I very much enjoy your site and find it to be quite accurate! Only, I have noticed that the horoscope is off by one day! I am in the PST and have many friends in the same time zone that have commented on this...which is just weird, since it doesn't go with the automatic change in the time zones.

For example, I now read tomorrow' horoscope to find out for today. I know three other people who do the same thing! We all agree that the horoscope is dead on...BUT one day off!

Even if you don’t realize it the war in Iraq, global warming, the hole in the ozone layer, the uncertain elections, North Korea playing with nuclear weapons like the sorcerer’s apprentice, Iran secretly sponsoring terrorism in Africa, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, and 30,000 children dying all over the world every single day because of poverty and starvation and not having medication may work on you unconsciously and make you feel anxious or depressed or even outraged. If you didn’t feel anxious, depressed or angry you would be truly out of touch. Congratulate yourself that you are alive and connected.

It is actually the Houses that describe distinct areas of your life. And traditionally a planet is more at home in some Houses just as it is more compatible with the qualities of some signs. Mars in the 10th (natural house of Capricorn) is said to be powerful because the initiative and competitive energy of Mars has an appropriate outlet in the area of your career and your standing before the world. You could think of this as ambition. The concept of Accidental dignity corresponds to a planet in a house that is the natural house of that planet’s essential dignity. Mars is accidentally dignified in the 1st (Aries) and the 10th (Capricorn). You can see where the competitive even combative instinct of Mars may have difficulty in the 4th (Cancer) or the 7th (Libra).

In the Table of Aspects under the Astrodienst Style chart, the small numbers refer to the distance in degrees the aspect is from exact. The small “S” means separating from exactness and “A” means applying. The green aspects are inconjuncts, either semi-sextile or quincunx. All the aspects including their symbols and many other answers are readily accessible under the left-most column of the Astrodienst homepage. Go to ‘Understanding Astrology’ and then mouse Aspects for explanations about aspects.

Like studying math, you can not be spoon-fed some of this information and have it be effective. You have to go through the exercise of working these things out in your own mind. I could tell you how to solve an algebraic equation but it would not help you the next time you had to solve one yourself. In the same way I could tell you Dom means domicile or home. And that planets resonate with particular signs and have difficulty with others. Mars rules the sign Aries and Mars is Dignified or at Home in Aries because the Martian drive is in accord with the characteristics of Aries. Aries takes its meaning from Mars and the sign has the same forceful, pioneering, aggressive, courageous, masculine, driving, competitive, fiery qualities of its ruling planet.

Mars at home in Aries is like placing Achilles in a battle. It’s his natural place and he shines there. Put him in a different environment and his indomitable nature is out of place and brings about trouble. Achilles does not shine in the home, Cancer’s domain, where peace, security, support, child care, nurturing, empathy, expressiveness, and sensitivity are appropriate. In the home such a character would seem a tyrant. Not only is hard on the home to have such an aggressive character as Mars living there, it’s hard on Mars to find comfort there. Mars hates having to be nice, gentle, sensitive. It’s an imposition which goes against his very nature. So we say Mars is in his detriment in Cancer. The warrior can not swing his sword around in the home without breaking the vases and the lamps or slicing up the babies.

But the matter that brings me to you now is of a different nature. With the swiss ephemerides there are only some code samples in old development paradigms. Would you be soon giving an updated code sample in VB.net (or one of the new .Net framework 2.0 languages)?

It would be greatly appreciated because when I try to upgrade the existing code to VB.net i get to many errors that are not very easy de debug.

Thanks in advance.

I was born 19 September 1956 at 21:00, UT 00+00, in Halifax, Canada, Longitude 63W36, Latitude 44N39. I believe I don't have a planet in my Second House, my Moon sign is Pisces and my Sun Sign is Virgo..

I am a client of Astrodienst and have a personal Horoscope Calendar (Nr. as31605.96-1).

I must say the services offered by ASTRODIENST are of excellent quality.It is an exhaustive site which is of immense value to astrologers around the world. It is especially very useful for astrologers who would like to compare one system of calculation of horoscopes with another. The best part is there are also many options to cast horoscopes both by the western and sidereal zodiac systems.

