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• * »mes in— creating the houses. There just is not a guaran- loed way to eyeball the houses and feel comfortable about ilicir accuracy.

Given my birth information, and using figure 8, de-

!ermine my rising sign. Go down the left column to Can-The Fast Way— By ״Eyeballing129/ ״

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to CP then read across until you find the time block in which your birth time falls. In this case, that would be the time block labeled 5 p m /7 pm because 6:15 pm falls within that time period. Then read up that 5 p m /7 pm col- umn to see which zodiac sign is at the top; it is CN (Can- cer). So Cancer would be the correct rising time in this ex- ample.

Time is listed as standard time. For births during daylight savings time, subtract one hour from the birth time and use that to reference in this chart. For exam- pie, if your birthtime is recorded as 7:30 am DST, use 6:30 am when using this chart.

Once you know both the Sun and rising signs for a person, you can easily tell a great deal about that person.

All you need to do is study the Sun sign profiles for both signs and blend them together. For instance, suppose your friend has a Cancer Sun sign and a Leo rising sign.

Cancer people tend to be timid, reclusive and home lov- ing. Leos are outgoing, show-offs, and interested in play- ing. A person with this Cancer-Leo blend is likely to be a fun loving home body who likes to retreat into privacy for a while and then break out and be the life of the party sometimes.

First look up your own rising sign and study how it blends uniquely with your Sun sign to make you the per- son you are.

Then start doing the same thing with family mem bers. Then friends. You will have fun, fascinate your fam ily and friends, and learn about people and astrology in the process.

A final word about using the rising sign chart. You will notice that certain birth times can fall into two differ ent rising sign time periods. For instance, an Aries Sun sign person who is born at 7 am could fall into either an Aries rising sign or a Taurus rising sign. How do you know which is correct?

eyeballing process—setting up houses 2 through 12.

There simply is no way to guess accurately. So here is what you do.

You set up all houses to be equal. That is, put 29LE00 on the 1st house cusp, 29V100 on the 2nd house cusp, 29LI00 on the 3rd and so on through 29CN00 on the 12th house cusp.

Next place the eyeballed planets in the houses. Fig- ure 9 shows what your final eyeballed chart should look like.

Compare figure 9 with the computerized chart, fig- ure 1. Pretty darn close aren't they? There are only two items that do not match closely: (1) the eyeballed Venus falls into the 9th house instead of the 10th where it should be, and (2) Mars is in Leo when it should be in Virgo.

This is phenominally close. Eyeballing does work

׳ juite well. If you were to analyze the eyeballed chart, the ,inalysis would be amazingly close to the analysis of the c omputerized chart.

The principal differences would be these:

1. Mars in Leo would reflect me as being more openly

•iggressive than I really am with Mars in Virgo. Also, it would show me less skillful with words than I really am with Mars in Virgo.

2. Venus in the 9th house would reflect me being a

«!ronger candidate for a religious life or in the publishing business as perhaps an editor or in marketing rather than ן־ו a writer interacting with the public as my Venus in the 10th reflects.

Otherwise the charts would interpret much the name.

The degree of error with eyeballing, if you do it right, 1« so minimal that it is well worth pursuing. Of course, Ido no! purport that eyeballing is a replacement for an accu- I airly constructed chart.

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cer and then across to 9am. Since 9 is a borderline time, either Leo or Virgo, you make a decision. For these border- line cases, recall that I said if the birthdate is in the first half of the Sun sign period, use the first rising sign. If the birth date is in the second half of the Sun sign period, use the second rising sign.

My birth date is July 4, which is in the first half of the Sun sign period. Therefore, you know my rising sign is Leo because Leo comes before Virgo. But what degree of Leo? Here is where you make an educated guess.

Think about it a moment. You know from figure 8 that my 9 am birth time is borderline to Virgo. Therefore guess at a degree that is in the latter degrees of Leo.

Here is a good rule of thumb (still using my exam- pie): For 7 am use 1 degree Leo; for 8 am (the halfway point) use 15 degrees Leo; for 9 am use 29 degrees Leo.

Apply this same logic to the other time periods for all your rising sign eyeballing. You will be as close as you can get by eyeballing. With this method, your 1st house cusp will not be in error by more than about 14 degrees, worst case, and usually closer than that.

Now take a blank horoscope chart and label the firs!

house cusp (the rising sign) with 29LE00 (29 degrees 0 sec- onds of Leo). This then will be the eyeballed rising sign for my birth chart. concerned about making the pie shaped equal sizes. You can label the houses 1 through 12 starting at the 1st house and numbering counterclockwise. Refer to figures 1,2 or 9 for an idea of the general layout.

N ow comes the most inaccurate part of the entire

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The one feature that does not correlate between fig- tires 1 and 9 is that of the houses. None of the eyeballed liouse cusps have the correct degree on them, and most are not even close. However, they do correlate with regard to the signs ruling the houses.

If you were to eyeball my wife's natal chart (see fig- ure 4) you would not have the signs on the houses corre- late because she has two intercepted signs, and there is no way to know that when you are eyeballing. When eyeball- ing houses, you must assume that it will be a conventional wheel such as in my natal chart.

Eyeballing does come close enough, in general, to matching a calculated chart that you can glean a great deal of valuable information from an eyeballed chart. When you get accustomed to eyeballing, you can set up a chart in .i matter of minutes.

In more advanced astrology, the exact degrees on all 1 he house cusps and for all the planets are also analyzed.

This gives a deeper and broader scope of interpretation.

Analyzing the degrees lets you get deeper inside the per- son. For this, you must have an accurately constructed i hart—no eyeballing.

We will not go into analysis of degrees in this book, 1 «tit I just want to make you aware that it does exist. In the Litter part of this book I will refer you to a good reference hook for degree analysis if it should interest you.

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Figure 9

An Eyeballed Natal Chart

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