Entering a Source Rating

The source rating is an optional code that indicates how accurate or reliable the chart’s date and time are. This is very useful when charts are exchanged with other astrologers, because it can help avoid misunderstandings about how accurately a chart’s time is known. For example, a chart’s time may be given as “10:43 am”, implying that it was timed to the nearest minute, but if the source rating is given as “D – Conflicting/Unverified”, then an astrologer would be very cautious about drawing firm conclusions from the chart.

>> To enter a source rating

Either...

•Select a pre-defined rating category from the drop-down list box

or...

•Enter any rating code up to 2 characters long

The predefined rating codes are known as “Rodden Rating” codes as devised and promoted by Lois Rodden. These codes are:

•AA - From birth record, e.g. directly from a birth certificate or hospital record, or quoted from such a record

•A - From memory or from a news report

•B - From a biography or auto-biography

•C – Original source unknown or rectified from an approximate time

•DD – Conflicting with other sources or otherwise unverified

•X - Time unknown e.g. only the date is known or has been rectified without an approximate starting time

•XX – Date in question or otherwise undetermined