{ "astrology": { "related": [ "ephemeris", "zodiac-sign", "house", "aspect", "ascendant" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Explore traditions", "href": "/learn?view=traditions", "description": "Choose a tradition before choosing its calculation or reading method." }, { "title": "Choose a tool", "href": "/tools", "description": "Find a chart, calendar, timing, relationship or location tool." }, { "title": "Reading methods", "href": "/learn?view=methods", "description": "Compare the purpose and limits of different interpretation approaches." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "title": "One historical argument, many traditions", "paragraphs": [ "Ptolemy opens the Tetrabiblos by distinguishing the calculation of celestial motions from an inquiry into their supposed effects. His argument is evidence for a particular ancient approach to astrology, not a description of every tradition or a demonstration that its predictions work.", "The distinction is useful when reading this atlas: a correctly calculated planetary position and a well-documented historical interpretation answer different questions. Neither makes the other automatically true." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.1–3 · historical argument", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1a%2A.html" } ] }, { "id": "practice", "title": "Build a reading from an explicit question", "paragraphs": [ "Begin with the kind of question you want to explore. A birth chart, an event chart and a calendar conversion do not take the same inputs. Choose a system guide, open its tool, and review the requested date, place, time and convention before interpreting the result.", "Keep a short reading record: the question; the inputs and their uncertainty; the calculated facts; the source or school used for meaning; and what remains unresolved. In a comparison, keep one such record for each tradition before drawing connections." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked reading example · an editorial exercise", "paragraphs": [ "Imagine a chart result displays a planet at 10° Taurus. First identify whether the label is tropical or sidereal. Next inspect the relevant house and aspects in the same configuration. Only then consult the chosen tradition’s explanation of that planet and placement. A sign label on its own leaves the method under-specified.", "If the birth time is unknown, record that absence instead of selecting a time because its reading feels convincing. A useful question is “Which statements survive the uncertainty?” The answer may be narrower than the full chart." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "scope", "title": "Use the tree without flattening its branches", "paragraphs": [ "The wiki tree is a browsing aid. A shared word, symbol or numerical cycle does not by itself show historical influence. Follow the source trail for lineage claims, and consult a concept’s word origin separately from the history of the practice.", "For personal reflection, treat a reading as an invitation to examine experience. For historical study, ask who wrote a rule and for which setting. For calculation work, ask whether another person could reproduce the output from the recorded inputs." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "tropical-zodiac": { "related": [ "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "precession", "zodiac-sign", "ecliptic-longitude" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect a placement in the selected zodiac. Keep the lens visible while reading its interpretation." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Inspect coordinates, named reference settings and available house results together." } ], "diagram": "zodiac-reference", "sections": [ { "id": "reference", "title": "A reference tied to the equinox", "paragraphs": [ "The equinox is an intersection of the celestial equator and ecliptic. Equinox-based ecliptic longitude measures eastward around the ecliptic from that origin. This gives a coordinate reference; it does not trace the outlines of constellations." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · astronomical terminology", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/asa_glossary" } ] }, { "id": "history", "title": "Seasonal reasoning in a historical source", "paragraphs": [ "In Tetrabiblos I.11, Ptolemy describes 30° sign intervals from the solstices and relates sign qualities to seasons. This documents a seasonal rationale in that text. Its northern seasonal descriptions should be read in their geographical context, rather than silently converted into claims about everyone’s local weather." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.11 · seasonal signs", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1b%2A.html" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · turn longitude into a sign", "paragraphs": [ "For this invented example, a tropical longitude of 40° falls 10° beyond the 30° boundary: Taurus 10°. At 29°59′ the label is still Aries; at exactly 30° it becomes Taurus 0°. Keep the unrounded value when testing a boundary.", "The diagram compares 40° tropical with 16° sidereal using a deliberately round 24° offset. The direction has not moved. These are two coordinate labels for one point, not two competing observations of a planet." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Use it in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "In Chart studio, check the active lens before copying a placement. When comparing systems, keep the same birth data and note exactly which settings changed. Read a tropical result with the guide for the selected tropical method; a sidereal sign interpretation is not a drop-in replacement.", "An unfamiliar sign label after a settings change is a reason to inspect the reference, not to overwrite your birth details. Use the connected ayanamsha article to work through the coordinate difference." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "sidereal-zodiac": { "related": [ "tropical-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "lahiri-ayanamsha", "precession", "zodiac-sign" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Jyotish chart", "href": "/workspace/charts?system=21", "description": "Open the compatible sidereal chart and its declared whole-sign convention." }, { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect a placement in the selected zodiac. Keep the lens visible while reading its interpretation." }, { "title": "Lunar mansion atlas", "href": "/workspace/lunar-mansions", "description": "Inspect the Moon under a named sidereal reference and follow the mansion’s own sources." } ], "diagram": "zodiac-reference", "sections": [ { "id": "method", "title": "Name the reference", "paragraphs": [ "Swiss Ephemeris requires a selected sidereal mode to specify the ayanamsha. Its available modes are distinct conventions; “sidereal” alone does not identify the calculation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal modes and house calculations", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · compare labels", "paragraphs": [ "Imagine two reports use the same sky position, but one chooses an offset of 24° and the other 23°. A tropical longitude of 40° would be labelled 16° Aries in the first and 17° Aries in the second. Both offsets here are invented teaching values, not current values of named traditions.", "At a boundary the difference becomes more conspicuous: 24°30′ tropical would become 0°30′ Aries with the first offset and 1°30′ Aries with the second. If an offset were 25°, the same position would instead be 29°30′ Pisces. Compare the numbers before interpreting the changed sign." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "practice", "title": "Keep interpretation native to the method", "paragraphs": [ "Open the Jyotish chart for a Jyotish workflow and check its named reference. Follow its own rules for grahas, rāśis and houses. For another sidereal school, start at that school’s guide rather than assuming the same symbolism and procedures.", "When studying a nakshatra, keep its sidereal reference alongside the Moon’s longitude. A changed mansion or pada should lead to the corresponding entry, not to an explanation left over from the previous selection." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "limits", "title": "What a comparison can establish", "paragraphs": [ "Record the date and reference name with every exported result. If two tools disagree, compare their settings and underlying longitudes before choosing a preferred explanation. Agreement on a label demonstrates reproducibility only for the settings actually compared.", "The sidereal sign coordinate does not by itself identify a mythology, a life event or a personality trait. Those belong to the interpretive material of the chosen school and need their own attribution." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "ayanamsha": { "related": [ "tropical-zodiac", "sidereal-zodiac", "lahiri-ayanamsha", "precession", "ecliptic-longitude" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Inspect coordinates, named reference settings and available house results together." }, { "title": "Jyotish chart", "href": "/workspace/charts?system=21", "description": "Open the compatible sidereal chart and its declared whole-sign convention." } ], "diagram": "zodiac-reference", "sections": [ { "id": "method", "title": "The conversion convention", "paragraphs": [ "For the traditional sidereal calculation, Swiss Ephemeris describes sidereal longitude as tropical longitude minus ayanamsha. The reference must be selected, and its value evaluated for the chart’s date. Other projection modes need their own treatment." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal modes and house calculations", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · wrap around zero", "paragraphs": [ "Use an illustrative longitude of 12° and an invented offset of 24°. Subtraction gives −12°. Adding 360° puts the answer back on the circle: 348°, or Pisces 18°. Negative intermediate values are normal; they are not a negative zodiac sign.", "For a second check, 359° minus the same offset is 335°, or Pisces 5°. Adding 24° to either final result and reducing modulo 360° recovers the original longitude. These examples test arithmetic, not the accuracy of a real ephemeris." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "record", "title": "Make the result reproducible", "paragraphs": [ "When recording a result, include the named ayanamsha, its numerical value, chart date and time, and the calculation settings. “About 24°” is useful for a diagram but insufficient for a boundary-sensitive personal reading.", "Use the glossary entry for Lahiri ayanamsha when that is the selected convention. Do not rename another reference “Lahiri” merely because the numbers are close. Retain the exact displayed choice when sharing or exporting a calculation." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "An offset changes the input to an interpretation", "paragraphs": [ "Try a comparison with the same birth data and note which sign or mansion assignments change. Keep separate notes for unchanged placements and boundary crossings. A change in classification calls for the matching interpretive rule; the offset itself is not a character description.", "When a result is near a boundary, compare the effect of reference choice with any uncertainty in the recorded birth time. Report both sources of uncertainty rather than selecting whichever result feels more agreeable." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "ascendant": { "related": [ "house", "whole-sign-houses", "midheaven", "ecliptic-longitude", "zodiac-sign" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect a placement in the selected zodiac. Keep the lens visible while reading its interpretation." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Inspect coordinates, named reference settings and available house results together." }, { "title": "Annual profections", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "See how the tropical rising sign anchors this tool’s whole-sign annual sequence." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method", "title": "A local chart angle", "paragraphs": [ "House calculations in Swiss Ephemeris take time, geographical latitude and longitude, and return the Ascendant among the chart angles. A location and a correctly interpreted time are therefore part of reproducing the result." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal modes and house calculations", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "history", "title": "An example of traditional meaning", "paragraphs": [ "In Christian Astrology, Lilly relates the first house to the person asking a question or the person whose birth is being considered. He connects the name Ascendant with rising at the horizon. These are historical interpretations in a specific text, not measurements of personality." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), pp. 50–59 · house meanings", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/lilly_houses.html" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · point, sign and house", "paragraphs": [ "Assume an illustrative Ascendant of 17° Gemini. The Ascendant is the point at that degree; the rising sign is Gemini. In a whole-sign chart, Gemini is the first house, including its degrees before 17°. The three labels describe related but different things.", "If a comparison chart instead gives 29°59′ Gemini, rounding it to 30° before deciding the sign can change the displayed rising sign incorrectly. Keep the underlying precision and distinguish rounding from an actual boundary crossing." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Use uncertain birth times honestly", "paragraphs": [ "Enter the recorded time and its place-based time zone. If the time is approximate, compare nearby possible times and note whether the rising sign changes. Do not present a single precise Ascendant as known when the input only supports a range.", "When the time is unknown, leave it unknown. Consult the tool’s available time-independent results and return to the Ascendant when better evidence is available. A plausible-sounding interpretation is not evidence for the missing clock time." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "Read the angle in context", "paragraphs": [ "Begin with the selected tradition’s treatment of the rising point, its sign and ruler. Follow the relevant house article before assigning topics. Keep the geometrical result separate from the explanatory language so a change in the inputs remains visible.", "For practice, write two sentences: one reports the calculated angle and settings; the other attributes a meaning to the chosen source. This makes it easier to see which part another calculation can verify." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "house": { "related": [ "whole-sign-houses", "ascendant", "midheaven", "zodiac-sign" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect a placement in the selected zodiac. Keep the lens visible while reading its interpretation." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Inspect coordinates, named reference settings and available house results together." }, { "title": "Annual profections", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "Follow an age through whole-sign houses using the declared tropical convention." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method", "title": "Choose the division before assigning topics", "paragraphs": [ "Swiss Ephemeris implements multiple house systems and returns their cusps. The calculation method is an input, not a label to apply after interpretation. Its documentation also distinguishes house position from ecliptic longitude." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal modes and house calculations", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "history", "title": "House meanings have a source and a setting", "paragraphs": [ "Lilly’s 1647 text assigns different subjects to different houses: the first concerns the person, the second resources, and the third siblings and journeys. His examples include questions and nativities. Read these as his documented teaching, with the context and assumptions of the passage intact." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), pp. 50–59 · house meanings", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/lilly_houses.html" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · signs and houses", "paragraphs": [ "Take an invented whole-sign chart with Gemini rising. Gemini is house one, Cancer house two and Leo house three. A planet at 2° Leo is therefore in house three under this rule. This tells you its house placement; it does not change its sign from Leo.", "The Midheaven is a separate angle to inspect. Do not infer its exact position just from the tenth whole-sign house. When comparing a different house system, retain the same birth inputs and record which placements actually change." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "practice", "title": "Use house comparisons productively", "paragraphs": [ "Choose one convention for the reading and keep it visible. If you compare alternatives, write down the original placement and the alternative before consulting meanings. This prevents a sentence about one house from surviving unnoticed after its underlying placement changes.", "For each interpretation, identify the topic being assigned, the source that assigns it, and the chart factors the method asks you to consider. Avoid substituting the same generic paragraph for every planet in a house." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "limits", "title": "Handle unavailable or uncertain results", "paragraphs": [ "If a tool reports that a selected house calculation is unavailable, preserve that result. Choosing a different system can be a deliberate comparison, but the replacement must be named. A silent fallback makes the interpretation difficult to reproduce.", "Unknown or approximate birth times need special care because a precise house reading may depend on information you do not have. Compare the supported range when possible and keep uncertain placements out of definitive statements." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "aspect": { "sections": [ { "id": "measure", "title": "Start with a declared angular measure", "paragraphs": [ "An aspect can be tested as a relationship between two stated coordinates. In the common zodiac-longitude calculation, take the absolute difference, reduce it on the 0°–360° circle, then use the smaller of that result and 360° minus it. The result can be compared with a selected exact angle: 0° conjunction, 60° sextile, 90° square, 120° trine or 180° opposition. Swiss Ephemeris distinguishes ecliptic longitude from latitude, distance, right ascension and declination, so a longitude aspect is not a measurement of physical nearness or a complete description of sky position." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface · coordinate outputs", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "orb", "title": "Exactness and orb are separate decisions", "paragraphs": [ "An orb is the tolerance around an exact angle; it determines whether a near-match is reported. For an invented example, positions at 358° and 2° are 4° apart across the 0°/360° boundary, not 356° apart. They count as a conjunction under a declared 5° orb and do not under a declared 3° orb. Deborah Houlding’s annotated edition of William Lilly’s Christian Astrology identifies a moiety technique for calculating orbs in chapter 19. This documents a historical procedure, rather than a universal limit. Record the aspect angle, the coordinate frame and the orb before comparing outputs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology · aspects and planetary configurations", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/CA.html" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface · degree normalization", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "signs", "title": "Sign relationships use a different rule", "paragraphs": [ "A sign-based method first assigns each position to a 30° sign and then asks how many signs separate the pair. Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos I.13 describes opposition, trine, quartile and sextile as both sign intervals and 180°, 120°, 90° and 60°; I.16 calls signs one or five signs apart disjunct or alien. Thus the invented 358°/2° pair is within a 5° longitude conjunction, while its Pisces/Aries labels are adjacent signs and fall under Ptolemy’s stated disjunct category. The two results answer different questions; neither rule should silently replace the other." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.13 and I.16 · aspects of signs and disjunct signs", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1b%2A.html" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "Read the geometry within its tradition", "paragraphs": [ "A calculation establishes only that positions meet the declared rule. Ptolemy calls trines and sextiles harmonious, and quartiles and oppositions disharmonious within his sign-based account. Lilly’s account also considers application and separation. Such meanings are interpretive inheritances, not consequences that follow from the angle alone. Choose the guide for the active method, cite it when making a historical claim, and keep a degree-based output distinct from a sign-based reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.13 · aspect categories and rationale", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1b%2A.html" }, { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology · aspects and planetary configurations", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/CA.html" } ] } ], "related": [ "ecliptic-longitude", "zodiac-sign", "orb", "conjunction", "opposition", "trine", "square", "sextile", "applying-aspect" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Natal aspects & midpoint data", "href": "/data?tab=raw&category=derived", "description": "Inspect the engine’s tropical longitude aspects, declared orbs and phase. These outputs use degree-based rules." } ] }, "ecliptic-longitude": { "related": [ "ecliptic", "ecliptic-latitude", "zodiac-sign", "tropical-zodiac", "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "aspect" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect positions while keeping the selected zodiac visible." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Review reported coordinates and the settings used to produce them." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "coordinate", "title": "An angle on a named reference circle", "paragraphs": [ "Ecliptic longitude is an eastward angular coordinate around the ecliptic. The US Naval Observatory defines it from the dynamical equinox; Skyfield places 0° at the March equinox and reports longitude from 0° to 360°. A longitude is incomplete unless its reference frame and origin are known.", "Longitude and ecliptic latitude are separate coordinates. Two objects can have similar longitudes while lying different angular distances north or south of the ecliptic, and neither coordinate alone supplies distance. A chart label is a transformation of a declared coordinate, not a measurement of an object’s physical size, nearness, or influence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · Astronomical Almanac Glossary", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/asa_glossary" }, { "title": "Skyfield · Coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/coordinates.html" } ] }, { "id": "zodiac", "title": "Turn a longitude into a zodiac label", "paragraphs": [ "A twelve-sign zodiac divides its circle into equal 30° sectors after choosing an origin. In an invented equinox-based example, 73°18′ is 13°18′ after the 60° boundary, so it is Gemini 13°18′. The sign boundary occurs at the exact underlying longitude: 89°59′ remains Gemini, while 90°00′ begins Cancer.", "A sidereal result requires a separately named sidereal reference and offset convention. The underlying object need not have moved when the displayed sign changes. Keep the raw longitude, zodiac setting and any ayanamsha together when comparing reports." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "calculation", "title": "Record enough to reproduce it", "paragraphs": [ "A usable calculation record includes the object, instant and time scale, observer choice where relevant, ephemeris or computation model, coordinate frame or epoch, and zodiac origin. Apparent and geometric positions, geocentric and topocentric positions, and date-specific reference frames can yield different coordinates without any arithmetic mistake.", "Use Chart data and conventions to compare the displayed longitude before comparing a sign, house, or aspect. Do not round a value before testing a boundary; carry precision through the calculation and round only for display." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Skyfield · Positions, centers and apparent coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/positions.html" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "Keep coordinate and reading distinct", "paragraphs": [ "Longitude can establish a position under declared conventions. Traditional meanings assigned to signs, aspects, or houses require a source within the selected system; they do not follow from the angle by astronomical necessity. A tropical reading and a sidereal reading also require their own stated interpretive methods.", "For a comparison, first preserve the common birth or event data, then list every setting that changes. This makes a changed label inspectable and prevents an interpretation from being carried across a coordinate convention without acknowledgement." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "zodiac-sign": { "related": [ "ecliptic-longitude", "tropical-zodiac", "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "house", "aspect", "cardinal-signs" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect sign labels under the active zodiac setting." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Compare the coordinate and reference choices behind a sign label." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "sector", "title": "A sector, not a star pattern", "paragraphs": [ "A zodiac sign is one equal 30° sector of a selected zodiac. Reduce ecliptic longitude to the 0°–360° circle, then locate its sector: 0°–under 30° is the first sign and 30°–under 60° the next. This differs from constellation areas, regions of the celestial sphere rather than twelve equal ecliptic sectors.", "For an invented example, 211°07′ is 1°07′ beyond the 210° boundary, so an equinox-based twelve-sign zodiac labels it Scorpio 1°07′. The calculation needs an origin; the sign name alone does not tell a reader whether the zodiac is tropical or a specified sidereal convention." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · Astronomical Almanac Glossary", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/asa_glossary" }, { "title": "Skyfield · Coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/coordinates.html" } ] }, { "id": "reference", "title": "Choose the zodiac before counting sectors", "paragraphs": [ "Equinox-based longitude uses the March equinox. A sidereal workflow requires a named convention; Swiss Ephemeris exposes multiple sidereal modes. A sign change between reports may reflect a changed origin, not a disagreement about the observed body.", "At a boundary, retain the unrounded longitude and record the selected reference. With the same invented 24° offset, tropical 25°10′ becomes sidereal 1°10′ Aries, whereas tropical 23°50′ becomes 29°50′ Pisces. These teaching values demonstrate wraparound only; they are not values for a named tradition." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface · sidereal modes", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "usage", "title": "Use labels with their configuration", "paragraphs": [ "In Chart studio, check the active lens before saving or sharing a placement. In Chart data and conventions, preserve the longitude and declared zodiac with the sign. This is especially important for a result close to a boundary, where a different reference, time correction, or display rounding may change the sector label.", "A sign and a house answer different classification questions. The former follows zodiac longitude; a house needs an additional house rule and usually local time and place. Do not infer a house from a sign label alone." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · house-system constructions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "Read a sign within its own lineage", "paragraphs": [ "In Tetrabiblos I.11, Ptolemy connects Aries and Libra with equinoxes, and Cancer and Capricorn with solstices. He groups Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius as solid signs, and Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces as bicorporeal. This is a particular historical classification; the geometry alone does not establish personality traits.", "When reading, name the tradition, zodiac, and source for the interpretive claim. When comparing systems, make separate notes for each before drawing parallels. Shared sign names or a common twelve-sector geometry do not by themselves show that meanings are interchangeable." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.11 · seasonal sign classifications", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1b%2A.html" } ] } ] }, "precession": { "related": [ "ecliptic", "ecliptic-longitude", "nutation", "obliquity", "tropical-zodiac", "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Inspect the coordinate and zodiac conventions reported with a chart." }, { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Compare placements only after keeping the selected lens explicit." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "motion", "title": "A changing orientation in astronomical models", "paragraphs": [ "The US Naval Observatory defines precession as changing orientation of an orbital plane or the equator of a rotating body. For Earth, it distinguishes precession of the equator, driven mainly by solar and lunar torques on the equatorial bulge, from precession of the ecliptic; their combined motion is general precession. This is modeled astronomical motion, not motion of the stars around the zodiac.", "The practical consequence is reference-frame change over time. A coordinate reported with the equinox and equator of one epoch cannot be compared numerically with another until its frame or transformation is known." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · Astronomical Almanac Glossary", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/asa_glossary" } ] }, { "id": "coordinates", "title": "Separate frame change from object motion", "paragraphs": [ "Swiss Ephemeris distinguishes a J2000 output from outputs affected by precession, and documents that fixed-star daily motions contain several components, including precession, nutation, aberration, parallax and proper motion. A coordinate difference between dates may therefore combine changes in the reference, observer model, and the object’s own modeled motion.", "An original comparison exercise: label two columns “position of the same object in frame A” and “position in frame B.” A change between the columns can be entirely a change of reference. Compare different dates only after specifying both the physical motion being modeled and the frame in which it is reported." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface · flags and fixed-star outputs", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "zodiacs", "title": "Why reference labels matter in zodiac comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Equinox-based ecliptic longitude measures from the March equinox, while sidereal calculations require a stated sidereal mode or ayanamsha convention. Precession helps explain why these references require careful specification, but it does not by itself supply the value or definition of any particular ayanamsha.", "When comparing a tropical and sidereal chart, save the underlying date, object, longitude, zodiac setting, and named sidereal convention. If a sign label changes, check the documented reference and arithmetic before interpreting it." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Skyfield · Coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/coordinates.html" } ] }, { "id": "scope", "title": "Do not make a coordinate model decide a tradition", "paragraphs": [ "Precession models support reproducible coordinate transformations when the epoch and model are declared. They do not establish that one zodiac is the uniquely correct framework for astrological interpretation, nor do they determine the meanings assigned to signs, houses, or planets.", "A careful reading separates three claims: the astronomical model used; the chosen zodiac convention; and the interpretive rule from a named tradition. That separation lets another person check the calculation without treating a traditional claim as an astronomical measurement." