iVillage

From my point of view at that time, heliocentric planetary positions were just another astrological coordinate system that had to be programmed. After, all, I learned early on that to get our standard geocentric astrological chart planets, I first had to calculate their heliocentric positions and then convert those positions to the ones astrologers have used for centuries. That is the way astronomers still do it today, for the most part.

It never occurred to me that this Sun-centered perspective, these heliocentric planet positions, had any other or any markedly different meaning than the geocentric planet positions I had been using for many years. They were all the same to me, or so I thought.