| Most people think a horoscope is the little four-line | | | | bottom, and South is to the top. The Rising sign the |
| piece of advice based on your birthday that you find in | | | | sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of |
| the newspaper. OK, that's one definition, and a dreadful | | | | birth is at "the 9 o'clock position." |
| example of what the craft of astrology can do. But a | | | | The 12 zodiac signs are Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, |
| horoscope is also what astrologers call "the chart" and | | | | Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Pisces, Sagittarius, |
| if you have ever had a natal reading, you probably | | | | Scorpio, Taurus and Virgo.Each sign has special |
| received this strange circular picture with funny signs | | | | characteristics that distinguish and mark itself from |
| and symbols, none of which made any sense to you, | | | | others. In setting up this astrological map for the birth of |
| but, for the price of your reading, this was one of the | | | | a native we divide the circle into twelve sections. |
| goodies. | | | | Each of these areas is called houses. Each house |
| A horoscope, that circular picture, is really a map of | | | | defines a specific area. The first house concerns the |
| the sky, an astrological map of the heavens keyed to | | | | native's personal identity. The second house deals with |
| the time and place of a specific birth. It is a map that | | | | the natives earning power or source of supply. The |
| appears typically as a two dimensional chart. It shows | | | | third house concerns the native's thoughts or sense of |
| the position of the Sun, the Moon, and planet's at the | | | | communication. |
| precise moment of a birth. The format of the map can | | | | The horoscope map, in addition to house areas and |
| differ from country to country as well as from culture | | | | spatial designators called signs, also contains a third |
| to culture. But whatever forms the horoscope takes, | | | | symbol, the planets, including the Sun and Moon. While |
| one thing is common to all horoscopes, and that is that | | | | the houses of the horoscope identify areas of |
| it is based on place, date, and time of birth. | | | | experience and the signs set the stage under which |
| The earth moves from west to east, so the Sun | | | | these areas of experience will operate, the planets act |
| appears to move from east to west. This 360 degree | | | | as the focus of attention or symbols of force bringing |
| circle of the zodiac is divided into 12 parts, each 30 | | | | the other two elements together. |
| degrees apart and called the zodiac signs. This is | | | | A correct interpretation of all these sky bodies |
| exactly like the twelve numerals on the face of a | | | | exposes much about the native. They could be |
| clock except that everything is backwards from | | | | thought of as weather conditions in the sky at the |
| everything you normally know about reading a map. | | | | moment of a native's birth. |
| East is to the left, West is to the right, North is to the | | | | |