Hi there, I find it difficult to get my head around how the house work, and how a birthchart is constructed in the first. I tried so very hard and can not understand how to logically place my understanding around signs in houses (how do work this out) planets in signs&house (how do u deduce this). When i look a chart i get so confused from what i get in writting to what i see visually. Example visually it might show that Ven, Jup,sun & ket is House 1, Mon is in HOuse 12 etc. But the writtern version says another which is Venus is in in 8th house, Mer is in 9th house, Jup & Sun in 8th house etc. I'm confused as visually its showing to be in 1st house......how to do i count/interpret the placing of signs and planets and in which house. How does one calculate & find the house number?

Is there a introduction book to astrology anyone could pls tell me about would be VERY helpful for me to read up on to understand the basics of constructing horoscope and its essence/meaning.
Easy to read books would be more for me........so could someone outthere pls recommand books to me pls that also are illustrated examples include to aid understanding.
Im quite anxious to get start, and have been on the net since early last year, and can not find easy comprehension of this................

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Welcome,

nice to hear you are so interested. There are Free online lessons on this website and I have PM you lots of websites to visit, learn, including lots of book recommendations.....

There are lots of different house systems too, but all the house meanings are unilateral.... thank goodness. There are natural rulers of each of the 12 houses, starting house 1/Aries, house 2/taurus/ 3/gemini and so on....

I use Equal house one of the oldest and most reliable, but lots use Placidus (Iunequal size houses). All this means is that certain planets move from one house to another, thus giving a whole different interpretations, for which only the native will be able to objectively define....



the website astro.com is the place to go to get a free chart calculated. click on free horoscopes, go down half the page to chart drawing, this will take you to an input page,put your data in, click ok. Then go back to free horoscopes, Extended chart selection, change default house system to Equal, then go to ratio change to 63% click to get picture, when on picture right mouse click and 'save target pic as ' onto hard drive, then upload here. you may have to trim or reduce a little.....

What I have a problem with is the degrees compared to where the planets actually are. Does anyone know why they use the degrees and not the actual placement of the planets? This is bugging me because I am using actual charts of the sky and it isn't matching with the software.

Depend which chart you would like to construct. Means firstly which astrology you would like to follow...Western or Indian/Vedic astrology,

RishiRahul

I don't know much about the Eastern Astrology. I do know that Western uses a degree system and not the actual placing of the planets in the constellations. I have been learning Astronomy and have found some very interesting movements of the planets.  What I am wondering and I will probably do more research on is this: Do you think the ancients used the Earth more than the Sun. Today we say like for this month that your Sun sign is in Aries. I know for sure that it is in Pisces because of Astronomy. It goes into Pisces on March 11 and leaves April 18th. It spends 38 days in that constellation. Do you see the dilemma I am having? I think the ancients because history tells me so used the Earth. So now I am wondering what constellation Earth is in.