2006-12-05 02:01:45 · 13 answers · asked by Sarah K 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Horoscopes
Just in case you don't get an answer from someone who has actually done it correctly, I'll describe my best shot.
You have a chart, which is a circle divided into twelve segments. You start by placing the sun on the chart. In effect, the chart has you at the center -- that is, the location of your birth -- and all the rest of the objects, sun, moon and planets, are positioned relative to where they were when you were born. Now, the sun sign is easy to place; you mostly already know your sun sign. It's the segment of the sky the sun was in when you were born.
But the moon and the rest of the planets were there, too. So you find where the moon was by the time you were born. Put that in the sky (on the paper). Then there are tables in a book called an ephemeris (although I'm sure today there are computer programs instead) which can tell you where the planets were on the day you were born. Put all those on the chart.
Now you look for patterns in how things line up on the chart. There's clues in whether the planets are clustered to one side or scattered, in whether they form squares or triangles, and so on. You also can correlate the four classical elements to the signs, and therefore look at whether you have planets in a lot of water signs (emotions; feminine magic) or whatever. How those various clues are interpreted is, of course, the matter for years of intense study. Again, it would not be surprising if there are computer programs that simplify it considerably.
I was a lot like Harry and Ron in Professor Trelawney's class the one time I tried it.
2006-12-05 02:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Longhand, shorthand but mostly very badly.
(Try reading the horoscopes without checking the star signs. Can you find the one that fits you?)
2006-12-05 07:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by borrow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The majority of them are just made up. Some are done through complex astronomical measurements and following trends in astral bodies, but most are just people making it up.
2006-12-05 03:03:56 · answer #3 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All the possible answers are put into a bingo machine and get pulled out once a week
2006-12-05 02:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by Yehh Mate..X 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
By monkeys in space selecting random words that a computer puts into normality!
2006-12-05 02:03:42 · answer #5 · answered by pinead101 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Old greek culture
2006-12-05 06:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by BeautyBreak H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By extremley stoned individuals who make wild guesses ...
but entertaingly so!!!
2006-12-05 08:54:34 · answer #7 · answered by dingwaggle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have a random word generator and a set text that they do every day ie...
This week for you will be most 'INSERT BLANK' for you, you may find it 'INSERT BLANK' to 'INSERT BLACK' at 'INSERT BLANK'
thats how i'd do it anyway...
2006-12-05 02:04:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
By stupid people who haven't got anything better to do with their meaningless lives!!
2006-12-05 02:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by Elijah's Girl 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they cut out sentences from old books/newpapers/mags put them in a hat and pick them out at random - this week you will find quotes like
.........when one door closes, another will open
.........its that time of year again
.........luck is on your side
.........love is winging its way to you
and so on and so
2006-12-05 02:09:57 · answer #10 · answered by suki doo 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