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "whole-sign-houses": { "related": [ "house", "ascendant", "zodiac-sign", "ecliptic-longitude", "equal-houses", "placidus-houses", "midheaven" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Chart studio", "href": "/workspace/charts", "description": "Inspect the selected house convention alongside sign and angle data." }, { "title": "Annual profections", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "Follow the tool’s declared tropical whole-sign annual sequence." }, { "title": "Chart data and conventions", "href": "/data", "description": "Review the Ascendant, longitudes, and stated house method together." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "rule", "title": "Count complete signs from the rising sign", "paragraphs": [ "Whole-sign houses assign house one to the entire zodiac sign containing the Ascendant; each successive sign becomes the next house. This is a sign-counting rule, so the first-house boundary is the beginning of the rising sign, not necessarily the Ascendant’s exact degree. Swiss Ephemeris documents this construction separately from equal houses starting at the Ascendant.", "In a synthetic example, an Ascendant at 17° Gemini makes all of Gemini house one, Cancer house two, and Leo house three. A planet at 2° Leo is therefore in house three under this rule. Its sign is Leo regardless of its house assignment." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · section 6.2, house-system constructions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" } ] }, { "id": "comparison", "title": "Compare the construction before the reading", "paragraphs": [ "Whole-sign and equal-house charts both use 30° spans, but their house-one boundaries differ. With an invented Ascendant at 17° Gemini, equal houses beginning at the Ascendant place a 2° Gemini planet before its first cusp, while whole-sign houses place it in Gemini house one. The result follows the construction rule.", "A quadrant system is another distinct construction. Keep the birth data constant and list the house method before comparing which house, if any, changes." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · section 6.2, house-system constructions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" } ] }, { "id": "angles", "title": "Keep houses and angles distinct", "paragraphs": [ "The Ascendant is a local chart angle, while a whole-sign first house is a 30° zodiac sector selected from the Ascendant’s sign. The Midheaven is likewise a separate angle. It can fall in a house other than the tenth whole sign, so its exact degree must be calculated and displayed rather than inferred from the house number.", "Use Chart data and conventions to record time, place, time zone, zodiac and house method. An approximate birth time can change the Ascendant’s sign and therefore every whole-sign house; represent that uncertainty before making a house-dependent claim." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · section 6.2, house-system constructions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation", "title": "Attribute topics to a chosen method", "paragraphs": [ "House topics and judgment rules belong to traditions, schools, and texts; the whole-sign calculation establishes only placement under its stated rule. A reproducible assignment does not establish a topic or prediction, nor prove superiority over another convention.", "For annual profections, use the dedicated tool’s stated tropical whole-sign convention and read the linked method before applying its sequence. For another tradition, start with that tradition’s own source and retain its zodiac and house assumptions instead of mixing them silently." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "heavenly-stem": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "sexagenary-cycle", "four-pillars", "day-master", "five-phases", "double-hour", "ten-gods", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-main-qi" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Inspect the visible stem, phase and polarity with the active clock and day-boundary setting." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "sequence", "title": "A ten-label calendar series", "paragraphs": [ "Tiāngān (天干) comprises Jia 甲, Yi 乙, Bing 丙, Ding 丁, Wu 戊, Ji 己, Geng 庚, Xin 辛, Ren 壬 and Gui 癸. HKO records this ten-member series paired in order with the twelve Earthly Branches to make Gan-Zhi. The first pair is Jia-Zi; advancing both lists returns to it after sixty combinations.", "In the explorer, keep the Chinese pair and its romanized name together when comparing a result with a reference table." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "pillar", "title": "Calculate before reading", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer calculates each visible pair using its declared solar-month, clock and rollover conventions. Read those settings before comparing two results.", "For a Jia or Ji day, HKO’s hour table begins Zi with Jia, then Chou with Yi and Yin with Bing. Record the selected clock and day boundary so another visitor can reproduce the label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "mapping", "title": "A displayed phase classification", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap’s Day Master table maps Jia/Yi to Wood, Bing/Ding to Fire, Wu/Ji to Earth, Geng/Xin to Metal and Ren/Gui to Water, each with yin or yang polarity. In this named modern practitioner framework, Bing (丙) is displayed as Yang Fire.", "The Explorer uses that mapping for its visible-stem label. It does not convert it into a measured trait, a verdict about a chart, or an exhaustive BaZi reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi, Day Master table", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Keep position in view", "paragraphs": [ "Choose a pillar first, then read its stem beside its branch, Chinese pair and settings. The same stem in a year pillar and an hour pillar has been calculated in different calendar roles. Follow Day Master for the special use of the day-pillar stem as an interpretive reference.", "The Ten Gods inspector compares each visible stem with the Day Master using phase direction and polarity. Hidden branch stems are available in their own inspector. Strength, favorable phases and luck periods remain outside this view." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "earthly-branch": { "related": [ "heavenly-stem", "sexagenary-cycle", "four-pillars", "double-hour", "five-phases", "day-master", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-main-qi", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Compare the selected branch, its animal label and the paired stem in the calculated pillar." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "sequence", "title": "The twelve-member companion series", "paragraphs": [ "Dìzhī (地支) comprises Zi 子, Chou 丑, Yin 寅, Mao 卯, Chen 辰, Si 巳, Wu 午, Wei 未, Shen 申, You 酉, Xu 戌 and Hai 亥. HKO documents the ordered series.", "Keep the branch beside its paired stem when checking a result. The explorer shows the complete pair in each pillar, with its Chinese characters and romanized name." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "time", "title": "Branches also label double-hours", "paragraphs": [ "HKO assigns Zi to 23:00–01:00 and the remaining branches to successive two-hour intervals.", "In an Atlas example at 00:30, inspect the selected clock first. Compare the two rollover settings and inspect both the cycle date and complete hour pair. Export the chosen variant with its settings so the example remains reproducible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "chart", "title": "Animal names are only one layer", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap’s workshop chart places Heavenly Stems over Earthly Branches and prints animal labels with branches. In the interface, Zi (Rat) identifies the lower component of a displayed pillar; the paired stem remains necessary for the complete visible pair.", "The branch inspector lists hidden stems and main qi from an attributed table, then derives each stem’s Ten Gods relationship. The animal name alone does not determine this full pattern." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi, chart and branch table", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Ask a pillar-sized question", "paragraphs": [ "Use the selector to inspect the branch in its selected year, month, day or hour pillar. The tool keeps its time context and paired stem visible, which makes a changed convention inspectable.", "Traditional family roles and modern practitioner topics are separate readings, not automatic properties of the animal. Calculation, attributed interpretation and reflection remain different statements." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "day-master": { "related": [ "four-pillars", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases", "earthly-branch", "sexagenary-cycle", "ten-gods", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-main-qi" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi?pillar=day", "description": "Open the day pillar and inspect its displayed Day Master with the calculation settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "identify", "title": "The stem of the day pillar", "paragraphs": [ "In Joey Yap’s modern method, the Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of the day pillar and a reference for reading other chart characters. The Atlas displays the day pillar as its third column, but the definition is the stem of that pillar rather than a universal column position.", "If the result is Bing-Wu (丙午), Bing is the Day Master: it is the upper stem, while Wu is the lower branch. Preserve the full pair, because the reference term does not replace the calculated day pillar." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · What Is BaZi? The Four Pillars Explained", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" } ] }, { "id": "ten", "title": "Ten possible Day Masters", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap’s practitioner table gives ten stem labels as five yin/yang phase pairs, from Jia/Yi Wood to Ren/Gui Water. Thus a label such as Yin Metal identifies the selected day stem’s phase and polarity category.", "This identification is not a strength judgment. A full strength or balance assessment would require rules and inputs beyond the Explorer’s visible-stem mapping." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi, Day Master table", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "reference", "title": "A starting point for comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap calls Ten Gods relationships between the Day Master and other characters. That is a later interpretive procedure after the day stem has been identified; it is not created by the label alone.", "For a Jia Wood day stem, select a Water stem in the phase panel: Water generates Wood. Reverse the reference in the wiki example to see why direction matters. The phase panel shows direction alone; the Ten Gods inspector adds polarity to derive the visible-stem category." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · What Is BaZi? The Four Pillars Explained", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" }, { "title": "Wang and Zhang (2020) · generating and controlling cycles", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7493062/" } ] }, { "id": "check", "title": "Verify the day before the reading", "paragraphs": [ "HKO documents the day stem’s role in the hour-stem table. In the Atlas, an explicit 00:00 or 23:00 rollover can matter near late Zi, so open the day pillar and compare variants before saving a result.", "This article describes Joey Yap’s current introductory framing. It does not resolve differences among BaZi or Saju lineages, establish predictive validity, or supply omitted calculation layers." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] } ] }, "five-phases": { "related": [ "heavenly-stem", "day-master", "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "sexagenary-cycle", "ten-gods", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "See the phase assigned to each visible stem and retain the selected pillar and convention." } ], "diagram": "five-phases", "sections": [ { "id": "model", "title": "A relational process vocabulary", "paragraphs": [ "Wǔxíng (五行) names Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. SEP describes five phases as relational and dynamic categories, so “phase” avoids treating the vocabulary as a set of modern chemical substances.", "The diagram makes two directed relations visible. Wang and Zhang explicitly list the generating order Wood → Fire → Earth → Metal → Water → Wood and the controlling order Wood → Earth → Water → Fire → Metal → Wood. Those arrows are a traditional model, not a physical measurement or diagnosis." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy", "url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-metaphysics/" }, { "title": "Wang & Zhang (2020) · Microstructures and dynamic processes within the five-phase system", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7493062/" } ] }, { "id": "history", "title": "A historical correlative scheme", "paragraphs": [ "SEP’s Han-dynasty survey discusses five phases and yin-yang in correlative cosmology and explains the process sense of xíng. That historical context does not prove that every later Chinese practice has one doctrine or one fixed chart interpretation.", "The explorer applies the two directed cycles to visible BaZi stems. It does not reconstruct an early text or calculate every seasonal, directional, medical or ritual correspondence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Philosophy in Han Dynasty China", "url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/han-dynasty/" } ] }, { "id": "bazi", "title": "Map a visible stem first", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap’s workshop material calls the phases symbolic representations of Qi in a BaZi chart and prints the ten Day Masters as yin/yang phase pairs. The Explorer applies this mapping to its visible stems. A Yang Fire label reports that assigned category, not a measured amount of Fire.", "It calculates visible and hidden-stem Ten Gods and source-labelled main qi. Seasonal weights, strength, favorable phases and luck periods need additional methods. Counting visible labels is not a substitute for a fuller named-school judgment." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi, Five Elements and Day Master tables", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Read arrows as relationships", "paragraphs": [ "Try Wood as the reference and Water as the comparison: the panel reads Water generates Wood. Switch to Metal to inspect a controlling relationship. In your personal explorer the Day Master supplies the reference automatically; selecting a different pillar changes the comparison.", "Two visible Water stems establish two displayed classifications under this mapping, not excess, deficiency or a forecast. A fuller reading needs a named school and layers that this tool leaves unspecified." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "annual-profection": { "related": [ "lord-of-the-year", "domicile", "whole-sign-houses", "ascendant", "tropical-zodiac", "planet" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Annual profections", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "Count a completed age from the tropical Ascendant through whole signs, then inspect the activated sign and traditional ruler." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "contract", "title": "What this calculator computes", "paragraphs": [ "This Atlas tool starts at the natal tropical Ascendant: its sign is house one in a whole-sign chart. It accepts a completed age from 0 through 150, moves forward one sign for each completed year, and returns the activated sign, whole-sign house, and its traditional ruler. Age 0 therefore remains in the rising sign; age 12 returns there.", "This is a fixed annual sequence, not a target-date converter. The result does not calculate a birthday transition, a solar return, monthly or daily profections, transits, or a different zodiac or house system. Preserve those distinctions when comparing it with another timing method." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan · Annual Profections lecture, traditional ruler selection", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · count in twelves", "paragraphs": [ "Use an invented chart with Taurus rising and completed age 29. Divide 29 by 12: two full cycles leave 5. Count five signs forward from Taurus: Gemini 1, Cancer 2, Leo 3, Virgo 4, Libra 5. The tool therefore reports Libra, the sixth whole-sign house, with Venus as its traditional ruler.", "The arithmetic can be checked before any interpretation: take completed age modulo 12, then advance that many signs from the rising sign. This gives an inspectable classification. It does not establish what events will occur in a year." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "occupants", "title": "Inspect planets already in the activated sign", "paragraphs": [ "The lecture counts one sign per year from the rising sign and treats natal planets in the reached house as activated; the slides summarize both rules. The Atlas consequently identifies any of the seven traditional natal planets occupying the activated sign and labels that fact as an attributed time-lord role.", "For the Taurus-rising age-29 example, an invented natal Moon and Mars in Libra would both appear in the activated-sign inventory. That is a report of placements under the declared chart settings. The tool does not synthesize sect, dignity, aspects, transits, benefic or malefic judgments, or a predicted outcome from those labels." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture transcript · count and planets in the activated house", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" }, { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture slides · pp. 2 and 16", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/annual-profections-slides.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Keep the timing claim visible", "paragraphs": [ "Use the result as a clearly named traditional timing convention. Record the Ascendant sign, tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, completed age, activated sign, ruler, and any displayed occupants before consulting a source for interpretation. This makes the calculation reproducible and keeps an interpretive claim from looking like a raw chart fact.", "A recurring sign every twelve years is an arithmetic consequence of twelve signs. It is not evidence that similar life events must recur. The connected articles on whole-sign houses, domicile, and the lord of the year explain the separate choices that make this particular tool’s output meaningful within its stated framework." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "lord-of-the-year": { "related": [ "annual-profection", "domicile", "whole-sign-houses", "ascendant", "planet" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Annual profections", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "See the activated sign’s traditional domicile ruler alongside the annual count." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "role", "title": "A role assigned after the count", "paragraphs": [ "The lecture calls the ruler of the profected house the lord of the year. The title follows the activated sign; it is not selected from the planets that happen to occupy that sign. The Atlas shows this ruler as a transparent result of its annual-profection sequence.", "This article uses “lord” as a technical role in one timing technique. A different timing method can define a time lord differently, and a natal planet may appear in the activated sign without becoming that sign’s ruler. Keep the role label, its rule, and the observed natal placement separate." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture transcript · ruler of the profected house", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · determine the ruler", "paragraphs": [ "Use an invented chart with Sagittarius rising and completed age 34. Two groups of twelve leave 10. Ten signs forward from Sagittarius is Libra, the eleventh whole-sign house. Under the tool’s traditional domicile table, Libra is ruled by Venus, so Venus is displayed as lord of the year.", "The same row can also show whether any of the seven traditional natal planets occupy Libra. Suppose the invented chart has Saturn there: the output can identify Saturn as an activated-sign occupant while Venus remains the lord of the year. Neither label automatically supplies a full reading." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "rulership", "title": "Use the seven-ruler map named by the tool", "paragraphs": [ "The lecture’s traditional map is Sun–Leo, Moon–Cancer; Mercury–Gemini/Virgo; Venus–Taurus/Libra; Mars–Aries/Scorpio; Jupiter–Sagittarius/Pisces; Saturn–Capricorn/Aquarius. The Atlas uses this seven-planet domicile map for this annual tool.", "That convention makes the result reproducible: once the activated sign is known, its ruler follows from the displayed table. It does not ask an outer planet to rule a sign, and it does not substitute exaltation, modern rulership, or another school’s table without changing the method contract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture transcript · traditional rulership scheme", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" }, { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture slides · p. 2", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/annual-profections-slides.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "scope", "title": "Read the output at its actual scope", "paragraphs": [ "The lecture’s question-and-answer segment chooses the domicile lord for this sign-ruler step. The Atlas follows that narrow choice: the result names the ruler and occupant facts, then leaves condition and synthesis to a separately sourced reading method. It does not rate a year as favorable or unfavorable.", "Open Annual profections to inspect the count, then Domicile to see the rulership convention, and Whole-sign houses to check the house construction. A reader can reproduce the role assignment from those inputs even if they do not accept an interpretive or predictive claim." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections lecture transcript · Patricia/Chris question on the domicile lord", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" } ] } ] }, "nakshatra": { "related": [ "pada", "moon", "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "navamsa", "vimshottari-dasha" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Lunar mansions", "href": "/workspace/lunar-mansions", "description": "Browse all 27 equal sidereal mansions and their four padas under one of six named sidereal references." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "equal-sectors", "title": "The angular contract", "paragraphs": [ "In this Atlas, a nakshatra is one of 27 equal sectors of a selected sidereal circle. Divide 360° by 27: every sector is 13°20′. Ashwini begins at 0° of the chosen sidereal longitude; the atlas counts forward. This is an angular indexing rule, not an astronomical constellation outline.", "A selection in the mansion atlas is a learning view. It identifies the sector and its stored context; it does not claim that the selected mansion is anyone’s birth mansion. The quarter inspector keeps the same separation: browsing a sector differs from calculating a natal Moon from dated, timed, located birth data." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §16.2 Dasa Computation", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "boundary-example", "title": "Worked boundary example", "paragraphs": [ "Take an invented sidereal longitude of 13°19′59″. It remains in Ashwini, because Ashwini covers 0° through just before 13°20′. At exactly 13°20′, the next equal sector begins: Bharani. The calculation uses the declared sidereal longitude, so rounding an input before this test can hide a real boundary change.", "For a position near any edge, record the input instant, location, ephemeris result, selected sidereal reference, and displayed precision. Recalculate with the same settings before comparing a source. A named ayanamsha is part of the coordinate convention: this tool offers Lahiri, Raman, Krishnamurti, Fagan-Bradley, De Luce, and Yukteshwar rather than silently treating one reference as universal." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §1.3.13 Ayanamsa", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "separate-relationships", "title": "Do not merge three different rulers", "paragraphs": [ "A D1 sign ruler belongs to the 30° sidereal sign occupied by the longitude. A Vimshottari lord is the period-lord assigned to the mansion in that timing sequence. A pada also maps the same longitude to a D9 sign in the atlas’s quarter table. These are three different outputs from related grids, so none replaces another.", "For example, a Moon can be displayed in a mansion whose timing lord is Mars while its D1 sign ruler and D9 mapped-sign ruler are different planets. The useful next step is to inspect each label with its rule and chart level attached. The atlas does not turn that inventory into a prediction or a personality verdict." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §16.2 Dasa Computation", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §6.2.1 Rasi Chart (D-1) and §6.2.9 Navamsa Chart (D-9)", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] } ] }, "pada": { "related": [ "nakshatra", "moon", "sidereal-zodiac", "ayanamsha", "navamsa", "vimshottari-dasha" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Lunar mansions", "href": "/workspace/lunar-mansions", "description": "Inspect the four equal padas within each browsed mansion and the atlas’s associated D9 sign mapping." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "quarter-rule", "title": "A quarter is an exact interval", "paragraphs": [ "Each equal nakshatra has four padas, so one pada is 3°20′. The atlas numbers the 108 quarters from the start of Ashwini and assigns padas 1–4 within each mansion. It treats an exact constructed endpoint as the start of the new quarter: 3°20′ is Ashwini pada 2, not a trailing part of pada 1.", "This makes the result inspectable. First normalize the selected sidereal longitude to 0°–360°. Then locate its 3°20′ quarter, derive the mansion by groups of four, and derive the displayed pada from the quarter within that group. This is classification arithmetic before any traditional interpretation." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "boundary-example", "title": "Worked boundary example", "paragraphs": [ "Use an invented longitude of 6°39′59″ in the selected sidereal zodiac. It is Ashwini pada 2: the first two quarters cover 0°–3°20′ and 3°20′–6°40′. At exactly 6°40′, the answer becomes Ashwini pada 3. Only one arcsecond separates the examples, so displayed rounding, birth-time uncertainty, or a changed ayanamsha can matter near a boundary.", "A browsed quarter is still not an asserted natal Moon quarter. The atlas may show its D9 mapping and mansion metadata without a birth calculation. The quarter inspector labels an actual Moon result only after it computes the Moon with the person’s inputs and retains the reference selection in its download." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §6.2.9 Navamsa Chart (D-9)", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "d1-d9-and-timing", "title": "Read D1, D9, and timing as separate fields", "paragraphs": [ "A pada’s 3°20′ width equals a ninth of a 30° sign, which is why the atlas can display a D9 sign for each quarter. That mapped D9 sign is neither the D1 sign nor a Vimshottari period lord. D1 comes from the full longitude’s 30° sign; D9 follows the ninth-part mapping; Vimshottari starts its common computation from the Moon’s mansion and remaining fraction.", "Keep all three labels in an export, along with the selected reference. Ayanamsha choices can move a longitude across a sign, mansion, or pada boundary, particularly close to one. The selected reference is therefore an input to reproduce, not a hidden correction or proof that one interpretation is required." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §6.2.9 Navamsa Chart (D-9)", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · §16.2 Dasa Computation", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] } ] }, "bodygraph": { "related": [ "human-design", "rave-mandala", "personality-activations", "design-activations", "gate", "activation", "channel", "defined-center", "undefined-center", "definition" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Inspect calculated gate activations, connections, centers, and their birth/design provenance under the selected node convention." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "read-the-diagram-as-a-graph", "title": "Read the diagram as a graph", "paragraphs": [ "A BodyGraph turns a Human Design activation list into a fixed network drawing. Its nine centers are nodes; a prescribed channel is an edge; gates are the channel endpoints. The useful first question is therefore structural: which endpoints are active, and which paired endpoints make an edge complete? Color is a display of that result, not evidence about anatomy or a measurable energy flow." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: The Mandala and the BodyGraph", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-mandala-and-the-bodygraph-in-human-design" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: Human Design Dictionary", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/human-design-dictionary" } ] }, { "id": "work-a-small-example", "title": "Work a small example", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose an invented activation list includes gates 11 and 56. The explorer can show each endpoint and the completed link between Ajna and Throat. Both connected centers become defined under the chart rule. If a later recalculation retains 11 but replaces 56 with an unrelated gate, the link disappears; Ajna and Throat must be re-evaluated from every remaining completed link, rather than assumed to stay colored." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Gates and Hexagrams in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/gates-and-hexagrams-in-human-design" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: Personality and Design: The Black and Red", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-black-and-red-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "compare-components-without-storytelling", "title": "Compare components without storytelling", "paragraphs": [ "Use the center inspector in three passes: active gates, completed channels, then final defined or undefined status. A center can be undefined while still showing active gates; a completely open center is a narrower condition with none. Group the defined centers by their completed links to inspect definition connectivity. This prevents a blank-looking shape or a single colored endpoint from being mistaken for a completed connection." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Definition in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-definition-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "channel": { "related": [ "bodygraph", "gate", "activation", "personality-activations", "design-activations", "defined-center", "undefined-center", "definition", "human-design-type", "authority", "hanging-gate" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Select a channel to see its two gates, connected centers, completion state, and the activation provenance on each endpoint." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-endpoint-rule", "title": "A channel has a two-endpoint rule", "paragraphs": [ "A Human Design channel is a named, prescribed connection between two centers. Structurally, it becomes complete only when its two endpoint gates are activated. The rule is binary at the channel level: one endpoint is a hanging gate; two paired endpoints are a complete channel. Counting activations alone cannot tell the difference. Atlas uses this only for the graph calculation, not as evidence of a stable trait, health state, or life outcome." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Channels in Human Design: The Life Force", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: Gates and Hexagrams in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/gates-and-hexagrams-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "trace-provenance-before-interpreting", "title": "Trace provenance before interpreting", "paragraphs": [ "The same completed channel can be supported by two birth-side activations, two design-side activations, or one of each. Select a channel and read its endpoint ledger: gate number, activation source, and whether the display is using birth, design, or both. For example, gate A in the birth list and partner B in the design list complete a combined view, while considering either epoch alone would leave a hanging gate." