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Rectify: To correct imperfections, mistakes, or flaws in something already done.
Introduction
In astrology, a good way to define rectify is a process used to determine the time of a person’s birth. Rectification is commonly used to find out when a person was born if their time of birth is unknown.
The most general and truest definition above all forms of astrological rectification is that it is a technique for determining when an event has taken place in the past.
Some people do not know the time of their birth because they may have forgotten it or it was not recorded correctly at the appropriate time. This is important in the astrological field because the moment of birth is the basis of many fundamental techniques of Western astrology.
For example, it would be impossible for you to calculate the houses, Arabic parts and some important aspects of a horoscope if you do not know the time of birth.
The purpose of this article is to provide the steps to follow in order to be able to approximate a person’s date of birth within a margin of error of between one and two hours. With these steps we will seek to determine the correct rising sign of the person to whom we are carrying out the astrological study.
It is important to note that this process is somewhat different from that used to determine the exact degree of the ascendant, and that is not the purpose of this writing.
The purpose of the steps in this rectification is to increase the options available to you once you have successfully specified the correct ascendant of the person whose birth time is unknown. Once you find the correct rising sign, it will be easier and closer for you to try to guess the exact degree of the person’s ascendant and birth.
This study is primarily intended to be carried out on people who have at least some idea of the time of day in which they were born. For example, people who know they were born between sunrise and noon.
A big part of the reason for limiting the study to people who know their approximate time of birth is to reduce the number of possible outcomes. In the case of a person who is completely unaware of the time they were born, you would be faced with twelve different rising signs.
When you’re dealing with twelve different rising signs, there’s a higher chance of falling into the trap of a false positive. It is very possible that you will find a birth chart that looks correct to you in which everything seems to match your client perfectly, but the time of birth is completely different from his actual time.
For example, it may happen that you corrected the time to 2:00 p.m. and it turns out that the correct time was 02:00 a.m. The reason for this failure is that sometimes there can be a reflection of the chart, there can be a lot of similarities and overlaps between someone who was born at 2:00 a.m. and someone who was born at 2:00 p.m.
It’s not impossible to rectify a letter within a full 24 hours, but the process is much more complex and subject to a much higher margin of error.
Let’s talk about rectification techniques.
Normally, when astrologers or interested people mention rectification, its techniques are the first thing that comes to mind. Rectification in Western astrology is considered an esoteric subject that sometimes requires material outside of astrology itself.
In some cases, the same astrologers recommend doing certain things that have nothing to do with astrology itself to find the correct birth time. The objective of our study is not to criticize or reject the approach of these people, but these external elements to astrology will not be our subject of interest.
It is possible to use astrology to determine the correct birth time, so this is what to use to correct a birth chart.
Correcting the birth time of a natal chart requires that you have an in-depth knowledge of the fundamental principles of astrology. With a good grounding in fundamental theory before interpreting a natal chart and a method for applying that knowledge systematically, you will always achieve similar results.
The process described here is based on traditional astrology with which certain systemic principles are supposed to be completed in every situation. This differs somewhat from the need some modern astrologers have to incorporate intuition into their chart delineations when first looking at them.
Once this system of approach is in place, rectification becomes a much easier and simpler process, therefore our steps will essentially consist of traditional astrology applied to the interpretation and rectification of a birth chart.
Another reason why traditional astrology is gaining importance for the purpose of rectification is that it focuses on the external events and circumstances of the person’s life, not on their psyche or internal character.
Modern astrology tends to focus more on the psychological analysis of people, but although this has an important place in astrology, it should be remembered that there is another equally valid field which tries to specify the events that take place. will unfold in a person’s life after birth.
These are objective events that do not have to be related to the character or the psyche of the person, but they are elements that astrology is able to deal with, since astrology is designed to analyze both the elements external and internal to the person. .
