Alois adds: Please see the FAQ: I have subscribed to the "Extended Daily Horoscope" and cannot access it. What can I do?

Alois adds: please read the FAQ, or the entry of 21 April 2004, just below.

Alois adds: Leider können wir keine solche Empfehlung abgeben, da wir die bestehenden Angebote überhaupt nicht kennen.

Alois adds: You may have hit a difficult stretch of the road. Please give it some time, the gloomy days will be over, soon.

Alois adds: Please see the section 'Technical Information' of the Yearly Horoscope Analysis. It explains what you want to know. All other forecast reports we offer are based on transits only.

In our reports, we use the astrological techniques as chosen by the astrologers who created the reports. We are not able to follow the technical preferences of the readers of theses reports.

My opinion has always been this: Students of astrology like you, who are so far advanced in their understanding of astrology that they possess 'technical preferences' and consider those preferences superior to the technical preferences of our authors, are well equipped to do their own readings, and do not depend on our computerized reports. Our reports are mainly intended for those who want to hear what astrology has to say, but cannot (yet) do their own readings.

I have given similar answers frequently when would-be customers requested the use of a house system different from the one our authors use.

Alois adds: Please see the FAQ: Why are some planets interpreted in the "wrong" house?

If you use AstroClick Portrait instead of 'Short report Portrait', you will find that both house readings are presented there. Short Report is be design kept short, while there is no lack of space in 'AstroClick'.

Alois adds: Please have a look at the FAQ: How can a planet be in more than one house during a certain period of a time?

Alois adds: Dear Ms Moreno, please understand that our staff has very limited time to answer questions by mail or on the phone, even when some of these questions are deep, intelligent and worth a lengthy answer. Many questions are really answered already on our website, if one makes the effort to look around for a little while, or to use the search features we provide (see left column).

By 'computers cannot yet write' it was probably meant to say: computers cannot yet create meaningful text by themselves. Nothing to do with hands and fingers, but with the original creation of meaningful content.

Now the real answer to your question: Our horoscope content was not written by computers, but by astrologers. The complex rules and procedures how to recognize important chart patterns and how to translate this information into the composition of a report were also not created by computers, but by human experts of astrology and artificial intelligence. The actual work to compose a particular report is indeed done by computers, as trained by expert humans, continually supervised by humans, but in the daily work rarely assisted by human intervention.

There is an incredible amount of information on our website to throw more light on these issues:
- an article by Liz Greene about computer horoscopes,
- an article by my n.s.h. self about Astro Intelligence,
- complete sample horoscopes in many languages. In most samples, the 'Appendix' section has explanations about how the horoscopes were composed,
- the short company history

The left column of the homepage contains the links to this, and a lot of other interesting information about our work.

Alois adds: There is not really much space for it, and few people are interested in declinations. However, I have added them as a hidden feature.

Please move your mouse cursor over the minutes or seconds, and let it rest there a bit. The declination will appear as a tiny popup. South appears as negative value.

Alois adds: Well, not everyone out there who is interested in astrology happens to be a Catholic.

You should be aware that Annunication is not a very important Catholic holiday. 'Immaculate Conception of Maria' is celebrated on December 8th, closer to Christmas during the 'advent' period, which is more fitting as a theme. March 25 is too close to Easter, dominated by passionate suffering, death and resurrection, very far away from Christmas.

I don't think that March 25 has a high astrological significance. It is near to the Spring Equinox of March 20/21, but not quite on it.

December 25 is a bit closer in astrological/astronomical timing to the Winter Solstice of 22/23 December. The day of Christmas follows a mythological schedule, having to do with the re-birth of the Sun God on the Winter Solstice, an old pagan holiday, and very much less with any real historical event. Jesus was certainly not born on 25 December of year 1 BC or 1 AD. More likely on some odd date between 7 and 4 BC.

Alois adds: It is not a webpage. It is a 'usenet newsgroup'. The way to access newsgroups is by using a News reader, and subscribing to the groups of interest via a 'news server'.