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Personality and Design: The Black and Red", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-black-and-red-in-human-design" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: The Mandala and the BodyGraph", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-mandala-and-the-bodygraph-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "recheck-after-a-convention-change", "title": "Recheck after a convention change", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer’s true-node and mean-node options are alternative calculation conventions. If a node’s mapped gate changes, recheck the affected channels, then recalculate center and connectivity summaries from the full active set. Export the chosen node setting with endpoint lists and completion state. That makes a comparison reproducible and keeps Type and Authority separate from the connection diagram." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Definition in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-definition-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "complete-hanging-and-inactive", "title": "Separate complete, hanging, and inactive states", "paragraphs": [ "A listed channel is complete only when both prescribed endpoint gates are active in the selected activation view. One active endpoint is a hanging gate: it is visible evidence of an activation, but it does not define that channel or by itself define either center. With neither endpoint active, Atlas calls the channel inactive in that selected view. This three-state display is a transparent graph summary, not a measure of personality or health.", "The endpoint ledger combines birth and design activations. One endpoint can come from birth and its partner from design. A node-convention change can alter a gate assignment, so retain the selected nodes when comparing or downloading the result." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Channels in Human Design: The Life Force", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: Personality and Design: The Black and Red", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-black-and-red-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "use-a-channel-theme-carefully", "title": "Use a channel theme as a bounded prompt", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer separates a complete channel in your chart from studying an uncompleted pair. A sourced name and theme can help you learn the vocabulary; the status label tells you whether both gates are active. Use a complete-channel reflection alongside actual observations and counterexamples. A name does not establish a personality trait or predict an outcome." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Channels in Human Design: The Life Force", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" } ] }, { "id": "shared-gate-example", "title": "One gate can participate in several pairs", "paragraphs": [ "Follow a shared gate in the channel inspector to see each of its other prescribed partners. The neighboring cards keep the current node convention and show whether the partner is active. Opening one changes the selected pair and its reading; it does not change the birth data. This is a way to trace the graph, not a rule that all channels sharing a gate have the same meaning.", "Worked example: if only gates 10 and 34 are active, 10–34 is complete. The pairs 10–20, 10–57, 20–34 and 34–57 each have one active endpoint, while 20–57 has neither. If 20 and 57 also become active, all six prescribed pairs are complete. These are deliberately small structural examples, not full birth charts. A crossed line in the drawing does not add another center or activation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Individual Circuit Group diagram", "url": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0872/4984/6576/files/Circuit_Groups_Individual.webp?v=1755801504" } ] }, { "id": "integration-and-related-circuits", "title": "Integration is four channels, not every shared-gate pair", "paragraphs": [ "Jovian Archive assigns 10–20, 10–57, 20–34 and 34–57 to Integration; 10–34 to Centering; and 20–57 to Knowing.", "These labels describe the tradition’s grouping, independently of which channels are complete in your chart. Sharing a gate is a structural relationship; belonging to a named circuit is an attributed classification. The modern commentary used here provides limited thematic guidance, rather than a complete reading of each channel." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Part 2: Stephen King’s Definition & Channels", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/blogs/chart-interpretations-components/keynoting-stephen-kings-design-part-2" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: What is Circuitry in Human Design?", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/what-is-circuitry-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "authority": { "related": [ "human-design", "bodygraph", "defined-center", "undefined-center", "definition", "solar-plexus-center", "sacral-center", "splenic-center", "ego-center", "g-center" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Trace the center connections behind the selected authority and definition." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "follow-the-evidence", "title": "Follow the evidence behind the label", "paragraphs": [ "Authority is assigned from the whole calculated graph. The explorer gives the chosen label alongside the specific center statuses or connecting path that supports it. Selecting a center alone does not select an authority; changing a lunar-node convention can change the graph and therefore the applicable rule.", "The reading has three distinct parts: the calculated reason, the practice attributed to Human Design, and a qualification about what that interpretation establishes. Compare the explanation with the displayed channels before adopting its vocabulary." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Emotional Authority: Waiting Through the Wave", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/emotional-authority-in-human-design-waiting-through-the-wave" }, { "title": "Sacral Authority: Trusting the Gut Response", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/sacral-authority-in-human-design-trusting-the-gut-response" }, { "title": "Splenic Authority: The Body’s Quiet Instant Knowing", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/splenic-authority-in-human-design-the-bodys-quiet-instant-knowing" } ] }, { "id": "the-eight-labels", "title": "The eight labels used in this explorer", "paragraphs": [ "Emotional: Jovian Archive associates this authority with emotional clarity developing over time.", "Sacral: Jovian Archive describes a present-moment bodily response to a concrete option.", "Splenic: Jovian Archive describes quiet, immediate intuitive awareness.", "Ego-manifested: Jovian Archive associates the Ego–Throat connection with spoken expressions of will.", "Ego-projected: Jovian Archive connects this Projector authority with willingness and personal interests.", "Self-projected: Jovian Archive associates this Projector authority with hearing identity and direction in one’s speech.", "Environmental / no inner authority: Jovian Archive calls this Mental or Sounding Board authority: a Projector process without inner authority.", "Lunar / no inner authority: Jovian Archive describes a Reflector process of observing change across a lunar cycle, without inner authority." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Emotional Authority: Waiting Through the Wave", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/emotional-authority-in-human-design-waiting-through-the-wave" }, { "title": "Sacral Authority: Trusting the Gut Response", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/sacral-authority-in-human-design-trusting-the-gut-response" }, { "title": "Splenic Authority: The Body’s Quiet Instant Knowing", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/splenic-authority-in-human-design-the-bodys-quiet-instant-knowing" }, { "title": "Beginner 2: Type, Strategy & Inner Authority", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/products/beginner-2-type-strategy-and-inner-authority" }, { "title": "Ego Manifested Authority: The Will That Speaks", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/ego-manifested-authority-in-human-design-the-will-that-speaks" }, { "title": "Ego-Projected Authority: Willpower and Invitations", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/ego-projected-authority-in-human-design-willpower-and-invitations" }, { "title": "Self-Projected Authority: The Projector’s Voice", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/self-projected-authority-in-human-design-the-projectors-voice" }, { "title": "Mental Authority: A Projector Process", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/mental-authority-in-human-design-a-projector-process" }, { "title": "The Three Kinds of Projectors", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/blogs/chart-interpretations-components/the-three-kinds-of-projectors" }, { "title": "Lunar Authority: Why Reflectors Need 29.5 Days", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/lunar-authority-in-human-design-why-reflectors-need-29-5-days" }, { "title": "NASA: Top Moon Questions", "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/moon/top-moon-questions/" } ] }, { "id": "test-a-change", "title": "Work through a change", "paragraphs": [ "Consider a synthetic gate set in which 37 and 40 form the only complete channel. That pair defines Ego and Solar Plexus, so the Emotional rule has priority. Remove 40 while leaving 37 alone, and no channel remains complete: the graph now has no defined center. The explanation must change with the facts instead of keeping the previous recommendation.", "For Lunar authority, the explorer describes an attributed reflective practice; it does not calculate a waiting deadline. The Moon’s phase cycle differs from its return to the same zodiac position. A future transit tool must specify which interval it calculates." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Emotional Authority: Waiting Through the Wave", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/emotional-authority-in-human-design-waiting-through-the-wave" }, { "title": "Lunar Authority: Why Reflectors Need 29.5 Days", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/lunar-authority-in-human-design-why-reflectors-need-29-5-days" }, { "title": "NASA: Top Moon Questions", "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/moon/top-moon-questions/" } ] } ] }, "definition": { "related": [ "bodygraph", "channel", "defined-center", "undefined-center", "completely-open-center", "authority" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Trace the center connections behind the selected authority and definition." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "count-connected-groups", "title": "Count groups, not colored shapes", "paragraphs": [ "Definition counts groups joined by completed channels. Begin with one defined center and follow every complete connection reachable from it. Those centers belong to one group, even when the path takes several steps. Start again from a defined center outside that group until all defined centers are counted.", "The explorer names zero groups No definition; one Single; two Split; three Triple-split; and four Quadruple-split. The group cards list the centers and complete channels so that the label can be inspected." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Definition", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-definition-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "trace-an-indirect-path", "title": "Trace an indirect path", "paragraphs": [ "For a synthetic example, gates 25 and 51 connect G with Ego, while 1 and 8 connect G with Throat. Ego, G and Throat belong to one group even though Ego does not connect directly to Throat in that example. Counting only direct neighbors would incorrectly split the group.", "An activated gate with an absent partner adds no connection. Birth and design activations can complete a channel together, so inspect the combined graph while retaining each endpoint’s provenance." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ego Manifested Authority: The Will That Speaks", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/ego-manifested-authority-in-human-design-the-will-that-speaks" } ] }, { "id": "use-the-label-carefully", "title": "Use the label as a starting point", "paragraphs": [ "Use the group cards to distinguish a computed connection from a symbolic interpretation. A split does not establish a missing part of the person or a need for someone else to complete them. An optional reflection is to compare the diagram’s groups with lived observations while keeping disagreements visible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Definition", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-definition-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "defined-center": { "related": [ "human-design", "bodygraph", "channel", "undefined-center", "head-center", "ajna-center", "throat-center", "g-center", "ego-center", "splenic-center", "sacral-center", "solar-plexus-center", "root-center" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Inspect the completed channels that calculate a center’s status." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "connection-rule", "title": "Use the connection rule", "paragraphs": [ "In Human Design, a center becomes defined when a prescribed channel has both endpoint gates activated. Atlas can show this directly: select the center, inspect each adjacent channel, and find the two active endpoints. One active gate is a hanging gate, not a defined center.", "This is a graph rule, not a judgment of ability. Keep gate presence, completed channels, and the center label separate when reading or exporting a chart." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Channels in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" } ] }, { "id": "interpret-after-structure", "title": "Interpret after structure", "paragraphs": [ "Jovian Archive describes defined areas as reliable within Human Design. Atlas can present that as an attributed interpretation only after the completed connection is visible. A defined Throat does not prove communication skill, and a defined Spleen is not a health finding.", "Some authority rules require further conditions. A defined Sacral alone does not establish Sacral Authority, because the Solar Plexus status also matters. Read the complete graph before applying a specialized label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Human Design Dictionary", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/human-design-dictionary" } ] }, { "id": "repeatable-check", "title": "Repeat the check", "paragraphs": [ "Open the explorer, choose a center, then read its active gates and complete channels. Retain the true-node or mean-node selection, because it is an input to the activation calculation. Export preserves that setting and the resulting structure.", "For example, active gates 11 and 56 complete the listed Ajna–Throat channel; both centers become defined. If a recalculation changes one endpoint, re-evaluate both centers from all remaining channels. This is graph logic, not a gate or line interpretation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Gates and Hexagrams in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/gates-and-hexagrams-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "undefined-center": { "related": [ "human-design", "bodygraph", "channel", "defined-center", "head-center", "ajna-center", "throat-center", "g-center", "ego-center", "splenic-center", "sacral-center", "solar-plexus-center", "root-center" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Distinguish hanging gates from completely open center states." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "not-empty", "title": "Undefined is not empty", "paragraphs": [ "An undefined center has no completed channel. It may still contain active gates: an active endpoint without its channel partner is a hanging gate. Atlas therefore distinguishes undefined from completely open, which additionally means that no gate in that center is active.", "Inspect the active-gate list and each adjacent channel before reading the label. This keeps a visible endpoint from being mistaken for a completed connection." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Human Design Dictionary", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/human-design-dictionary" } ] }, { "id": "attribute-carefully", "title": "Attribute carefully", "paragraphs": [ "Jovian Archive discusses undefined centers as openness and possible conditioning within Human Design. Atlas reports that as a tradition-specific interpretation, not proof that a person is weak, influenced, or having a particular experience.", "Apply a center theme only after showing the graph result. Specialized authority pages impose additional conditions, so openness in one center is not enough to infer an authority classification." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: The 9 Centers in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-nine-centers-of-the-bodygraph-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "compare-states", "title": "Compare chart states", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose gate 11 is Ajna’s only active gate and its channel partner 56 is inactive. Ajna is undefined because that channel is incomplete, but it is not completely open because an Ajna gate is active. In another chart state, no Ajna gates are active; Atlas then records completely open.", "Use the same check for each center: list active gates, inspect connected channels, preserve the calculation convention, then add an attributed meaning and an original reflection. The result remains a symbolic framework, not a personal diagnosis." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Definition in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-definition-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "human-design-type": { "related": [ "bodygraph", "channel", "defined-center", "generator", "manifesting-generator", "manifestor", "projector", "reflector", "strategy", "authority" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Inspect complete channels, defined centers, Type, Authority, and the selected true- or mean-node convention." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "classify-the-completed-graph", "title": "Classify the completed graph", "paragraphs": [ "Type is calculated after channels and centers, not from isolated gates. A defined Sacral places a graph in the Generator family. With a motor connected to the Throat through the completed-channel network, it is a Manifesting Generator; without that connection, Generator. A non-Sacral graph with that path is Manifestor. One with some definition but no such path is Projector. No defined centers yields Reflector." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Type and Strategy in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/type-and-strategy-in-human-design" }, { "title": "What is a Manifestor in Human Design?", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/manifestor-human-design" }, { "title": "What is a Manifesting Generator in Human Design?", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/manifesting-generator-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "keep-type-and-authority-separate", "title": "Keep Type and Authority separate", "paragraphs": [ "Type supplies the system's general engagement practice; Authority is the separate decision process selected from center configuration. An emotionally defined Generator may respond to an offer but wait for emotional clarity before commitment. A Projector's invitation is the recommended social context; Authority then checks that particular invitation. Jovian joins lunar Strategy and Authority for Reflectors, but Atlas retains the distinction because one is a Type practice and one is an Authority label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ego-Projected Authority in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/ego-projected-authority-in-human-design-willpower-and-invitations" }, { "title": "Lunar Authority in Human Design: Why Reflectors Need 29.5 Days", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/lunar-authority-in-human-design-why-reflectors-need-29-5-days" } ] } ] }, "strategy": { "related": [ "human-design-type", "generator", "manifesting-generator", "manifestor", "projector", "reflector", "authority" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design BodyGraph explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "See the calculated Type beside the separate Authority label before trying a tradition-specific practice." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "try-a-type-specific-entry-point", "title": "Try a type-specific entry point", "paragraphs": [ "Jovian Archive names four Type strategies: Generators, including Manifesting Generators, wait to respond; Manifestors inform affected people before acting; Projectors wait for recognition and invitation in consequential domains; Reflectors wait through a lunar cycle for significant decisions. Try a bounded experiment: identify the type, name the situation, record what happened, and compare it with your own judgment." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Type and Strategy in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/type-and-strategy-in-human-design" }, { "title": "What is a Reflector in Human Design?", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/reflector-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "do-not-substitute-strategy-for-authority", "title": "Do not substitute Strategy for Authority", "paragraphs": [ "Strategy addresses how an opportunity enters the process; Authority addresses deciding within it. A Generator can respond without treating the first reaction as final; a Manifestor can inform without skipping Authority; a Projector can decline after an Authority check. Reflector material commonly describes about 29.5 days for major decisions. That is an attributed practice, not an Atlas lunar transit calculation or the Moon's return to a zodiac position." ], "sources": [ { "title": "What is a Manifesting Generator in Human Design?", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/manifesting-generator-human-design" }, { "title": "Ego-Projected Authority in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/ego-projected-authority-in-human-design-willpower-and-invitations" }, { "title": "Lunar Authority in Human Design: Why Reflectors Need 29.5 Days", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/lunar-authority-in-human-design-why-reflectors-need-29-5-days" } ] } ] }, "human-design-profile": { "related": [ "line", "personality-activations", "design-activations", "rave-mandala", "strategy" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design profile explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Trace the birth and design Sun lines that form a profile, then read the two attributed line themes." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "read-the-pair", "title": "Read the pair in order", "paragraphs": [ "A profile preserves two different placements. The first number belongs to the Personality Sun/Earth at birth; the second belongs to the Design Sun/Earth. In Human Design these sides are interpreted as conscious and unconscious respectively. A 1/3 therefore cannot be reversed to 3/1: the order records which calculation supplied each line.", "To inspect a result, begin with the two Sun records. Locate their gate and line fields, compare the line numbers with the displayed pair, and retain the birth-time convention when saving the result. The role words add an interpretive layer to those inspectable inputs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ryan Hanna / Jovian Archive: Understanding Your Human Design Profile", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/blogs/chart-interpretations-components/understanding-your-human-design-profile" } ] }, { "id": "twelve-possible-pairs", "title": "Why twelve pairs appear", "paragraphs": [ "The Design calculation locates the Sun 88 degrees earlier, so the two line numbers cannot vary independently. With equal 0.9375-degree lines, this offset allows two Design lines for each Personality line. This is an angular constraint, not a survey showing twelve kinds of person. A result outside the twelve-pair set needs its calculation checked before interpretation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Free Human Design Chart Calculator", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/get-your-human-design-chart" } ] }, { "id": "angle-and-meaning", "title": "Angle names and personal meaning", "paragraphs": [ "Jovian Archive groups seven profiles as Right Angle, 4/1 as Juxtaposition, and four as Left Angle. Its themes concern personal destiny, fixed fate and transpersonal karma. These are teachings within the system, not measured life outcomes.", "Read both line themes as invitations to observation. Record a concrete example and a counterexample rather than forcing an experience to fit. The profile angle is separate from the left/right labels used for Tone and Variable." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Understanding Profile in Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-profile-in-human-design" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: The Basics of Substructure", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-basics-of-substructure-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "line": { "related": [ "gate", "rave-mandala", "human-design-profile", "color", "tone", "base" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Human Design profile explorer", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Trace the birth and design Sun lines that form a profile, then read the two attributed line themes." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "from-gate-to-line", "title": "From a gate to a numbered line", "paragraphs": [ "A line identifies one of six parts of a Human Design gate. It is not a channel drawn between centers. Under the Atlas equal-angle convention, a gate covers 5.625 degrees and a line covers 0.9375 degrees. The displayed number locates the planet within that gate; changing the gate number does not by itself imply a different line number." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: The Basics of Substructure", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-basics-of-substructure-in-human-design" } ] }, { "id": "line-boundary-example", "title": "Work a boundary example", "paragraphs": [ "Consider an invented Personality Sun exactly at a gate’s start. It occupies line 1. At 0.8125 degrees into that gate, the Personality remains in line 1 while the Design Sun crosses its next line boundary: the profile changes from 1/3 to 1/4. At 0.9375 degrees, the Personality enters line 2 and the pair becomes 2/4.", "This example follows from subtracting 88 degrees, reducing positions around the circle, and dividing by the line width. It does not require a birth chart or a personal interpretation. At a numerical boundary, inspect the unrounded longitude and the declared tolerance; a rounded display can conceal the side that supplied the number." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Free Human Design Chart Calculator", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/get-your-human-design-chart" } ] }, { "id": "number-theme-and-substructure", "title": "Keep the number and its theme distinct", "paragraphs": [ "The six traditional profile labels name broad roles in Human Design. A calculated line number does not prove that its associated role describes a person. Use the theme alongside lived examples, and leave room for disagreement.", "Color, Tone and Base subdivide the position further. Their extra precision does not establish the psychological claims attached to them. In particular, Tone’s left/right orientation is not the same classification as a profile’s angle family." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: The Basics of Substructure", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/the-basics-of-substructure-in-human-design" } ] } ] }, "hanging-gate": { "related": [ "gate", "channel", "activation", "defined-center", "undefined-center", "bodygraph" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Find single-gate channel pairs", "href": "/workspace/human-design", "description": "Filter the channel catalogue to One activated gate, then inspect the missing partner and both centers." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "read-the-pair-not-the-person", "title": "Read the pair, not a personal deficit", "paragraphs": [ "A hanging result describes a particular channel pair with one activated gate. The missing partner is a statement about this chart calculation, not something a person needs to acquire. Other complete channels may still define either endpoint center." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive: Living with Feeling: A Field Guide to the Solar Plexus", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/blogs/human-design-basics/living-with-feeling-a-field-guide-to-the-solar-plexus" }, { "title": "Jovian Archive: Channels in Human Design: The Life Force", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" } ] }, { "id": "one-gate-several-pairs", "title": "One gate can belong to several pairs", "paragraphs": [ "In an original graph example, activate gates 10 and 34. Their prescribed pair completes 10–34, defining G and Sacral. Gate 20 is still inactive, so the separate pair 10–20 has only one active endpoint even though G is already defined. This is why the catalogue records each pair independently and the inspector lists the center status separately." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jovian Archive — Individual Circuit Group diagram (visually inspected)", "url": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0872/4984/6576/files/Circuit_Groups_Individual.webp?v=1755801504" }, { "title": "What is Circuitry in Human Design? — Individual Circuit Group", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/what-is-circuitry-in-human-design" }, { "title": "Part 2: Stephen King’s Definition & Channels — channel-specific section 10–34 (order may be reversed)", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/blogs/chart-interpretations-components/keynoting-stephen-kings-design-part-2" }, { "title": "Channels in Human Design: The Life Force — The Quantum Nature of Channels; Circuitry and Channels", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/channels-in-human-design-the-life-force" }, { "title": "The G: The Diamond at the Center of Being — title and description", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/products/the-g-the-diamond-at-the-center-of-being" } ] } ] }, "essential-dignity": { "related": [ "triplicity", "bound", "astrological-face", "peregrine", "reception", "ecliptic-longitude", "zodiac-sign" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Cast a horary question chart", "href": "/workspace/horary", "description": "Inspect five dignities at each planet’s exact tropical position, compare significator hosting and export the selected conventions." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "five-positions", "title": "Read the five positions before naming the condition", "paragraphs": [ "Lilly’s traditional teaching lists five kinds of essential dignity: domicile, exaltation, triplicity, terms (bounds), and faces. They answer position questions in different-sized parts of the zodiac: sign, elemental group, unequal degree-range, and ten-degree division. A complete statement therefore needs the chart’s zodiacal degree, a named table, and the convention used for triplicity.", "This is a historical classification method. It can make a position auditable, but neither the label nor a score inferred from it measures a planet’s physical power, establishes a personality trait, or supplies a judgment without the rest of the chosen method." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] }, { "id": "boundary-example", "title": "Work at the exact degree boundary", "paragraphs": [ "Under this tool’s default continuous-interval convention, the three zodiacal faces are [0°,10°), [10°,20°) and [20°,30°). An invented position of 9°59′59″ remains in the first face; exactly 10° enters the second and exactly 20° enters the third. The optional upper-inclusive comparison keeps exact internal endpoints in the previous interval. Both options start a new sign at 0°. These are explicit arithmetic adaptations, not a verified reconstruction of historical minute rounding. Preserve the unrounded longitude: the displayed rounded position can conceal the governing interval.", "Bounds are not three equal intervals. Locate the same degree in the chosen bounds table, and use that table’s next written boundary to determine the new ruler. Do not copy a ruler from another bounds table or infer it from the face; the two classifications are separate." