An astrologer must first determine the exact time and location of the subject’s birth, or the start of an event, in order to generate a horoscope. At the same time, the local standard time (adjusted for daylight saving time or wartime) is transformed into Greenwich Mean Time or Universal Time. In order to compute the ascendant and midheaven, the astrologer must translate this to the local sidereal time of birth. The astrologer will then examine an ephemeris, a set of tables that displays the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets for a given year, date, and sidereal time in relation to the northern hemisphere vernal equinox or fixed stars for a given year, date, and sidereal time (depending on which astrological system is being used). The astrologer then adds or subtracts the difference in longitude between Greenwich and the location in issue to obtain the true local mean time (LMT) at the birthplace, which shows where planets would be visible above the horizon at the particular time and location. Planets hidden beneath the earth’s surface are also depicted in the horoscope.
When two people meet and start a relationship, astrology practitioners typically create a composite chart using the aforementioned procedure. The composite chart, according to astrologers, will reveal the nature and purpose of the partnership.
The horoscope is divided into 12 sectors that circle the ecliptic, beginning with the ascendant or rising sign on the eastern horizon. The houses are the 12 sectors, and there are several techniques for calculating these divisions. Since the 19th century, tables of dwellings have been issued to make this otherwise difficult work easier.
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What steps should I take to start my own astrological business?
- Make a strategy for your astrology business.
- Create a legal entity for your astrology business.
- For tax purposes, you must register your astrology business.
- Establish a Business Bank Account and a Credit Card
- Create an accounting system for your astrology practice.
- Get the Permits and Licenses You Need for Your Astrology Business
- Get Business Insurance Based on Astrology
- Define your astrology company’s identity.
- Make a website for your astrology business.
- Get your business phone system up and running.
Starting a business entails more than simply registering it with the state. This basic guide to launching an astrology business has been put together by us. These processes will ensure that your new firm is well-planned, legally compliant, and correctly registered.
STEP 1: Plan your business
As an entrepreneur, you must have a well-thought-out strategy. It will assist you in mapping out the details of your company and uncovering some unknowns. The following are a few key points to consider:
- What are the initial and continuing expenses?
- What is the demographic of your target market?
- What is the maximum amount you can charge customers?
- What will you call your company?
What are the costs involved in opening an astrology business?
It costs around $65,834 to operate a modest retail shop. This includes security, first-month, and triple-net deposits ($4,589), construction and furnishings expenditures ($7,500), and utility deposits and handyman costs ($450) for a business lease. A unique website, related consultancy, computer and phone equipment, and a retail point of sale system will total $6165 in IT costs. Exterior and interior signs, legal services, logo creation, business cards, fliers and coupons all add up to around $8900 in marketing costs. A large public relations campaign (including catering and media) for your grand opening costs around $1670. The total cost is now $30,834. Your retail stock expenses will vary, but if you invest $35,000 to set up your initial inventory, your total costs will be $65,834.
What are the ongoing expenses for an astrology business?
Monthly rent (which will vary depending on the number of employees and their pay, but should be less than $1000 per month in our projections), utilities (which will vary depending on the region, but should be less than $1000 per month), and employee salaries (which will vary depending on the number of employees and their pay, but $5,000 is a good projection for a small team).
Who is the target market?
Obviously, your finest clients are those who trust in astrology’s mystic potential. In terms of demographics, college-aged students who are interested in changing their perspectives on the world are good consumers.
How does an astrology business make money?
Selling astrology-related products and charging for psychic and tarot readings are two ways your company gets money.
How much can you charge customers?
There is no genuine average price for things in this type of retail operation. Small objects can be sold for under $5, while more uncommon and exotic items can be sold for over $100. Your hourly pricing for items like astrology or tarot readings could range from $25 to over $125.
How much profit can an astrology business make?
The exact profit you will make will depend on a number of factors. Many retail enterprises have a net profit margin of two to three percent. However, if you have a niche product and a small workforce, you can enhance your profit margins and make a big splash in your community.
