Someone says I act like an Aries, so it must be the Mao hour. That is hardly evidence for rectification. Personality is soft and explainable any way; what locks the hour are events you clearly remember by the year they happened.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Rectification works by reverse inference: cast a few candidate hours, then see which chart's decade and yearly limits match the dated events you already know. The more events it matches, the more likely that hour is real.
The Underlying Logic
Hard evidence means objective events with a clear year and month: moving, changing jobs, marrying, divorcing, schooling, graduating, illness and hospitalization, or buying property.
Soft traits such as personality, hobbies or catchphrases are not evidence, since any hour's chart can explain them.
Cast each candidate hour and test its decade and yearly limits against the years of these events for plausible triggers.
A single event fits several hours; only when several events cross and point to one hour does rectification hold.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- List past events whose year and month the person can pin down, as specifically as possible
- Drop events remembered only vaguely without a year
- Cast a chart for each of two or three candidate hours
- For each chart, test the decade and yearly limits against each event's year and score the match
- Compare the number and strength of matches across charts and take the best one
- If charts tie, add new objective events to narrow further
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Using personality, looks or catchphrases as rectification evidence
Mistake 2: Fixing the hour from a single major event
Mistake 3: Forcing vaguely-dated events into the check
Back to Your Own Chart
The hard currency of rectification is dated objective events, not flattering personality notes. Lay a few real events against the chart and the hour surfaces on its own.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to which events to use for hour rectification before judging anything
- Open the triple-direction of those palaces and count the auspicious, malefic and assistant stars separately
- Check where the natal Four Transformations land to set the chart's baseline tone
- Read the decade-limit transformations to see whether the which events to use for hour rectification line is activated in this stage
- Then read the annual transformations and the year's palace to pin down this year's trigger and timing
- Layer natal, decade and year before concluding, then decide how to act rather than labeling good or bad