Starmageddon: Birth Charts from Online Planetariums
I fixed the math that's missing from chart calculation software...
Kristen Patterson / KP O'Neil
Jan. 14, 2025 / Uttara Ashadha P3 in Sagittarius / Social Capitalism
Zodiac birth charts - Tropical and Sidereal - are calculated with the 12 constellations divided evenly, 30° each, and therefore can't be accurate;
it's not mathematical and scientific to measure them evenly, equal to each other - this requires ignoring astronomy, when the very careful attention paid to stars and heavenly bodies for 24,000 years or more is what built the knowledge-base for understanding ourselves - our blueprints - through astrology.
All that's needed for accuracy is to set the birth chart calculation software to measure the constellations correctly - unevenly - and all software could have been set for this from the start -
it's the culture and business of Zodiac astrology that keeps the calculations and software incorrect -
there are several other corrections necessary as well, all of which were fought over when online planetariums reached near-maturity in the 2010s, taking the already-weak excuses out of matching astronomy to Zodiac astrology (excepting Babylonian astrology;)
if I wanted another life journey to learn coding, I would create the software myself - but I'm most satisfied as an artist, drawing instructor and forensic medium to have spent four years creating, testing and refining a set of chart drawings to interpret online planetarium results - overlaying jpeg screenshots on constellations scaled and measured by Nakshatras and the Gregorian calendar (which is how I found a gap in the wheel for a full-sized Abhijit Nakshatra... hmmm...)
working manually ensures there are no automated glitches in my results - which I process five ways and five times, and check from three online planetariums -
you can check your placements right now, if you go to one of the planetarium sites (though Stellarium on desktop is off by 45 minutes - Stellarium is perfect in App,) and set the location to your birthplace, the date/clock to your birthday and birth time;
I believe this is also a superior emotional and spiritual experience for encountering your birth data - and when it comes to determining your Ascendant, you can and should choose by what star is visibly the strongest on the horizon - your Descendant being half of your core personality, and needing to be determined the same way - which star is strongest on the horizon - and this usually leads to Ascendants and Descendants that span two Nakshatras, with auras of seven days -
the huge gains I've made by matching everything to calendar dates are beyond belief - numerology vindicated, and Spirit Guides with human histories/trackable dates empowered - I'll explain in another post;
Tropical astrology needs to rename itself to Tropicology, as it measures Signs only by the equinoxes and solstices hitting lines of longitude that are mapped to the geography of Earth - following the so-called Seasons, which have had moments of consistency but are different worlds in different hemispheres, with Tropical being Eurocentric - and can only assess personalities as specifically as a Season can set one - while the Seasons have been shifting tremendously... how to measure someone by 1° with this kind of accuracy? Not possible...
and if you are aware of the problem of Precession, you know corrections are needed to allow for Earth's wobble on its axis - which wrecked Tropical's Tropics all of 2000+ years ago - the reliance on predictive astronomy tables based on patterning gave Zodiac astrologers the option to calculate birth charts from these tables, instead of being active astronomers keeping pace with the heavens -
Jyotisha experts, relying on a fixed-star system, still watch the skies because they have no conflict of interest - except when trying to blend Nakshatras with Zodiac astrologies for increased market shares;
I don't know why 'Sidereal' astrologers corrected birth chart calculations for Precession but not for the unmathematical culture of 30° - their leader and (arguably) one of my Guides, Cyril Fagan, pointed out the 30° needed to be abandoned for accuracy's sake - though I expect the timely and conjunct deaths of several Sidereal astrologers help explain why -
I found Cyril's argument about two months into my astrology studies, and then it took a year for my brain to wake up (the night before my birthday) and realise I could answer his argument by building star chart drawings to interpret the settings in online planetariums - and at the same time, synchronise the calendar and the Nakshatras with the true Zodiac...