If you don't understand these terms and concepts, and have nobody to help you, you can go to www.google.com and there to 'groups'. Then search for the group you want. I know that one can follow the newsgroup discussions that way. To what extent you can write into newsgroups via Google, I do not know.

I know how to do this on my Linux system and with my Internet provider's News server, but I have no idea how a regular non-expert Internet user out there can handle this, and where it is explained.

Alois adds: Ich fürchte, wir können nicht jede Aussage von irgendwelchen Astrologen überprüfen oder kommentieren. Es wird eine Menge Unsinn erzählt, leider. Es werden viele unverantwortliche Prognosen in die Welt gesetzt von "Astrologen", die sich gut fühlen, wenn sie ihre Klienten mit negativen Aussagen belasten können. Oft projezieren psychologisch ungeschulte "Astrologen" auch ihre eigenen Probleme auf die Horoskope der Klienten.

Fragen Sie bitte dort nach, wo die Aussage herkommt.

Alois adds: If you enter 'event dates' as 'natal chart of an event date', the correct timezone is automatically applied just as with any other natal chart. Technically, for computing a chart, there is no difference between a person's birth chart or an 'event' birth chart. The only difference is in the gender setting.

At data entry, our website always indicates the automatically chosen timezone. All entered times must be 'wrist watch times'. No time conversion by the user, of any kind, must ever be applied. Please see the extensive FAQ information, and also the [i]nformation links on the data entry form for more details.

For a particualr technical question referring to a particular output page of our website, please use the link 'report a problem' at the bottom of that same page. This way, out support can see the same page you are seeing, with your data. The guestbook is less convienient for such purposes, because here we cannot see what you have been seeing.

Alois adds: Every chart is a 'rare chart'. There is no such thing as a 'common chart'.

The problem with 'kraut und wiesen' astrologers is that they make simple minded statements, and often have a limited understanding of both, astrology and the human psyche. Their advice tends to reflect their own intellectual or professional limits.

In addition, simplistic astrologers have a tendency to paint one-dimensional, lopsided pictures - either totally soft, 'spiritual' and un-critical, or too negative, deterministic, black-and-white.

Just recently I wrote: Some people love to make negative predictions because it gives them a feeling of power over others. You might want to avoid such people.

That said: It does not hurt to think a bit about an opinion as expressed by your local astrologer, but take everything with not just a grain, but a handful of salt. I have the suspicion that this astrologer has his/her own problems with the airy element, possibly also with beautiful intelligent women, and that the advice is tainted. Or was he/she trying to talk you into a little quick adventure on the side?

PS: We Pisces with six planets in air signs should stick together, shouldn't we? We are a rare species, after all.

Alois adds: You must have looked wrong. I cannot see what you claim to have seen.

Please call up the page where you believe to see the error, and use the link 'report a problem' at the bottom of that very page, to report it to us. That way we can see what you see.

Do this for any page where you believe to see an error.

Alois adds from Zürich, England: Thanks for the great explanation boy. FYI, I happen to have my own PhD in physics and do know a tiny little bit of triggonemtry.

Alois adds: I am afraid as a college freshman you need to do your own homework, and we must not help you here.

Alois adds: Free Horoscopes -> extended chart selection -> group Astrodienst special -> Graphic ephemeris for 1 year

It is folded into 45° sections, not 90°, but that was what Reinhold Ebertin actually used. I designed this ephemeris drawing style in cooperation with Reinhold Ebertin in 1981.

There is a secret feature: If you sneak into the URL the suffix &stx2=mod=90 then you can trick the program into giving you a 'modulo 90°' drawing. Use only 'modulo values' which are divisors of 360, unless you want to see an irregular drawing with jumps at 0° Aries.

Alois adds: This is why we have Liz Greene's 'Astro Intelligence' reports. Try one, see Astro Shop.

