THE RISING SIGN AND THE TWELVE HOUSES
TO illustrate how a horoscope is cast, we will first cast four horoscopes for persons born in Chicago, August 2, 1909, at 2:15 A. M., 8:15 A. M., 2:15 P. M., and 8:15 P. M., as far as the placing of the signs upon the cusps of the houses. The cusps are the dividing lines between the houses.
Finding Chicago on the map, we note that it is located near the 42nd degree of North latitude, and close to 88 degrees of longitude West from Greenwich.
Our first concern is to find the True Local Time of Birth. We first turn to the rule on page 22 which says “To the nearest Standard Meridian Time, add four minutes for each degree the birth place is East of the Meridian corresponding to that Time.
If the birth place is West of that Meridian, subtract four minutes for each degree it is West thereof.
The nearest Standard Meridian Time is Central Time gauged by the 90th meridian. Chicago, being 88 degrees West Longitude, is two degrees East of the 90th meridian. We therefore add two times four, or eight minutes, to the time shown by the clock, in order to find true local. In the case of the first
