Cool Moon Facts by Whip

Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Chart basics · Intermediate

Heliocentric

Measured from the centre of the Sun, as the planets actually move.

A heliocentric chart places the planets as seen from the Sun. Some modern astrologers experiment with it, but it has no Ascendant, no houses and no retrogrades, and it is not what a natal chart means. This site computes heliocentric positions internally only as a step towards the geocentric ones.

  • Kind: Astronomy
  • Tradition: Astronomy
  • In this site’s birth chart: not used

Related: Geocentric, Retrograde

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