Therefore, in order to rectify a natal chart, it is much more objective and simple to use the external elements around the person’s life, since they do not require a great interpretation to determine them, unlike personal tendencies. and internal thoughts in the client’s mind, which are often subject to the subjective interpretation of the astrologer.
Step One: Complete Sign System
This first step may be somewhat controversial for some. The first recommendation for determining the correct rising sign is to use the full sign system as the primary method of division.
If you prefer to use another type of house division, you can transfer this suggestion to a secondary plan as additional evidence. However, it is recommended to use full signs as the primary method and use any other desired division method as secondary evidence.
This suggested house division method is usually more accurate and makes the rectification process easier.
With the complete house sign system, you just need to find the sign in which the ascendant resides, and whatever sign it is, it becomes the first house. Once done, the next sign in zodiac order (counterclockwise) becomes the second house, continuing in that order until the circle is complete. astromonde integrates this system of houses.
As an added benefit, there won’t be too many variables once you figure out which sign the ascendant is in, since you won’t need to specify whether the ascendant is very early or very late in the sign. . Once you know that this sign is the first house, you will already know clearly that the following signs are the second, third, etc.
For example, Cancer Ascendant would make Cancer the first house, Leo the second, and Virgo the third.
Obviously, the grinding process is greatly streamlined with this in-house system. After determining the appropriate rising sign, the correct placement of the houses for each of the planets will be available to you.
Also, the difference between one ascendant and another in the full house sign system is much more pronounced. If the ascendant is in a specific sign, then you will know that the planets reside in specific houses, and the moment the ascendant changes signs, all the planets will change houses with it.
However, the main reason why it is advisable to focus on the complete house sign system is that once the ascendant is determined, you have pretty much completed the entire birth chart.
Second step: identify all possible cards
The next objective of this rectification process is to identify all possible cards existing in the time frame you are working with.
If you work with a six hour time frame, you may come across three or four different possible birth charts. What you need to do is a new letter for each possible rising sign.
For example, if your client mentions that she was born somewhere in the morning and the event surprised her mother on her way to work, this allows you to reduce the possible time slot from 05:00 to 11:45.
Now let’s say that on this day, Virgo was rising from 05:00 am to 07:15 am, then at 07:15 am Libra was rising until 09:30 am, and finally from 09:30 am to 11:45 am Scorpio was rising.
This gives us three possible rising signs (Virgo, Libra and Scorpio) which in turn will make us create three birth charts to work on and contrast. If we want to determine the correct rising sign, we will have to rule out two of these three different possible birth charts.
Another element to pay attention to is the planets that can change signs during this period of time. Although not a common occurrence, it can happen, especially with the Moon.
Let’s say that in this example the Moon changed signs at 8:30 a.m. and moved from Leo to Virgo. So, in this case, there is an additional complication and an additional card must be taken into account.
Even though Libra continued to rise during the transition from Leo to Virgo Moon, we now have a horoscope with Libra Ascendant and Moon in Leo and another with Libra Ascendant and Moon in Virgo.
For convenience, this increases the number of natal charts to work with from three to four. One card for each rising sign (Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio) and two cards with the same rising sign (Libra) but different moon locations (Leo and Virgo).
Because it was decided to use the full house sign system, even though we have to consider four different natal charts, this is still an acceptable number to work with.
Unlike the Placidus or similar system, where the movement of the ascendant creates hundreds of different card permutations, in the case of the full house sign system, everything is solved in a much simpler way.
Third step: using the concept of sect
This step consists in using the concept of sect. The term sect comes from the Latin “sect” and means a way or a path.
The concept known as sect in Hellenistic astrology consists of the distinction between the daytime and nighttime charts and the effect of the more positive and more negative planets therein.
The concept of sect is very important, and one of those that has been rediscovered in recent years thanks to translations of ancient texts. It is a quite remarkable principle of interpretation which has modified the current perception of the benefits or the consequences of the beneficial or malefic planets present in a natal chart.
This crucial form of performance has been lost over time as it has gone largely undeclared.
