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astrologers we are often stuck with the paper details of the
symbols. The importance of this strikes home particularly
when a beginning astrologer must look at a chart and discern,
"What is a "day" chart?"
This is a confusing question
to beginning astrologers whose experience with charts started
with ink and paper; as moderns, this description probably
includes all of us.
But, to anyone born before
the advent of electricity, this would have been ludicrous.
Of course, when the sun is above the horizon, it's day-time.
In ancient times, astrologers
were naked-eye observers of the night sky, but had little
with which to write. Students had vast tables to memorize.
They had to make observations from nature. For early man,
this was the clue to understanding the world.
It was this precious "information"
which enabled farmers to sow and harvest, and offered timing
for hunts; this information based a folk lore which we know
today as astrology. Take a look at the sky tonight. Use
the help of these astronomical sites, and become familiar
with the sky; the naked-eye observation can be a new basis
for understanding in the old-fashioned ways.
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