What will you name your business?
Choosing the appropriate name is crucial and difficult. If you don’t have a name for your business yet, check out our How to Name a Business guide or use our Astrology Business Name Generator to help you come up with one.
If you run a sole proprietorship, you can consider using a different business name than your own. For further information, see our DBA guide.
When registering a business name, we recommend conducting the following research:
- The business records of your state
- Records of federal and state trademarks
- Platforms for social media
- The availability of a web domain.
Is it true that horoscopes exist?
Is astrology accurate? Reading horoscopes is a popular pastime, but is there any scientific evidence that they are accurate?
When you’re enticed by a familiar interruption and your willpower weakens, problems can occur.
Every day, up to 70 million Americans consult their horoscopes. At least, that’s what the American Federation of Astrologers claims. According to a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life poll conducted twenty years ago, 25% of Americans believe that the positions of the stars and planets have an impact on our daily life. In 2012, the General Social Survey indicated that 34% of Americans think astrology is “extremely” or “kind of scientific,” with the percentage of individuals who think astrology is “not at all scientific” dropping from two-thirds to about half.
Astrology is the concept that astronomical phenomena, such as the stars over your head when you were born or the fact that Mercury is retrograde, have the potential to influence our daily lives and personality traits. Of course, this is distinct from astronomy, which is the scientific study of celestial objects, space, and the physics of the cosmos.
A particular facet of astrology, the foretelling of a person’s future or the provision of daily counsel via horoscopes, is gaining in popularity. The Cut, for example, recorded a 150 percent rise in horoscope page views in 2017 compared to 2016.
Clearly, a lot of people are trying to figure out how to read the stars for guidance. Understanding the positions of the stars is the foundation of astrology, which appears to be a scientific discipline in and of itself. Is there any scientific evidence that astrology has an impact on our personalities and lives?
But, since I still have five minutes of this six-minute podcast to fill, let’s take a look at how astrology has been put to the test.
Who is the originator of astrology?
Jones stated, “This is possibly older than any other known case.” “It’s also older than any of the written-down horoscopes from the Greco-Roman period,” he said, adding, “we have a number of horoscopes written down as a kind of document on papyrus or on a wall, but none of them as old as this.”
The discovery was presented in the most recent edition of the Journal for the History of Astronomy by Jones and StaoForenbaher, a researcher at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb.
Forenbaher told LiveScience that the crew was working near the entrance of a Croatian cave in 1999, a site well known to archaeologists and residents of the surrounding hamlet of Nakovana who simply named it “Spila,” which means “the cave.”
Nobody realized at the time, however, that the cave featured a part that had been locked for over 2,000 years. Forenbaher’s girlfriend (now his wife) dug under the rubble and discovered a broad, low passageway that ran for over 33 feet in the dark (10 meters). “The unique King Tut experience, arriving to a spot where nobody has been for a couple of thousand years,” Forenbaher said of passing down the corridor.
When Forenbaher entered the cavern, “there was a very thin limestone crust on the surface that was splitting under your boots,” indicating that “nobody had gone there in a very, very, long time,” he added.
The researchers eventually discovered that it had been blocked off in the first century B.C., presumably as a result of a Roman military effort against the locals.
The archaeologists discovered a phallic-shaped stalagmite, as well as countless drinking containers deposited over hundreds of years and something more. “These very small bits and pieces of ivory came out in the course of that dig,” Forenbaher explained, “and we didn’t even recognize what we had at the time.”
The group got to work. “It took years to piece them together, find more bits and pieces, and figure out what they were,” Forenbaher explained. They ended there staring at the ruins of the world’s oldest known astrologer’s board.
Archaeologists aren’t sure how the board got inside the cave or where it came from. The Babylonians developed their own version of horoscopes around 2,400 years ago, which is where astrology began in antiquity.
Then, around 2,100 years ago, astrology went to the eastern Mediterranean, where it became popular in Egypt, which was ruled by a dynasty of Greek monarchs at the time.