Twentieth-century astrologers, during the resurrection period of astrology, lacked the texts that transmitted it, leaving its rediscovery lost until only a few decades ago.
An ancient astrologer would never say that the malefic planets are an absolute indication of calamities or the beneficial ones are an absolute indication of blessings.
Therefore, the first half of this step is simply determining whether the graph is day or night.
A diurnal or nocturnal chart is characterized by the position of the Sun in relation to the ascendant.
If the Sun is in the upper half of the chart, and has crossed the ascendant, then it is a day chart, unlike the opposite situation where the chart will be nocturnal.
In the event that the position of the Sun coincides with the delimitation of the ascendant, there will be some problem in following this criterion, and it is usually necessary to apply rectification to solve it. However, if it coincides exactly with the ascendant, it is generally considered a day when the Sun rises above the horizon.
The smallest and most concrete principle of interpretation it has is to help you identify the most positive and the most negative planet in the birth chart, this being the second part of this step.
Disregarding all other relevant implications, the most positive planet in a daytime chart will turn out to be Jupiter, while the most positive planet in a nighttime chart will turn out to be Venus. Conversely, the most negative planet in a daytime chart will be Mars, while the most negative planet in a nighttime chart will be Saturn.
The effect of the cult concept is to create a spectrum between good and bad.
For example, in a daily chart, the most positive is Jupiter and the most negative is Mars, but between Jupiter and Mars there will also be Venus and Saturn causing a somewhat more neutral effect than usual.
Venus in a daytime chart won’t be as positive as it would be in a nighttime chart, but it will still apply some of its effect. One could say that his interpretation would be changed to a moderately positive one.
Likewise, Saturn in a day chart is not the terribly evil Saturn that is sometimes spoken of in some texts. Saturn is much more constructive in a daytime chart and can also have a positive side to some degree.
For example, some modern astrologers talk about the positive side of Saturn and the positive side of the Saturn archetype. This situation with Saturn mostly occurs in daytime charts, as Saturn becomes more subdued.
Although the negative effect of the planet continues to subject the person to face certain eventualities, these are usually the ones that allow him to overcome them and achieve personal growth through it.
In the nocturnal charts, the roles change, Venus becomes the most positive and Saturn the most negative, leaving Jupiter and Mars in the intermediate positions.
Step number four: study the main meanings of houses
The fourth step in this method is to study the main meanings of the houses in order to apply them to the comparison of natal charts.
We have to reduce many of the meanings that are applied in modern astrology to the different houses. Sometimes they are associated with so many psychological implications that it is very easy to deviate from their main concrete meanings.
In the process of rectification, it is necessary to reduce the range of items that need to be paid attention to for each house. The reason for this is to be able to correctly distinguish the different implications of one house from another.
The following is a brief summary with the most important meanings of each house. These are the main meanings in terms of objective outer circumstances that will sometimes coincide with the activation of said houses and what they signify in a natal chart.
It is important to take into account that only the first house describes the native, the rest of the houses deal with elements external to the person, other people present in his life or other personal areas.
The first house mainly affects the native and his body, the person who was born at that exact moment.
The second house deals with finances, money and possessions.
The brothers of the third house and the short journeys.
The fourth house parents, home and living situation.
The fifth houses the children.
The sixth domestic evil, health and work. Traditionally, it was mainly seen as a disease, but it also has something to do with health and its improvement.
The seventh house of relationships, marriage and companionship.
The eighth house death, property of others and shared resources.
The ninth house foreign countries, foreigners, travel and education.
The tenth house, the person’s career and reputation, or how they are perceived by the world around them.
The eleventh house, friends, alliances and groups
The twelfth house of enemies and laws.
Fifth step: launch the comparison
At this point, the basics and requirements for performing birth chart rectification should already be prepared, now is the time to start the comparison.
You will need to compare the locations of the houses and the most positive and negative planets of all the charts you are working with. The ultimate goal will be to identify the chart that best fits the life of the person to whom the astrological study is applied.