Alois adds: Please don't believe such rubbish. One out of 12 women has Neptune in the 5th house, one out of 12 has Pluto in the 5th, one out of 12 has Chiron in the 5th, one out of 12 has Saturn in the 5th.

In simple-minded black/white astrology all these placements could mean something 'bad', but it is a fact that no such correlation between personality of children and planets in the mother's natal houses has ever been observed or proven.

Better be careful with alcohol, smoking and drugs if you want to get pregnant, and make sure you pick a good father for the child.

If 'everyone' wants to frighten you, ask yourself why they try to do this to you, and confront them with their negative attitude. Some people love to make negative predictions because it gives them a feeling of power over others. You might want to avoid such people.

If you want to learn something about Neptune, read Liz Greene's book on Neptune. Not that I would consider this in any way important in relation to your planned pregnancy.

Alois adds: We do not find that. Try google.com with the query 'semarang indonesia' and you will find weather station with coordinates very close to what our database gives (7s00 and 110e24), i.e. within 3 km distance.

Alois adds: It means that you failed to read the introduction.

Alois adds: I recommend that you address a local astrologer in your area with that question.

The interpretations you find in textbooks or also on our website, about transits over natal Venus or natal aspects to Venus, are necessarily of a more general character, and cannot take special circumstances, which are more or less unique for your life situation, into account.

Alois adds: Gibt es leider nicht, aber auf den Zusatztabellen ist das entsprechende Aspektarium als Tabelle vorhanden.

Sie können aber einen Umweg gehen: Das Solar als neues Radix eingeben, und dann ein Partnervergleichshoroskop zwischen Radix und Solar machen. Dann bekommen Sie die Aspekte eingezeichnet. Etwas umständlicher, aber da nur einmal pro Jahr nötig, ist es nicht unzumutbar..

Alois adds: Please see our Links and friends directory and use he submittal procedure there.

Alois adds: You will be definitively one or the other. Please go to Free Horoscopes -> Chart drawing, or Free Horoscopes -> AstroClick Portrait, to find out which sign your Sun is in.

Alois adds: For clickable charts, please select and use the 'AstroClick' services.

Please be aware the the list of offers under 'Free Horoscopes' is quite long, and depending on the size of your screen, some scrolling will be required to find all offered services.

Various free reports and reports for sale have various age limits. If you believe you could access information before, and not now, for the same person, you are certainly in error.

Most likely you accessed some 'youth' or 'child' report before, and are now trying the 'adult report' for the same child. This, of course, will not work, before the child has become old enough.

If you have difficulty to keep your orientation on rich websites like ours, please try to understand the concept of 'bookmarks' in your browser (it may be called by a different name there). It allows you to access particular web pages with a single click, should you want to go back to something you have visited before. For the pages which interest you, you have to 'save a bookmark', and for visiting such a page, you have to 'use a bookmark'.

Many web users find bookmarks a very useful tool. Others start with a fresh search in Google each time they want to access the same website, and are then surprised that they don't find it anymore, because search engine output is forever changing.

A bookmark to our 'personal daily horoscope' page has the additional advantage that it does not lead you to 'static information', i.e. the horoscope of the day when you created the bookmakr, but to fresh information, i.e. the horoscope of the day when you use the bookmark.

Alois adds: Thank you!

I don't see it quite so bad. It may be that by the generosity of our free services we generate very high expectations towards Astrodienst, and then disappointment if these are not always fulfilled.

We get a wonderful amount of very positive, grateful and encouraging feedback, and have learned to accept the darker periods like bad weather.

My running trainer used to say: there is no such thing as bad weather, there is only wrong dressing. In that spirit, I sometimes dress warm when I deal with certain kind of feedback. I am quite enduring by nature - I finished my second marathon last sunday.

Alois adds: Both views represent quite different perspectives, and of course they can disagree.

Compare it to looking at a person's face, and at the same person's bottom. One perspective may look nice, while the other doesn't, or vice versa. Then, what do you do?

Please, do not blame astrology if people or their relationships appear to contain contradictions. It is how most people and relationships ARE.

