RohanMenon
I've been issued a (very friendly) challenge, where the challenger would provide me charts of prominent events with date, place etc removed. I have to figure out the 'core nature' of the event, ideally the event itself. Once I've given my answer, the challenger will tell me what the event was.
It is all in good fun (the challenger is a friend), and I'm just a beginner in astrology, so I fully expect I won't get anywhere, but I was wondering, if you (as someone with more experience than me) had to do such 'blind reading', how would you go about it?
Fwiw, I am going with dadsnook's basic approach, focusing on angular factors, partile aspects, and then throwing in some house/sign symbolism, and then taking a leap of intuition. I think my friend is using a tropical zodiac (I prefer the Fagan Allen Sidereal zodiac) so there's that. At the least, this should be a fun exercise, and good training in chart reading.
Anyone ever did something like this, perhaps in your early days, for training?
Thanks in advance,
[1]Sure, one can reverse engineer the date by looking up positions of slow moving planets in an ephemeris, but since this is a game, cheating makes no sense, I've agreed not to do that.
It is all in good fun (the challenger is a friend), and I'm just a beginner in astrology, so I fully expect I won't get anywhere, but I was wondering, if you (as someone with more experience than me) had to do such 'blind reading', how would you go about it?
Fwiw, I am going with dadsnook's basic approach, focusing on angular factors, partile aspects, and then throwing in some house/sign symbolism, and then taking a leap of intuition. I think my friend is using a tropical zodiac (I prefer the Fagan Allen Sidereal zodiac) so there's that. At the least, this should be a fun exercise, and good training in chart reading.
Anyone ever did something like this, perhaps in your early days, for training?
Thanks in advance,
[1]Sure, one can reverse engineer the date by looking up positions of slow moving planets in an ephemeris, but since this is a game, cheating makes no sense, I've agreed not to do that.