Most mornings, I drink my cup of coffee and look through the local news on my phone.

And there it is, the horoscopes.

I scrolled on to mine, Sagittarius.

It says, try to overcome the urge to act before you think.

That sounds right.

I also read three or four of family and friends. to act before you think. That sounds right.

I also read three or four of family and friends.

The cosmic web that astrology is based upon is intricate.

There's a complex set of relationships between the planets and the 12 zodiacal signs, such as Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio.

There's also houses, 12 divisions of the sky, representing different spheres of human life,

and several mathematical points like the ascendant and lunar nodes. Most Americans only know their sun sign, the zodiacal sign the sun was in when they were born. But this is actually just one

type of astrology. And the version you see in the newspaper is often called modern astrology.

While many Americans just flip to their daily horoscope, a prediction of the day based on your sun sign,

astrology gets used by magical practitioners in many different ways.

Some practitioners use traditional astrology

to answer questions.

This is Orary astrology.

Others use it to find the most auspicious times

for big events, electional astrology.

And that's what I'm going to do today.

Now that I'm done skimming the daily horoscopes, I get my second cup of coffee.

I open up an astrological software called Urania on my computer.

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