Alois adds: Please search google for 'synodic period moon'. In the average, it lasts 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes. Because the lunar orbit is highly irregular, the actual time varies between 29d 6h 35m and 29d 19h 55m (during the years 1900 - 2100).

Astronomers begin a lunation cycle with each New Moon, not with the Full Moon.

The rhythm of the tides is very complex, because the Sun influences them as well, and of course the particular situation of the coast line and your local body of water.

Alois adds: Oh, sea cucumber! Never tried one before, they are hard to get in Switzerland, except petrified ones. Dried, you said? Great idea. Difficult to barbecue anyway, the beasts.

PS: Seriously, google is your friend to solve your problem. I entered 'dried sea cucumber recipe' and got good results.

Alois adds: Please, don't order one.

What you probably would find in our Psychological Horoscope is an explanation why you write 'money is the most important'. This is, by the way, an opinion not everyone shares. There is that story about the camel and the eye of the needle...

Alois adds: E difficile da mostrare i 'midpoints' nelle carte grafice. Ma i 'midpoints' si trovano nelle 'additional data tables' quando scelga lo stile Ebertin o Dethlefsen o Keller.

Oroscopi gratuiti -> Selezione Estesa Carte -> Per favore selezionate lo stile di carta desiderato: Stile Ebertin con midpoints -> [vedere la carta] -> Cliccare per ottenere le tabelle addizionali

En français: Horoscopes gratuits -> Cartes du ciel diverses -> Veuillez choisir un style de carte : Style Ebertin avec mid p. -> [voir la carte] -> Cliquez pour préparer des tableaux additionnels

Alois adds: Please be aware that an astrological analysis which is only considering the sun signs is limited in scope. There are too many other factors in the birth horoscope, and in most cases they count more then the sun signs.

But if you want to read something intelligent about sun sign compatibility, why don't you try on this website:
Free Horoscopes -> Astrology for Lovers

Here is your ex-lover's particular case of Leo (male) with Cancer (female). You will find it easy to get more details and to play around with the sign combinations.

You should consider yourself lucky not to be married at 19. Continue your education and professional training, this is much more important at this age than getting married.

Alois adds: Please enter always 'wrist watch time', i.e. a time which would have been shown on a normal person's watch. Our system knows everything about timezone and daylight saving time, and corrects automatically. If you manipulate the time yourself, you can be sure to get it wrong.

Please see the FAQ What time do I use?

Alois adds: Siehe FAQ Warum sieht meine Horoskopzeichnung bei www.astro.com anders aus als das Horoskop, das ich anderwo bekommen habe?

Bei Ihrer Frage handelt es sich vermutlich nur darum, dass Sie in Galiastro ein anderes Häusersystem eingestellt haben als auf www.astro.com

Unter 'Erweiterte Grafikauswahl' können Sie das auf www.astro.com für die Zeichnungen ändern. Bei den Deutungen verwenden wir aber gemäss Festlegung durch unsere Astrologen immer Placidus, hier kann die Benutzerin nicht wählen, nach welchem System wir deuten. In den FAQ gibt es dazu noch mehr Informationen, bitte stöbern Sie mal etwas.

Alois adds: Please use a nearby larger town, or check for other spelling variants, or send us the coordinates.

Alois adds: We cannot answer for the errors of 'other sites'. Maybe they use Hindu astrology, which has a different zodiac than western astrology.

Please see the FAQ Why do I have a different sun sign in Indian astrology?. It applies of course also to the Moon sign.

Alois adds: Eine gute Frage, und es gibt keine einfache Antwort darauf.

Die wichtigste Antwort ist: Niemand ist 'nur Fisch'. Sie haben die Sonne im Zeichen Fische, aber im Geburtshoroskop befinden sich noch neun andere Planeten, meist in anderen Zeichen, sowie eine Menge weiterer 'Kram' wie Häuser, Mondknoten, Aszendent usw. Im Zeichen Schütze haben Sie den Saturn, schön in der Mitte. Ein Schütze-Kontakt wird für Sie oft auch eine Begegnung mit Saturn, dem Ernsthaften, Normsetzenden, manchmal Beengenden.