Alois adds: Thank you for your valuable feedback which we appreciate.

We listen to our customers. This does not imply that we fulfil each individual wish.

I hope you understand that when you subscribe to a service like the extended personal horoscope, you subscribe to a service 'as it is'. Its features, as available at the time of subscription are well documented. An annual subscription fee of $31.95 does not purchase the right to have service changes implemented according to your wishes. If you expected a different service than the one you subscribed for, I cannot spare you some disappointment.

Please compare it to a newspaper subscription. Also there, the wishes of an individual subscriber to have the layout, format and presentation of the paper adapted to his personal wishes will most likely remain unfulfilled.

A regular stream of such wishes may influence the long term development of new features, but we prefer not to make promises in that direction.

You particular wish will be most likely solved by high bandwidth mobile communication techniques like UMTS, allowing you to surf the Internet from portable handheld devices just as well as from stationary PCs. Please speak to your mobile service provider when mobile web access via GPRS or UMTS will be available in your country and area.

Alois adds: Please see an entry of March 3rd

Alois adds: Please fix 'your sources'. Use better ones.

Denver had no DST between 30 Sept 1945 and 25 April 1965 (neither did any other town in Colorado).

Alois adds: The feedback area is not an automatic question/answer channel. Its primary purpose is for users to provide feedback.

Answers are provided, if we happen to have some, and have time to write them. The lack of an explicit answer can often be interpreted as: 'I don't know', or 'no, sorry' or 'Please read the FAQ' or 'Please try google.com'

What we never answer are questions like: I have this particular .. in my chart, what does it mean? We cannot start personal chart reading services here, via the guestbook. We would be swamped and drowned with requests. I have said this very often.

For personal chart questions, I recommend seeing a local astrologer, or studying astrology in depth yourself until you can answer you own questions.

It is mostly my free time which is used for the feedback area, and it varies from week to week how much time I can spend for this purpose. I am absolutely aware that no human effort could ever even try to fulfill all the expectations which are brought to us. So, I get regular beatings for 'lack of attention'. Thank you!

Please be assured that also wishes and comments which remain unanswered have been noticed and are appreciated. Particular astrological questions are often answered by other guestbook members, after a while.

I can also recommend the Usenet newsgroup 'alt.astrology.moderated' for a discussion of particular astrological questions. Its active audience is small but some of the regular writers there are highly competent and spend often a surprising amount of time to discuss particular items of general interest. Please ignore the non-moderated newsgroup 'alt.astrology' which is dominated by 'kooks'.

Alois adds: It goes direct on 1st May, and the buglet is fixed now - the D is back where it should be.

Please take note that even without the 'R' and 'D' a planet's direction of motion is very easy to work out by checking whether the ecliptic longitude decreases or increases from one day to the next.

The little program which prints the tabular data display does nothing else than checking whether next midnight the planet's position will be further further ehead or or further back in the zodiac than the planet's position at the previous midnight, thereby determining the planets 'direction'. If the direction changes from forward to backward, the day gets an R, if it changes from backward to forward, the day gets a D. That is the traditional style of direction display in ephememeris tables. The actual change of direction does not happen at midnight, but at some odd time in the 24 hours surrounding the begin of the "D-day". To get precise timing information, please see the 'Mercury cycles' documents further down on the 3200 year ephemeris page. You will find that Mercury goes direct at 13:05 Universal time on April 30th 2004.

PS: D-Day June 6 1944 was not a Mercury D-Day.

Alois adds: Soviel ich weiss, haben schon diverse Websites solche 'Astro-Zwillinge' Datenbanken eingerichtet. Sehen Sie mal auf www.astrologix.de nach, wie es dort steht. Ich würde vermuten, dass sehr viele eingetragene Email-Adressen längst geschlossen wurden und nicht mehr funktionieren. Nicht laufend gepflegte Email-Verzeichnisse veralten nämlich sehr schnell.

Alois adds: Please see an entry of March 3rd