Frequently asked questions

Gender can make a difference in wording; this is most noticeable if the natal data are used for a partner horoscope, or for any service in a language other than English, or for ordering reports.
Because the natal data entered are stored on the site and available later for any such usage to you, they must be entered completely, including gender, even if your first usage - e.g. for drawing a chart - would not require gender.

We understand that avoiding the assignment of male/female gender choices has become a big issue for the younger generation. At Astrodienst, we are confronted with an increasing number of requests to create non-gendered charts and readings.

Regarding a chart drawing, the problem is easily resolved. The gender (or neutral "event/other" ) choice makes not the least difference for charts. The chart is exacty the same, aside of the Mars/Venus glyph in front of the name. Please use the "event/other" option if you do not want to assign a binary gender to a birth data record. Each birth is also an event.

Regarding chart interpretations, offering a gender option other than female/male is not so easily possible for several reasons:

• Some astrological rules for chart reading are gender specific.
• the wording in the text is sometimes gender specific. There are tens of thousands of pages of text in currently thirteen(!) languages which covers male, female, male homosexual and female homosexual. The work of 30 years. We are hardly able to rewrite and retranslate all that to insert another "gender variant" or rather a "non-gender variant".
• In many languages, gender enters grammatically into all kinds of words, making such a task very complex. In English, there is a trend to use singular they/them for persons who declare themselves non-binary, or to use gender-neutral wording in general. There are no widely accepted solutions however to write gender-free Italian, French or Spanish.

Astrodienst's resources as a very small company are limited. We have decided to work on a better solution regarding interpretation for non-binary gender persons, but this will take time, given the need to support so many different languages.

You have however the freedom to make multiple entries, male or female heterosexual, male or female homosexual, and read all interpretation variants. Most often you will find, that in the English variant, there is no difference in the reading between male and female, anyway. Please try it out, before you make an issue about the "lack of choice".

We do not offer interpretations for events. All the texts written by our authors refer to human beings. Reading a chart of an event is a much more limited matter than reading a birth chart of a person.
When you call up a chart for a particular event, you have to know about the kind of event (e.g. start of a particular business, purchase of a property etc). This narrows the focus of the interpretation.
You can of course 'fake' the event chart into a person, by assigning a gender, and then get the child's reading for that chart (or an adults, if the event happened several years ago). Then you can try to translate the child's reading to your particular event. At least, it will give you some ideas about the cosmic patterns presiding over your particular event date.

There are two ways of generating a chart of the moment.

a) Go to the data entry page. Here, you can leave the field for the first name empty and write "now" in the field for the last name. After selecting the birth town, you can press the "continue" button. The correct date and time will be entered automatically. Press "continue" again, and choose "chart drawing" on the Free Horoscopes page.

b) Go to the Direct Atlas Query page (main menu at the top -> All about Astrology -> Direct Atlas Query) and enter the name of the town for your chart of the moment. Then click on the town link. This will lead you to the data entry page which is filled in automatically. Click on "continue" to go to the Horoscope Selection page.