However, there is a little difficulty in casting horoscopes for specific Latitudes and Longitudes. Presently the option available is to get a horoscope by the name of a place and its country. Astrologers who are doing extensive research need to have horoscopes for specific co-ordinates so that they can dig into the manner in which the charts change when co-ordinates change by a constant value both across latitudes and/or longitudes.

I, personally wanted to see how the MC changes for different latitudes on a specific date at a specific time.However, I was unable to log in the latitudes or longitudes as the option available is only for place of birth/event. It will go a very long way for research in astrology if this feature is introduced in the system.

I am an astrologer working with Vedic and sidereal data mainly, however, striving to create a system using some Western elements such as exact aspects and outer planets. I have perused some of your books as well as Robert Hand and Stephen Arroyo to help me with this perspective.
My main question is the fate of Hungary. I saw that you prepared a mundane chart based on the new system inaugurated on 10/23 1989, 12:00 a.m. I wonder if that says something about the current unrest and the impossible restrictions masses will face next year in economic terms. I also wonder if you would consider a second date for casting a chart. Obviously the new system is a point of departure, however, the last Republic was announced after WWII on February 1, 1946, around 9:00 a.m. That chart with Indian techniques would tell you the exact timing of the Soviet invasion of the country in the morning of November 4, 1956, after the unsuccessful uprising. There could be arguments that that is a valid chart even after the so-called system change, especially in view of the fact that the same people rule now (and have been in power between 94 and 98 as well) as did under Communism (albeit freedom of expression has indeed grown). This is true in sociological terms (they constitue the present oligarchy of the country) and in terms of inheritance: the same party (MSZP, earlier MSZMP) was elected again in 2002. Our present PM is actually a guy who led the Communist Youth Organisation before the system change, and amassed his wealth by appropriating some of the property of that organisation to start his capitalist enterprises in 1990. I wonder what you could say based upon the 1946 data?
Do the current unrests make sense in either chart with Western techniques? What does the wisdom of ancient European archetypes would tell Hungary now?
What I read about is the Pluto-Venus transit (which occurred between 2000 January and 2004 February, taking a 5-degree orbis on both sides, peaking in the Fall of 2002.)

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transiting Jupiter is square to natal Uranus, and
transiting Uranus is square to natal Jupiter!

I believe the two main points I am trying to make about using modern iconogrpahy/mythology for naming newly discovered astral bodies has eluded you. basically I am trying to express that:
A- as cultures evolve, mythology does so along with the culture and
B- any culture's mythology is expressed through the eyes of that culture and is most appropriate and understandable to its constituents because it is visualized and conceived of by it.

First I have to start off by saying I love the ancients- I have been fascinated by Greek mythology since I was 4 years old and was obviously compelled to astrology because of this love. That having been said, regarding point A, I'd like to remind you that Greek mythology had centuries to ripen and was built on millennia of earlier cultural mythology. I'm sure the first expressions of it were perhaps as clumsy as the first Superman comic book. By the time of classical Greek civilization there was much for the great minds of the age to express- and these were great minds that gave us our lexicon to be sure.

So, keeping in mind this point A, let's explore point B. Let's find another time ripened bit of non-Greek cultural mythology- let's find something non-American. Are you British, Kent? Why don't we take a look at the Arthurian legends? Do you find this mythology as redundant and impotent as current American mythology. Actually, I believe that with the 1000 years of ripening, there have been some brilliant expressions of this mythology and I can think of one author who I can't say is as brilliant as Sophocles, but I can say that she manages to express my point exactly. The point being, that as culture evolves, new archetypes emerge and mythology evolves to express them- perhaps more easily seen in hindsight, after the mythology has had time to ripen and can be interpreted by a brilliant mind (as has been the Greek). So, regarding the Arthurian mythology- Marion Zimmer Bradley writes of Lancelot in a very powerful way. She writes of a faithful, dedicated man in love with his king. She writes of a homosexuality buried deeply in servitude and misplaced onto Arthur's wife. This aspect of sexuality doesn't exist in the Greek lexicon. Homosexuality is written freely into their mythology. In the Arthurian legend it is expressed rather differently- a new archetype emerges as homosexuality becomes tabooed in the Christian age and is still relevant today. This is merely one example in perhaps volumes of differences between our culture and ancient Greek culture.