To be helpful, here's the overview of my results:
Sun in Aries: Ashwini Pada 1 - Bharani Pada 3 start of April 21 - early evening May 11
Ashwini: Pada 1 (April 21-24) / Goal-Oriented; Pada 2 (24-27) / Dancers & Athletes; Pada 3 (27-30) / Fast Learning; Pada 4 (30-May 3) / Rescuer-Medics
Bharani: Pada 1 (May 4-7) / Ancestral Ties; Pada 2 (7-10) / Shamanism; Pada 3 (10-13) / Sex Gurus-Healers
Sun in Taurus: Bharani Pada 3 - Mrigashira Pada 3 / evening May 11 - end of June 19
Bharani: Pada 3 (May 10-13, Taurus starts evening May 11) / Sex Gurus-Healers; Pada 4 (13-16) / Medicine-Making
Krittika: Pada 1 (17-20) / Key-Holders; Pada 2 (20-23) / Diplomats; Pada 3 (23-26) / Occult Technologies; Pada 4 (26-29) / Professional Muses
Rohini: Pada 1 (May 30-June 2) / Promoters; Pada 2 (2-5) / Producers; Pada 3 (5-8) / Business Gurus; Pada 4 (8-11) / Collectors & Curators
Mrigashira: Pada 1 (June 12-15) / Interviewing; Pada 2 (15-18) / Interpreting; Pada 3 (18-21, Gemini starts midnight June 20) / Convening
Sun in Gemini: Mrigashira Pada 3 - Punarvasu Pada 4 / start of June 20 - to start of July 19
Mrigashira: Pada 3 (June 18-21, Gemini starts June 20) / Convening; Pada 4 (21-24) / Mediumship
Ardra: Pada 1 (June 25-28) / Predictions-Prophecy; Pada 2 (28-July 1) / Advocacy; Pada 3 (1-4) Optimising; Pada 4 (4-7) Influencing
Punarvasu: Pada 1 (8-11) / Orchestrating; Pada 2 (11-14) / Speculating; Pada 3 (14-17) / Marketing; Pada 4 (17-20, Cancer starts July 19) / Home Business
Sun in Cancer: Punarvasu Pada 4 - Ashlesha Pada 2 / start of July 19 - midday August 9
Punarvasu: Pada 4 (July 17-20, Cancer starts July 19) / Home Business
Pushya: Pada 1 (July 21-24) / Consultants; Pada 2 (24-27) / Caregiver-Medics; Pada 3 (27-30) Collaborators; Pada 4 (30-August 2) Oracles
Ashlesha: Pada 1 (August 3-6) / Institutional; Pada 2 (6-9) / Political
Sun in Leo: Ashlesha Pada 3 - Uttara Phalguni Pada 2 / midday August 9 - midday September 15
Ashlesha: Pada 3 (August 9-12, Leo starts midday August 9) / Ideological; Pada 4 (12-15) / Anarchical
Magha: Pada 1 (August 16-19) / Action- Driven; Pada 2 (19-22) / Context-Driven; Pada 3 (22-25) / Results-Driven; Pada 4 (25-28) / Process-Driven
Purva Phalguni: Pada 1 (August 29- September 1) / Sun-Gameplay Leadership; Pada 2 (1-4) / Mercury-Mind & Sales Leadership; Pada 3 (4-7) / Venus-Investment Leadership; Pada 4 (7-10) / Mars-Mission, Loves & Loyalties Leadership
Uttara Phalguni: Pada 1 (September 11-14) / Jupiter-Wheel & House Leadership; Pada 2 (14-17, Virgo starts midday September 15) / Saturn-Media Leadership
Sun in Virgo: Uttara Phalguni Pada 2 - Vishakha Pada 1 / midday September 15 - midday November 3
Uttara Phalguni; Pada 2 (September 14-17, Virgo starts midday September 15) / Saturn-Media Leadership; Pada 3 (17-20) / Ouranos-Revolution Leadership; Pada 4 (20-23) / Neptune-Soul Contract Leadership
Hasta: Pada 1 (September 24-27) / Magic Traders-Merchants; Pada 2 (27-30) / Magic Artisans; Pada 3 (30-October 3) / Magic- Channeled Writing; Pada 4 (3-6) / Magic Hands and Feet
Chitra: Pada 1 (October 7-10) / Picture-Making; Pada 2 (10-13) / Project Management; Pada 3 (13-16) / Venture Capitalism; Pada 4 (16-19) / Forbidden Path(s) to Heaven
Swati: Pada 1 (October 20-23) / Philosophy; Pada 2 (23-26) / Record-Keeping; Pada 3 (26-29) / Social Engineering; Pada 4 (October 29-November 1) / Entrepreneurism
Vishakha: Pada 1 (November 2-5, Libra starts midday November 3) / Pioneering
Sun in Libra: Vishakha Pada 1 - Anuradha Pada 3 / midday November 3 - start of November 24
Vishakha Pada 1 (November 2-5, Libra starts midday November 3) / Pioneering; Pada 2 (5-8) / Asset Management; Pada 3 (8-11) / Family Business; Pada 4 (11-14) / Benefactors
Anuradha: Pada 1 (November 15-18) / Matrix-Hacking; Pada 2 (18-21) / Pathfinding; Pada 3 (21-24, Scorpius starts November 24) / Mediating-Martyrdom
Sun in Scorpius: Anuradha Pada 3 - Mula Pada 3 / start of November 24 - late morning December 19
Anuradha: Pada 3 (21-24, Scorpius starts November 24) / Mediating-Martyrdom; Pada 4 (24-27) / Secret Service
Jyeshtha: Pada 1 (November 28-December 1) / Pluto-Career Secrets; Pada 2 (1-4) / Chiron-Stolen Career Secrets; Pada 3 (4-7) / Ouranos-Astrology-Tech-Trafficking Secrets; Pada 4 (7-10) / Neptune-Soul Contract Secrets
