Alois adds: Sie haben völlig Recht, ich habe auch Mühe mit solchen Sätzen des Autors Pelletier. Bitte holen Sie den Text nochmals, wir haben ihn etwas zurecht gerückt.

Alois adds: Many towns and states have a complex timezone history, i.e. have changed association to timezones in the past, in irregular manners. In addition, towns, counties, states and countries have sometimes chosen to adopt or drop daylight saving time, often also at irregalar dates. You can certainly not draw any conclusion from current rules for times in the past, unless you have researched the matter in all competence and details.

During 'daylight saving time' the timezone of California, for example, is not 8h west of Greenwich but only 7h west of Greenwich.

Denver CO is on Mountain Time (7h west of Greenwich) normally, except during daylight saving time (like now), when it is on 6h. There have been years in the past when it was on 6h, for several years.

I recommend you leave those matters to the experts, i.e. people like us at Astrodienst. If you use our free online service, and do not change the timezone setting to 'manual' but leave it on 'automatic' you will have very reliable results.

Alois adds: there are only two kinds of mathematical/astronomical calculations: correct and incorrect ones. Those by Astrodienst are correct.

The Ascendant is the degree of the ecliptic rising in the east at a given time and location. It is a fact of nature and leaves no room for opinion. Astrodienst knows how to compute horoscopes - we are the masters in that field, which most others have chosen to follow.

It is certainly hard to give up an old believe system which is based on false assumptions. Many people in your position have decided to stick with their old beliefs. The choice is totally yours. There is nothing to discuss with us about it, really. We can only give you the facts.

Alois adds: Please make never any changes to time. Just enter 'wrist watch time', i.e. the time which was shown on a normal person's watch, or on a wall clock, at the birth location.

Alois adds: Thank you.

Alois adds: Thanks, you are welcome.

Please let me tell you that it is cheaper to buy a printed ephemeris in a bookshop than printing your own from a free website.

For example, the American Ephemeris for 1900-2000 sells for $22 in bookshops. To print the whole century from our free online ephemeris, you need 6 pages per year, or 600 pages in total. You can hardly do this for less than 6 cents per page on your own printer, counting paper and ink. This takes you back by $36 just to print the 600 pages. Then you have no binding yet...

Often bookshops are more economical then printing free stuff from the web with expensive ink.

If you need to look into an ephemeris only occasionally, then the online version will be fione for you. But if you work intensively with astrology, a printed ephemeris in book format has many advantages. Of course, I am speaking as a bibliophile.

Alois adds: I am sure you are mistaken. Please use the feature 'report a problem' at the bottom of the page where you see the information you believe is incorrect. In the problem report, please describe in as much detail as possible what you believe saw different at an earlier time.

If you have a printout of two differing charts from our server, please scan and email them to webmaster.

PS: I see that you have your natal data stored in two versions in your profile on our server: once with birth time 10:30 am as 'Rock Woosley', once with 10:00 am as 'Roscoe Woosley'. Of course, the Ascendant 'jumps' if you switch by 30 minutes.

You are welcome to store as many variants of your birth chart as you like, but please do not accuse us of errors if you get confused by the various versions you keep.

Alois adds: We cannot advise you how to use the products of software sellers out there. Please, ask their support departments for support.

There is a simple recipe for correct astrological charts: use www.astro.com

Alois adds: Mars is currently retrograde. When it crosses the MC, it goes backwards into the 9th house, coming from the 10th !

Alois adds: For Lilith, please see: Homepage -> understanding astrology -> advanced astrology articles -> Lilith, the dark Moon and also the Swiss Ephemeris documentation, section 2.2

For computing lengthy ephemerides of any of the 69'000 numbered asteroids, please use the Swiss Ephemeris test page

You will want to use heliocentric mode, to derive the orbital period from a several years of orbit. Because our orbit calculation is done by numerical integration of the whole solar system, quantities like orbital periods are not directly available, but must be derived backwards from the computed orbit. Typical asteroid belt asteroids, like the ones you mentioned, have orbital periods between 4 and 5 years.

Alois adds: The sample reports we occasionally publish about celebrities are computer generated. No specific knowledge about the person, except the birth data information, goes into those reports. Some targeted selection is made by our editors, to shorten the full report.

Every 'celebritiy' person wears a mask in public, has a public image which in many cases is quite a different matter from how that person feels in private, from close up, or from inside.

Our psychological horoscopes grasp essential elements of the priviate, inside view of the personality, not the media-created public image figure.

This is by design, not accidental. It would be very easy to write - by hand - up a fitting obituary for a celebrity like Johnny Cash and relate it to his birth chart. What we try to do is MUCH harder: we let the same computer program compose the report, which composes all the other reports our customers order, when we have no additional information about a person aside from the birth data.

You misunderstand something fundamental about astrology if you believe that simply from the birth data you will get a complete picture of a person, including his/her media mask and his/her public deeds. It is NOT visible in the fundamental birth chart what Albert Einstein did as a physiscist. In his birth chart however is a lot about what kind of man he was, psychologically, and this is what you would find in his Psychological Horoscope.

If an astrologer is hostile versus psychological astrology in general - some are -, he is visiting the wrong place at www.astro.com. There are many levels of astrology, not only the one we prefer to practice. If you find that you are not interested in what we have to offer - simply let it be. I would never believe that one truth is enough to serve all needs.

