Please note that we used location of birth, which can be a roof. By agreement, our globe divides into Time Zones and Time meridians each one of these Time Meridians 15 degrees apart and your location of birth will thus be always located exactly on a Time Meridian or anywhere in between two Time Meridians. To solve this problem and for reasons of sorts - agreements were once made to arrive to identical clock times between people within a certain given East-West area. While you still share the same clock time with this person, you do not live in the same Solar time with people who live even less than a mile away from your home. The sun, in order to arrive over your roof, would still have to travel East-West.
Agreed upon, because clock time has you share the same moment with all others within your Time Zone, which is not synonymous to be sharing the same time, i.e. Yet, and despite this fact, the clocks on your wall indicate the same agreed upon time. While you are having a telephone conversation with a person living just a block away but to the East from where you live, you may be sharing the same moment with this other person, but while this person tells you: the sun is now positioned exactly overhead my roof, you may instead tell him the sun will only arrive over my roof in one minute. For astrological purposes we need yet distinguish between moment and time. Although this information may be in itself quite interesting - especially when at family gatherings your mother then laughingly tells the people how you were born exactly around coffee time -, for astrological purposes this information becomes utterly useless. Your birth certificate merely shows the time that was read from the clock on the wall at the moment you took your first breath. Equation of Time is not to be ignored as it will have you add or take away minutes from the time of birth and this can thus mean the difference between being born into one Chinese hour or the next.
Please read disclaimer on last page -ΔΆ True Local Solar Time In this article we will be introducing Equation of Time, a yet critical factor that you should yet incorporate in your calculations to obtain True Local Solar Time for any birth chart. It is freely spread over www unedited - to the benefit of astrologers.
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1 - Oriental Astrology - True Local Solar Time - Explorations with Heluo Explorations with Heluo is a series of articles by Heluo on the subject of Time, Space and Destiny Read about the all important subject of Equation of Time This is a chapter from Heluo s Four Pillars of Destiny workbook (550 pages).