Someone else's chart

A photograph sits on your phone. It shows a date, a time and a town: somebody else's birth details. You are about to send it to an astrologer with the words "please have a look". The person in the picture does not know.

This happens in ordinary ways. A marriage proposal arrives and the other family sends the birth details, so a mother has them read privately. A company has dates of birth on the CVs, and the founder checks the final three. A father lies awake about a son in another city.

The usual objection is that astrology does not work, so none of this matters. Take it seriously instead. If a chart really does say something about a person's money, temper and health, then reading it without asking is going through their drawer. And if it says nothing at all, you have still heard it, and by the weekend it is in your head where they cannot reach it.

Suppose you are told the man has a temper. Nothing has been done to him. Everything has been done to you. At the next family lunch you are listening for it. He notices he is being watched without knowing why, so he becomes careful, and a careful man looks like a man with something to hide.

The person also cannot argue back. When your own chart is read you can say "that is not me". Somebody who is not in the room never gets that sentence. Nor does the astrologer, who hears everything about a stranger from the one person who already has an opinion.

A birth date, a birth minute and a town, put together, come close to naming one particular human being. Once you forward that picture it lives on somebody else's phone, beside a note about why you asked.

The repair is one sentence. Ask them: I would like your chart looked at, are you willing, and do you want to hear what is said. A yes makes it ordinary. A no belongs to them, and it tells you how this person handles a hard question.