Matrix Software became the very first company to successfully program a microcomputer to calculate astrological birth charts back in 1977, completely revolutionizing the industry.

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Matrix Software became the very first company to successfully program a microcomputer to calculate astrological birth charts back in 1977, completely revolutionizing the industry. Before computers, astrologers had to spend hours doing complex trigonometry by hand using thick almanacs just to figure out where Venus was on a specific Tuesday in 1994, which required actual mathematical skill. The introduction of software eliminated the need for any actual math, allowing literally anyone with a computer to generate a massively complicated natal chart in three seconds flat. This technological leap ironically stripped the ancient mystical practice of its only genuinely rigorous academic component, opening the floodgates for millions of modern internet users to confidently label themselves as professional astrologers without ever having to solve a single geometry equation

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Matrix Software became the very first company to successfully program a microcomputer to calculate astrological birth charts back in 1977, completely revolutionizing the industry.

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Ptolemy wrote the Tetrabiblos in the second century, effectively creating the foundational textbook that almost all modern western astrology is still based upon today.

East point acts as an auxiliary rising

Early modern astrologers blamed the devastating bubonic plague on a nasty alignment of Mars and Jupiter

Mercury retrograde is blamed for literally every late text

Astrologers in the sixteenth century were frequently hired to cast horoscopes for sick horses

Renaissance magicians wore solid lead amulets to protect themselves from the bad vibes of the planet Saturn

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