It will be necessary to ask the person questions to determine the objective events in his life that best correspond to the traits of his authentic birth chart. The focus of the questions will be to explore positive and negative events that occurred at specific times in your life.
In Western astrology today, there is usually some conditioning to consider any observed placement in the birth chart to be related to an event that persists throughout the person’s lifetime. But that doesn’t have to be the case.
When observing an objective event, a particular location may indicate a singular event that occurred at some point in the person’s life, rather than a permanent psychological trait. This event could just last for a brief moment, without necessarily being something that continued throughout his life.
With each question, we seek to differentiate the objective characteristics of the cards we work with to gradually eliminate those that differ greatly from events that have occurred during the person’s life.
It is advisable to do this process with the person present as if it were a normal astrological consultation to see and hear how their life experiences are resolved in terms of the archetypal meanings of the study.
In addition, it will thus be possible to adjust the questions according to the doubts that arise when comparing the specific locations of the different graphs.
First of all, he will try to identify the most positive and negative planets that affect the person.
Below is a hypothetical example of what to look for to identify the most positive and negative aspects of the birth chart.
Faced with a situation with rising Leo and Taurus in the 10th house, the Sun will be in the upper half of the chart. This confirms that the chart is diurnal, so it provides the information that the most positive planet will be Jupiter, while the most negative will be Mars.
The most positive planet, Jupiter, is found in the seventh house of marriage and relationships. Knowing this, one could say that the part of that person’s life that should have gone better for him, in which he received the greatest fortune, should be in the area of relationships.
The most negative planet, Mars, is found in the second house of finances, money and possessions. With this, one could say that the part of this person’s life which must have gone the worst, in which he will have suffered the greatest difficulties, should be in the area of finances, money or possessions.
Between Jupiter and Mars you can also find the influence of Venus and Saturn. However, in this case, as it is a daily card, its effect will be reduced.
Venus will indicate certain positive traits on the area of life depending on which house it falls on, but they will not be positive enough to have an impactful effect on the person’s life.
Saturn will indicate certain negative traits on the area of life depending on the house in which it is located, but these will not be obstacles negative enough to become insurmountable obstacles.
It will be necessary to carry out a similar study for the different cards with which you work. Once the study is complete, the questions to ask the person will then be based on their results.
The answers provided by the person will be used to make a first classification of the letter having the best chance of being correct. In the event of very pronounced discrepancies, it will even be possible to discard some of the supposedly erroneous letters.
Step Six: Compare the Ascendant Ruler
This step consists of comparing the ruler of the ascendant and the house in which he is located for each of the relevant charts studied.
The house in which the ascendant lord is usually indicates the areas of life to which the person is inclined.
In the most extreme cases, this configuration could indicate something similar to the meaning of life for the person, while to a lesser extent at least, it can be assured that the problems related to the house in which the master of the ascendant will be quite important matters.
When you ask the person questions to determine the correct configuration, the life themes that coincide with the position of the ascendant ruler must be related to his answers, even if the person does not necessarily seek them consciously.
At the very least, if they are not present throughout the life of the person, these themes will tend to make recurring appearances or show an acceptable level of involvement with the person.
In cases where the planet has an extremely good position, the person’s tastes could totally coincide with the position of the ruler, while in situations where his position is not ideal, the person may be hesitant to even talk about it because you find it difficult or not fun.
In addition, it will be necessary to know the state of the planet in question and its influence on the map. The influence and situation of the planet will partially modify the experiences of the vital chart of the house in which it falls. So there are two deep layers in this step.
For example, the ruler of the 10th house in the 5th might indicate a career related to children, or that the person works with children.
In another case, the ruler of the seventh house of the tenth could mean that your mate is important to the person’s career.
The delineation of the ruler of one house in another has its own meaning and is something to keep in mind when contrasting different cards. One will have to pay attention to the ruler’s background and state to visualize how the themes associated with his house will tend to work.
