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In fact, many astrologers wondered why the heliocentric planet positions should even interest astrologers. After all, we don’t live on the Sun. We live here on Earth. It was just another piece of programming work as far as I knew, but I was curious to find out what my helio chart looked like.

It took some time working with the helio system before it began to dawn on me that I was now working in a different coordinate system, one which offered a different perspective or view of my favorite astrological subject, me. And my approach to heliocentrics was by definition traditional. After all, up to that point all I had ever known was standard geocentric astrology, the same astrology that had been used by astrologers for centuries. I had nothing to compare my astrology to and no idea that there was or could be another point of view. Standard geocentric traditional astrology as I knew it up to that point was my only point of view.