Zweitens: Jupiter, der "Ihr Zeichen" Fische regiert, regiert auch über das Zeichen Schütze. Obwohl beide im Quadrat stehen, also ein Problem miteinander haben, verbindet sie das eng miteinander.

Drittens: Manche Menschen brauchen die Spannung, den Gegensatz, die Begegnung mit einem fundamental verschiedenen Prinzip, sonst wird es ihnen zu schnell langweilig. Vielleicht liegt auch hier die Anziehung begründet.

Alois adds: I am afraid you are confusing websites. there was never such an email service from Astrodienst.

It is very convenient to access your daily horoscope from your desktop, with a double click, by creating a desktop bookmark.

To do that, please visit your daily horoscope. Then drag the URL from the browser's URL line to your desktop.

As soon as you open this link on the desktop, the browser will start up and your fresh daily horoscope will appear. This is much better than getting it by email: You read the horoscope, whenever you like!

Alois adds: We are clearly dedicated to western (tropical) astrology. We would confuse many people by mixing tropical and sidereal zodiac offerings. Please visit you favourite Hindu astrology site for eastern astrology services.

Alois adds: I am afraid we cannot offer that.

Alois adds: The Ascendant is the degree of the ecliptic rising in the east, at the time and location of your birth.

This is a fact of nature, an astronomical fact. There is no room for opinions about what your Ascendant 'should be'.

If the natal data are entered correctly - this is what you do - and the chart is computed correctly - this is what we do - then there is nothing to discuss about what your ascendant is.

Most likely, others have computed your chart incorrectly, probably due to an error with the timezone.

You are however at 28°21' close to the end of Capricorn with your Ascendant. If you change your birth time from 12:48 to 12:54 am, then you get Aquarius. I would not recommend such a manipulation of birth time, though.

Alois adds: There is not much value in doing so, because the spacial resolution of this astrological technique is not better than 100 miles anyway. You must consider the lines as being 200 miles wide, with blurry edges.

Alois adds: You seem to have indeed a terrible problem: You project negative meaning into a text where there is none. Even in the bloom of May, you love to worry about freezing to death in the next winter. One day, the sky will fall onto your head if you don't work on changing that attitude.

Alois adds: Dear Peius, I fear your anti-Spanish language politics tends to overshadow your ability to reason.

I have of course nothing against Catalan as a language and as an important carrier of YOUR culture, that you speak it, dream in it, teach it or that your local writers and poets write it.

But the content of our horoscopes is originally written in English, NOT in Catalan and NOT in Spanish. Whoever is not capable of understanding the original language, will need to read a translation.

I am sure that every educated person in Catalonia reads Spanish VERY well. So, if a translation has to suffice, why not the one which already exists in Spanish?

If any additional effort should be made, then this effort should be to enable your people to read the English original. Teach them English! Only that way they will percieve the original meaning of the authors in a perfect way. Not yet another translation is needed, but more learning of other languages at your schools.

Alois adds: I am sorry to hear that you do not understand Spanish sufficiently, to enjoy our free services.

Or is it just a case of Spain's famous language quarrels and of nationalistic Catalan pride? If you donate 100'000 Euro - which is the rough total of what we have so far invested into Spanish translations - we will be happy to hire a translator for Catalan. Or should we say Valencian?

While we are at it: any sponsors for Swiss German or Austrian German out there?

Alois adds: Yes, this was from us.

There is some problem with hotmail.com which garbles our messages.

It does not happen wioth our german test accounts which we have also at hotmail.com, it seems to happen only with english language accounts.

My apologies.

We will resend the same message as 'text only' soon.

