Details are not to be despised when the basic laws of the Wonder Wheel are comprehended, but without the corresponding basic the detail is like a red vest on a naked savage.

Few people know the hour of their birth, to say nothing of the minute, hence the majority of horoscopes cast by astrologers, and others, are apt to be misleading, and, at the ordinary best, are mainly matters of guesswork. We advise everybody to let horoscopes alone, in nativities, unless the time of birth was noted by a stopwatch.

If the exact moment of the birth is known then it might be a matter of curiosity to go into the Horoscope and judge of the angles of the Horoscope and the Planets in them in self-same way as reading from Birth Numbers of the Wonder Wheel. It is all very simple, but Astrology has been made to appear very difficult

There are a number of ways of casting a horoscope. The way that appears the easiest, or most convenient to your mind, is the better way for you. No matter how you draw the figure, so long as it represents 12 different spaces or departments of 80 degrees each, then it is a horoscope of even houses.

Various Styles Of Making Horoscopes

Horary Astrology is the only branch of the Science that requires an Horoscope. If you have the exact moment of a birth, you may use Horary Astrology in connection with a birth, as with anything else, but, Horary laws which only relate to Houses, and Lords of Houses (not Signs and Lords of Signs) are very unreliable without exact moment of birth. The Horoscope is neither Signs nor planets. It is only a circle of the top of the earth, or a disk, upon which these other matters are reflected, the disk, like the Zodiacal circle, likewise divided into Houses ruling physical or bodily relationships, we merely learn from the Horoscope, a few minor details of a superficial nature; quite good to know if we know the the other matters correctly, but without correctness in these other matters the minor details are no good. Without the minute of birth, the disk, or Horoscope will be wrong, although the other matters which do not relate to the Horoscope, will be correct, as given by the Wheel, and by its laws of Signs, planets, trines, squares, etc.

We now give our simplified method of making a horoscope, without mathematics, and with what we have given, any one can learn astrology and practice it, provided his mind is not attracted to the will-o-the wisp methods, which would tantalize one for a lifetime.

Clock Hours

The circles of White Numbers on the black background of the wonder wheel should be considered independent of anything else. They denote the clock hours of each day. They show the angle from the earth that the sun is in at any hour of any day. The word "noon," is marked at the top, for 12 o'clock in the day time. A white star is marked at the bottom for 12 o'clock in the night time. The figure 6 on the left is the eastern horizon at morning. The figure 6 on the right is the western horizon at evening. In that angle from our place on the earth the sun will be at any of the hours, as marked, irrespective of the signs. By this we may know what house the sun would be in, by what is termed "oblique ascension," or "even horoscope."

No matter where you may have been born the degree of the Birth Sign corresponding with the day of your birth, was directly overhead, at the place of your birth, on the day of your birth, precisely at Noon.

Knowing that fact, then it becomes a simple matter to find out the relative position of the sun, at time of birth, whether before or afternoon, by calculating backwards or forwards the distance that the earth has moved during the hours between Noon and the time of your birth.

There are two ways by which this may be done.

The Wonder Wheel presents . the easiest way of doing this, and also gives you a pictorial view of the heavens.

Knowing how many hours before or after Noon you were born, count back that number of hours on the wheel from your day of birth (if born before Noon) or count forward that number of hours from day of birth if after Noon. By forward and backward I mean in the order of the signs. The hours are the white numbers inside the circle of days.

For instance, suppose you were born Aug. 5, at 5 in the morning. That would be seven hours before Noon. Over Aug. 5, I find in the clock hours the figure 9, so I say from 9 (going backwards) 10, is 1; to 11, is 2; to Star, is 3; to 1, is 4; to 2, is 5; to 3, is 6; to 4, is 7. Therefore the point where the figure 4 is, is the place that was directly overhead at time of birth. Had the birth been 5 p. m. on that same date, then the count would be forward (in order of signs, but backward in order of hours, because the signs and the hours run opposite to each other) so we would say from 9 to 8, 1; to 7, 2; to 6, 3; to 5, 4; to 4, 5; to 3, 6; to 2, 7; and the point overhead at birth would be where the hour 2 is marked.

Get the principle of this law into the mind, and with the Wheel before your eyes you will soon be able to jump at the point the Bun is in or the point overhead at any hour of the day in any month of any year.

Having found the place of the sun, by day of birth, and the point overhead by counting hours backward or forwards, Just grasp the Wheel with thumb and finger at the point overhead and turn it so that that point is at the top and then you would have a figure of the heavens for the hour of birth, in Even Houses, and these even houses are Just as essential to know as the uneven houses.

If the planets have previously been narked at their respective Birth Points, they will be in their horoscopal houses when these houses are Numbered.