Editorial methodology
How we work
Every page on this site follows one methodology: the one María Blaquier built across 25 years of practice, teaching, and research. This page explains who writes here, how the charts are calculated, where our data comes from, and what we do when something needs correcting.
Who writes and who reviews
Articles and guides are written by the DraconicChart.com editorial team and reviewed by María Blaquier, faculty member at the School of Traditional Astrology (STA) and its official representative for the Spanish-speaking world. Pages marked as book excerpts carry her byline directly. The astrological framework behind the site is published in her book Draconic Astrology: Crossing the Threshold, the first dedicated treatment of the draconic chart written for English readers, and in the draconic astrology course she teaches at the Academia de Astrología Avanzada MB.
How the charts are calculated
Planetary positions are computed from professional-grade ephemerides for the exact date, time, and place of birth. The draconic chart is derived from the tropical chart by one precise operation: the longitude of the Moon's True North Node is subtracted from every point, so the Node sits at 0° Aries and every other position shifts by the same exact number of degrees. We use the True Node, and we keep the math exact rather than rounding to whole signs. Cross-chart contacts are read within a tight orb, following the thresholds María uses in her own practice. The same ephemeris computes every date in the astrological almanac and the nodal return calendar.
Where celebrity birth data comes from
Celebrity pages state their birth source and follow the Rodden Rating scale used by Astro-Databank. When a time of birth is rated AA (birth certificate) or A (from the person or family), we show the full chart. When the time is unverified, disputed, or unknown (ratings C, DD, X, XX), we hide everything that depends on it: houses, the Ascendant, and the angles. A chart with an uncertain birth time shows you only what the data can actually support. The Celebrity Draconic Census publishes each chart's computed positions and Rodden rating as open data.
Corrections
If you find an error in a birth time, a source, or an interpretation, write to [email protected]. Corrections ship in place and the page's modification date is updated.