Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
Birth-time rectificationEveryone around you seems to know their "big three", Sun, Moon and rising — and you're stuck on the third. Your Sun sign comes straight from your birthday. Your Moon sign you can usually work out. But every app that offers a rising sign asks for the one thing you don't have: the exact time you we...
Oksana Miatova9 min
Birth-time rectificationYou've hunted for your birth time and come up empty. The certificate has a date and no hour, the hospital's records have thinned with the decades, and your family offers a shrug and a vague "sometime in the morning." Then an astrologer says something that sounds equal parts hopeful and suspicious...
Oksana Miatova11 min
Birth-time rectificationYou find a birth-chart site, type in your date and place, and then the form asks for your time of birth. You don't have it. The cursor blinks in the empty field, and it's easy to assume that's the end of it, that without the time your chart is a write-off and there's no point going on.
Oksana Miatova10 min
Birth-time rectificationYou sit down to build your birth chart, the form asks for your time of birth, and you stall. Maybe there's nothing written down. Maybe there's a number, but your mum shrugs and says "sometime in the morning, I think." Maybe the certificate in the drawer has a date and no time at all.
Oksana Miatova11 min
Birth-time rectificationYou've probably been handed two flatly opposite answers. One friend insists you can't read a chart at all without an exact time, and treats a missing minute like a missing limb. Another waves it away: signs are signs, the rest is fuss, just enjoy your Scorpio season. Both of them are half right, ...
Oksana Miatova9 min