is actually in Pisces - click here to view the Sun's location in the signs of the sidereal zodiac throughout the yearly calendar cycle. It is correct to say that someone born on March 25 in the northern hemisphere was born in the month of Aries in the tropical calendar, which was the predecessor of the tropical zodiac. However, in terms of the sidereal zodiac, they were born with the Sun in Pisces. For someone born on March 25 in the southern hemisphere it is accurate to say that they were born in the month of Libra in the tropical calendar - with the Sun in Pisces in the sidereal zodiac. The Sun's location in the sidereal zodiac - in this example in the sign of Pisces for someone born on March 25 - remains the same whatever the location on the Earth might be. From everywhere on the Earth, looking up to the Sun it is located against the background of the same fixed star for everyone on the Earth at that moment in time. However, as the cycle of the seasons (tropical calendar) is the reverse in the southern hemisphere of that in the northern hemisphere, the date March 25, which falls in the month of Aries at the beginning of spring in the northern
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hemisphere, falls in the month of Libra (opposite Aries) at the beginning of autumn in the southern hemisphere.
From a consideration of the basic finding of Astrogeographia that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the starry heavens and the earthly globe, it should be evident that also the horoscope is based on the relationship of our solar system to the background of the starry heavens - in other words: sidereal, which means "of the stars". Moreover, as shown conclusively by the research presented in Hermetic Astrology, volume I click here, it is the location of the Sun, Moon and planets in the sidereal zodiac, which comprises the birth horoscope. Since most people (with the exception of those living in India) have a mistaken conception of their zodiacal sign and their entire horoscope, the chart calculation service is provided to enable one to know one?s true sign and horoscope. People using this chart calculation service are generally interested in knowing their sidereal sign and horoscope. However, it is also possible to request one's tropical sign and horoscope. And moreover, one can specify "tropical" or "sidereal" for all the variety of horoscopes offered - horoscopes of conception and birth: geocentric, heliocentric, Tychonic (hermetic), etc.
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Astrogeographia
"As above, so below"
(The law of correspondences attributed to the Egyptian initiate Hermes Trismegistus)
Astrogeographia is a new science concerning the correspondence between stars in the heavens and earthly geographical locations such that each star is mirrored at a specific location on the Earth.
Alnitak and the Great Pyramid at Giza
"The pyramids exhibit stellar alignments: the bases are aligned meridionally (north to south) with the stars. The Great Pyramid has four shafts pointing meridionally towards important stars relating to the rebirth cult. One points directly to Orion's Belt - more specifically to Al Nitak, the lower star in Orion's Belt. Correlating this star to the Great Pyramid, we can see the same pattern of layout between the three pyramids of Giza with the three stars of Orion's Belt..." (Robert Bauval-Adrian Gilbert, The Orion Mystery).
In light of Astrogeographia, just as the Great Pyramid at Giya corresponds to the star Alnitak, so the city of Alexandria corresponds to the star Alnilam - Alnitak and Alnilam being two of the three stars in the belt of Orion. Moreover, the ancient city of Ephesus (on the west coast of present-day Turkey) corresponds to the star Bellatrix marking the left shoulder of Orion. [click here]
HERMETIC ASTROLOGY
Astrogeographia is applicable not only to places on the Earth but also to individual horoscopes. The method of casting horoscopes in hermetic astrology is based on the teachings of Hermes from ancient Egypt, and also upon the ancient star wisdom of the Babylonians and Greeks. This means that your horoscope - based on hermetic astrology - is different from the usual horoscope drawn up by contemporary western astrology. In fact, four horoscopes are generally drawn up for each person in hermetic astrology. To learn
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more about this unique and comprehensive approach to understanding yourself, consult the various entries on this website and make use of the chart calculation service or the Astrofire program, which enables the application of the law of Hermes to find the conception (epoch) horoscope that, when computed from both the geocentric and the heliocentric/hermetic/Tychonic standpoint yields two of the four horoscopes mentioned above - the other two being the geocentric and the heliocentric/hermetic/Tychonic horoscopes of birth.