PS on Thursday: we found out what the problem was. A software bug in hotmail's email processing. Our phone number, which was at the bottom of the letter, evoked the scrambling when it was written like ++41-1-392 1818.
When it was written as ++41 1 392 1818 without the -, the message remained intact in hotmail. Sadly, we found this out a day to late, after considerable experimenting to find the root of the problem.

Shame on whoever owns hotmail.com - they are famous for their software bugs. I would sink into the ground with shame if my software was as faulty as Bill Gates'.

Alois add: Simply enter a second natal data record, where you play a bit with the time (around sunrise time) to get the Ascendant to the degree of the Sun.

It is easy, because our data entry page shows already the degree of the Ascendant.

Alois adds: Apparently you and your teachers are not aware that Hindu astrology uses a different zodiac than Western astrology.

Hindu astrology uses a zodiac based roughly on some fixed stars (different Hindu astrologers are in serious disagreement about which one of several such choices is the right one for them)

The tropical zodiac used by western astrology is based on the equinoxes - it starts at the spring equinoctial point with zero degree Aries. This is the same zodiac astronomers use to express ecliptic coordinates.

Please see the FAQ section Why do I have a different sun sign in Indian astrology? A link in the FAQ will show you how you can set up charts at astro.com with some of the most common Hindu-style zodiacs. We do not recommend it, but it is possible.

Please try to have your Hindu astrologers open their eyes to the fact that other concepts than their own exist in the world of astrology. It's an "unpardonable" shame they seem so badly informed about an essential element of their craft.

PS: Ascendants do not change with the choice of house system, by the way. The Ascendant is the degree of the ecliptic rising in the east at the given time and place. It is a fact of nature, there is no way to choose it differently, except by getting yourself reborn. But a different coordinate system measures that astronimocally well defined degree differently, of course. Therefore, the Hindu sideral zodiac differs for the Ascendant just as well as for the positions of the planets.

Alois adds: Labrador is part of New Foundland politically, but it has a different timezone history.

Until 15 March 1966, Labarador was on 3h30 west; since then it is on 4h west. It differs since then from the main part of NF.

Labrador also oberserved daylight saving time rules, though occasionally deviating from the other parts of NF.

In October 1963, Labrador (and the rest of NF) was on DST until 27 October. Therefore the date you mention has an effective timezone of 2h30 west.

Alois adds: The transits readings in our online Daily Horoscope have been extended and include Chiron transits. The Chiron readings have been created by Astrodienst staff writers, not by Robert Hand.

Regarding your other questions: I recommend to look through the astrological literature, to find somethign about 150° transit aspects, if those interest you. None of our authors has written about them.

Alois adds: If you believe to know better than other astrologers: You are welcome. Nobody forces you to use composite charts or aspects in composite charts.

Other astrologers do use them, with a lot of success, and may want to preserve their own opinion. What should and should not be done in astrology is not decided by S. Bissie, but by the experience of those who actually do the work.

For those who want to know more about the composite chart, its theory and its practice, I recommend the book 'Planets in Composite', by Robert Hand.

Alois adds: Please understand that Astrodienst staff, and not Robert Hand or Liz Greene carry the responsibility for what appears on this website. We try to use reliable data, and will add a note to the Dalai Lama chart, that the birth time is not without doubt.

From the personal impression I got from him when I watched him at a conference 20 years ago, I would tend to agree that double cancer (Sun and Ascendant) is indeed not what one sees. But I tend to trust well researched data more than such impressions.

Alois adds: This kind of service is called 'electional astrology'. I am sorry, but we do not offer it, at this time.

Alois adds: You are mistaken, there are no such ploys. We do not think or work like that at Astrodienst, we are direct, generous and honest. We do not play marketing games with our users.

The only difference between subscriber mode and non-subscriber mode is the accessibility of extended reading text and the extended day choice.

It is easy to verify: If you are a subscriber, logout of your profile, create a fresh 'guest user' profile and enter the same (!!!) birth data information. Then check the daily horoscope from both profiles, and compare. They will always be identical.