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Rectification |
Rectification is what you should do to a chart when you're not so sure the birth time is accurate. Traditional methods are all mechanical in nature. Many are mathematical as well, ie, this is not the place for the arithmatically challenged. In addition, there are many ancient techniques that have only recently been rediscovered.
William Lilly surveys medieval techniques in Christian Astrology book 3, pgs. 500-508, and gives an excellent overview. Among the various methods, the Trutine of Hermes and the Animodar of Ptolemy.
The best known methods of rectification are by accident, by which is not meant the accident of guesswork, or of pendulums or dowsing. Accidents in rectification are events in the life, related, one way or another, to transits to the ascendant. Transits to the ascendant can include secondary progressions (direct and/or converse), primary directions, profections, solar returns, plain old transits, midpoints and various other means. Lilly himself rectified by accident. The Uranian and Cosmobiology crowds can rectify to a few seconds of time. If that's of interest, go to those pages & have a look. Marc Penfield once sent me an unpublished monograph on Nadi Rectification. I'd gladly print that, if he would let me.
Myself, it's not that I can't make the numbers work, but that I've an everlasting distrust of mathematics when I don't quite understand the process at hand. For those like me, there is rectification by character, which is an offshoot of Placidian houses, as, so far as I am aware, it has only been successfuly done with that house system. As I find time, I will describe the system in a note at the bottom of this page.
Also in this section, the Prenatal Epoch, as it relates directly to rectification.
Now, my brothers, Go Forth and Rectify!
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