Jones explained, “It gets transformed very much into what we think of as the Greek style of astrology, which is really the present type of astrology.” “The Greek style of astrology is the foundation of astrology that spans the Middle Ages, modern Europe, modern India, and beyond.”
The ivory used to produce the zodiac images dates back to 2,200 years, just before the advent of this new kind of astrology, according to radiocarbon dating.
The location of the board’s manufacture is unknown, though Egypt is a possibility. They believe the ivory came from an elephant that was slain or died in the area around that period. Because ivory is such a valuable commodity, it would have been preserved for decades, if not a century, before being utilized to make the zodiac. These signs would have been adhered to a flat (probably wooden) surface to form the board, which could have featured other features that did not survive.
It could have been loaded onto a ship sailing through the Adriatic Sea, a vital trade route that the cave overlooks. Illyrians were the people who resided in Croatia at the time. Despite the fact that ancient writers had a negative view of them, archaeological evidence reveals that they interacted with surrounding Greek colonies and were a vital part of the Mediterranean civilization.
An astrologer from one of the Greek colonies may have visited the cave to make a prediction. A consultation in the cavern’s flickering light would have been a powerful experience, if not particularly convenient for the astrologer.
Jones commented, “It doesn’t sound like a very practical site for performing horoscope homework like calculating planetary placements.”
Another hypothesis is that the Illyrians acquired or stole the astrological board without fully comprehending its use. The board, along with the drinking containers, would have been presented as an offering to an unknown deity worshipped in the cave.
“This astrologer’s board could have shown up as an offering along with other exceptional items that were either bought or robbed from a passing ship,” Forenbaher speculated. He noted that the drinking cups discovered in the cave had been chosen with care. They were made in another country, and only a few cruder amphora storage vessels were discovered with them.
“It nearly appears that someone was bringing out wine there, pouring it, and then discarding the amphora away because they weren’t good enough for the gods, or to be deposited in the shrine,” Forenbaher said.
The phallic-shaped stalagmite, which may have formed naturally on the site, appears to have served as a focal point for these offerings and rituals held in the cavern. Forenbaher cautioned that all stalagmites appear phallic in some way, and it’s difficult to know what significance it had to the cave’s inhabitants. “It had to mean something significant,” he said.
“This is a spot where goods of local importance were deposited with some type of supernatural power, transcendental being, or whatever.”
What is the best way to find out what time I was born?
- Find a duplicate of your birth certificate. The time of your birth should be listed on your long form birth certificate.
- Find out where you were born and the name of the hospital where you were born.
What’s the best way for me to figure out all of my signs?
When people inquire about your zodiac sign, they usually mean your Sun sign. And, to be honest, everyone knows what their Sun sign is. It’s easy to check it up now that we have the Internet, and at the very least, everyone has been intrigued about what the stars have to say about them. Some people completely identify with their Sun sign, while others find it completely incomprehensible.
There are a number possible explanations, including your Moon sign and Ascendant, which I’ll discuss later. Even if you don’t exactly relate to the attributes of that zodiac sign, from the perspective of the sky, you will find patterns that correlate due to planetary motions at any given moment, thus I always urge people to read for the Sun sign in daily/monthly/yearly horoscopes.
Your Sun sign is determined by your birthday. If you were born on a day when the Sun changed signs, you may need to consult a personal natal chart because you may be one sign over the other. Because you can’t have two Sun signs, cusps don’t exist (despite pop culture magazines’ best efforts; Karen, stop trying to make them a thing!).
What is the best way for me to figure out my marriage astrology?
Marriage is associated with the 7th house in your horoscope. Venus is the planet that makes marriage easier. Jupiter (Guru), Venus (Shukra), Mercury (Budh), and the Moon are all favorable planets in everyone’s horoscope. Sun, Saturn (Shani), Mars (Mangal), Rahu, and Ketu are among the planets that are considered unlucky.