Mula: Pada 1 (December 11-14) / Rehabilitators; Pada 2 (14-17) / Green Men, Green Ladies, House Protectors; Pada 3 (17-20, Sagittarius starts December 19) / Knowledge-Keepers
Sun in Sagittarius: Mula Pada 3 - Abhijit Pada 1 / late morning December 19 - start of January 20
Mula: Pada 3 (December 17-20, Sagittarius starts December 19) / Knowledge-Keepers; Pada 4 (20-23) / Root-Workers
Purva Ashadha: Pada 1 (December 24-27) / Ancestral Healers; Pada 2 (27-30) / Oracle Healers; Pada 3 (December 31-January 2) / Fire-Starters & Peacemakers; Pada 4 (2-5) / Rogue Healers
Uttara Ashadha: Pada 1 (January 6-9) / Chosen for A Mission; Pada 2 (9-12) / Law Expertise; Pada 3 (12-15) / Social Capitalism; Pada 4 (15-18) / Prolific Writing
Abhijit: Pada 1 (January 19-22, Capricornus starts January 20) / Surgeons, Pathologists, Seamstresses & Tailors, Machinists, Precision-Workers
Sun in Capricornus: Abhijit Pada 1 - Dhanishta Pada 1 / start of January 20 - start of February 15 (with overlap of Aquarius' arm as of January 31)
Abhijit: Pada 1 (January 19-22, Capricornus starts January 20) / Surgeons, Pathologists, Seamstresses & Tailors, Machinists, Precision-Workers; Pada 2 (22-25) / Fated Winners and Heroes; Pada 3 (25-28) / Reverse-Engineers, Comedians; Pada 4 (28-31) Innovators
Shravana: Pada 1 (February 1-4) / Ideas-Person; Pada 2 (4-7) / Speaking and Singing; Pada 3 (7-10) / Design-Thinking, Graphic Design; Pada 4 (10-13) / All-Powerful
Dhanishta: Pada 1 (February 14-17, Capricornus ends at start of February 15) / Manifesting
Sun in Aquarius (out of Capricornus:) Dhanishta Pada 1 - Shatabisha Pada 4 / overlap with Capricornus, January 31 in Abhijit Pada 4 - start of February 15 in Dhanishta Pada 1; reaches Pisces midday March 11
Dhanishta: Pada 1 (February 14-17, Capricornus ends February 14) / Manifesting; Pada 2 (17-20) / Networking; Pada 3 (20-23) / Celebrity; Pada 4 (23-26) / Cultural Icon
Shatabisha: Pada 1 (February 27-March 2) / Semi-Conductors setting personal worth with favourite technology; Pada 2 (2-5) / Star-Delta Circuit as Self-Starters or Arrangers (Chaos Magic) and use of private transportation; Pada 3 (5-8) / Comparative Circuit in Executive-Mode with use of favourite tools and instruments; Pada 4 (9-12, Pisces starts March 11) / Passive Circuit as Empaths with use of machinery and public transportation
Sun in Pisces: Shatabisha Pada 4 - Revati Pada 4 / midday March 11 - start of April 21
Shatabisha: Pada 4 (March 9-12, Pisces starts March 11) / Passive Circuit as Empaths with use of machinery and public transportation
Purva Bhadrapadha: Pada 1 (March 12-15) / Child and Animal Advocacy; Pada 2 (15-18) / Children's Mentorship; Pada 3 (18-21) / Gurus and Publishing; Pada 4 (22-25) / Service to Kali and Birth Charts-Akashic Records (also service to Jesus - we could say, service to God, but decide for yourself - I believe Kali is most relevant as the credited Creator of these charts-records, and I'm not about pushing anything religious, but being specific to historic and cultural accuracy - you might care more about religious/spiritual allegiances)
Uttara Bhadrapadha: Pada 1 (March 25-28) / Navigation, Boats & obsessions with Sea Dragons; Pada 2 (March 29-April 1) / Masterminding; Pada 3 (1-4) / Math and Music Expertise; Pada 4 (4-7) / Occult Arts
Revati: Pada 1 (April 8-11) / Fine Arts and Industrial Arts Teachers; Pada 2 (11-14) / Problem-Solvers; Pada 3 (14-17) / Scientists; Pada 4 (17-20) / Psychic Artists
I hope that helps get you started - please don't hesitate to send me your birth info if you'd like me to gift you my version of your chart placements -
I'll soon be publishing pdf booklets with detailed results for Ascendant-Descendant Core Personalities
because my corrections led to a discovery of patterns in our charts set by our Ascendants, that organise all 112 Padas in specific relationships and sequencing with each other, making it possible to know how all your chart aspects work together -
which I've also tested and proved (proofs will be included, and published regularly) to match how your planet cycles imprint your childhood and adolescent development - and through which Spirit Guides - by calendar dates -
I will update this article with a link to them.