Let’s say the lord of the seventh house is in the tenth, and your mate plays an important role in your career. But if that planet is in a bad location, the scenario could be where the person is going through a divorce, turning the whole situation into a chaotic mess as your business is involved in the event.
In another situation, if the ruler of the fifth house is in the eighth with an extremely negative positioning, the person might come to see the untimely death of their children as an external circumstance.
Step Seven: Compare Planetary Income
Compare planetary income in houses with known events. This is one of the most crucial steps in the rectification process.
It is usually possible to identify the prominence of the effects of highly influential planets such as Jupiter or Saturn almost immediately upon entering a new house, much as their absence is noted upon leaving it.
One of the greatest advantages of using the complete sign system for grinding appears in this seventh step. With this system, when a planet moves to a new zodiac sign, it also moves to a whole new house in the person’s chart.
If the person has a Cancer in the 10th house, the instant a planet is in Cancer they will also move to the 10th house, leaving the time period when the planets enter the houses well defined.
The most important aspect of this study is to be able to correctly determine the changes introduced in the life of the person by the periods of time during which the planets are located in a specific sign.
Although it is possible to use any planet for this study, it is advisable to use mainly Jupiter or Saturn.
The speed at which the planets move is a factor in this step, and Jupiter and Saturn change signs at a really useful speed for this study.
In the case of Jupiter, time frames of one year are available between each sign. Jupiter only stays in a zodiac sign for periods of about twelve months. Without periods as short as those of Mercury, which changes its sign practically every month, this allows us to analyze without too many problems the changes that Jupiter brings with it.
Saturn’s stationary periods of two or three years are long enough for its influence to set in and can be carefully studied, but also short enough for its beginning and end to be properly specified, unlike Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. , which can take decades to change. sign.
It will also be possible to use interior planets such as Venus or Mars if they are going to go through their retrograde period, which lengthens a little more the time during which they leave their influence in the same sign.
Step Eight: Choose the Right Rising Sign
Choose the right rising sign.
At this point in the rectification, enough information should have been gathered from the person to have a good idea of which birth chart information most closely approximates their life. But that still won’t be enough to completely eliminate the rest of the cards.
In order to choose a single card among the various possibilities, it will first be necessary to pay attention to the concept of sect and apply it to the study of the transits in the cards with which you are working.
In a daytime chart, we know that Jupiter will be the most positive planet, while Saturn will not be as negative as in a nighttime chart. While the opposite case can be observed in a night letter.
Jupiter transits in a daytime chart will be more positive, while in a nighttime chart they won’t be as noticeable, with Venus having the most positive influence.
Saturn transits in a daytime chart will be more subdued, and even with some tendency to be a bit more constructive, while people with nighttime charts will fully feel its negative influence.
These rules will apply to all tracked planets.
When you have all this information at hand, it’s time to choose the right card. One in which all the information matches the answers the person has given.
Finally, it is important to remember that you will sometimes have to pay close attention to the leaders of the houses and the problems they face, as they can greatly complicate the situation.
Although this method of rectification is presented in a simple and straightforward manner, it is really not as simple as it seems. In the process of correcting a person’s natal chart, there can be innumerable difficulties and easily overlooked elements that very easily change the outcome.
The rectification process is a speculative technique. This means that no matter how good an astrologer is in his realization, it will always be possible to arrive at a bad result. It will never be possible to guarantee the result in complete safety.
Step number nine: determine the exact degree of the ascendant
Once the correct ascendant sign has been discovered, the exact degree of the ascendant remains to be determined.
With certain techniques, it is possible to reduce the margin of error to five or ten minutes from the exact time.
Some options for determining degree are to use solar arcs, primary directions, secondary progressions, or transits as the primary method of rectification.
At the end of the process, once the rising sign has been established, this is when these additional timing techniques should be used to approximate the exact degree of the ascendant.
