What is a real Horoscope?
People often refer to an astrological forecast such as this one – or to the Sun Sign columns in the newspapers and magazines – as a “horoscope”. A horoscope is actually a map of Space-Time, an “image of the hour” as its Greek root words imply, which shows where the Sun and Moon and Planets are located in relationship to each other, and in relation to a particular place on Earth at a specific instant in Time. The Natal Horoscope If that instant is the time of birth of an individual, then THAT horoscope is called a “natal horoscope” or “natal chart” or “birth chart”. What the average person calls “a horoscope” is actually a reading of that map, or an interpretation in words of that horoscope chart’s symbolic meaning. Unless you are a student of astrology who knows how to read the map, you will not get too much useful information from a real horoscope chart, any more than you would from looking at your own chest X-ray unless you were a doctor trained in reading X-ray images. The Horoscope
