<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Chart &amp; Moon — Blog</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/</link><description>Grounded, beautiful, non-predictive.</description><item><title>Why zodiac dates shift year to year — a 101-year table</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/zodiac-dates-shift/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/zodiac-dates-shift/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Sun sign date ranges aren&#x27;t fixed the way a wall calendar implies. Sampled across 101 years, seventeen calendar dates come out genuinely split.</description></item><item><title>Two sites, two rising signs — who&#x27;s right?</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/two-sites-two-rising-signs/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/two-sites-two-rising-signs/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Enter the same birth date, time, and place into two different calculators and get two different rising signs. Here&#x27;s what&#x27;s actually causing the disagreement, and how to tell which one to trust.</description></item><item><title>The Buck Moon turned full July 29 — the exact minute, and the honest history behind its name</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/sky/buck-moon/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/sky/buck-moon/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>July&#x27;s full moon arrived at 14:36 UTC on the 29th. The name has two separate, tangled origin stories — and one popular explanation the record doesn&#x27;t actually support as cleanly as it&#x27;s usually told.</description></item><item><title>No birth time? What you honestly can and can&#x27;t know</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/no-birth-time-honestly/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/no-birth-time-honestly/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>A missing birth time doesn&#x27;t erase a chart — but it does erase certain parts of it for good, and the honest move is naming exactly which ones rather than filling the gap with a guess.</description></item><item><title>Mercury retrograde 2026–2027: every station, computed to the minute</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/mercury-retrograde-computed/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/mercury-retrograde-computed/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Every Mercury retrograde window through early 2028, found by walking the ephemeris until the planet&#x27;s motion actually reverses — not copied from an almanac.</description></item><item><title>How we test our engine against a century of sky</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/how-we-test-the-engine/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/how-we-test-the-engine/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Before this calculator went live, its output was checked against an independent astronomy library across twenty birth charts spanning more than a hundred years — here&#x27;s exactly how, and where the small remaining error lives.</description></item><item><title>Houses without jargon</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/houses-without-jargon/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/houses-without-jargon/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Twelve regions of a chart, each covering a different area of life — explained as a plain reference table, not a wall of Latin-sounding terms.</description></item><item><title>Cusp birthdays: what the calendar hides</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/cusp-birthdays-computed-truth/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/cusp-birthdays-computed-truth/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>A wall calendar prints one hard line between two signs. The sky draws seventeen different lines, and two of them are close to a coin flip.</description></item><item><title>The Big Three, plainly</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/big-three-plainly/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/big-three-plainly/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>Sun, Moon, and rising sign — the three placements every chart leads with, explained without the usual jargon pileup.</description></item><item><title>Aspects as geometry</title><link>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/aspects-as-geometry/</link><guid>https://chartandmoon.com/blog/aspects-as-geometry/</guid><pubDate>2026-07-21</pubDate><description>An aspect is nothing more than an angle between two points on the wheel — measured in degrees, drawn as a line, and nameable without a single claim about what it does.</description></item></channel></rss>
