Astrology has been practiced by man for thousands of years; it is one of the world's oldest religions. For millennia, man has looked to the heavens for insight into his troubles and for meaning in his life. Perhaps the earliest horoscope (2767 B.C.) was cast by Egyptian named Imhotep, the architect of the Great Steppe Pyramid at Saqqarah. Astrology was practiced by the Greeks, Babylonians, Indians, Chaldeans, and Chinese. Many early astronomers, including Ptolemy, Kepler, Copernicus, and Nostradamus, also practiced astrology.
The Natal (or birth) Horoscope is based on the relative positions of the 10 planets at birth (in astrology, the Sun and Moon are considered 'planets') with respect to each other and with respect to the 12 house cusps and the 12 zodiac signs. The ecliptic, or imaginary circular band in the sky around the Earth, is divided into 12 regions (each of 30 degrees of arc). Each region has its own zodiac sign. The 12 signs of the zodiac are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. As the planets move across the sky, they move from one zodiac region into another.
The 12 house cusps are similar to the zodiac regions, but where the zodiac is the same for all people, the location of the house cusps varies from one person to the next. The position of these house cusps in the zodiac is determined at birth (by your time and location of birth).
Your chart can be created by drawing the familiar 12 spoked "wheel" where each spoke represents a house cusp (or boundary between houses), and then writing down the name of your Ascendant beside the first house cusp and then the next sign of the zodiac on the second house cusp, and so on. Now you have the zodiac signs for your 12 house cusps on your "wheel". Next you place the planets in their proper locations within the wheel (by consulting an ephemeris) by determining which zodiac sign they lay in at the time of your birth. This wheel is your natal chart and is also a basis for your daily chart.
The Daily Horoscope is based on the positions of the planets TODAY relative to both the positions of the planets at birth and the person's house cusps. Thus, if Mercury's longitude today is the same as Mercury's longitude at the time of your birth, Mercury is said to be transitting Mercury (Mercury CONJUNCT Mercury). If Mercury (today) were 90 degrees from Mercury (at the time of birth), the transit (aspect) would be Mercury SQUARE Mercury. Similarly, if Mercury's ecliptic longitude today places it between the 1st and 2nd house cusps (of your natal chart), Mercury is said to lie in the first house
Note that while the position of the planets is always changing, the planets furthest from the Sun (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) take a long time to move discernible distances on the daily chart. Thus, their effects on the horoscope are more longer lasting and more SUBTLE than the inner planets, (like Mercury, Venus, and the Moon), whose effects are fleeting but quite INTENSE.
This explains why your daily horoscope sometimes appears unchanged. If, for example, Pluto is transitting the 5th house, you will notice that this portion of your daily horoscope remains unchanged for a long time. That is because Pluto is so far away from the Earth and moves very slowly across the sky (and into the 6th house). In fact, it takes almost 250 years for Pluto to make one complete orbit around the Sun (and hence, around the Earth)! That means it will take Pluto almost 250 years to cycle through the 12 houses!
Love compatibility horoscopes are determined by comparing the moon signs of two different people. The Moon rules your emotions and desires and thus plays the major role in determining your ideal mate.
Numerology is the study of the symbolism of numbers. It is used to determine a persons personality, strengths and talents, obstacles to be overcome, inner needs, emotional reactions and ways of dealing with others.
The roots of numerology can be traced back some 10,000 years or more to Egypt and Babylonia. Pythagoras, who developed many of the basic theorems that form the foundation of modern mathematics (including the right triangle theorem taught in math classes today) is credited with formally organizing the field about 2600 years ago in ancient Greece. At the turn of the twentieth century, an American woman, L. Dow Balliet, and several of her contemporaries published a few books and started the modern phase of numerology. The field grew slowly through several decades. Now, in the last half of the century, increased research and publishing along with a marked resurgence of interest in numerology is taking place.
Everything in the universe vibrates at its own particular frequency. By finding the vibration rate of any object, you can establish the qualities and energies associated with it. By applying the principles of numerology and using only the name and birth date as the basic data you can determine the major frequencies of different people. A numerological analysis of the calculated frequencies provides significant information on these peoples personalities and character.
The symbolic analysis of the single digits and master numbers is the essence of the numerology reports produced by any numerological character analysis. Since so many numbers are present and modify each other, the analysis is, as you might expect, a considerably complex operation. When you understand the basic symbolism of the numbers outlined below, though, youll have a useful grasp which should make it easier for you to interpret the various parts of the reports.
In the basic mathematical operation used in numerology, the numbers are reduced by simple addition. The number 15, for instance, is reduced by adding 1 + 5 to get 6. Similarly, the number 1974 can be reduced by adding 1 + 9 + 7 + 4 to get 21. The 21 can be further reduced by adding 2 + 1 to get 3.
In numerology, all numbers are reduced to the single digits 1 through 9 except the special master numbers 11 and 22. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 22 represent the major vibration rates associated with peoples characteristics.
Letters in individuals names are converted to numbers and then added together. These numbers, in turn, are also reduced. The letter A, for instance, is 1; the letter B is 2; the letter C is 3, and so on until the letter I is reached which is a 9. Then the next nine letters, J through R are numbered 1 to 9, respectively. The last eight letters, S through Z are numbered 1 to 8.
By applying simple mathematical formulas to the numbers representing a persons name and birth date, a numerologist can derive four major core elements and some twenty or thirty modifiers. A symbolic evaluation of these elements and modifiers provides a remarkably complete and accurate character analysis. (About half the information in the analysis, incidentally, comes from the birth date and half from the name.) The numerology reports produced by Expert Numerology are, of course, an example of the character analysis to which were referring.