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] }, { "id": "sect-check", "title": "Check day or night before the triplicity result", "paragraphs": [ "A Lilly-style triplicity judgment uses a day/night distinction. Identify the chart’s sect under the method before selecting the relevant triplicity ruler; an elemental sign name by itself does not finish that step. Record the table rather than assuming that a modern summary uses Lilly’s ordering or assigns the same role to each ruler.", "This dependency matters when testing peregrine. A planet lacking domicile and exaltation may still receive triplicity, bound, or face dignity. Only after every applicable category has been checked can the selected historical definition be applied.", "Here day means the true topocentric center of the Sun is at or above the horizon. Refraction and the solar upper limb are excluded. Lilly’s printed table assigns Mars to water triplicity both by day and by night; other schools can use different rulers." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] } ] }, "reception": { "related": [ "essential-dignity", "peregrine", "triplicity", "bound", "astrological-face", "aspect" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Cast a horary question chart", "href": "/workspace/horary", "description": "Inspect five dignities at each planet’s exact tropical position, compare significator hosting and export the selected conventions." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "direction", "title": "Name the holder and the occupant", "paragraphs": [ "Reception is directional: first identify a planet occupying a dignity, then name the planet that holds that dignity under the selected table. In a domicile-only example, if an invented planet A is in a sign ruled by planet B, B receives A by domicile. Reverse the positions only if the reverse dignity relation also exists; that second relation is what makes reception mutual.", "A placement can therefore supply a hosting relation without supplying an aspect. A method may require an aspect for a particular judgment, or use one to discuss whether a matter perfects, but those are further requirements. Do not turn the positional label alone into a claim of agreement, contact, or completed action." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Reception reference", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossary/reception/" } ] }, { "id": "minor-dignities", "title": "State which dignities count", "paragraphs": [ "A reception statement should say whether it is limited to domicile and exaltation or includes triplicity, bounds, and faces. The answer can change with that choice, and triplicity also requires the stated day/night convention. ‘Receives’ without the underlying dignity leaves the claim impossible to reproduce.", "Use a compact audit trail: occupant; exact zodiacal position; dignity holder; dignity type; table; and any aspect rule. It lets a reader distinguish a direct computational classification from the additional interpretive steps of a chosen horary school." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] } ] }, "decan": { "related": [ "astrological-face", "essential-dignity", "zodiac-sign", "ecliptic-longitude" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Cast a horary question chart", "href": "/workspace/horary", "description": "Inspect five dignities at each planet’s exact tropical position, compare significator hosting and export the selected conventions." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-systems", "title": "Separate zodiacal faces from Egyptian stellar decans", "paragraphs": [ "In the Lilly-style dignity context, ‘face’ or zodiacal decan means one of three equal ten-degree portions inside a sign. It is a longitude classification: after choosing a zodiac, locate the degree in the sign and assign first, second, or third face. Its interpretive ruler, if used, comes from a named astrological table.", "Egyptian stellar decans belong to a different historical setting of decanal stars and calendrical timekeeping. The shared word ‘decan’ is not enough to transfer a stellar list, an epoch, a visibility condition, or an interpretation into the zodiacal-face calculation. Name the system before comparing outputs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" }, { "title": "Metropolitan Museum: Senenmut astronomical ceiling", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544566" } ] } ] }, "accidental-dignity": { "related": [ "essential-dignity", "house-condition", "retrograde", "cazimi", "combustion", "under-the-beams", "house", "sun" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect accidental conditions in a question chart", "href": "/workspace/horary", "description": "Select a planet to compare house category, apparent motion and the declared solar-proximity rule with its essential dignities." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "circumstance-not-zodiacal-status", "title": "Separate circumstance from essential dignity", "paragraphs": [ "Essential dignity asks what a named zodiacal table assigns to a planet's sign and degree. Accidental dignity asks about the planet's situation in this particular chart: for example its house category, its apparent direction of longitude motion, or a defined relationship to the Sun. These are different questions. A planet can have one kind of condition without the other, so an honest worksheet lists the facts rather than collapsing them into one label.", "Lilly is a primary historical source for this style of traditional judgment. His categories do not produce a universal algorithm: a practitioner must state the house system, motion convention, solar-proximity rule, and the way conditions are weighed. A correct calculation establishes the selected chart fact; it does not settle the question asked or guarantee an event." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0149.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] }, { "id": "house-category-is-chart-relative", "title": "Read house category as a chart-relative condition", "paragraphs": [ "In a selected house system, a planet belongs to a house, and that house belongs to one of the angular, succedent, or cadent groups. This is reproducible only when the chart time, place, and house convention are retained. For a Regiomontanus horary chart, use the calculated Regiomontanus membership; do not silently substitute whole-sign membership because that can change the category near a cusp.", "This house classification is not the same as mundane angularity in astronomy. A local horizon or meridian description concerns an object's observed position for a location and time. A horary house category is a rule inside a chart framework. Lilly-style teaching may treat the category as testimony, but category alone does not decide whether a matter is active, delayed, successful, or failed.", "House category is not Lilly’s complete strength order. His p.48 order places houses 9 and 3 above houses 2 and 8, so the labels cannot be converted into a rule that every succedent house is stronger than every cadent house. This workspace uses ecliptic-longitude membership without a five-degree cusp transfer." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.48 · house categories", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0082.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] }, { "id": "apparent-motion", "title": "Report direct or retrograde as apparent motion", "paragraphs": [ "A chart can classify a planet as direct or retrograde by the sign of its longitude change in its declared frame, commonly a geocentric ephemeris frame. Retrograde means the plotted longitude is currently decreasing in that frame. It does not mean the planet has physically turned around in its orbit; apparent reversals arise from relative motion and viewpoint.", "Traditional horary authors may give retrogradation interpretive weight, but it remains one circumstance among several. A report should identify the selected body and calculated motion state, then leave the reader able to judge it with significator, reception, aspect, and question context. Do not convert a retrograde flag into an automatic return, refusal, delay, or verdict.", "Lilly’s direct-motion fortitude in the p.115 table excludes the Sun and Moon because they are always direct in this geocentric convention. The ledger shows their motion without adding that fortitude. A zero-speed sample for another planet is an instantaneous fact, not proof of an identified station event." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0149.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: technical documentation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] }, { "id": "solar-proximity", "title": "Name the solar-proximity category and its rule", "paragraphs": [ "Cazimi, combustion, and under the beams are related traditional solar-proximity labels. They should be calculated from a named source's separation rule, with its category priority made explicit. In particular, an exceptionally close conjunction may receive a distinct cazimi treatment in a method instead of being treated as ordinary combustion. The names cannot safely be assigned from a vague phrase such as ‘near the Sun.’", "A longitude separation is not an optical visibility test. Whether an observer can see a planet also depends on altitude, twilight, atmosphere, brightness, and the observer's conditions. The chart label supplies the method's classification, while any traditional reading of concealment, impairment, or protection remains interpretive. Keep the raw separation, selected category, and source rule in the export so later users can check the result.", "The Atlas instructional preset follows pp.113–115: first check cazimi at up to 17 arcminutes, then combustion below 8°30′ in the same tropical sign, then under the beams below 17°. Otherwise the position lies outside this range. Exact-cutoff inclusion is an Atlas arithmetic choice; values within 1e-10 degrees of a cutoff are treated as that cutoff to absorb floating-point subtraction noise. The unrounded distance remains in the export.", "For an invented Sun at 29° Aries and Venus at 1° Taurus, the shortest longitude separation is 2°, but the planets are in different signs. This preset therefore displays under the beams, not combust. A longitude-only cazimi result does not prove physical alignment, a transit or an eclipse.", "Lilly’s p.300 aphorism26 instead gives 16 arcminutes for cazimi and 12 degrees for beams. His second p.113 combustion example also conflicts with the stated 8°30′ rule. These differences are preserved as source evidence; the calculator uses the explicit instructional definition instead of mixing passages." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0149.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" }, { "title": "U.S. Naval Observatory: Rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/RST_defs" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.113 · solar conditions", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0147.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.114 · combustion and cazimi", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0148.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.300 · differing aphorism thresholds", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0334.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" } ] }, { "id": "manual-judgment", "title": "Use a ledger, then make a manual judgment", "paragraphs": [ "A useful accidental-condition ledger records a selected planet, its Regiomontanus house and house category, its direct or retrograde state in the declared frame, and any solar-proximity category under a cited rule. It should also retain the exact underlying chart data and note a boundary or unresolved classification instead of forcing a label.", "The ledger supports review; it is not a complete horary judgment. Significators, reception, application and separation, prohibition, translation or collection of light, radicality, and the wording of the question are not replaced by a short condition list. Different traditional schools may also prioritize or define circumstances differently. Keep the facts and their sources beside the manual judgment within a named approach." ], "sources": [ { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0149.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt" } ] } ] }, "paran": { "related": [ "meridian-transit", "local-horizon", "fixed-star", "astrocartography", "sirius", "regulus", "spica", "aldebaran", "antares", "fomalhaut", "civil-day", "sunrise" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Parans explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Compare actual angular encounters in fixed, local-calendar or geometric-sunrise day windows." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-angular-events-not-a-longitude-aspect", "title": "A paran pairs local angular events", "paragraphs": [ "In current practitioner usage, a paran is a relationship in which two bodies reach named local angles at the same time or within a stated tolerance: rising, upper meridian transit (culmination), setting, or lower meridian transit. This is a local time-and-place question. It is not a zodiacal conjunction or any other longitude aspect. Skyscript describes the practitioner criterion as bodies becoming angular together, while Zyntara describes rotating a chart through a full 24 hours so that every body can rise, culminate, set, and reach lower culmination.", "The word is conventionally treated as a shortened form of Greek paranatellonta, often glossed “rising together.” That gloss supports the older rising-alongside idea; it does not by itself prove that every historical author used the exact four-angle rule offered by a modern program. Here “paran” is therefore a labelled modern practice, with its event definition and tolerance shown in the result." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Deborah Houlding, Skyscript Glossary: Paran", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossary/paran/" }, { "title": "Zyntara: Paran request", "url": "https://zyntara.com/paran-request/" } ] }, { "id": "what-the-events-physically-mean", "title": "Keep the sky geometry separate from the reading", "paragraphs": [ "Physically, Earth’s rotation carries a body across an observer’s local horizon and meridian. A rise or set is a horizon crossing; a meridian transit is the instant the body’s center crosses the observer’s north–south meridian. These are reproducible geometric event labels when the observer, ephemeris, time scale, horizon convention, and body point are declared. A body can transit while below the horizon, and a high-latitude body can lack a rise or set in the selected interval.", "A symbolic statement that a paired event signifies a theme belongs to a named practitioner tradition, not to the geometry. The explorer can report event names, timestamps, separation, and selected bodies. It must not manufacture a fixed-star meaning, a personality claim, or a prediction when no sourced interpretive rule has been supplied. Atmospheric visibility is also outside this selected convention: geometric horizon crossings are not claims that an object was seen through refraction, terrain, twilight, or clouds." ], "sources": [ { "title": "U.S. Naval Observatory: Rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/RST_defs" }, { "title": "Skyfield: Almanac Computation — Meridian Transits", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/almanac.html" } ] }, { "id": "selected-window-contract", "title": "The Atlas selected-window convention", "paragraphs": [ "Choose one of three window conventions. Fixed 24 hours begins at the exact entered local date-time, resolving a repeated clock time with its selected occurrence. Local calendar day includes the contiguous instants of the chosen date in the selected IANA zone, including missing or repeated midnight handling. Sunrise to sunrise begins at that date’s first geometric sunrise and ends at the next one within 48 hours.", "All three presets use actual moving bodies, topocentric apparent positions, body centres and a geometric altitude of 0° without atmospheric refraction. They return actual rise, set and upper/lower meridian events. A skipped or fragmented civil date, or an unavailable solar boundary, produces an explicit explanation without a substitute window.", "Pairing uses full event timestamps, a tolerance from 0 to 30 minutes and a half-open window: the start is included, the end excluded. At least one event must belong to the window; the other may be in the declared padding. The timeline uses the actual duration. Downloaded UTC clock durations follow JavaScript date timestamps and do not count inserted leap seconds; Julian-day fields preserve the astronomical time convention." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IANA: theory and scope of the time-zone database", "url": "https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/theory.html" }, { "title": "Zyntara: day conventions and actual moving bodies", "url": "https://zyntara.com/paran-request/" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: rise and transit functions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "worked-window-across-midnight", "title": "Worked synthetic example · retain the next-day timestamps", "paragraphs": [ "This is deliberately synthetic tool-shaped output, not an ephemeris claim for a real city or date. Suppose the location and local zone are already selected and the window begins 2031-04-18 18:00:00 +02:00. The window ends 2031-04-19 18:00:00 +02:00. With 30 minutes allowed, the event search returns Body A rising at 2031-04-18 23:53:20 +02:00 and Body B at upper transit at 2031-04-19 00:11:04 +02:00. The absolute difference is 17 minutes 44 seconds, so the pair qualifies. Both actual timestamps are retained; calling the second one “00:11 on the start date” would change the event by almost a day.", "A near-end example is also valid: Body C sets at 2031-04-19 17:52:10 +02:00, inside the window, and Body D reaches lower transit at 2031-04-19 18:07:40 +02:00, in the padding after the window. Their difference is 15 minutes 30 seconds, so the pair can be shown with an “in-window: Body C set” marker. A separation of 30 minutes exactly is included; 30 minutes and one second is excluded. These examples demonstrate selection and timestamp handling only. They do not assign meanings to Bodies A–D." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "how-to-use-and-compare", "title": "Read the result as an auditable prompt", "paragraphs": [ "Choose the location, local start date-time, bodies, and event settings; then inspect the two full event timestamps, event kinds, elapsed separation, and whether the pair crossed midnight or used padding. Preserve those facts when exporting or comparing a second location. A different location can change the local angular-event times even when the ephemeris date is unchanged.", "If you use symbolic interpretation, attach only a cited rule from the chosen fixed-star or planetary practice and keep it separate from the event record. Do not equate an Atlas daily local-event pair with an astrocartography world-line crossing: a map line represents a different spatial question, while this tool pairs angular events at one selected location and time window." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Deborah Houlding, Skyscript Glossary: Paran", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossary/paran/" }, { "title": "U.S. Naval Observatory: Rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/RST_defs" } ] }, { "id": "named-reading-frameworks", "title": "Compare interpretation frameworks", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer offers three reading views. Event geometry describes the selected crossings. Ptolemy’s historical lens compares the selected bodies with the planetary qualities in Tetrabiblos I.4 and the named-star comparisons in I.9. Brady’s star-angle view shows the lifecycle category associated with the star’s angle in Zyntara’s sample report.", "For example, in a Sun–Sirius pair, the historical view compares the Sun’s heating and drying qualities with Sirius’s Jupiter and lesser Mars attribution. The modern angle view follows Sirius’s event: rising gives a youth category; lower-meridian passage gives a foundational category. Changing which body rises therefore matters. A planet–planet or star–star pair receives no star–planet lifecycle category.", "These are separate reading frameworks. The selected view is included in the event-reading download together with the exact events and sources. A complete natal-star reading additionally needs verified day and horizon conventions, visibility phases and star-specific delineation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.4 and I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" }, { "title": "Zyntara, Starlight sample report, p. 5: star angles", "url": "https://zyntara.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PrincessDianeReport.pdf#page=5" } ] }, { "id": "event-reference-checks", "title": "Independent event checks and their limits", "paragraphs": [ "The event solver is compared with 215 independently computed Skyfield events across London, the equator and 80° north, using JPL DE421 and six Hipparcos catalogue stars. Matching tests use body-centre altitude zero, no refraction, apparent topocentric directions and actual upper/lower meridian crossings. All 260 body/angle event counts match, including missing crossings and a Moon day with two sets.", "This comparison found and corrected duplicate lunar meridian estimates. Refined roots are now compared as individual physical crossings. The largest time difference in these fixtures is under 0.34 seconds, within the preset five-second test tolerance; this is a result for the sampled cases, not a universal accuracy guarantee.", "The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars use independent centre references. Jupiter and Saturn use system-barycentre proxies, which are tracked separately. Star comparisons omit binary orbital motion and assume zero radial velocity; frozen Earth-rotation tables and grazing crossings limit wider accuracy claims." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Skyfield: almanac event search", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/almanac.html" }, { "title": "ESA Hipparcos catalogue, CDS I/239", "url": "https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/I/239" }, { "title": "JPL DE421 planetary ephemeris", "url": "https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/ftp/eph/planets/ioms/de421.iom.pdf" } ] } ] }, "sirius": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "regulus", "antares" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Sirius is the IAU proper name assigned to Alpha Canis Majoris A (HR 2491), in Canis Major. The IAU naming table lists it as a component A; that distinction matters where a catalogue resolves a stellar system rather than a folklore label.", "For an angular-event tool, the reproducible object is the selected catalogue target and its position model at the stated time and place. ‘Fixed’ does not waive the need to name epoch, coordinate frame, proper motion, or horizon convention." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "LSJ gives Greek seirios as the dog-star and ‘the scorcher’. The IAU notes Sirius among the few names retained from Greek antiquity, with an appearance in Hesiod but not the Almagest.", "A heat-associated ancient name is a historical/literary datum. It should not be turned into a physical property of a local rise or into a personal prediction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "LSJ: σείριος", "url": "https://atlas.perseus.tufts.edu/dictionaries/entry/urn%3Acite2%3Ascaife-viewer%3Adictionaries.v1%3Alsj-n93571/" }, { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "In Tetrabiblos I.9, Ptolemy calls the bright star in the mouth of Canis like Jupiter and, to a lesser degree, Mars. This is the directly evidenced comparative label carried by the companion historical dataset.", "It is neither a zodiacal conjunction rule nor a modern angular-event recipe. Ptolemy closes the chapter by calling these observations of predecessors." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "Start with the event row: for example, record ‘Sirius rising’ alongside the other body’s named angle, the full local timestamps, the separation, location, and tolerance. Compare a second location only after retaining those same settings.", "Brady describes modern parans as simultaneous contact with earth-generated angles and a blending of star and planet meanings. If the optional Ptolemaic lens is enabled, place its Jupiter/lesser-Mars comparison beside the event facts; any visitor question remains original reflection." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Sirius and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "regulus": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "sirius", "antares" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Regulus is the IAU proper name for Alpha Leonis A (HR 3982), in Leo. The component letter is part of the official name-table identification.", "An Atlas calculation should select this astronomical target, rather than infer identity from a translated phrase such as ‘lion’s heart’." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "Regulus is Modern Latin for ‘little king’, a diminutive of rex. The IAU also lists Regulus among names preserved from Greek antiquity, while explaining that many modern star names passed through translation and transmission.", "The royal wording is etymological and historical. It is not a warrant for assigning rank, career, or character to a person whose chart contains a calculated event." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Etymonline: Regulus", "url": "https://www.etymonline.com/word/Regulus" }, { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Ptolemy identifies the bright star on Leo’s heart as Regulus and compares it to Mars and Jupiter in I.9. The wording is unusually explicit and so can be retained without guessing the identity.", "Its historical status remains limited: it is Ptolemy’s reported planetary-likeness tradition, not a tested causal explanation or a modern timing method." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "Use the timeline to identify which Regulus angle occurred: rise, upper transit, set, or lower transit. Then read its partner event and minute separation before comparing dates or locations.", "Brady’s modern angle-based frame can sit beside this record. The separately labelled Mars/Jupiter comparison is useful for studying Ptolemy’s vocabulary; it does not replace the tool’s actual event facts." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Regulus and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "spica": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "fomalhaut" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Spica is the IAU proper name for Alpha Virginis Aa (HR 5056), in Virgo. The IAU component identifier avoids collapsing a multiple-star system into an unspecific conventional label.", "The selected star’s calculated horizon or meridian event is a geometry result. It is not a declaration that the observer saw an object through atmosphere or terrain." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "Latin spica denotes an ear or spike of grain. The IAU counts Spica among names preserved from Greek antiquity; the Latin lexical sense is not a single universal mythic interpretation.", "Keeping word history separate from reading avoids treating ‘grain’ as a hidden computational input." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Lewis & Short: spīca", "url": "https://atlas.perseus.tufts.edu/dictionaries/entry/urn%3Acite2%3Ascaife-viewer%3Adictionary-entries.atlas_v1%3Alat.ls.perseus-eng2-n44998/" }, { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Ptolemy’s I.9 says ‘the so-called Spica’ is like Venus and, to a lesser degree, Mars. This compact source-specific label is present in the historical comparison dataset.", "It should be read as a comparison within Ptolemy’s planetary-quality language, not as an instruction to combine an event with Venus and Mars keywords." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "Choose Spica and one partner, then inspect whether the match joins a horizon event to a transit or two other named angles. Save the exact row before changing the tolerance, because a different tolerance can change which pairs appear.", "Brady’s account supplies the modern angle-based context. A study view may put Ptolemy’s Venus/lesser-Mars comparison next to the selected row, while preserving its historical source label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Spica and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "aldebaran": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "antares" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Aldebaran is the IAU proper name for Alpha Tauri (HR 1457), in Taurus. Unlike entries where the official table has a component letter, this row has no component field.", "A historical association with the Hyades is not a substitute for the exact target definition used by an event solver." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "A Smithsonian study of Arabic star names, citing al-Sufi, derives Aldebaran from a root ‘to follow’ and connects it with the Pleiades. Ptolemy’s translation gives a different positional description: the bright, reddish Hyad called ‘the Torch’.", "These records let a visitor distinguish Arabic name history from the Greco-Roman positional description." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Smithsonian: The Star-Names and Their Lore", "url": "https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/2445/SSHT-0046_Lo_res.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2" }, { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "For the bright, somewhat reddish Hyad called the Torch, Ptolemy reports a Mars-like temperature. The wording is directly evidenced, though it calls the star by description rather than the later Arabic-derived name.", "The dataset preserves this identity link cautiously and does not expand it into ‘Mars themes’ or a generic warning." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "For Aldebaran, use the table to confirm the two event names and whether either timestamp lies in search padding at the edge of the 24-hour window. This makes a near-boundary match auditable.", "Brady’s public teaching presents modern parans as an angle-based symbolic synthesis. Keep that method label beside the row and offer Ptolemy’s Mars-like ‘Torch’ comparison as a separate historical study card." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Aldebaran and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "antares": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "regulus", "sirius" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Antares is the IAU proper name for Alpha Scorpii A (HR 6134), in Scorpius. IAU’s table makes the component assignment explicit.", "The named target is adequate for the calculator’s event search only with its declared astrometric model and observer conventions." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "Antares is one of the names the IAU says survived from Greek antiquity. Etymonline analyses it as contracted anti-Ares, ‘rival of Mars’, in reference to its red appearance.", "The conventional ‘heart of the Scorpion’ preserves where Ptolemy places it: the middle of three bright stars in Scorpio’s body." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" }, { "title": "Etymonline: Antares", "url": "https://www.etymonline.com/word/Antares" }, { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Ptolemy calls the middle of three bright body stars in Scorpio Antares and compares it with Mars and, to some degree, Jupiter. The name and comparison occur together in I.9.", "This is a precisely sourced historical comparison. It is not an authorization to infer obsession, violence, or any other modern keyphrase from an event match." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "For Antares, select a row and read the angle pair in order, such as Antares setting with a partner’s upper transit. The angle names and the measured separation are the reproducible part of the comparison.", "Brady’s accessible article supplies a modern symbolic frame of angle-based blending. Ptolemy’s Mars/Jupiter likeness remains a separately named historical lens, so it can be compared without being confused with the timing calculation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Antares and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "fomalhaut": { "related": [ "fixed-star", "paran", "local-horizon", "meridian-transit", "astrometric-position", "precession", "spica" ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Astronomical identity", "paragraphs": [ "Fomalhaut is the IAU proper name for Alpha Piscis Austrini A (HR 8728), in Piscis Austrinus. The IAU explains that the star accumulated more than forty historical names and variant spellings before standardisation.", "The target’s official designation is therefore particularly useful for keeping a calculation record from silently changing referent." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "name-history", "title": "Name and historical record", "paragraphs": [ "Fomalhaut derives from scientific Arabic fam al-hūt, ‘mouth of the [Southern] Fish’. NASA’s explanatory page gives the same translation; the IAU’s long list of historical spellings cautions against reducing the star’s full naming history to one label.", "A name’s literal image does not determine the interpretation of a modern event pair." