The Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011 issue (not a permalink, shows current TOC) is one I recommend buying. It's interesting in general, but I specifically liked two articles on day and night birth charts. One of them is (mostly) also online here so I can provide a tasty link, but I'll mostly talk about the other one that isn't, even though that's kinda frustrating for the rest of y'all.
The other one is "One After Another" by Kennet Gillman (book link here), and it gives you a good general basis for when beginning a rectification, how to tell if someone was born during night or day. It's almost ridiculously simple. Just check someone's biography (or uh, ask them if you know them). Did anything major happen to them at around age 18/19, or around age 24/25? If it's the first one, they're a daytime birth, if it's the second one, it's a nighttime birth.
When it came to me, this was a bit of a stumper. I know I'm a full moon/dusk-ish kid, but was the sun exactly above or below the horizon? And doing this for me, my 18th year was pretty major: won a competition, started dating, and my dad got diagnosed with a fatal disease. I think that last bit would count as the major event, even though that became official when I was almost 19. As for age 24, I got engaged a bit before I turned that age, but that didn't last. If I had to pick which one was bigger, I'd go with the disease bit, but technically both time periods had something go down. So... darn it, which one was I?
Thank heavens for the Internet and programs that somehow let me find out the time of sunset over 30 years ago on a specific day and location, eh? Sunset went down about an hour later, so... I'm a daytimer. Good to know!
Then it talks about planetary rulers: whatever the first planet to rise in your chart is, it rules the first 10 years of your life. The second one rules the next 10, etc. The author potis various ruling planets for famous people to see what is most likely.
Naturally, somehow, I have almost the same ruling planets for the same time periods as oh, HITLER. (People wonder at times why I say I wonder if I am Hitler reincarnated. I don't hate Jews and I'm not a psycho, but the chart similarities are just too close. I make damn sure I stay out of power and focus on my art, okay? Good thing I have more skills than he did.) Uranus ruling the first 10 years, moon ruling ages 10-19, he had Jupiter for the 20's and I had Neptune but it's otherwise the same. In his 30's he got ruled by Mercury and got into publishing-- well, I wouldn't mind that, but with better subject matter. In his 40's the sun was ruling and he got famous-- well, same time for me and I wouldn't mind that either. Venus (rather than Mars for him) comes up in the 50's, so... yeah, maybe THEN I'll get married :P Hah.
Interesting stuff. I highly recommend going out and buying this mag.