We publish sample reports not to teach astrology to astrologers, but to give honest examples of what customers can expect from our computer reports, and to entertain a little on the way. If an astrologer wants to learn Liz Greene's astrology as a student, I recommend him to enroll in London at the CPA, her school, or to study her books. The computer generated reports are created under conditions which are very different from the live reading of a chart, with either a public person or a person sitting in front of the astrologer, and therefore make bad teaching examples.

Alois adds: Be assured that our servers run in precise atomic clock time, delivered from one of the time standard sources. They never deviate more than a fraction of a second.

I think you are mistaken about what the current time is in UT/GMT, and what you local timezone offset versus UT is.

The time difference of New York to UT/GMT is currently 4 hours, until daylight saving time ends in the US (in the morning of Oct 26 2003 at 02:00 AM). then it will be back to five hours.

UT/GMT is NOT the time of London, England, because London is on summertime at the moment, like the rest of Europe. London is currently one hour ahead of UT/GMT. In Europe, summertime ends also on the last Sunday in October, but at a different absolute moment, expressed in UT, than it ends in the US.

Our servers run not in local time, but in Universal time. UT is derived from the moment, when the 'mean Sun' crosses the 0° meridian. This moment is quite independent from what the goverments says that the clocks should show. It is a fact of nature, not a result of law or convention.

Nowadays, science does not use astronomical observation anymore for the time standard, even when this standard leans on astronomy. The rotation of the Earth is by a few fractions of a second too unstable to serve as a standard, and also too hard to observe continuously. This is why the standard has been transferred to counting oscillations of electron orbits in Caesium atoms, called atomic time. Please use google to find more about that, if you are interested. The formal name of the time standard is also TDT (terrestrial dynamic time).

Alois adds: It is commonly called 'Quincunx' or '150° Aspect'

Alois adds: You don't get the subscription mailed, it is an online feature.

We require the mailing address to send you the invoice (if in Germany or Switzerland), or if you pay be credit card, we are required by contract with the credit card companies to have the address of our customers on record.

Alois adds: I am afraid that we cannot give personal astrological advice in this feedback area.

Please use the services available under 'Free Horoscopes', or order one of our reports from 'Astro Shop', or contact a local astrologer in your environment for a counselling session.

Alois adds: Some 'mundane' events, like full and new Moons, are listed in the daily horoscope event list. These events are the same for the whole world, they are not personal. This is why no personal interpretation is given for them.

Alois adds: I have added a new chart style for you, called: Astrodienst with Asc/MC aspects

Alois adds: Your question should be answered if you read the introduction of 'Short report forecast'.

It is also answered in the FAQ section "Why are some important transits missing in my forecast?"

Alois adds: Please, see my answer to Lee just below.

Alois adds:Thank you for telling us so nicely what you would like to have.

I recommend a visit to your local astrologer, if you want your personal questions answered. If you prefer British ones, you can of course travel, to England, too.

Astrodienst, a Swiss company, however does not offer personal counselling, not by phone, not by mail and not live. We offer computerised astrological services. We are good in that - and only in that.

Alois adds: Because the correct timezone assignment to your pair of coordinates would be missing, a source of SEVERE errors.

Better a chart for a slightly distant town, than one for the correct location with the wrong timezone information. A distance of 1 mile corresponds to a time difference of 4 seconds; a wrong timezone makes a time difference of one hour, resulting in a worthless chart.

For each town in our list of 250'000 towns we have the correct and complete local timezone history. We would not have that information for the random pair of coordinates out in the middle of nowhere.

Alois adds: All you need to do is to scroll to the bottom of the daily horoscope page and to set your 'reference location' there to Melbourne, by clicking on the link 'change reference place'.

Alois adds: If you know your date and place of birth, and the name of your biological parent(s), you can contact the birth registrar's office of that town to learn about your birth time. It has been officially registered when you were born.

If you were adopted and don't have the information above, I don't know what you can do. Please do not blame us for that situation.

Alois adds: I have to tell you that I don't believe in those effects of Mercury. I have never noticed them personally.

Alois adds: You made an error. You did a chart for 4 September, not for 4 August. On 4 Sept the Moon was indeed at 1 Capricorn, same as 8 August. The two dates are 27 days apart, and that is just as long as the Moon's sidereal cycle.

Alois adds: Thanks for the feedback. We don't want to promise the free Thursdays forever, so we keep a shifting date which will allow us to stop this service if we consider it necessary. We get far less subscriptions on Thursdays, of course, than on any other day of the week. But on the other side, it seems useful that visitors have a chance to check out what they will get under a subscription.

Alois adds: Actually, the daily horoscope pays no attention to asteroids, except Chiron. Many astrologers which I respect claim an important influence for Chiron.

Alois adds: Our daily horoscope looks for the PERSONAL aspects of each person, due to transits over an individual's natal chart.

The aspect you mention is global, the same for everyone. Our visitors on the personal daily horoscope page would not be happy if each reader got the same global reading.

If you want an 'astrology website' where each reader gets the same text, please visit one of many such sites out there on the Internet. You won't be lucky in this respect at astro.com. We offer only personal horoscopes.

Alois adds: In the natal data record, you must use your birth town. In the reference place setting for the Solar return, you can choose.

Different astrologers vary in their practice in this respect. Some schools of thought use also the birthtown, but the majority uses the place of residence.

Some people travel to special places on their birthday, to get a 'favourable' solar return chart. I do not think that it works. The permanent place of residence, where you are throughout the years, will probably have an effect.

Alois adds: I am afraid we have no plans for any discounts. The Child's Horoscope is really worth every penny it costs.