@Imadethisupwithnoforethought : I belong to a few online association where I interact with other users of similar interests. Some are blogs and some are websites. I’m not aware of any Q&A websites for astrology.
It’s an ancient art/science which probably arose in Egypt. The god Thoth is given credit for inventing it, and also writing among other things. He is known as Hermes by the Greeks and Mercury by the Romans.
The important thing to know about the astrology you read in the newspapers is that its rubbish. It’s based on ideas promulgated at the beginning of the 20th century and has no basis in the history of the study.
If a person knows their date, place, and time of birth, then they can find what’s called their rising sign. Reading the horoscope for that sign is the key. When you read about houses and signs or planets in houses, it only comes out logical with a rising sign to start with.