Unfortunately, it is at this point that the rectification process becomes much more speculative. Discovering the exact degree of the ascendant with these techniques is an extremely complex process as conflicting indications will often be found.
Among other cases, it may make sense if the ascendant entered a certain planet in a certain year, but then a very important event in the person’s life would fit better if the MC was in the exact position from another planet in another year. modifies the initial analysis.
Another method to reduce the margin of error can be based on the use of fortune.
Using the fortune share, the planet that rules its sign should be observed and what house it is in with respect to the same fortune share. The procedure would begin by locating the fortune share and counting the houses from it.
For example, the fortune share of a person’s night chart is in Libra, ruling Venus, and in this case the Jupiter conjunction in the seventh sign, or seventh house relative to the fortune share.
By converting the share of fortune in the first house, Scorpio would then be the second, Sagittarius the third, Capricorn the fourth, Aquarius the fifth and so on until reaching Venus in the seventh house of societies and marriage .
This configuration indicates that the person is going to have a partly relationship-oriented life because Venus is in the seventh house in relation to a part of fortune.
Las relations deberían ser una de las áreas más important y afortunadas en la vida de la persona, sin embargo, cuando pasan los años la persona muere de form súbita e inesperada en un accidente de coche con apenas veinte años de edad y sin really haber empezado his life.
At this point, it’s easy to realize that something is wrong with the person’s birth chart, but upon further examination of the data used to calculate the chart, everything is apparently correct and the time of birth is that provided at the time by the person’s relatives, 01:30
However, one of the factors that had not been taken into account was that the fortune share was almost at the end of its sign, and that by advancing the birth time by two or three minutes the fortune share would become in Scorpio.
If fortune were to change into Scorpio, the delimitation of the natal chart would be radically modified, and its ruler would become Mars, which in this example opposes Saturn in the eighth house with respect to fortune.
However, it would be necessary to count eight signs, and to take into account the fact that the eighth sign relating to the share of fortune is that relating to the place of death.
This specific case would also have a very bad and powerful configuration with Mars in opposition to Saturn in a nocturnal chart, severely affecting the part of fortune linked to the place of death.
A few weeks after the person dies, their personal effects arrive, and with them their birth certificate.
In the birth record, it is possible to check the time of birth, and it shows that the person was born at 01:36, just enough for such drastic changes to occur in their birth chart.
If the birth time had been corrected by a few minutes, this very negative configuration could have been interpreted, leading to a completely different conclusion about the person’s life before the fateful moment.
In this extreme case, the adjustments needed for rectification are quite easy to see after the catastrophic event in the person’s life.
This example is intended to demonstrate that it is sometimes easy to adjust the settings necessary to rectify a card, but that more care must be taken when certain configurations approach certain ranges which would coincide much better with the events occurring in the life of the person.
This is essentially what rectification consists of.
Guide, by way of summary, on how to rectify a natal chart
1. It uses full sign houses as the main house dividing system. Do it for rectification, once the letter has been rectified you can use any other home system.
2. Identify the possible cards in the given time frame. A card for every possible rising sign in the time frame you are looking for.
3. Use the sect to identify the most positive and negative planets. The most positive planet during the day is Jupiter and the most negative is Mars, at night it is Venus and Saturn.
4. Focus on the basic meanings of the houses. Reduce the meaning of the houses and focus mainly on external circumstances and events.
5. Compare the locations of the houses of the most positive and negative planets. The placement of the houses of the most positive and negative planets will show areas of fortune or misfortune.
6. Compare the Ascendant lord in the Houses. The ruler of the Ascendant shows an area in which life is concentrated or directed.
7. Look for specific themes in other houses and their leaders. Investigate aspects of life focusing on the rulers of specific houses and their status.
8. Compare planetary income in houses with known events. Observe the incomes of the outer planets and see if the themes associated with the houses become more important.
9. Use progressions to reduce the degree of the ascendant. Use time-based techniques such as transits and solar arc progressions to identify the degree of the Ascendant.