Christine Hartley was born as Christine Campbell Thomson in London on May 31st 1897, at 11:30 am. Although there is not much known about her youth, her nativity shows clearly that she was fortunate to be born into an important family who provided her with all the support she needed.

"If the primary directions were surely the favourite tool of the traditional astrologer, they generally were used together with solar returns and profections. Only combining the three tools together a prediction is possible- something very far from the modern use of transits.

"We are all familiar with the idea in Primary Directions that 1° of RA is equal to 1 year in the life; and, in Profections, 30° of longitude is equal to 1 year of life;  in transits, 1° of longitude is equivalent to one day in the life but what is the basis for these equivalencies? It turns out they are all related to the two ways we measure time: with reference to equinoctial points, tropical motion, and with reference to the backdrop of the fixed stars or sidereal motion."

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"I wrote two posts on story of primary directions. It was couple years ago, and now these posts are buried deeply in the archives of Angelicus Merlin Group. Therefore I decided to repeat that stuff and perhaps to develop the subject.
First of all, because primary directions are based on daily rotation of celestial sphere, we must have a mathematical model of this rotation to calculate directions. The first model of this rotation was made in Babylon, but astrologers of Hellenistic period mostly call it “according to Egyptians”."

"Rectification of a birth chart is always a difficult task, even if the approximate birth time is known and a large number of major events are supplied. It requires much experience, patience and time. However, in contrast with past decades of astrological practice, the true birth time can now be found much more easily and be corroborated with approved methods. For the first time, my program Polaris is designed to perform automatic rectification even when the birth time is unknown, given a certain minimum number of known life events."

First published on November 20, 2007, this author was the only Western astrologer using the tropical zodiac to correctly identify an Aquarian Ascendant for Barack Obama through medieval methods of natal chart rectification.  Two other successful efforts were made by astrologers using the sidereal zodiac.  As an update to the rectified time of 7:54:28 PM with an Ascendant of 27AQ09'12", this article provides out-of-sample tests which compare events of 2008 to dynamic measurements based on the 7:54:28 PM horoscope.  Despite an official birth certificate time of 7:24 PM rep

"When we open the section on primary directions in William Lilly's Christian Astrology we can see directions to fixed stars. If primary directions designated as 'exotics' in modern astrological practice, then primary directions to fixed stars could be considered to be the 'exotics' of 'exotics'. Nevertheless, primary directions to fixed stars are not unusual in astrological tradition.