Last reviewed 9 October 2026

Editorial policy

How AstroHot decides what to publish, which sources count, how statements of fact are checked, and what happens when we get something wrong.

Two kinds of content, kept apart

Everything on AstroHot is one of two things. Calculations — planetary positions, sign dates, moon phases, numerological reductions, statistics — are computed in our own code, and the formulas and their accuracy are published on the methodology page. Interpretations — what a card, a rune, a sign or a dream is said to mean — belong to traditions, and we present them as tradition: “read as”, “traditionally linked to”, never as established fact or prediction.

What counts as a source

We rely on, in this order:

  • Primary texts — the earliest surviving version of a tradition: Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), the Anglo-Saxon, Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems, James Legge’s 1882 translation of the I Ching, Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, William Lilly’s Christian Astrology (1647).
  • Research — peer-reviewed studies for any statistic about people, such as how common a dream is, with the study named next to the figure.
  • Official data — NASA JPL for planetary positions, national observatories for calendar dates, gemmological institutes for mineral data.
  • Our own data — figures we compute and publish as open datasets, with the method and how each was checked.

Other astrology websites are not sources, however often they repeat a claim. A story that appears everywhere but nowhere in the record of its own time is reported as unproven — see myths, checked against the sources.

How statements of fact are checked

Every statement that can be wrong — a date, a name, a number, an attribution, a research result — is checked against a source before it is published. In October 2026 we re-checked every such statement on the site, 1,969 in all, against primary texts, research and official data; more than 120 were corrected or removed. Typical fixes: a rune said to appear on an inscription that does not contain it, a dream study credited to the wrong university, dream themes marked “not measured” that the standard survey does measure.

Numbers we calculate are checked against independent references — station dates against published ephemerides, new and full moons against published times, eclipse flags against the eclipses of 2024–2030 — and the result of each check is stated with the figure.

Tradition, evidence and advice

No controlled study has shown that astrology, tarot, numerology or any other system on this site predicts events, and we do not claim otherwise. Where research has tested a claim, we report the result, including when it is negative. We do not give medical, financial, legal or psychological advice; the disclaimer says where to go instead.

Corrections

If something is wrong, write to us through the contact page with the page, the statement and your source. Confirmed errors are corrected on the page; corrections to our datasets go into the next build, and the build date is shown on each dataset’s page. We correct calculation errors whoever reports them and credit the report if you wish.

Independence

AstroHot is funded by advertising. Advertisers have no say over what we publish, and we do not accept paid links or sponsored articles that are not labelled as such. How advertising and cookies work on the site is set out in the privacy policy.