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To do your chart an astrologer needs:
Your birthday: 5 May 1970
Your birth time:. 6:33 am. Not sure? See below.
Your birth place: The city/town and country.
Were you born naturally?
Was your birth induced or caesarean? Please see below.
Example:
Anthony
May 5, 1970
6:30 am
Edinburgh, Scotland
Natural birth
Not sure of your birth time?
Lots of people don’t know their exact time of birth but the more accurate the time is, the more accurate the chart can be. Not everything astrologers do needs an accurate time, but many things do. In some countries it’s on the birth certificate, and sometimes parents write it down. Even if your parents say “tea time” an approximate time can be better than none. Unless of course they’re just saying that and really don’t remember at all.
Astrologers use a technique called rectification to try and figure out what a person’s birth time could be when they really don’t know. This involves looking at critical events in their life and matching these different times to see if the chart fits with those events. I can do this but I don’t trust that it really gives an accurate time. If you don’t know your time I prefer to just read the parts of your chart that are accurate without an exact time.
Rectification works best when a person knows their time but it’s a few minutes off. Sometimes I’m working with a person and it becomes obvious the time needs a little adjustment. Periods of major life change, especially in the area of career and homelife, can be shown more clearly with an accurate time.
Were you a caesarean or induced birth?
Caesarean or induced births are tricky for a few reasons. One is because I believe a baby knows when they should be born, and when they choose the time for themselves, then the chart seems to match them better… otherwise it’s the doctor deciding, or the parents if they’ve made an appointment.
While some astrologers feel it’s the first breath that marks our first moment of life, others believe, and I agree, that we’re already someone before birth and our chart shows the essence of who we are; meaning it doesn’t create us, it reflects us. And so a baby comes whenever feels right to them… like a flower blooms or a seed sprouts… there’s a divine intelligence at work.
If you came by caesarean and were on your way already (like an emergency caesarean) then your natural time is not off by much. It is 100% easier to read a chart for this kind of caesarean than for a person born by appointment. Time determines your rising sign (which changes sign about every 2 hours) and the house placements. Your Moon sign, and some of the aspects, can change from day to day.
As some believe the chart shapes the person rather than the other way round, parents in some countries will try to have their babies on certain days (India), or in certain years (China) so as to help shape their personality and destiny. Although Indian and western astrology is very different, my understanding is that Vedic, i.e., traditional Indian astrology, is more concerned with spiritual growth than things like winning the lotto and the best marriage date. On the other hand, there has been some research in western astrology where the results shown from caesarean births is different from that of natural births; inferring that the charts calculated for people born by caesarean were not really theirs at all.