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NASA GSFC: Fomalhaut", "url": "https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ask_astro/night_sky.html" }, { "title": "IAU: Naming Stars", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/naming_stars/" } ] }, { "id": "historical-comparison", "title": "Ptolemy’s named comparison", "paragraphs": [ "Ptolemy says that the bright star in the mouth of Piscis Australis has a Venus-and-Mercury influence. Editorial notes to the cited translation identify this star as Fomalhaut.", "That connection is a historically mediated identification and the planetary likeness is kept as a source citation, not upgraded into a result of the current calculator." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html" } ] }, { "id": "use-in-parans", "title": "Use in a modern paran result", "paragraphs": [ "For Fomalhaut, inspect availability first: a location may show a transit while a required horizon crossing is unavailable. Use the availability row and full timestamps when comparing another location or date.", "Brady’s accessible article supplies a modern angle-based symbolic frame. The study card may place Ptolemy’s Venus/Mercury comparison beside an eligible pair while clearly retaining its historical provenance." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bernadette Brady, Fixed Stars, other voices in our astrology", "url": "https://bernadettebrady.com/wbh36duy/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FixedStarsTMA-Jan2005_1.pdf" } ] } ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Select Fomalhaut and another body; compare their actual horizon and meridian times." } ] }, "civil-day": { "related": [ "time-zone", "utc", "daylight-saving-time", "sunrise", "paran" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran day-window explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Compare fixed, calendar and geometric-sunrise day windows at one location." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "clock-date-and-duration", "title": "A date is not a fixed duration", "paragraphs": [ "A calendar label answers which local date an instant belongs to. A duration answers how much clock time separates two instants. Changing an offset can move those boundaries without changing the written date.", "In the independently checked London example, 29 March 2026 runs from 00:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC: 23 hours. The 25 October date runs from 23:00 UTC on 24 October to 00:00 UTC on 26 October: 25 hours. These are worked time-zone calculations, not two different astronomical definitions of Earth’s rotation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IANA: theory and scope of the time-zone database", "url": "https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/theory.html" } ] }, { "id": "midnight-exceptions", "title": "When midnight is missing or repeated", "paragraphs": [ "A civil-day search must not assume that 00:00 occurs exactly once. The São Paulo fixture for 4 November 2018 begins at the first valid time after its midnight clock jump; the Havana fixture for 1 November 2020 includes the repeated midnight hour.", "Some dates disappear altogether after date-line changes. Other historical dates can occur in separated UTC intervals. Atlas reports those unavailable for a single civil-day window rather than filling in the missing period. Use an explicit time window if that better represents the historical question." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IANA: theory and scope of the time-zone database", "url": "https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/theory.html" } ] }, { "id": "choose-a-day", "title": "Choose a day for the question", "paragraphs": [ "Use a civil day when you want everything recorded under a particular local date. Use fixed 24 hours when comparing equal-length windows from a known instant. Use sunrise to sunrise when the day is defined by two solar events.", "In the paran explorer, changing this choice recalculates the actual boundaries and matching pairs. The downloaded record keeps the mode, UTC boundaries, duration and geometric conventions. Local clock rules come from the runtime’s IANA-backed date formatter; minute samples locate date transitions and the boundary is refined to one millisecond. This numerical resolution does not prove the historical clock record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IANA: theory and scope of the time-zone database", "url": "https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/theory.html" }, { "title": "Zyntara: day conventions and actual moving bodies", "url": "https://zyntara.com/paran-request/" } ] } ] }, "sunrise": { "related": [ "sun", "local-horizon", "atmospheric-refraction", "civil-day", "paran" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Paran day-window explorer", "href": "/workspace/parans", "description": "Compare fixed, calendar and geometric-sunrise day windows at one location." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "which-solar-edge", "title": "Which part of the Sun crosses?", "paragraphs": [ "Standard sunrise tables commonly refer to the apparent upper edge at the horizon with average atmospheric refraction. USNO’s conventional centre altitude is about −0.8333°. Atlas’s paran sunrise-day preset instead uses the apparent topocentric centre at unrefracted altitude 0°.", "These settings answer different questions, so matching the date and city is not enough to compare two published times. Check the selected solar edge, refraction, elevation and horizon." ], "sources": [ { "title": "U.S. Naval Observatory: rise, set and twilight definitions", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/RST_defs" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: rise and transit functions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" } ] }, { "id": "sunrise-day-example", "title": "A worked sunrise-to-sunrise day", "paragraphs": [ "For London on 29 March 2026, the independent Skyfield reference places geometric sunrise near 05:48:15 UTC and the next near 05:45:59 UTC. The resulting interval is about 23.962 hours. The local civil date is 23 hours that day, illustrating why the two windows select different sets of events.", "Atlas begins with the first geometric sunrise inside the chosen local date. The first sunrise is included and the next is excluded from the window; nearby events can still appear as explicitly marked padding for a pair comparison. The Sun supplies these boundaries even if you choose only other bodies in the event list." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: rise and transit functions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" }, { "title": "Skyfield: astronomical event search", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/almanac.html" } ] }, { "id": "polar-and-tradition-limits", "title": "Polar dates and interpretive traditions", "paragraphs": [ "Some high-latitude dates have no sunrise. A following sunrise can also be too distant to define an ordinary daily search. Atlas returns an unavailable window if there is no sunrise in the chosen date or no following one within 48 hours.", "Zyntara distinguishes actual moving planets from rotating fixed natal degrees, and offers several ways to begin the astrological day. Atlas’s named geometric-sunrise preset makes one choice explicit; it does not establish exact agreement with a practitioner’s dawn, visibility phases or full natal interpretation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "U.S. Naval Observatory: rise, set and twilight definitions", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/RST_defs" }, { "title": "Zyntara: day conventions and actual moving bodies", "url": "https://zyntara.com/paran-request/" } ] } ] }, "solar-return": { "related": [ "return-chart", "return-location", "lunar-return", "sun", "ascendant", "house", "natal-chart", "tropical-zodiac", "sidereal-zodiac", "tajika", "conjunction", "opposition", "orb" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Solar & lunar return explorer", "href": "/workspace/returns", "description": "Choose Sun or Moon, a zodiac and a return location; compare the resulting chart with natal houses." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "cycle", "title": "The Sun supplies the annual reference", "paragraphs": [ "A solar return is calculated when the Sun reaches its natal ecliptic longitude again. The selected zodiac matters: a sidereal longitude return can occur at a different instant from a tropical return. The resulting chart is conventionally read across the following annual cycle. It is tied to an exact astronomical crossing, so the civil birthday alone does not specify the chart.", "Record the natal inputs, return cycle, zodiac and ayanamsha where relevant, house system, return place, and solved time. Keep the computation and the interpretive school separately named. That lets another reader reproduce the chart without assuming they share its symbolic meaning." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: Natal + Solar Return chart, with houses · calculation and zodiac convention", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch31&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "location", "title": "Choose the place before reading the houses", "paragraphs": [ "Birthplace, residence, and the actual place at the return are competing practitioner conventions. Astrodienst documents these alternatives. A return Ascendant or house placement should therefore carry its location label rather than appear as a universal result.", "For a geocentric longitude crossing, changing the reference place changes local angles and houses; it does not by itself change the matched geocentric longitude or its UTC instant. If a location comparison moves the Sun from one house to another, retain both configurations as alternatives under their stated rules. Selecting the more appealing reading is not evidence that its location convention is correct." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst Astrowiki: Solar Return Chart · Calculation, Location, Interpretation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Solar_Return_Chart" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Read the Ascendant, its ruler, and the Sun together", "paragraphs": [ "Brian Clark reads the return Ascendant as an annual expression of the person’s approach, then asks which natal house receives that Ascendant. His procedure also emphasizes angular planets and the surrounding natal context. This makes the overlay a separate reading step, not a replacement for the return chart’s own houses.", "Astrodienst’s interpretive checklist includes both the return house and natal house occupied by the return Ascendant’s ruler, and the return house containing the Sun. Identify the rising sign, declare the rulership scheme, find its ruler, and name each house frame explicitly. “Venus in house seven of the return” and “return Venus in natal house three” are different facts.", "Treat the Sun’s return house as a possible annual focus. Mary Fortier Shea associates an angular return Sun with developing relationships and personal, interpersonal, or professional capacities. Her approach gives house placement interpretive priority; this is a practitioner method rather than a demonstrated annual outcome." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Brian Clark: Working with Solar Returns · pp. 5–7, 20–22", "url": "https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/working-with-solar-returns.pdf" }, { "title": "Astrodienst Astrowiki: Solar Return Chart · Calculation, Location, Interpretation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Solar_Return_Chart" }, { "title": "Mary Fortier Shea: Movement of the Sun through the Angular Houses", "url": "https://www.maryshea.com/angular-sr-sun" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "A conditional reading with competing emphases", "paragraphs": [ "Synthetic example: suppose a declared traditional-ruler chart has Libra rising, Venus in the return seventh house, and the Sun in the return fourth. The chart-ruler placement supports examining one-to-one agreements; the solar placement supports examining home and family priorities. An original reading question is: “Which agreements would make room for the home responsibilities I already know about?”", "Do not turn this combination into a promise of marriage or relocation. Check the actual natal overlay and relevant aspects before developing the reading. If the natal house of the return Ascendant is unavailable, omit that comparison. If uncertain time or location changes the house placements, show the alternative readings instead of selecting one silently." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst Astrowiki: Solar Return Chart · Calculation, Location, Interpretation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Solar_Return_Chart" }, { "title": "Mary Fortier Shea: Movement of the Sun through the Angular Houses", "url": "https://www.maryshea.com/angular-sr-sun" } ] }, { "id": "school", "title": "A sidereal return is not a complete Tajika judgment", "paragraphs": [ "Selecting a sidereal zodiac defines the longitude reference. It does not supply the whole Tajika tradition. Balabhadra’s Hāyanaratna, in Martin Gansten’s critical edition, treats specialized aspects and configurations, sahamas, the munthaha, selection of a ruler of the year, and planetary periods. A plain sidereal solar-return chart should retain that limited description unless the particular Tajika procedures have also been implemented and evidenced.", "The return Ascendant’s sign ruler is not automatically the Tajika ruler of the year. Keep these labels distinct, and follow the named tradition’s own selection rules when moving into that method." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Balabhadra, Hāyanaratna, translated by Martin Gansten · contents, chapters 2–5 and 7", "url": "https://brill.com/display/book/9789004433717/9789004433717_webready_content_text.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "atlas-use", "title": "Use the Atlas return workspace", "paragraphs": [ "Choose an exact birth profile or the labelled example, select Sun or Moon and set the zodiac reference. City search supplies the return place, coordinates and time zone together. Find the first crossing, then use the returning luminary and Ascendant ruler cards as starting points.", "Select a planet in the wheel or list. Its return house and natal-house overlay remain separately labelled, using whole-sign houses in the same zodiac. The Return → natal contacts panel adds conjunctions and oppositions within your chosen orb, with labels for geometry already implied by the return. The download includes the selected reading and contact. A complete Tajika judgement and other contact angles remain outside this panel." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astral Atlas return tool · implemented controls and output", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/workspace/returns" } ] } ] }, "lunar-return": { "related": [ "return-chart", "return-location", "solar-return", "moon", "ascendant", "house", "natal-chart", "aspect", "ecliptic-longitude", "conjunction", "opposition", "orb" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Solar & lunar return explorer", "href": "/workspace/returns", "description": "Choose Sun or Moon, a zodiac and a return location; compare the resulting chart with natal houses." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "cycle", "title": "A lunar cycle is defined by longitude, not calendar month", "paragraphs": [ "A lunar return occurs when the Moon reaches its natal ecliptic longitude again. Astrodienst describes successive returns as roughly 27–28 days apart and distinguishes tropical from sidereal calculations. Use the solved return instants to label the interval; “September’s chart” can conceal its actual boundaries.", "The target is the natal Moon’s longitude, not the Sun–Moon angle. A lunar return is therefore different from a New Moon chart or a recurrence of the birth lunar phase. The Moon’s return longitude is fixed by the chosen natal reference, while its return house, aspects to other return bodies, and local angles can change." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: Lunar Return chart · calculation and zodiac convention", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch35&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "convention", "title": "Preserve the reference time and place", "paragraphs": [ "The return depends on the natal Moon’s target longitude, which depends on the supplied birth instant. Record birth-time uncertainty alongside any uncertainty in natal houses. Also retain the zodiac, ayanamsha if used, house system, return place, and solved UTC and local times.", "A geocentric return’s local angles and houses require a reference place. If comparing birthplace and current location, label the two charts and compare the affected placements explicitly. Do not merge the Ascendant from one place with the Moon’s house from another. A missing or unavailable house result should narrow the interpretation to available facts." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: Lunar Return chart · calculation and zodiac convention", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch35&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Separate the Moon’s house from the Ascendant overlay", "paragraphs": [ "Kacy Danae separates the return Ascendant’s natal-house overlay from the Moon’s house within the return chart. She reads the former as monthly attention and the latter as emotional focus, then examines lunar aspects and topic rulers.", "Astrodienst additionally asks where the return Ascendant’s ruler lies in both the return and natal houses. Start with the return rising sign and a declared rulership scheme; locate that planet before describing its house. This produces a concrete chain from Ascendant to ruler to topic, rather than a mood description based only on the rising sign.", "For natal comparison, Astrodienst highlights repeated aspects and return contacts to natal planets, suggesting conjunctions and oppositions as an initial way to reduce clutter. Keep return-to-return aspects distinct from return-to-natal contacts, with the applied orb visible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kacy Danae: Lunar Returns · slides 4–6, 13–16 (1-based)", "url": "https://www.kacydanae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lunar-Returns.pdf" }, { "title": "Astrodienst Astrowiki: Lunar Return Chart · Interpretation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Lunar_Return_Chart" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "A monthly reading can contain two different needs", "paragraphs": [ "Synthetic example: the return Ascendant falls in natal house three and the Moon in return house four. Danae’s framework connects communication or learning with home and family concerns. An original study question is: “Which conversations are already needed at home?”", "Now add a computed ruler placement or Moon aspect only if it exists in the same configuration. A supportive or difficult aspect changes the symbolic relationship between the topics; it cannot certify how another person will respond. If the house frame is uncertain, remove the house-specific statement and explain which missing input prevents it." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kacy Danae: Lunar Returns · slides 4–6, 13–16 (1-based)", "url": "https://www.kacydanae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lunar-Returns.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "scope", "title": "Keep the lunar reading on its own timescale", "paragraphs": [ "A solar return conventionally frames an annual cycle; a lunar return addresses the shorter interval to the next return. The Skyscript returns glossary describes lunar returns as a way practitioners explore the unfolding of solar-return themes. Treat that as a comparison method, not an instruction to force every monthly chart to repeat the annual one.", "A useful record retains the original question, chart facts, attributed reading, and later observations—including themes that did not appear. Several repeated symbols may justify giving a topic more space in a reading, but counting them does not create a measured probability or guarantee an event." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Skyscript: Returns (Revolution Chart)", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossary/returns/" } ] }, { "id": "atlas-use", "title": "Use the Atlas return workspace", "paragraphs": [ "Choose an exact birth profile or the labelled example, select Sun or Moon and set the zodiac reference. City search supplies the return place, coordinates and time zone together. Find the first crossing, then use the returning luminary and Ascendant ruler cards as starting points.", "Select a planet in the wheel or list. Its return house and natal-house overlay remain separately labelled, using whole-sign houses in the same zodiac. The Return → natal contacts panel adds conjunctions and oppositions within your chosen orb, with labels for geometry already implied by the return. The download includes the selected reading and contact. A complete Tajika judgement and other contact angles remain outside this panel." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astral Atlas return tool · implemented controls and output", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/workspace/returns" } ] } ] }, "return-chart": { "sections": [ { "id": "two-charts", "title": "Keep the two moments visible", "paragraphs": [ "Return-to-return aspects compare two bodies at the solved return instant. Return-to-natal contacts compare a return body with a body at the recorded birth instant. Astrodienst supplies separate tables for these comparisons; Brian Clark’s worksheet also separates their roles. A label such as “Venus opposite Saturn” is incomplete until both chart identities are known.", "In the Atlas tool, the left position belongs to the return chart and the right position to the natal chart. Each keeps its own whole-sign house. Both use the selected zodiac reference. The same planet name may legitimately appear on both sides because the observations come from different moments." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · separate return and natal aspect tables", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch31&lang=e" }, { "title": "Brian Clark · Solar Return Worksheet II, printed p. 20", "url": "https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/working-with-solar-returns.pdf#page=20" } ] }, { "id": "natal-contacts", "title": "Choose a contact and inspect its actual orb", "paragraphs": [ "Select a return planet, then choose one of its conjunctions or oppositions to natal planets. The orb control is an explicit display convention, defaulting to 3°. Sorting by distance from exactness makes the list easier to inspect; it is not a prediction-strength score. Other aspect angles remain outside this particular list.", "The tool calculates the shortest longitude separation without rounding first. A conjunction is measured from 0°, an opposition from 180°. For example, 359° and 1° are 2° apart, while 10° and 190.5° have a 179.5° separation and a 0.5° opposition orb. The two-chart display shows both separation and orb so their meanings stay distinct. Zero orb accepts only exact numerical equality; a solver’s tiny residual may therefore exclude the defining match." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astral Atlas · return-to-natal contact controls", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/workspace/returns" } ] }, { "id": "dependent-contacts", "title": "Recognize geometry built into the return", "paragraphs": [ "The returning luminary matches its natal longitude by definition. Its self-conjunction is therefore labelled “Defines the return.” Contacts from that same return luminary to other natal planets repeat its natal geometry; Clark explicitly notes this repetition for the solar-return Sun.", "A third dependency follows from the same equality: another return body contacting the natal returning luminary duplicates its contact with the return luminary, within the numerical residual. Atlas keeps all these rows inspectable with distinct labels. Counting them again does not create independent corroboration. Other rows are ordinary cross-chart comparisons, not a claim of statistical independence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · separate return and natal aspect tables", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch31&lang=e" }, { "title": "Brian Clark · Solar Return Worksheet II, printed p. 20", "url": "https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/working-with-solar-returns.pdf#page=20" }, { "title": "Astral Atlas · return-to-natal contact controls", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/workspace/returns" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Read the functions and houses before adding a judgement", "paragraphs": [ "In Deborah Houlding’s traditional account, conjunction combines the planets’ meanings; opposition emphasizes division or conflict. The participating planets and their condition modify the interpretation. Neither angle alone supplies a fixed favorable or unfavorable outcome.", "Atlas uses original study wording to connect the displayed return and natal house topics. Synthetic example: return Venus in return house three opposite natal Saturn in natal house nine at 0.8° orb may frame a question about everyday communication and established beliefs. The house placements must actually be present in the chosen charts. A missing condition is not labelled weak, afflicted or neutral." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Deborah Houlding · Classical Origins of Aspects", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspects.html" } ] }, { "id": "reference-boundaries", "title": "Preserve the zodiac and the interpretive school", "paragraphs": [ "A sidereal comparison uses the named ayanamsha at each chart’s own epoch. Do not mix a tropical natal longitude with a sidereal return longitude or substitute one fixed offset for the selected two-epoch calculation. The houses in this tool are explicitly whole-sign houses, irrespective of another workspace’s house setting.", "A degree comparison in Lahiri or another sidereal frame does not implement Tajika aspect strengths or its configurations. Gansten’s discussion describes additional roles for dignity, application and separation, motion and speed. A fixed natal point is not another planet moving simultaneously. This panel therefore supplies geometric contacts and clearly scoped study wording, rather than claiming those traditional procedures." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal coordinate conventions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" }, { "title": "Martin Gansten · Introduction, §4.3, The Sixteen Configurations", "url": "https://brill.com/display/book/9789004433717/BP000001.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use-and-export", "title": "Carry the comparison into a reproducible reading", "paragraphs": [ "Calculate a return, select its planet and adjust the contact orb. Pick a row to see its positions, two house frames, dependency label and explanation together. The chart download retains the selected contact, the complete filtered row set, both timestamps, the orb and the exact reading snapshot.", "No matching natal chart means no natal contacts. An empty filtered list means no conjunction or opposition within the selected orb for that return planet. Try another body or orb when useful; neither state is a verdict about the whole cycle." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astral Atlas · return-to-natal contact controls", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/workspace/returns" } ] }, { "id": "time-scales", "title": "Historical clocks need an explicit time scale", "paragraphs": [ "UTC, UT1 and Terrestrial Time are different quantities. Swiss Ephemeris treats supplied calendar clocks before 1972 as UT1; from 1972 its normal input convention is UTC. A Z suffix in an exported historical timestamp is therefore a storage representation, not proof of modern leap-second UTC. Keep the Julian day and the declared clock convention beside a historical chart.", "Our 1950 diagnostic illustrates why this matters. Reading the same clock label as Skyfield’s extended UTC or as UT1 changes the natal physical instant by about 13.17 seconds, and the later return can differ by 11–13 seconds. Using UT1 consistently in both implementations restores agreement within the predeclared 2-second criterion. This checks a declared numerical convention; it does not resolve uncertainty in an old birth record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · UTC and Julian days, §9.3", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm" }, { "title": "Skyfield · time scales", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/time.html" }, { "title": "Astral Atlas · independent return-time comparison data", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/files/return-validation.json" } ] }, { "id": "independent-checks", "title": "What the independent return-time checks establish", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas compared its Swiss Ephemeris search with an independently written Skyfield/JPL DE421 bracket-and-bisection calculation. Thirty synthetic cases cover first and subsequent Sun/Moon returns and ten no-crossing windows. Twenty root comparisons differ by no more than 0.086 seconds, within a 2-second criterion chosen before seeing the results. The equinox example exercises a target near 359.9997 degrees.", "The two implementations measure apparent geocentric longitude in the ecliptic frame of each observation date. Separate tests place search endpoints five seconds before and after the independent root; exact millisecond endpoint inclusion is checked separately against the product’s own root. This distinction prevents internal consistency from being advertised as independent timing evidence.", "These are sampled tropical comparisons, including one historical UT1 example. They do not certify every supported year, any sidereal return convention, house calculations or a prediction. Both ephemerides have JPL ancestry; implementation independence is not independence from every underlying astronomical model. Download the comparison records to inspect the inputs, time scales, differences, kernel identity and exclusions." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Skyfield · ecliptic coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/coordinates.html#ecliptic-coordinates" }, { "title": "Astral Atlas · independent return-time comparison data", "url": "https://astralatlas.org/files/return-validation.json" } ] } ], "related": [ "solar-return", "lunar-return", "return-location", "natal-chart", "conjunction", "opposition", "orb", "whole-sign-houses", "ayanamsha", "tajika" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Return-to-natal contact explorer", "href": "/workspace/returns", "description": "Calculate a Sun or Moon return, then compare selected return planets with the natal chart." } ], "relatedIds": [ "utc", "ut1", "terrestrial-time", "ephemeris" ] }, "ten-gods": { "related": [ "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases", "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "bazi-friend", "bazi-rob-wealth", "bazi-eating-god", "bazi-hurting-officer", "bazi-direct-wealth", "bazi-indirect-wealth", "bazi-direct-officer", "bazi-seven-killings", "bazi-direct-resource", "bazi-indirect-resource", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-main-qi" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "purpose", "title": "A chart relationship, not a trait test", "paragraphs": [ "Ten Gods (shíshén 十神) is a set of ten names obtained by comparing another chart character to the Day Master, the Heavenly Stem of the day pillar. Mingli Tanyuan directs the reader to take the day stem as ‘self’ and compare the year, month and hour stems, as well as stems concealed in branches, by generation and control.", "The result is a traditional interpretive classification. It does not measure character, prove a prediction, or turn a literal name such as Rob Wealth or Seven Killings into a statement about conduct or danger." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, ‘Naming the ten stems by generation and control’", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · What Is BaZi? The Four Pillars Explained", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" } ] }, { "id": "rule", "title": "Derive the name from direction and polarity", "paragraphs": [ "Start with the Day Master’s Five-Phase and polarity. Compare the selected stem’s phase in a directed way: same phase; produced by the Day Master; controlled by the Day Master; controlling the Day Master; or producing the Day Master. Then distinguish same polarity from opposite polarity.", "Mingli Tanyuan states the convention as same-polarity yin/yang meeting = partial (piān 偏) and opposite-polarity meeting = proper/direct (zhèng 正). For the same-phase pair, modern practitioner terminology calls same polarity Friend and opposite polarity Rob Wealth. The inspector applies this distinction to each of the three other visible stems." