I agree. Currently a birth chart is a mistaken piece of documentation. Like Fixed stated, It’s not so much a snapshot but a map.
But how specific could a horoscope be if it were a continuously running program that took your specific spatial position on the planet into account in every moment it was queried?
I stand 6 ft tall and the view of this planet around me as result of it’s size and curvature allows me a six mile diameter horizon of the planet. Moving my location just six miles would allow me to see a slightly different star field. Some stars in the direction I moved would become visible over the horizon and some stars I was moving away from would become obscured. Just changing my elevation on the planet has a similar effect, making my horizon larger as I move higher in elevation. Simply cutting the planet in two at the equator to determine the star field in the northern or southern hemispheres is a dramatic over simplification itself.
One of my problems with astrology is I have never seen the question asked what was your elevation at the time of your birth? Elevation would change the size of your horizon, and as result the angular relationship to all the planets as well. I don’t ever get to see half the stars in the sky as I can never see beyond the curvature of the planet. What if for example I was born on a satellite in geosynchronous orbit directly above a particular coordinate position on the planet, say on the moon if it were in a geosynchronous orbit. My distance from the planet would be great enough that my horizon view of the planet would be the size of disc out in space, I would be exposed to a far greater number of stars and the planets in their orbits would be obscured by the planet earth for far less time. If it is angular relationship to the planets that defines a birth chart and what influences it, a chart for someone born in geosynchronous orbit would have to be much different then that of a person born at a specific location and time on the planet. The sun and all the planets would become visible, and the effect based on angles and what is visible and what is obscured and their anticipate results would have to change as well.
If I were born at the top of cliff or at sea level at the base of the cliff my angles in relationship to all the planets would be different. Every astrological chart I’ve looked at has a two dimensional position on the planet and a time. I haven’t found one that asks what your elevation is, and elevation changes the size your horizon. The higher up you go the larger the horizon becomes. Imagine in the future inhabiting the moon. A child born on the moon would have entirely different angles and vantage points to the planets then someone born on earth. Being born at sea level would give you a different chart then being born at 5,000 ft. I’ve seen no evidence that, to date, astrology has taken this into account. Astrology is based on simple angles and I’ve seen no evidence that it takes into account an azimuth.
If at ground level your horizon is just 1.3 miles or defines a circle 2.6 miles in diameter, then two people born just 6 miles apart at the same date and time should have dramatically individual charts as their personal horizons would expose a different star field and different planetary positions in the sky and a child born on a plane 30,000 feet over head would have a different chart as well.
And man is just an animal, if this effect takes place for man then every animal on the planet would be subject to the same reasoning. But to ask astrology to take these complexities into account is asking a lot from a pseudo science. The first question on the chart should be what’s your species? Because the same rules should apply to every EM emitting life form on the planet. The horoscope of a house plant should change if I moved it to a different window. At the very best astrology is an extremely over simplified codification system, how ever complex the calculations of all the variable are.
And that doesn’t even begin to explain how a celestial mass as far away as Pluto can effect any life form that comes into being, on a specific planet in a solar system. What is the effect of the planet earth if you were born on Mars? Find the mechanism of this effect, don’t just postulate it as result of a correlation being a cause.