iVillage

As outlined earlier, my own personal discovery of these StarTypes patterns was a long and sometimes difficult journey. There were no home computers and (in the beginning) not even pocket calculators. Worse, there were no accurate heliocentric tables of planet positions, except for a government publication which did not cover historical periods and cost about $25 for a single year, and you couldn’t find past years . In the end, I had to create my own helio ephemeris, etc. You get the idea.

Then there was the fact that every chart had to be drawn out by hand, the various StarTypes patterns found and then colored in so that they could be recognized later. Looking at tens of thousands of charts took real time. When personal computers came along, this eventually got easier.