Alois adds: Dear Pamela, progress is slower than expect, I have to say. I cannot give a schedule for this project. It is a long way to go.

Alois adds: The reason is complex.

For most days, there are several 'candidate' transits which have a chance to become the transit selected for today's reading. It is not that always the 'most important' candidate can be chosen, because this would lead to many repetions - the same transit would 'win' an several consecutive days.

Therefore, the selection of transits is balanced over a full year, to provide variety and to avoid repetition. For the daily online horoscope, the calendar year is the basis of this distribution. For each day, always a full year is analyzed and the selection of this year is finely balanced. One single day is then shown.

For a printed 'book' calendar which starts - like yours - in October and covers 12 months, these 12 months, and not the calendar year starting in January, are the basis of the distribution. This can lead to different choices on some days.

The process is also explained in the FAQ.

In the printed calendar, you will most often find that the transit listed on second place in the table at the bottom of the day is the one chosen in the online horoscope. The printed calendar has a 'transit index' at the end of the book, where you can easily look up where you find the reading for this 'second place' transit. It will usually be one which is repeated on another day of the 12-month period, and the reading will be printed there.

Alois adds: Thanks for the kind feedback.

About your request to receive a personal reading for the relationship between you and Andrew: I am sorry, but the feedback section is not a way to receive personal chart readings. We would be swamped with requests of we started this.

Alois adds: The latter is the case, of course ( :o)-

[See http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html]

Alois adds: Astrologically, the term means something like age 39 - 58 (between Uranus opposition and second Saturn return)

Alois adds: Nothing was ever changed. The only map containing NZ is and was the world map - which is perfectly fine enough.

Higher map resolution in astro maps brings no better readings because the lines have a orb of 150 miles on both sides anyway.

Alois is: The reason is simple. On Sept 12th, your previous visit, you entered birth time 2:15 pm. On today's visit you entered 2:15 am.

Alois adds: I am afraid there is no such way. A composite chart cannot be used as a 'normal' chart because it is not one. It does not represent a constellation of planets ever actually existing on the sky. This precludes its use in many of the standard astrological techniques. You can't boil your milk in a sieve, and adding the sieve to your set of pans will not be helpful.

Alois adds: There is no unified doctrine and technique in astrology. Each astrologer has personal preferences in technique, the same way other artists have their personal preferences.

On our website, you can try the different chart styles available in extended chart selection. Some of these styles use the angles for aspects and aspect figures, with various orbs according to the author of the style.

There is also a checkbox
[ ] aspect lines to all
which overrides the author's choice and includes all chart factors in the aspect figures. The aspect figures can get confusing when you use this option.

Descendant and Imum Coeli are never included, because they form complimentary angles: Any trine to the Ascendant implies a sextile to the Descendant, etc.

Alois adds: Please go with that question to whoever told you about the time of your 'soulspirit attachment'. I think people who put such ideas into your mind are also responsible to answer the associated questions.

Alois adds: It's been on our to-do list since a while.

Alois adds: No such time period can ever be 'accurate' as the perception of astrological influences is a very personal matter. Please see the FAQ Why do you give different transit durations / orbs in the Daily Horoscope and the Forecast?

Alois adds: If you order the Yearly Horoscope Analysis by Liz Greene, e.g. for the period July 2004 - June 2005, you will find that this aspect is covered there in the section 'The year's main themes'.

Please understand that the feedback area is not for personal chart reading requests, and that not all information available from Astrodienst is free. That particular report is $46.95. I highly recommend it.

As this progressed aspect began already in 2003, we cannot guarantee that it will be covered in reports for 2005 or 2006, even when it keeps being active until 2006.

Alois adds: Of course we handle that timezone change correctly. Please do never manipulate birth times - our server knows the correct timezone and daylight saving time. The main source of errors is when users modify their birthtime.

On the data entry page (also accessible via the 'edit data' links) you see easily which timazone is used for a particalar data set.

Alois adds: Free Horoscopes -> extended chart selection -> chart style = Ebertin with midpoints -> show chart -> above graphics, right side, link: additional data tables -> two tables with midpoints, one in zodiacal order, one in 90° order

There are also other chart styles where the additional tables show midpoints, e.g. Kellers, Studer, Dethlefsen.

Up to 10 user selected asteroids can be added for any chart style (see near bottom of chart selection page).

Alois adds: It is a printed book of typically 212 pages with spiral binding.

Alois adds: Herzlichen Dank für das Feedback. Wir freuen uns jeden Tag, dass wir diesen Service für die ganze Welt bieten können. Die starke positive Energie, die via der Feedback-Seite zu uns zurückkommt, ist sehr wichtig für unsere Arbeit, und darüber hinaus für unser Leben.

Alois adds: Please see the FAQ How can two people born at different times have exactly the same daily horoscope?

Alois adds: On this website Chiron is included in chart drawings if the default drawing style 'Web style' or the style 'Liz Greene' or the style 'Astrodienst' is chosen.

Other chart types, e.g. the ones used in the AstroClick interpretation service, which contain no interpretation for Chiron, do not include Chiron in the drawing.

Alois adds: I can comfirm that Liz Greene uses transits to progressed positions, as is evident in the report 'Yearly Horoscope Analysis' which is available from Astrodienst, as well as in her published books and seminars.

In our free horoscope sections, they are found via
->extended chart selection -> group Astrodienst special -> Transit calendar with progressions

There, such transits are labeled like [Pluto]t [aspect] [Sun]p where [..] is the corresponding glyph, while t and p are subscripts.

Alois adds: I recommend that you get hold of the most recent editions of the magazine 'The Mountain Astrologer' (See our links directory).

It is currently the best english language astrological magazine, and has covered the subject of the upcoming US elections extensively.

Alois adds: 1978 gab es keine Sommerzeit in Deutschland. Sie begann erst 1980. Zuvor gab es sie schon 1940 - 1949, sowie 1916 - 1918.

Alois adds: We think the concept that populated areas like villages have names as sensible one. Our atlas is one of village and city names, not of countries or states. So, please use the nearest viallage or city for the location you want.

Alois adds: I have met other occasions where some Indian astrologer claims to know facts better than the rest of the world. This is however not an astrological question, but a one of factual history.

I recommend you do some reseacrh: go to a good library with a newspaper archive, and read the papers of the days surrounding the supposed date of timezone change. You can be sure it is mentioned in the daily paper, often near the weather section, where things like sunrise and sunset times are listed.

Please report back to us if you find that our database which has 1 May 1982 is incorrect. Please do not quote any other Indian astrologers as authorities, but only printed documentary sources.

Alois adds: This feature is based on the birth chart only. Most likely you have used different natal data if you get different results.

Alois adds: It depends whether the Sun was above or below the horizon. Unless you were born near or within the polar circles, where odd sunrise times occur, 1:30 am is certainly a night time, with the Sun savely below the horizon.