What Kind of Astrology Does Astrology Bot Use
Astrology isn't a single system. There's Vedic, Western classical, evolutionary, the Hamburg School with hypothetical planets. Each operates by its own rules. Without defining the frame of reference, the conversation is meaningless. Here's ours.
The School
Modern Western astrology. Tropical zodiac, Placidus house system. This is the school where I studied for two years — with a strong emphasis on practice and reliability of methods. Not a mix of everything, not a proprietary system — the standard Western tradition, tested on hundreds of real charts.
Placidus — not because it's "the best," but because I simply don't have practical experience with other house systems. And building analysis on a system you're not confident in is worse than not building it at all.
Objects
Planets: From the Moon to Pluto
All ten classical planets: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
The septenary planets (Moon through Saturn) form the foundation of analysis. They describe everyday life: character, emotions, thinking style, relationships, actions, structure.
The outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) are included, but with an important caveat: their sign is generational. "Neptune in Capricorn" isn't a characteristic of a specific person — it's a characteristic of an entire generation. This energy becomes personal through the house and aspects to the septenary planets. No aspects to the septenaries — the outer planet functions as background, not as a theme.
Lilith and Nodes — Secondary Elements
Black Moon (Lilith) and the Lunar Nodes are the only fictitious points in the system. They're included because they are elements of the lunar orbit — not invented points, but the geometry of a real celestial body.
But they are unquestionably secondary. The system treats them as emotional coloring, not as central themes.
What's NOT Included
Asteroids (Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, etc.), lots, fixed stars — no. Aspects to house cusps — also no: they require a rectified chart with birth time accuracy down to one minute, and most people simply don't have that kind of data.
The principle is simple: I come from the school of real celestial bodies you can see through a school telescope. The exceptions are Lilith and the Nodes, and only because they're mathematical points of the Moon's orbit, not separate objects.
Fewer objects — less noise. Every added element increases the number of aspects combinatorially. Ten planets already give a sufficiently dense picture. Adding another dozen asteroids doesn't refine the analysis — it dilutes it.
Aspects
Five major ones: conjunction, opposition, trine, square, sextile. That's it.
Minor aspects (semi-sextile, quincunx, quintile, and others) do work, but they're very secondary. In my school, they're associated with karmic analysis and subtle matters that are of little use when describing the concrete life of a concrete person. The five major aspects cover the main types of interaction between planets: fusion, tension, support, conflict.
Orbs — Custom
This is an important point. We receive natal chart data from an external API, but its orbs don't satisfy me. So from the API we only take planetary positions and house cusps, while aspects are recalculated using the system's internal tables with custom orbs for each pair of planets.
An orb is the permissible deviation from an exact aspect. For the Sun and Moon it's wider (their influence is "louder"), for the outer planets — narrower. An exact aspect (orb under 1°) carries significantly more weight than an aspect at the edge of tolerance. The system accounts for this when constructing analysis.
What This Means in Practice
The system doesn't try to account for everything. It works with the set of tools I'm confident in — because I spent two years working with them on real people. Ten planets, two fictitious points, five aspects, custom orbs, Placidus.
This is an intentional limitation. Perhaps a Chiron–Ceres semi-sextile means something — but I don't know how to read it, which means the system shouldn't try either.
From this data, the system generates energy descriptions of houses and planets — detailed texts that are then used to answer any question you might have.