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "visible-input", "title": "What this tool classifies", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer takes one selected visible stem from year, month, day or hour, then compares it with the Day Master. It displays the selected phase and polarity, the Day Master phase and polarity, and the resulting relationship. Retain the selected clock and day-rollover convention because those settings can change the computed day pillar near a boundary. The separate branch inspector adds hidden-stem comparisons while retaining their source branch.", "The day-pillar stem supplies the reference. Selecting that same visible day stem is an identity comparison, so the tool keeps the day pillar visibly identified as the reference rather than present it as a separate Friend result. A Jia Day Master and a Jia year stem, by contrast, is a genuine other-pillar Friend comparison." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · What Is BaZi? The Four Pillars Explained", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" } ] }, { "id": "jia-examples", "title": "Worked examples with Jia Wood", "paragraphs": [ "Let the Day Master be Jia (甲), Yang Wood. A selected Jia in the year, month or hour is Friend; Yi (乙), Yin Wood, is Rob Wealth. Bing (丙), Yang Fire, is Eating God and Ding (丁), Yin Fire, is Hurting Officer, because Wood produces Fire.", "For the same Jia reference, Wu (戊), Yang Earth, is Indirect Wealth and Ji (己), Yin Earth, is Direct Wealth because Wood controls Earth. Geng (庚), Yang Metal, is Seven Killings/Partial Officer and Xin (辛), Yin Metal, is Direct Officer because Metal controls Wood. Ren (壬), Yang Water, is Indirect Resource and Gui (癸), Yin Water, is Direct Resource because Water produces Wood." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, five-yang-stem table", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "limits", "title": "Visible stems are an introductory layer", "paragraphs": [ "A visible-stem result records a reproducible relationship for the selected input. Traditional instructions also mention stems concealed in branches, while chart practice may add seasonal command, combinations, transformations, strength, structures, luck periods and lineage-specific rules. Those layers can change how a practitioner discusses a result; they are not silently inferred by this tool.", "Do not count categories as quantities of luck, infer favourable or unfavourable phases, or apply gendered or moral stereotypes. The supplied title alone is not a personal reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "provenance", "title": "Names, translations and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Traditional sources use variant labels. Mingli Tanyuan calls Partial Officer ‘Seven Killings’ and lists Indirect Resource aliases including Inverted Food and Owl Spirit. Atlas preserves these as aliases and translates literal terms cautiously; it does not treat them as literal forecasts.", "Mingli Tanyuan is an accessible traditional text and records the rule and names used here. This page does not claim a single ancient origin for every current English name, complete agreement among BaZi and Saju lineages, or empirical validation of interpretive outcomes. For a personal result, inspect the visible comparison first, then consult a clearly named method for any additional reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-friend": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem of the same phase and same polarity as the Day Master.", "For a Jia (甲, Yang Wood) Day Master, another Jia is Friend. It classifies a relation; it does not prove friendship or prescribe a social role.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Bǐjiān 比肩, literally ‘shoulder alongside/parallel shoulder’.", "‘Friend’ is an English teaching label; the literal Chinese points to side-by-side comparison. A historical naming origin is not asserted.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Peers and shared ground is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "Where do shared skills help you cooperate, and where do you need your own voice?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-rob-wealth": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem of the same phase as the Day Master and opposite polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Yi (乙, Yin Wood) is Rob Wealth. Its alarming literal English label is a technical name, not a prediction of theft or financial loss.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Jiécái 劫財, literally ‘seize/rob wealth’.", "The English rendering follows the literal components. This record does not claim that the term describes a person’s conduct or a chart’s outcome.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Sharing and competing is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "When do you share resources, and how do you agree fair boundaries?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-eating-god": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem produced by the Day Master and sharing its polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Bing (丙, Yang Fire) is Eating God. The category follows the produced-by direction plus polarity; it is not evidence of appetite, talent, or health.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Shíshén 食神, literally ‘food/eat spirit/deity’.", "‘Eating God’ is a literal-style English label. The historical reason for this conventional name is not established here.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Making and sustaining is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "What can you create through regular practice and attention?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-hurting-officer": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem produced by the Day Master and of opposite polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Ding (丁, Yin Fire) is Hurting Officer. The name is not a forecast of injury, insubordination, or a person’s moral character.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Shāngguān 傷官, literally ‘injure/harm officer’.", "The translation preserves the character-level sense; its naming history and any school-specific interpretation require separate evidence.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Expression and questioning is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "How can you express a challenge clearly while considering its effect on others?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-direct-wealth": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem controlled by the Day Master and of opposite polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Ji (己, Yin Earth) is Direct Wealth. It does not measure income, predict prosperity, or assign a gendered relationship role.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Zhèngcái 正財, literally ‘proper/regular wealth’.", "‘Direct’ is a conventional translation for zhèng in this paired nomenclature; no claim is made that it is morally superior or historically original.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Stewardship and routine is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "Which practical responsibilities benefit from steady care?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-indirect-wealth": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem controlled by the Day Master and sharing its polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Wu (戊, Yang Earth) is Indirect Wealth. The classification does not distinguish ethical from unethical money or predict a financial event.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Piāncái 偏財, literally ‘side/partial wealth’.", "‘Indirect’ is a common English counterpart to Direct Wealth; the literal term does not itself establish a factual source of income.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Opportunity and exchange is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "How do you evaluate an opportunity before committing resources?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-direct-officer": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem that controls the Day Master and has opposite polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Xin (辛, Yin Metal) is Direct Officer. It does not establish a job, authority ranking, personality type, or gendered spouse indicator.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Zhèngguān 正官, literally ‘proper/regular official’.", "‘Officer’ translates the office-holder term guān. The title is a technical contrast with partial/indirect officer, not an assessment of virtue.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Responsibilities and standards is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "Which commitments and standards do you choose to uphold?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-seven-killings": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem that controls the Day Master and shares its polarity; it is also called Partial Officer.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Geng (庚, Yang Metal) is Seven Killings/Partial Officer. The name is not a prediction of violence, danger, criminality, or death.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Qīshā 七殺, literally ‘seven killings’; the same source gives piānguān 偏官, ‘partial officer’, as an alias.", "The historical text records the alternate name. It does not warrant literal forecasting from the English name. Partial Officer (偏官, piānguān) is a common related label; some classical treatments distinguish it by whether the relation is restrained.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會 · 卷五#論偏官", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷五#論偏官" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Challenge and response is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "What helps you respond deliberately when expectations are demanding?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-direct-resource": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem that produces the Day Master and has opposite polarity.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Gui (癸, Yin Water) is Direct Resource. It does not measure education, parental support, intelligence, or protection.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Zhèngyìn 正印, literally ‘proper/regular seal’.", "‘Resource’ is a practitioner-facing English label; yìn literally denotes a seal/imprint. The reason for the traditional metaphor is not inferred here.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Learning and support is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "Which sources of teaching and support help you develop understanding?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-indirect-resource": { "related": [ "ten-gods", "day-master", "heavenly-stem", "five-phases" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Choose a computed pillar and compare its visible stem with the Day Master using the active clock and day-boundary settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "relationship", "title": "How this relationship is calculated", "paragraphs": [ "The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem that produces the Day Master and shares its polarity; traditional aliases include Partial Seal, Inverted Food and Owl Spirit.", "For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Ren (壬, Yang Water) is Indirect Resource. No inference about learning style, family, health, or an omen follows from the label alone.", "Select the year, month or hour in the BaZi explorer to inspect the actual stem pair. If the chosen clock or day boundary changes the Day Master, this label is calculated again." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] }, { "id": "name", "title": "Name, translation and provenance", "paragraphs": [ "Piānyìn 偏印, literally ‘partial/side seal’; Mingli Tanyuan also lists dàoshí 倒食 (‘inverted food’) and xiāoshén 梟神 (‘owl spirit’) as aliases.", "The aliases are traditional nomenclature, not forecasts or moral descriptors. Their early naming history remains unverified. Owl and Devouring Food are contextual interpretive names in some texts, not unconditional replacements for every Indirect Resource.", "The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會 · 卷六#論倒食", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷六#論倒食" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Using the label in a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Inquiry and alternative approaches is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.", "When does a different way of learning help, and how do you check what you discover?", "Read the visible-stem role alongside the selected pillar context. The hidden-stem layer is shown separately; season, strength and interactions require additional rules before a full school-specific judgement. A missing label among three visible stems is not evidence that a quality is missing from a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" }, { "title": "Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/tutorial/tutorial-details.asp?tid=28" } ] } ] }, "bazi-hidden-stem": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "heavenly-stem", "day-master", "five-phases", "ten-gods", "four-pillars", "bazi-main-qi", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes" ], "tools": [ { "title": "BaZi pillar explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Inspect the calculated visible stem and branch with its clock and day-boundary convention; hidden-stem membership is a separate sourced chart layer." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "branch-membership", "title": "A branch can contain named stems", "paragraphs": [ "A hidden stem (cánggān 藏干) is a Heavenly Stem recorded inside an Earthly Branch. The visible pillar still consists of its displayed upper stem and lower branch; a hidden-stem list adds conventional branch membership rather than replacing either character.", "Mingli Tanyuan gives a verse listing the stems concealed in the twelve branches and then cites an explanation of why branches contain those stems. This is a traditional chart convention used in later BaZi reading, not an astronomical measurement of material contained in a sign." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, hidden-stem verse and explanation", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · How to Grow Your Business Using BaZi, chart example", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/dl/gyb/How_to_Grow_Your_Business_using_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "membership", "title": "Read membership before assigning weight", "paragraphs": [ "A membership table answers a narrow question: which stems are listed for this branch in this source. It does not by itself answer how much force a listed stem has. Do not convert a list position into a universal percentage, and do not treat a hidden stem as equally visible with the upper stem simply because both can be named.", "Different table presentations may order or label the same branch material differently. Preserve the source table and school when showing a list rather than presenting one visual order as a cross-lineage fact." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, branches and seasonal context", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=926595&if=gb" } ] }, { "id": "worked-branch", "title": "Worked branch: Yin 寅", "paragraphs": [ "Mingli Tanyuan’s explanatory passage says that Yin (寅) is the place of growth for Bing and Wu and the established position of Jia; it therefore places Bing Fire, Wu Earth and Jia Wood within Yin. Joey Yap’s published chart example likewise prints Jia, Bing and Wu beneath a Yin branch as Hidden Stems.", "This example establishes membership under these sources: Yin contains Jia, Bing and Wu. It does not establish a fixed numerical split among them, prove that any one is strong in every chart, or forecast what the branch means for a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, explanation for Yin 寅", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · How to Grow Your Business Using BaZi, Yin hidden-stem example", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/dl/gyb/How_to_Grow_Your_Business_using_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "ten-gods", "title": "Compare hidden stems only after identifying the Day Master", "paragraphs": [ "For Ten Gods, Mingli Tanyuan instructs the reader to take the day stem as self and compare the year, month and hour stems and stems concealed in branches by generation and control. Thus a hidden stem can be classified relative to the Day Master using the same phase-and-polarity rule as a visible comparison.", "The classification identifies a relationship category. It is not a complete personal reading: the branch location, visibility, seasonal context and the method being used remain relevant." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, ‘Naming the ten stems by generation and control’", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "context", "title": "Do not collapse membership into strength or roots", "paragraphs": [ "Traditional discussions of branches make seasonal and positional distinctions. Sanming Tonghui says that the monthly branch is central to one discussion, then treats branches differently in year, month, day and hour positions. Elsewhere it describes qi as varying by season, combinations and support. These statements are reasons to show context, not permission to invent a single strength score.", "A stem listed in a branch may be used by a named school when considering root support or whether something is revealed, but membership alone does not prove root strength. Seasonal weights, roots, transformations and forecasting are separate operations and should identify their own sources and inputs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, branch context", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=926595&if=gb" }, { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 10, changing qi and support", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=721793&if=en" } ] }, { "id": "labels", "title": "Main, middle and residual qi need an explicit source", "paragraphs": [ "The Wise Society introductory table explicitly distinguishes the contained stems from a separate main-qi column for all twelve branches. The explorer preserves that designation. For example, Si contains Bing, Wu and Geng, and names Bing as main qi.", "The other positions are shown as additional hidden stems. Middle and residual allocations vary in table presentations; they are not inferred from ordering here. Static branch membership is also distinct from allocating days of a solar month among stems." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, residual qi and seasonal discussion", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=926595&if=gb" }, { "title": "Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源, hidden-stem membership convention", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=419625&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "機緣學社 · introductory BaZi, 藏干 and 本氣 table", "url": "https://www.wisesociety.com.hk/eight-characters-beginners/" } ] } ] }, "bazi-main-qi": { "related": [ "bazi-hidden-stem", "earthly-branch", "day-master", "five-phases", "ten-gods" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Hidden stems explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-hidden-stems", "description": "Inspect the selected branch’s main qi and its relationship to your Day Master." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "source-designation", "title": "Read the designation in its source", "paragraphs": [ "A table may list several stems inside a branch and identify one as main qi. The explorer follows the explicit 本氣 column in the Wise Society introductory table. It does not determine that label by sorting stem indexes or assuming every first printed character is strongest.", "This matters when comparing references: two sources can list the same stems in different orders. Preserve membership, source order and explicit roles as separate facts." ], "sources": [ { "title": "機緣學社 · introductory BaZi, 藏干 and 本氣 table", "url": "https://www.wisesociety.com.hk/eight-characters-beginners/" } ] }, { "id": "worked-si", "title": "Worked example: the Si branch", "paragraphs": [ "The cited table lists Bing, Wu and Geng within Si and designates Bing as main qi. Against a Jia Day Master these become Eating God, Indirect Wealth and Seven Killings respectively. The main-qi label belongs to Bing independently of which Day Master is used.", "If the Day Master changes, the Ten Gods labels must be recalculated. Membership and the table’s main-qi designation remain attached to Si." ], "sources": [ { "title": "機緣學社 · introductory BaZi, 藏干 and 本氣 table", "url": "https://www.wisesociety.com.hk/eight-characters-beginners/" }, { "title": "FengShuied · Ten Gods reference table", "url": "https://www.fengshuied.com/10-gods-table" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-scope", "title": "Use main qi without inventing strength", "paragraphs": [ "The term helps distinguish the principal designation from the other stored stems in this table. It is useful when tracing a named reading procedure, but it is not a percentage, a favorable-element verdict or a complete description of a person.", "Keep the pillar, season, visible stems and any separately specified interaction rules alongside the label. Root strength, transformations and timing require their own source and calculation conventions." ], "sources": [ { "title": "機緣學社 · introductory BaZi, 藏干 and 本氣 table", "url": "https://www.wisesociety.com.hk/eight-characters-beginners/" } ] } ] }, "bazi-six-combinations": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "bazi-hidden-stem", "five-phases", "bazi-six-clashes" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Branch relationships explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-branch-relations", "description": "Select a pair of actual pillar branches, inspect its table match and positions, and compare the source rules." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "pair-set", "title": "A fixed set of six branch pairs", "paragraphs": [ "The six combinations (liùhé 六合) are Zi–Chou (子–丑), Yin–Hai (寅–亥), Mao–Xu (卯–戌), Chen–You (辰–酉), Si–Shen (巳–申) and Wu–Wei (午–未). The traditional Wuxing Dayi passage gives the paired branches in its discussion of cyclical correspondences; Joey Yap’s published BaZi table presents the same six-pair set.", "This is a branch relation. It is distinct from a Heavenly Stem combination, a three-branch relation and every other relationship table. A result should name the characters or pinyin and the source table rather than treating an animal nickname as the rule itself." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wuxing Dayi 五行大義, volume 2", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=599847&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "native-detector", "title": "What the native tool calculates", "paragraphs": [ "After the four pillars have been calculated, the detector compares their four visible Earthly Branches against only the six listed pairs. It checks the six positional comparisons: year–month, year–day, year–hour, month–day, month–hour and day–hour. It returns every matching pair with both branch names and their positions.", "The result preserves whether a match is adjacent in the displayed pillar order (year–month, month–day or day–hour) or distant (year–day, year–hour or month–hour). Adjacent and distant are positions in this display, not ranks of importance. The calculation does not inspect hidden stems, assign weights or decide a transformation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi, Earthly Branches Combinations table", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "transmitted-conventions", "title": "Compare transmitted conventions", "paragraphs": [ "Sanming Tonghui explains the six pairs through yin–yang and numerical correspondences. This records a traditional rationale for the classification rather than a modern measurement of attraction. The teaching is transmitted through texts and practitioner tables; matching pairs alone does not identify when or where the scheme first arose.", "Wu–Wei appears as Fire in the Sanqing Yuanhai transcription, while the Dongli transcription and Joey Yap table use sun/moon wording without a phase. Pair membership agrees. No transformed phase is calculated." ], "sources": [ { "title": "三命通會·卷二·論支元六合", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論支元六合" }, { "id": "yuanhai-dongli-combinations", "title": "淵海子平·卷一·論十二支六合", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/5618.html" }, { "id": "yap-2016-p12", "title": "Joey Yap, Hack Your Destiny With BaZi (2016)", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf#page=12" }, { "id": "yuanhai-sanqing", "title": "淵海子平卷一", "url": "https://sanqing.com.tw/en/淵海子平卷一/" } ] }, { "id": "traditional-readings", "title": "Traditional interpretation is an additional step", "paragraphs": [ "Traditional texts and later practitioners use combination labels within larger systems of correspondence and chart reading. Wuxing Dayi itself cautions that combination is not only combination and can also carry separation; that context makes a single universal meaning unsafe.", "A practitioner may consider the relevant pillars, seasonal context, visible stems, hidden stems and a school’s own rules before making an interpretation. Those operations are outside this detector. A detected pair neither proves a phase transformation nor supplies a good or bad verdict." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wuxing Dayi 五行大義, volume 2", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=599847&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "worked-pair", "title": "Worked pair: Zi–Chou 子–丑", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose the visible branches of a four-pillar chart are year Zi, month Mao, day Chou and hour Chen. The detector compares all six positional pairs and reports Zi–Chou at year–day. It also reports that the positions are distant in the displayed order because the month pillar lies between them.", "That output is complete as a membership result: a sourced six-combination pair is present at year–day. It does not say that the pair becomes Earth, changes either branch, describes family relations or predicts any event. Such statements would require an explicitly selected method and its additional inputs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wuxing Dayi 五行大義, volume 2", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=599847&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "scope-and-limits", "title": "Keep the relation and its limits visible", "paragraphs": [ "The tool’s scope is the six two-branch relations only. It does not detect triple relations, harms, punishments, phase-strength weights, hidden-stem rules or forecasts. A chart can contain other traditional patterns without changing whether this exact pair membership was found.", "The relationship is a traditional interpretive convention applied to calendar-derived branch labels. It is not a scientific measurement of personality, compatibility, health or future events. Keep the calculation, the cited tradition and any personal reflection visibly separate." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wuxing Dayi 五行大義, volume 2", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=599847&if=en&remap=gb" } ] }, { "id": "reflection", "title": "A reflective prompt, not a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Original Astral Atlas reflection: If the label is useful for reflection, ask: “What changes when I notice that these two calculated branch positions are conventionally paired?” Keep the answer in your own experience rather than treating the prompt as a conclusion about character or fate.", "You may also record the calendar convention used to generate the chart and the exact pair and positions detected. That makes it possible to revisit the result if a boundary assumption changes." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "bazi-six-clashes": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "bazi-hidden-stem", "five-phases", "bazi-six-combinations" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Branch relationships explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-branch-relations", "description": "Select a pair of actual pillar branches, inspect its table match and positions, and compare the source rules." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "opposite-pairs", "title": "A fixed set of six opposing pairs", "paragraphs": [ "The six clashes (liùchōng 六沖) are Zi–Wu (子–午), Chou–Wei (丑–未), Yin–Shen (寅–申), Mao–You (卯–酉), Chen–Xu (辰–戌) and Si–Hai (巳–亥). Bu Shi Quanshu lists these six pairs directly; Joey Yap’s published BaZi material also presents the branch-clash table.", "The pair set is a conventional relation among Earthly Branches. It does not follow from a generic claim that two Five Phases control each other, and it is not interchangeable with combinations, harms, punishments or other named configurations." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bu Shi Quanshu 卜筮全書, volume 14", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=336749&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Hack Your Destiny with BaZi", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "native-detector", "title": "What the native tool calculates", "paragraphs": [ "After the four pillars have been calculated, the detector compares their four visible Earthly Branches against only these six pairs. It checks year–month, year–day, year–hour, month–day, month–hour and day–hour, then returns each match and both positions.", "The output marks adjacent matches separately from distant ones, preserving the chart’s displayed pillar positions. It does not rank those positions, examine hidden stems, allocate phase weights or determine which branch wins." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bu Shi Quanshu 卜筮全書, volume 14", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=336749&if=en&remap=gb" } ] }, { "id": "traditional-readings", "title": "Traditional readings require stated context", "paragraphs": [ "A clash label is used in traditional interpretive work, but the label does not settle its effect. A commentary in Di Tian Sui Chan Wei discusses Zi–Wu, Mao–You, Yin–Shen and Si–Hai with conditions involving seasonal command and other branches and stems, illustrating that context is part of that style of judgment.", "This explorer does not choose such conditions or turn them into a rule. It makes the narrow calculation transparent; any subsequent traditional interpretation should identify its school, inputs and source rather than treating ‘clash’ as a universal negative verdict." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Di Tian Sui Chan Wei 滴天髓闡微, branch-clash discussion", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=126492&if=en&remap=gb" }, { "title": "Bu Shi Quanshu 卜筮全書, volume 14", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=336749&if=en&remap=gb" } ] }, { "id": "worked-pair", "title": "Worked pair: Mao–You 卯–酉", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose the visible branches are year Chen, month Mao, day Wei and hour You. Among the six positional comparisons, the detector reports Mao–You at month–hour. It identifies this as a distant displayed-position match because the day pillar lies between the matching branches.", "The calculation establishes only that a listed six-clash pair occurs at month–hour. It does not identify a relationship problem, a relocation, a health result, a forecast or a stronger branch. Those are separate interpretive claims and need their own method and evidence.", "In the combined explorer, Chen–You at year–hour also matches the six-combination table. Both observations remain visible; this detector does not make one cancel the other." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bu Shi Quanshu 卜筮全書, volume 14", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=336749&if=en&remap=gb" } ] }, { "id": "scope-and-limits", "title": "Keep the relation and its limits visible", "paragraphs": [ "The native calculation covers the six two-branch clash pairs only. The same explorer also checks the separate six-combination table. Triple relations, harms, punishments, phase weights and timing need additional methods.", "Six-clash membership is a traditional label on a calendar-derived chart. It is not a measured indicator of conflict, illness, compatibility or future events, and no good-or-bad conclusion follows automatically from the presence of a pair." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bu Shi Quanshu 卜筮全書, volume 14", "url": "https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?chapter=336749&if=en&remap=gb" } ] }, { "id": "reflection", "title": "A reflective prompt, not a reading", "paragraphs": [ "Original Astral Atlas reflection: If you choose to reflect on the label, ask: “What do I notice when I place these two calculated branch positions beside a tradition that calls them a clash?” Treat the question as a prompt for your own observations, not a claim about what must happen.", "Record the computed branches, positions and calendar convention alongside any reflection. Keeping those inputs visible separates an auditable calculation from later meaning-making." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "bazi-three-harmonies": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "five-phases", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes", "bazi-seasonal-meetings" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Branch relationship groups", "href": "/workspace/bazi?group=sanhe-water#bazi-branch-groups", "description": "Inspect all four three-harmony groups against the four calculated pillar branches, including every present and missing member." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "four-groups", "title": "Four fixed three-branch groups", "paragraphs": [ "The conventional three-harmony sets are Shen–Zi–Chen (申–子–辰), Hai–Mao–Wei (亥–卯–未), Yin–Wu–Xu (寅–午–戌), and Si–You–Chou (巳–酉–丑). The Sanming Tonghui passage headed ‘On the three combinations of branch origins’ explains Shen–Zi–Chen through Water, then gives the parallel Fire, Wood and Metal sets.", "They are relation sets among Earthly Branches. They are not the same table as the six combinations or six clashes, and their animal labels are not the calculation rule. The tool checks the branch characters or their named equivalents against these four exact triplets." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, ‘On the three combinations of branch origins’", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論支元三合" } ] }, { "id": "traditional-correspondences", "title": "Phase and lifecycle associations in the cited tradition", "paragraphs": [ "In its account of Shen–Zi–Chen, Sanming Tonghui calls Shen the place where Water is born, Zi the place where it prospers, and Chen the storehouse where it is gathered; it then describes the three as a combination. This gives one transmitted rationale for the term: a phase is traced through a three-part birth, flourishing and storage sequence.", "The same passage aligns Yin–Wu–Xu with Fire, Hai–Mao–Wei with Wood, and Si–You–Chou with Metal. These are traditional correspondences within a five-phase framework. They help explain why later readers speak of a ‘Water group’ or ‘Fire group’; they do not license the tool to declare a transformation or measure the amount of a phase in a person." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, ‘On the three combinations of branch origins’", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論支元三合" }, { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, branch discussion", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論地支" } ] }, { "id": "native-calculation", "title": "What the native tool calculates", "paragraphs": [ "After the four pillars are calculated, the tool reads their four visible Earthly Branch occurrences. For each of the four listed groups, it reports the exact present members, the exact missing members, and every pillar position in which a present member occurs. The comparison is membership-based, so order and adjacency do not make or break a group.", "A three-harmony result is complete only if all three distinct members of one listed group occur. If a chart contains Shen and Zi but no Chen, the Water group is incomplete and the tool reports Chen as missing. It does not call that pattern a ‘half transformation,’ and it does not inspect hidden stems, count phase strength, or rank one group over another." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, ‘On the three combinations of branch origins’", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論支元三合" } ] }, { "id": "distinct-members", "title": "Distinct membership matters more than repetition", "paragraphs": [ "The requirement is three different branch members, not three branch occurrences. A chart with Shen in year, Shen in day, and Zi in hour contains two distinct members of Shen–Zi–Chen: Shen is present twice, Zi is present once, and Chen is missing. The group therefore remains incomplete.", "Showing all four pillar occurrences avoids hiding this distinction. A duplicate can be useful descriptive information about the calculated chart, but it never supplies the absent third member. This is a transparent application rule for the tool, separate from any later school-specific reading of repeated branches." ], "sources": [ { "title": "淵海子平 卷一・論十二支三合", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/5619.html" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Worked example: a complete Water group", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose the visible pillar branches are year Shen, month Mao, day Zi, and hour Chen. The tool finds Shen, Zi and Chen among the four positions and reports the Shen–Zi–Chen three-harmony group as complete. Its position display is Shen/year, Zi/day and Chen/hour; Mao/month is not a member of that group.", "The cited traditional passage associates this set with Water and describes a birth–prosperity–storage rationale. The calculation itself establishes only complete membership and locations. It does not say that Water has transformed, become dominant, overrides Mao, or predicts a circumstance. A personal reflection can begin after those separate statements have been kept distinct." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, ‘On the three combinations of branch origins’", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論支元三合" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-reflection", "title": "Interpretation and reflection are later steps", "paragraphs": [ "Traditional readers may bring seasonal context, stems, hidden stems, pillar roles, and a named school’s rules to a three-harmony group. Sanming Tonghui itself treats branch use as varying by year, month, day and hour and gives the month branch a prominent role in that discussion. The group detector deliberately does not choose among those further operations.", "Original Astral Atlas reflection: after recording a complete group and its positions, ask, ‘What do I notice when I compare this calculated pattern with the tradition’s phase-and-lifecycle image?’ Treat the answer as your own reflection. It is neither an empirical finding about personality nor a forecast." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanming Tonghui 三命通會, volume 2, branch discussion", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/三命通會/卷二#論地支" } ] }, { "id": "history-and-wording", "title": "Historical wording and the convention used here", "paragraphs": [ "The Wuxing Dayi (五行大義) discusses both directional triples and phase-based three-branch relations. Its lifecycle sequence uses birth (生), flourishing (王) and burial (葬); later presentations may use flourishing (旺) and storage (庫). Burial is not the separate lifecycle position called death (死).", "The opening of Ziping Zhenquan’s chapter on clashes and combinations calls Shen–Zi–Chen-type sets 三會. Modern practitioner tables often reserve Sanhui for consecutive seasonal triples. This entry states the modern distinction explicitly rather than assuming one label had an unchanged meaning across every text.", "Yuanhai Ziping also lists an Earth arrangement of four branches, Chen–Xu–Chou–Wei. The present inspector covers four triples per family; that Earth arrangement requires a separate rule. No single inventor or original date is established by these passages." ], "sources": [ { "title": "五行大義 卷二 第四論相生・二者論生死所", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/五行大義/2#二者論生死所" }, { "title": "子平真詮・七、論刑沖會合解法", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/3720.html" }, { "title": "淵海子平 卷一・論十二支三合", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/5619.html" } ] } ] }, "bazi-seasonal-meetings": { "related": [ "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "five-phases", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes", "bazi-three-harmonies" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Branch relationship groups", "href": "/workspace/bazi?group=sanhui-wood#bazi-branch-groups", "description": "Inspect all four seasonal-meeting groups against the four calculated pillar branches, including every present and missing member." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "four-seasonal-groups", "title": "Four directional-seasonal groups", "paragraphs": [ "The seasonal-meeting table used here is Yin–Mao–Chen (寅–卯–辰), Eastern Wood and spring; Si–Wu–Wei (巳–午–未), Southern Fire and summer; Shen–You–Xu (申–酉–戌), Western Metal and autumn; and Hai–Zi–Chou (亥–子–丑), Northern Water and winter. Joey Yap’s directional-combination teaching table prints these four three-meeting sets.", "The Book of Rites’ Monthly Ordinances supplies older seasonal correlative material that links months with directional and phase language. It does not by itself settle the date or author of every later BaZi table. ‘Seasonal meeting’ therefore names the conventional table used by this tool rather than claiming a single, timelessly uniform lineage." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" }, { "title": "Book of Rites 禮記, ‘Monthly Ordinances’ 月令", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/禮記/月令" } ] }, { "id": "season-and-direction", "title": "What the season and direction labels mean", "paragraphs": [ "In this inherited correspondence scheme, Yin–Mao–Chen is placed with eastern Wood and spring, Si–Wu–Wei with southern Fire and summer, Shen–You–Xu with western Metal and autumn, and Hai–Zi–Chou with northern Water and winter. The labels organize time, direction and five-phase associations; they do not describe modern meteorology at a birthplace or a literal material inside a chart.", "The seasonal language helps distinguish these groups from three harmonies. A seasonal meeting gathers three consecutive branch positions in the cited directional-seasonal table, whereas a three harmony uses a different four-triplet table and its own lifecycle rationale. A chart may be checked against both tables without one result cancelling the other." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Book of Rites 禮記, ‘Monthly Ordinances’ 月令", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/禮記/月令" }, { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" } ] }, { "id": "native-calculation", "title": "What the native tool calculates", "paragraphs": [ "The tool first calculates the chart’s year, month, day and hour pillars under its stated calendar and clock conventions. It then compares the four visible Earthly Branch occurrences with each exact seasonal-meeting triplet. For every group it displays the branches present, branches missing, and every pillar occurrence of each present member.", "A group completes only when all three distinct listed branches occur. The chart’s visual ordering does not require the members to be adjacent, and a duplicate branch does not fill an absent member. The calculation reports membership; it does not calculate seasonal strength, phase quantity, transformation, timing, or precedence among patterns." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" } ] }, { "id": "incomplete-is-not-half", "title": "Two members are incomplete, not a partial transformation", "paragraphs": [ "If Yin and Mao occur but Chen does not, the tool reports Yin and Mao as present and Chen as missing from the Yin–Mao–Chen seasonal meeting. It does not label the result a ‘half transformation’ or infer that Wood has been created, strengthened, or made decisive.", "This restraint keeps the tool’s result auditable. Terms such as half meetings, transformation conditions, favorable phases and seasonal strength belong to additional school-specific methods with their own inputs and source rules. They cannot be obtained merely by counting two of the three branches in this membership table." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Worked example: a complete autumnal Metal meeting", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose a calculated chart has Shen in year, You in month, Mao in day, and Xu in hour. The tool reports Shen–You–Xu as a complete seasonal meeting, with the group’s exact occurrences at year, month and hour. It identifies Mao at day as outside that particular group.", "Under the cited table, Shen–You–Xu carries Western Metal and autumn correspondence. That is a sourced traditional label beside the computed membership result. It does not mean that Metal has transformed the chart, that Mao has been defeated, or that any event will occur." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" }, { "title": "Book of Rites 禮記, ‘Monthly Ordinances’ 月令", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/禮記/月令" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-reflection", "title": "Keep calculation, tradition and reflection separate", "paragraphs": [ "Seasonal-meeting names are part of a traditional correlative vocabulary. They can inform study of how a lineage organizes branches, directions, seasons and five phases. They do not supply evidence about temperament, compatibility, health, or a fixed future. Any fuller reading needs a named school and disclosed rules beyond this detector.", "Original Astral Atlas reflection: once the tool has shown the three member locations, ask, ‘What does this seasonal image invite me to notice about the way I am reading the chart?’ Keep the answer as a personal response, and retain the calendar convention and exact calculated branches so the membership result can be checked later." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Book of Rites 禮記, ‘Monthly Ordinances’ 月令", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/禮記/月令" }, { "title": "Joey Yap, BaZi for Smart Money Workshop", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/smw/BZ_For_Smart_Money_Workshop.pdf#page=23" } ] }, { "id": "history-and-wording", "title": "Historical wording and the convention used here", "paragraphs": [ "The Wuxing Dayi (五行大義) discusses both directional triples and phase-based three-branch relations. Its lifecycle sequence uses birth (生), flourishing (王) and burial (葬); later presentations may use flourishing (旺) and storage (庫). Burial is not the separate lifecycle position called death (死).", "The opening of Ziping Zhenquan’s chapter on clashes and combinations calls Shen–Zi–Chen-type sets 三會. Modern practitioner tables often reserve Sanhui for consecutive seasonal triples. This entry states the modern distinction explicitly rather than assuming one label had an unchanged meaning across every text.", "Yuanhai Ziping also lists an Earth arrangement of four branches, Chen–Xu–Chou–Wei. The present inspector covers four triples per family; that Earth arrangement requires a separate rule. No single inventor or original date is established by these passages." ], "sources": [ { "title": "五行大義 卷二 第四論相生・二者論生死所", "url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/五行大義/2#二者論生死所" }, { "title": "子平真詮・七、論刑沖會合解法", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/3720.html" }, { "title": "淵海子平 卷一・論十二支三合", "url": "https://www.donglishuzhai.net/chapter/5619.html" } ] } ] }, "harmonic-chart": { "related": [ "reduced-harmonic-order", "harmonic-orb", "harmonic-triangle", "lowest-harmonic", "aspect", "orb", "ecliptic-longitude", "zodiac-sign", "navamsa" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Harmonics", "href": "/workspace/harmonics", "description": "Choose an integer factor, inspect transformed longitudes, pair geometry and the declared transformed orb." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "contract", "title": "How positions transform", "paragraphs": [ "Input two or more ecliptic longitudes in one declared zodiac/reference frame and an integer factor h. For every longitude L, calculate H(L) = (h × L) mod 360°. Output the transformed longitude, transformed separation, natal separation, nearest rational fraction, reduced order, residual, and the chosen transformed orb. A displayed sign in Hh is a coordinate label of the transformed circle; it is not a second observed sky or a house placement." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "reduction", "title": "Chosen factor and primitive relation", "paragraphs": [ "A selected factor can reveal a relation that belongs to a lower order. Example: longitudes 10° and 82° differ by 72° = 1/5 of a circle. H5 puts them together, and H10 also puts them together because 10 × 72° wraps to 0°. The inspector therefore shows nearest fraction 1/5 and reduced order 5; an H10 selection alone does not license an H10 interpretation.", "Worked explanation by Astral Atlas, derived from the integer longitude transform and ordinary fraction reduction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "orb", "title": "Residual and orb", "paragraphs": [ "Multiply the directed natal separation by h and wrap to the nearest distance from 0°. That distance is the transformed deviation. Compare it with the chosen harmonic orb; divide the orb by h for the local natal tolerance. The Atlas default is 8° transformed, and you can change it. At H5 this allows 1.6° natal deviation; at H10 it allows 0.8°. These are worked calculations, not a universal school threshold." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Use a named reading, then inspect the pattern", "paragraphs": [ "Cochrane’s 2012 qualitative study examines prominent multi-planet patterns, with unresolved and poor fits alongside proposed themes. It uses a 16° harmonic orb; H3 does not yield a settled simple theme. The study notes are offered for learning. This pair inspector establishes angular qualification and reduced order; it does not reproduce his prominence or symmetry selection." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · abstract and results", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "school-variation", "title": "Keep related systems separate", "paragraphs": [ "A longitude harmonic operates on the selected ecliptic longitudes. A conventional aspect is an angular rule with its own history and orb practice. Zodiac signs label 30° coordinate sectors and do not supply rulerships to a transformed wheel unless a named school says so. Jyotish Navamsa is a ninth-divisional mapping with its own rashi, sidereal-reference and interpretive rules; sharing the number nine with H9 is not equivalence. Nakshatra is a 27-sector sidereal mansion system and is likewise neither a harmonic factor nor an H27 reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach · Rasi and Navamsa", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "reference-origin", "title": "What changes with a sidereal reference?", "paragraphs": [ "Subtracting the same origin offset c from every natal longitude shifts each transformed position by h × c. Pair differences stay the same, because the common offset cancels. So a tropical and a sidereal harmonic can have different displayed signs while preserving the same pair geometry.", "Choose the input reference deliberately. The source-specific teaching remains named; selecting Lahiri does not turn a modern harmonic interpretation into a Jyotish varga interpretation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] } ] }, "reduced-harmonic-order": { "related": [ "harmonic-chart", "harmonic-orb", "lowest-harmonic", "aspect", "orb", "ecliptic-longitude" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Harmonics pair inspector", "href": "/workspace/harmonics", "description": "Inspect selected pair natal angle, transformed residual, nearest fraction, reduced order and qualification." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "reduce-the-fraction", "title": "Reduce the nearest fraction", "paragraphs": [ "Write a pair's nearest exact angular relation as k/h turns, then divide numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor. The remaining denominator is the reduced harmonic order. Thus 2/10 becomes 1/5: the relation is fifth order even though it appears as a conjunction in H10.", "Worked explanation by Astral Atlas, derived from the integer longitude transform and ordinary fraction reduction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "inspector", "title": "Read the angle, deviation and tolerance", "paragraphs": [ "Read natal angle (the shorter ecliptic-longitude separation); H-angle (natal angle × selected factor, wrapped); residual (nearest H-angle distance from 0°); nearest fraction; reduced order; selected transformed orb; and a clear qualifies/does-not-qualify result. A nearest fraction remains useful outside the orb as a descriptive approximation, but it must not be displayed as an accepted contact." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "not-lowest-search", "title": "Different from 'lowest harmonic'", "paragraphs": [ "Reduced order is arithmetic attached to one rational fraction. 'Lowest harmonic' is a search-filter convention: among contacts that qualify under a chosen range and orb, software may retain the smallest matching factor to suppress related duplicates. The former does not depend on an orb; the latter does. Keep both labels visible rather than treating them as synonyms." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kepler research documentation", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/cpnew/m/software/kepler/research.html" } ] }, { "id": "examples", "title": "Worked examples", "paragraphs": [ "At 72°, nearest fraction is 1/5 and reduced order 5; H5 residual is 0°, H10 residual is also 0°. At 144°, nearest fraction is 2/5 and reduced order 5. At 61°, H5 is 305° after wrapping, so residual is 55° and it does not qualify under a 16° transformed orb even though a nearest rational fraction can still be calculated. These examples describe geometry, not personal meaning.", "Worked explanation by Astral Atlas, derived from the integer longitude transform and ordinary fraction reduction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst · Single Harmonic Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch29&lang=e" } ] } ] }, "harmonic-triangle": { "related": [ "harmonic-pattern-prominence", "harmonic-chart", "harmonic-orb", "lowest-harmonic", "aspect", "orb", "midpoint" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Vibrational group explorer", "href": "/workspace/vibrations", "description": "Select a complete group or connected chain, inspect all pair contacts, and export the same reading." }, { "title": "Harmonics pair inspector", "href": "/workspace/harmonics", "description": "Inspect selected pair residuals and graph edges; it does not assign a personality result." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "contract", "title": "All three edges", "paragraphs": [ "Original Atlas graph rule: select h and a transformed orb t. Add edge XY when its transformed residual r(XY) ≤ t. A triangle requires AB, BC and AC. AB plus BC with no AC is a connected chain, so label it as two qualifying pairs rather than a partial triangle. Always print h, t, each residual and the three body names." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed p. 25 / PDF physical p. 31", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=31" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Realizable calculation", "paragraphs": [ "Original Atlas math example: use H5 positions A=0°, B=5°, C=10° and t=10°. The three circular separations are 5°, 5° and 10°, so all edges qualify; it is a triangle. These correspond to natal positions 0°, 1°, 2°. For a chain, use H5 positions 0°, 7.5°, 15° with t=10°: AB and BC qualify at 7.5°, while AC fails at 15°." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "symmetry", "title": "Test symmetry separately", "paragraphs": [ "Cochrane gives a midpoint symmetry example but says triangles need not be symmetrical. In this atlas, do not infer a midpoint from clique membership. Compute it in the selected coordinate frame, state its tolerance, and report symmetry as a second finding." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed p. 25 / PDF physical p. 31", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=31" } ] }, { "id": "limits", "title": "Keep geometry, hierarchy and interpretation apart", "paragraphs": [ "Cochrane discusses added harmonic contacts and a separate H15 triangle. In this atlas, preserve every selected factor, residual and reduced order; do not decide which layer dominates. A triangle is not his chart-ranking score, and its presence alone does not authorize a factor-theme reading." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed p. 25 / PDF physical p. 31", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=31" } ] } ] }, "harmonic-pattern-prominence": { "related": [ "harmonic-triangle", "harmonic-chart", "harmonic-orb", "lowest-harmonic", "aspect", "orb" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Vibrational group explorer", "href": "/workspace/vibrations", "description": "Select a complete group or connected chain, inspect all pair contacts, and export the same reading." }, { "title": "Harmonics pair inspector", "href": "/workspace/harmonics", "description": "Shows contacts and graph structure, not Cochrane's AstroSignature result." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "algorithms", "title": "Two source algorithms", "paragraphs": [ "Cochrane ran two Sirius configurations from H1 to H32: four-planet patterns inside a 16° harmonic-chart orb, and individual pairs with unequal weights. The methods can rank a chart differently, so their settings must remain attached to any result." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed pp. 1–2 / PDF physical pp. 7–8", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=7" } ] }, { "id": "combinations", "title": "Why a dense group changes the first score", "paragraphs": [ "Source rule: more qualifying four-planet patterns raises the first score. Original Atlas math: a group of n bodies has C(n,4) distinct four-body subsets before any orb test: 4→1, 5→5, 6→15. A graph can display those candidate subsets, but it must not call their number a Cochrane score unless every source setting has been implemented." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed p. 1 and printed p. 87 / PDF physical pp. 7 and 93", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=7" }, { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed p. 87 / PDF physical p. 93", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=93" } ] }, { "id": "graph-boundary", "title": "What the present graph can say", "paragraphs": [ "The current Atlas graph describes selected bodies, qualifying pairs, components and all-pair triangles under declared h and t. Its configurable planet list and exact-order filter do not implement the source’s complete scoring configuration, four-body point allocation or pair weights. Thus it can describe a connected chain or clique but cannot state authorial prominence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · printed pp. 1–2 / PDF physical pp. 7–8", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=7" } ] }, { "id": "reading-limit", "title": "Interpretive limit", "paragraphs": [ "The study compares selected biographies with proposed meanings and records poor and unresolved fits. In this atlas, retain H3 as unresolved in the supplied notes and attribute a factor theme to Cochrane's proposal, never to edge count, component size or a graph-only score." ], "sources": [ { "title": "David Cochrane, The First 32 Harmonics · abstract / PDF physical p. 5", "url": "https://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf#page=5" } ] } ] }, "mahadasha": { "related": [ "antardasha", "vimshottari-dasha", "nakshatra", "lagna", "jyotish-kendra", "jyotish-trikona", "upachaya", "dusthana", "dasha-lord-reference" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect a major period and its subperiod", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Choose a sidereal reference and calculation year, select actual intervals, compare their natal lords and download the matching reading." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "period-hierarchy", "title": "A period within the 120-year cycle", "paragraphs": [ "A mahadasha is a major planetary period in Vimshottari’s 120-year cycle. Each contains nine antardashas." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao, §16.1; physical p 221 / printed 209", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=221" } ] }, { "id": "reading-procedure", "title": "How to read the period", "paragraphs": [ "Rao ties period interpretation to the lord’s natal and divisional placements.", "Start by identifying the selected lord in your own chart. Keep its observed position separate from any interpretation. Record which chart and reference you used, so a second reader can reproduce the steps." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao, §16.5.1; physical p 226 / printed 214", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=226" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Work through an example", "paragraphs": [ "Suppose a complete Venus major period lasts 20 nominal years. Its Mercury subperiod receives 17/120 of that interval:20 ×17/120 =2⅚ years. With 365.25-day years, that is 1034.875 days; with 360-day years it is 1020 days. This is an arithmetic example, not a forecast or a natal chart.", "Subdivide the complete major period before marking its prebirth portion; do not restart subperiods at birth." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao: subdivision procedure (§16.3) and house categories (§7.4)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=224" } ] }, { "id": "conventions-and-provenance", "title": "Keep the convention and source visible", "paragraphs": [ "Review the calculation year and lunar starting point shown in the tool before comparing its dates with another program or a worked example.", "The cited modern teaching supplies a reading procedure. It does not date the first historical use of the Sanskrit period names or establish that planetary periods cause life events. For a fuller reading, inspect dignity, strength, associations, relevant divisions and competing indications rather than inferring events from the period label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao: year-length discussion, §16.2", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=223" }, { "title": "Rao, §16.5.1; physical p 226 / printed 214", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=226" } ] } ] }, "antardasha": { "related": [ "mahadasha", "vimshottari-dasha", "lagna", "nakshatra", "jyotish-kendra", "jyotish-trikona", "upachaya", "dusthana", "dasha-lord-reference" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect a major period and its subperiod", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Choose a sidereal reference and calculation year, select actual intervals, compare their natal lords and download the matching reading." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "period-hierarchy", "title": "A period within the 120-year cycle", "paragraphs": [ "An antardasha is a subperiod within a mahadasha. Its length is proportional to its lord’s allocated Vimshottari years." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao, §16.3; physical p 224 / printed 212", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=224" } ] }, { "id": "reading-procedure", "title": "Read the pair together", "paragraphs": [ "Rao permits taking the mahadasha lord as temporary lagna when examining antardashas.", "Display both lords and both natal positions before comparing them. The relative house must name its reference. It is additional context, and cannot decide an event or the overall quality of the period on its own." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao, §16.5.1; physical p 226 / printed 214", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=226" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Work through an example", "paragraphs": [ "A Venus/Mercury selection has Venus as the major lord and Mercury as the subperiod lord. In a synthetic example with Venus in Aries and Mercury in Virgo, Virgo is sixth from Aries and Aries is eighth from Virgo. The direction and reference matter.", "Relative house six belongs to both upachaya and dusthana. These categories do not decide an overall outcome." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao: subdivision procedure (§16.3) and house categories (§7.4)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=86" } ] }, { "id": "conventions-and-provenance", "title": "Keep the convention and source visible", "paragraphs": [ "Review the calculation year and lunar starting point shown in the tool before comparing its dates with another program or a worked example.", "The cited modern teaching supplies a reading procedure. It does not date the first historical use of the Sanskrit period names or establish that planetary periods cause life events. For a fuller reading, inspect dignity, strength, associations, relevant divisions and competing indications rather than inferring events from the period label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rao: year-length discussion, §16.2", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=223" }, { "title": "Rao, §16.5.1; physical p 226 / printed 214", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=226" } ] } ] }, "jyotish-kendra": { "related": [ "jyotish-trikona", "upachaya", "dusthana", "dasha-lord-reference", "mahadasha", "antardasha", "lagna" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your selected period lords", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Use the selected reference, year convention and natal positions; follow a category back into this explanation." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method-context", "title": "Place the term in its method", "paragraphs": [ "Rao groups these four houses as quadrants in a Jyotish house framework.", "Set the ascendant and house convention before applying this label." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, §7.4 (physical pp. 86–89)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=86" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Count it for yourself", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas worked example: with Aries as reference, Cancer is fourth: Aries counts as one, Taurus two, Gemini three and Cancer four. A body in Cancer therefore appears in the quadrant group for that reference.", "Move the reference to Cancer and the same body is first. The body has not moved; the coordinate origin has changed. Always retain both the reference and the counted position in your notes." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-the-tool", "title": "Use it with your chart", "paragraphs": [ "Select an actual major and subperiod, then find the quadrant chip in the relationship panel when the relative count belongs to this set. Inspect the natal-house field separately; it uses the birth ascendant.", "The personal reading above follows your current period selection. The JSON download retains the calculation choices, source references and glossary entries so the same reading can be reviewed later." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "jyotish-trikona": { "related": [ "jyotish-kendra", "upachaya", "dusthana", "dasha-lord-reference", "mahadasha", "antardasha", "lagna" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your selected period lords", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Use the selected reference, year convention and natal positions; follow a category back into this explanation." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method-context", "title": "Place the term in its method", "paragraphs": [ "Rao’s scheme identifies houses 1, 5, and 9 as trikonas.", "Keep the house category separate from Western degree-based trines." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, §7.4 (physical pp. 86–89)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=86" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Count it for yourself", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas worked example: Leo is fifth from Aries. A body at 1° Leo is 92° from a body at 29° Aries. Their signs form a first-to-fifth relationship even though their actual angular separation is not an exact 120° trine.", "Use the natal longitudes to check an aspect separately. A shared English label must not replace the selected Jyotish house-counting convention with a Western aspect rule." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-the-tool", "title": "Use it with your chart", "paragraphs": [ "Select a period pair and inspect its relative sign count. The Trikona chip links here when that count belongs to the displayed house group. Read the exact longitudes alongside the signs.", "The personal reading above follows your current period selection. The JSON download retains the calculation choices, source references and glossary entries so the same reading can be reviewed later." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "upachaya": { "related": [ "jyotish-kendra", "jyotish-trikona", "dusthana", "dasha-lord-reference", "mahadasha", "antardasha", "lagna" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your selected period lords", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Use the selected reference, year convention and natal positions; follow a category back into this explanation." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method-context", "title": "Place the term in its method", "paragraphs": [ "Rao places houses 3, 6, 10, and 11 in this category.", "The sixth-house overlap means the labels should remain visible together." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, §7.4 (physical pp. 86–89)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=86" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Count it for yourself", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas worked example: choose a major-period lord in Aries and a subperiod lord in Virgo. The inclusive relative count is six. The tool retains both upachaya and dusthana labels for this position.", "The two labels describe different classifications of the same counted position. Record both before considering a larger reading; the display does not subtract one label from the other or calculate a net score." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-the-tool", "title": "Use it with your chart", "paragraphs": [ "Select a period pair and follow the Upachaya chip from its relationship panel. Where more than one category applies, every matching chip remains visible and is included in the reading export.", "The personal reading above follows your current period selection. The JSON download retains the calculation choices, source references and glossary entries so the same reading can be reviewed later." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "dusthana": { "related": [ "jyotish-kendra", "jyotish-trikona", "upachaya", "dasha-lord-reference", "mahadasha", "antardasha", "lagna" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your selected period lords", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Use the selected reference, year convention and natal positions; follow a category back into this explanation." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method-context", "title": "Place the term in its method", "paragraphs": [ "Rao places houses 6, 8, and 12 in this category.", "Sixth house also appears in upachaya, so a single verdict would erase overlap." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, §7.4 (physical pp. 86–89)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=86" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Count it for yourself", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas worked example: Scorpio is eighth from Aries, while Aries is sixth from Scorpio. Reverse the selected reference and the count changes even though the same two placements are being compared.", "The interface names the reference beside each count. Do not turn a house-category label into a statement about a person’s health, longevity or a particular event." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-the-tool", "title": "Use it with your chart", "paragraphs": [ "Use the Dusthana chip to trace the classification to its source and worked example. Missing natal longitudes suppress this relationship; an unavailable reading is not a negative chart judgement.", "The personal reading above follows your current period selection. The JSON download retains the calculation choices, source references and glossary entries so the same reading can be reviewed later." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "dasha-lord-reference": { "related": [ "jyotish-kendra", "jyotish-trikona", "upachaya", "dusthana", "mahadasha", "antardasha", "lagna" ], "wikiIndex": 24, "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your selected period lords", "href": "/workspace/vimshottari", "description": "Use the selected reference, year convention and natal positions; follow a category back into this explanation." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "method-context", "title": "Place the term in its method", "paragraphs": [ "Rao permits the major-period lord as a temporary lagna for antardasha analysis.", "Treat this as one stated lens and retain the natal reference frame." ], "sources": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, §16.5.1 (physical p. 226)", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf#page=226" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Count it for yourself", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas worked example: Venus in Aries serves as the major-period reference and Mercury in Virgo as the subperiod lord. Mercury is sixth from Venus; the reverse count is eight. The original natal houses remain separately visible.", "If both periods name Venus, one placement is considered at two levels of the period hierarchy. It is not two independent pieces of evidence. Selecting a different sidereal reference may change the displayed natal signs and their relationship." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-the-tool", "title": "Use it with your chart", "paragraphs": [ "Choose the sidereal Moon reference and year length, then select a major and subperiod. The selected reference also supplies the natal lord positions. Compare the two directed sign counts, review missing chart conditions and export the same selected reading.", "The personal reading above follows your current period selection. The JSON download retains the calculation choices, source references and glossary entries so the same reading can be reviewed later." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "secondary-progressions": { "related": [ "solar-arc-direction", "primary-directions", "tropical-zodiac", "geocentric", "natal-chart" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Secondary progressions workspace", "href": "/workspace/secondary-progressions", "description": "Compare direct day-for-year tropical, geocentric planetary positions with natal positions under the displayed 365.25-day key." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "rule", "title": "The declared direct day-for-year rule", "paragraphs": [ "Secondary progression uses a symbolic correspondence: a day after birth represents a year of life. For the Atlas first method, symbolic age uses UT1 Julian dates: (targetJD − natalJD) ÷ 365.25 and progressedJD is natalJD + age. The 365.25-day year divisor is an Atlas convention that must travel with the result; it is not a claim that every practitioner or program uses that same elapsed-age key.", "The calculator is direct only: the target must be at or after birth. It returns geocentric, apparent tropical planetary positions at the mapped epoch. The mapped epoch is an ephemeris date selected by the rule, not the person’s present astronomical sky." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: chart types and progression conventions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch25&lang=e" }, { "title": "Astropy: Julian epoch and Julian year", "url": "https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.time.TimeJulianEpoch.html" } ] }, { "id": "worked-example", "title": "Worked arithmetic example", "paragraphs": [ "For synthetic inputs natalJD 2451512.5 and targetJD 2463200.5, elapsed time is 11,688 days. Dividing by 365.25 gives age 32 exactly. The direct progressed epoch is 2451512.5 + 32 = JD 2451544.5: 32 ephemeris days after the natal epoch. This verifies the time mapping only; it is not a claim about any individual or a validated forecast.", "Retain the unrounded Julian day for the planetary calculation. A rounded displayed civil timestamp must not be converted back into the engine as though it were the original epoch." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astropy: Julian epoch and Julian year", "url": "https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.time.TimeJulianEpoch.html" } ] }, { "id": "compare-methods", "title": "Do not merge different direction methods", "paragraphs": [ "Secondary planetary progressions select positions from days after birth. A solar-arc direction instead applies a selected solar motion as an arc to chart factors. Primary directions concern diurnal geometry and require their own geometric definitions and time key. Results from these constructions are not interchangeable merely because each may be described as a direction or progression.", "Houses and angles require a separately declared progression treatment. Astrodienst documents alternative approaches for progressed angles, so an ordinary chart calculated at the mapped epoch must not be silently presented as the default progressed-house method. The first Atlas planetary scope intentionally does not calculate progressed houses, Ascendant, Midheaven, or angle contacts." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: progressed angle alternatives", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch25&lang=e" } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-boundary", "title": "Read a stated symbolic method as a stated symbolic method", "paragraphs": [ "Practitioner reading rules belong to named Western schools or authors. A calculated sign placement or longitude contact is a reproducible result under the displayed conventions; an interpretation is a further symbolic proposal. Compare it with lived experience without treating it as a necessary event, diagnosis, or causal explanation.", "The workspace provides scoped planetary comparisons and selected source-linked reading material. It does not calculate exact sign-ingress dates, judge all possible progressed aspects, or supply an independent-engine parity claim. Exact ingress timing needs a separately specified crossing calculation and validation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kelly Surtees: Predicting with Secondary Progressions", "url": "https://www.kellysastrology.com/2018/03/07/predicting-with-secondary-progressions/" } ] } ] }, "zi-wei-dou-shu": { "sections": [ { "id": "placement-method", "title": "The method available here", "paragraphs": [ "The palace chart implements one declared layer: resolved non-leap lunar month and day, year heavenly stem and hour earthly branch produce Ming palace, Body palace, twelve topic palaces, their stems, a five-element bureau and fourteen resident principal stars. The calculation follows the AFSI2006 published counting and placement examples. That attribution identifies the implemented rule set; it does not certify every Chinese or Vietnamese school." ], "sources": [ { "title": "AFSI2006 · Zi Wei Dou Shu Part1", "url": "https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/as201a.pdf" }, { "title": "AFSI2006 · Zi Wei Dou Shu Part2", "url": "https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/2013/12/as201b.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "birth-input-conventions", "title": "Keep the calendar and hour conventions visible", "paragraphs": [ "Enter the resolved lunar labels required by your source. The month is not a Gregorian month or a BaZi seasonal month. A lunar leap flag cannot be discarded. The current form requires a non-leap month and leaves calendar conversion, late-Zi date rollover and solar-time correction outside its calculation.", "The Chinese calendar explorer can help compare entered local date, China date and year boundaries. A comparison result is not permission to mix a lunar month with a differently resolved year or hour. When the source convention is uncertain, preserve the uncertainty instead of choosing a convenient default." ], "sources": [ { "title": "x-iztro · convention configuration", "url": "https://ziwei.x-haose.com/en/docs/guide/guides/config" } ] }, { "id": "reading-the-palaces", "title": "Read a placement without overstating it", "paragraphs": [ "Select a palace to see the exact resident-star list and its attributed topic meaning. Body is an additional marker in an existing palace. An empty principal-star list means that this fourteen-star layer has no resident there; it does not mean a person lacks the life experience named by the topic.", "A topic definition and a star’s general symbolism do not by themselves establish a fully sourced interpretation of their combination. Brightness, transformations, other stars, palace relationships and timing may matter in a particular practice. The workspace identifies what is available and leaves unsupported synthesis explicit." ], "sources": [ { "title": "iztro · palace model and empty-palace distinctions", "url": "https://docs.iztro.com/en_US/posts/palace" } ] }, { "id": "reference-and-export", "title": "Calculation evidence and reproducible reading", "paragraphs": [ "One published chart has been checked for all fourteen resident principal stars. Three further examples check Ming, bureau and the Zi Wei anchor. An Earth5 example combines two independently printed reference-table cells rather than reproducing a complete published birth chart. Together these cover examples of all five bureau numbers, not every input or every lineage.", "Download the chart to retain its exact resolved inputs, calculation convention, resident-star output, selected palace reading and sourced glossary. These checks support reproducibility of the stated symbolic rules. They do not establish personality or predictive validity." ], "sources": [ { "title": "AFSI2006 · Zi Wei Dou Shu Part2", "url": "https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/2013/12/as201b.pdf" } ] } ], "related": [ "ming-palace", "body-palace", "heavenly-stem", "earthly-branch", "ziwei-star-zi-wei", "ziwei-star-tian-ji", "ziwei-star-tai-yang", "ziwei-star-wu-qu", "ziwei-star-tian-tong", "ziwei-star-lian-zhen", "ziwei-star-tian-fu", "ziwei-star-tai-yin", "ziwei-star-tan-lang", "ziwei-star-ju-men", "ziwei-star-tian-xiang", "ziwei-star-tian-liang", "ziwei-star-qi-sha", "ziwei-star-po-jun" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Zi Wei palace chart", "description": "Calculate and inspect twelve palaces and fourteen principal stars from resolved lunar inputs.", "href": "/workspace/ziwei" }, { "title": "Chinese calendar explorer", "description": "Compare reference dates and preserve lunar leap and year labels.", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar" } ] }, "body-palace": { "sections": [ { "id": "calculation-convention", "title": "Finding this marker", "paragraphs": [ "This resolved-input workspace starts the first lunar month at Yin. It advances to the entered month, then counts backwards by the hour-branch offset for Ming and forwards for Body, taking Zi as offset zero. Leap-month attribution and late-Zi date changes must be resolved before using the tool." ], "sources": [ { "title": "AFSI 2006 · counting example, printed 1-28", "url": "https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/as201a.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "reading-scope", "title": "What the marker can tell you here", "paragraphs": [ "The marker identifies a chart location. The inspector lists the resident principal stars and introduces the topic attached to that palace. It does not infer a complete character portrait, health outcome or future event from this marker alone." ], "sources": [ { "title": "x-iztro — The twelve palaces", "url": "https://ziwei.x-haose.com/en/docs/guide/concepts/palaces" } ] } ], "related": [ "zi-wei-dou-shu", "earthly-branch", "heavenly-stem", "ming-palace" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Zi Wei palace chart", "description": "Inspect calculated Ming and Body markers and fourteen resident principal stars.", "href": "/workspace/ziwei" } ] }, "ming-palace": { "sections": [ { "id": "calculation-convention", "title": "Finding this marker", "paragraphs": [ "This resolved-input workspace starts the first lunar month at Yin. It advances to the entered month, then counts backwards by the hour-branch offset for Ming and forwards for Body, taking Zi as offset zero. Leap-month attribution and late-Zi date changes must be resolved before using the tool." ], "sources": [ { "title": "AFSI 2006 · counting example, printed 1-28", "url": "https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/as201a.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "reading-scope", "title": "What the marker can tell you here", "paragraphs": [ "The marker identifies a chart location. The inspector lists the resident principal stars and introduces the topic attached to that palace. It does not infer a complete character portrait, health outcome or future event from this marker alone." ], "sources": [ { "title": "x-iztro — The twelve palaces", "url": "https://ziwei.x-haose.com/en/docs/guide/concepts/palaces" } ] } ], "related": [ "zi-wei-dou-shu", "earthly-branch", "heavenly-stem", "body-palace" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Zi Wei palace chart", "description": "Inspect calculated Ming and Body markers and fourteen resident principal stars.", "href": "/workspace/ziwei" } ] }, "four-pillars": { "related": [ "heavenly-stem", "earthly-branch", "day-master", "sexagenary-cycle", "solar-term", "lichun", "bazi-shichen", "ten-gods", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes", "bazi-three-harmonies", "bazi-seasonal-meetings" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Open the Four Pillars explorer", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Calculate the chart, select conventions and keep the matching report." }, { "title": "Compare the late-Zi day boundary", "href": "/workspace/bazi?clock=civil&rollover=23%3A00&pillar=hour", "description": "Use your current birth profile with civil time and a day starting at 23:00." }, { "title": "Compare Chinese calendar years", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Distinguish the lunar new-year classification from the Li Chun solar-year classification." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "read-chart", "title": "Read the four pairs before interpreting them", "paragraphs": [ "A Four Pillars chart assigns a stem–branch pair to the year, month, day and hour. The resulting eight characters give BaZi its name. Joey Yap’s introductory account uses the day stem, called the Day Master, as the reference for comparing the other chart characters.", "In the explorer, select a pillar to inspect its full pair. Keep the stem and branch distinct: the Day Master is the day stem, while the day branch remains another part of that pillar. The report retains all four pairs even when you focus on one column." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Four Pillars and Day Master (modern practitioner account)", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" } ] }, { "id": "receipt", "title": "Choose the clock and the day boundary", "paragraphs": [ "Enter the recorded birth date, local time, place and timezone. When a legal clock repeats an hour, record which occurrence is intended. This introductory report requires an exact-time calculation; it does not turn an unknown time into an hour pillar.", "Atlas offers civil time, local mean solar time and local apparent solar time. Each can be paired with a day beginning at midnight or at 23:00. The comparison table keeps the birth instant fixed and shows how these six conventions affect the displayed pairs. Agreement between rows does not prove that the recorded birth time is accurate.", "The tool uses a Li Chun solar-year boundary and solar-term month boundaries. These settings belong to this named method. A lunar month or the Lunar New Year should not be substituted silently when checking a Four Pillars result against another service. Always compare the receipt as well as the characters." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "late-zi-example", "title": "Worked example: the same instant, two day boundaries", "paragraphs": [ "This is an original Atlas teaching example, using a synthetic record: 7 January 2000, 23:30, Greenwich, timezone UTC. Select civil time. With the midnight day boundary, the explorer gives Jia-Zi (甲子) for both the day and hour. Change only the boundary to 23:00: the day becomes Yi-Chou (乙丑), and the hour becomes Bing-Zi (丙子).", "Zi still names the double-hour spanning 23:00–01:00. The hour stem changes because this Atlas method derives it from the displayed cycle day. HKO’s table assigns Jia to the Zi hour of a Jia day, and Bing to the Zi hour of a Yi day. This checks the relationship between the displayed day and hour; it does not establish every school’s late-Zi rule.", "Some approaches distinguish early and late Zi differently. This tool does not implement a third option that retains one day pillar while taking the hour stem from the next day. Record the selected convention when saving or comparing the example." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Gan-Zhi sequences and hour-stem tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "reading-order", "title": "Follow a reading from facts to interpretation", "paragraphs": [ "Begin with the input receipt and the selected day stem. Next, read the four pillar explanations and their qualifications. Their reflective questions are original prompts, separate from the attributed teaching. A paragraph should be read with the fact and convention that produced it.", "Then inspect visible Ten Gods, hidden stems and main qi, branch pairs, and three-branch groups. These panels answer different questions. A listed branch combination is a membership result; it is not a finding that transformation has occurred. An incomplete group remains incomplete. Main qi is a category here, not a numerical percentage.", "Use the source links and the glossary to examine the vocabulary of each layer. The native Chinese phase meanings should stay with this reading; a similarly named term from another system is not an interchangeable interpretation. Do not combine these introductory classifications into an unsupported overall score." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "save-reading", "title": "Save the calculation you actually read", "paragraphs": [ "After changing birth data or a convention, wait for the updated result before downloading. The HTML report and matching JSON retain the selected settings, calculated facts, readings, sources and glossary. Related concepts in the report link to the definitions captured with that report.", "Email sign-in enables private saving with a title and notes. Reopening a saved report preserves its original receipt and wording. Editing a person’s birth profile does not silently replace that capture. A fresh calculation should be saved as a new result when you want to compare a correction or a different convention.", "The current report does not determine Day Master strength, favorable elements, luck periods or a complete transformation analysis. Those require separate accepted methods. Its scope is an inspectable introductory reading, not a substitute for every BaZi school or a claim that symbolic interpretation has been empirically verified." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "history", "title": "Calendar notation and interpretive practice", "paragraphs": [ "HKO describes Gan-Zhi usage for years, months, days and hours as developing at different times. A shared calendar notation does not establish a single origin date for all later Four Pillars teachings. This entry uses HKO for calendar tables and identifies Joey Yap separately as a modern practitioner source." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Gan-Zhi sequences and hour-stem tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Four Pillars and Day Master (modern practitioner account)", "url": "https://home.joeyyap.com/article/bazi/what-is-bazi-astrology-a-beginners-complete-guide/" } ] } ] }, "solar-term": { "related": [ "lichun", "four-pillars", "ecliptic", "sexagenary-cycle" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect the selected solar month", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Read the solar longitude and month-boundary receipt beside the Four Pillars." }, { "title": "Compare year boundaries", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Compare the lunar-year and Li Chun classifications using explicit input conventions." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "geometry", "title": "A sequence of solar longitudes", "paragraphs": [ "The 24 solar terms mark successive 15° intervals of the Sun’s ecliptic longitude. HKO’s table places the vernal equinox at 0° and Spring Commences, Li Chun, at 315°. A term is an astronomical boundary, not a fixed annual civil date.", "When comparing timestamps, distinguish the instant of the boundary from the local date printed on a calendar. Timezone conversion can place that same instant on different dates." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Solar terms and their solar longitudes", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm" } ] }, { "id": "month-use", "title": "How the BaZi explorer uses the terms", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas’s declared BaZi method takes alternating solar terms as month boundaries. The seasonal receipt shows the current longitude and the start and end longitudes for the selected solar month. These are the inputs to this method’s month classification, not a direct reading of a Chinese lunar month.", "Keep the current longitude, year boundary and month boundary together when checking a result. Near a boundary, first compare time conventions and ephemeris settings. A different chart label alone does not identify which calculation is wrong." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "season-language", "title": "Seasonal names need geographic context", "paragraphs": [ "HKO relates the names to seasonal and agricultural conditions in historical central China. The labels therefore do not describe the weather everywhere on Earth. Their use in a chart is a calendar convention; an interpretive claim requires its own attributed teaching.", "HKO also distinguishes the solar terms’ role in the traditional lunisolar calendar from the sequence of lunar months. The Atlas solar-month receipt should be read as its named BaZi convention rather than a replacement for that calendar." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Solar terms and their solar longitudes", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm" } ] } ] }, "sexagenary-cycle": { "related": [ "heavenly-stem", "earthly-branch", "four-pillars", "day-master", "bazi-shichen", "lichun" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect the four cycle pairs", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Keep each pillar beside its clock, solar-year and day-boundary receipt." }, { "title": "Compare year labels", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "See how lunar and solar year conventions select a cycle year." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "paired-sequences", "title": "Why the cycle contains sixty pairs", "paragraphs": [ "Gan-Zhi advances one position through ten Heavenly Stems and one through twelve Earthly Branches at each step. HKO’s sequence begins Jia-Zi, then Yi-Chou, and reaches Gui-Hai at its sixtieth position.", "An arithmetic way to inspect the pattern is to number steps from zero: the stem position is the remainder after division by 10, and the branch position is the remainder after division by 12. Both counters first return together after 60 steps. This produces 60 pairs, not every one of the 120 possible combinations of the two lists." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · Gan-Zhi sequence", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "anchor", "title": "A cycle index needs an anchor", "paragraphs": [ "The same pair can label a year, month, day or hour. Its position in the sequence does not by itself give a Gregorian date. A calculation also needs a reference point, a calendar unit and its boundary convention.", "In the Atlas receipt, inspect the solar year for the year pillar and the cycle date for the day pillar. The hour stem depends on the selected day stem. Do not transfer a year-cycle index directly into the day or hour calculation." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "comparison", "title": "Compare full pairs and full receipts", "paragraphs": [ "When comparing reports, first check that both refer to the same kind of pillar. Next compare the input, timezone, clock convention and rollover. Only then compare the two Chinese characters and their romanized names.", "A matching animal alone does not establish agreement: the animal identifies the branch, while the full pair also includes a stem. A repeated pair later in the cycle likewise does not establish identical birth circumstances or an identical reading.", "Use the cycle to inspect the calendar result. Interpretive meaning belongs to a named method using that result; the repeating arithmetic alone does not supply a personality assessment or prediction." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "lichun": { "related": [ "solar-term", "four-pillars", "sexagenary-cycle", "local-mean-solar-time", "local-apparent-solar-time" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare lunar and Li Chun years", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Inspect each reference without silently replacing one year boundary with another." }, { "title": "Inspect the BaZi solar year", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Read the declared Li Chun boundary alongside the Four Pillars receipt." }, { "title": "Inspect Nine Star annual conventions", "href": "/workspace/nine-star-ki", "description": "Read the annual method’s own boundary setting instead of assuming it follows the same rule." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "marker", "title": "A solar marker and its names", "paragraphs": [ "Li Chun is the solar term at 315° solar longitude. HKO translates its seasonal label as Spring Commences; NAOJ lists the Japanese reading Risshun for 立春. The name identifies a point in the seasonal calendar, not a measurement of the weather at an individual birthplace.", "Different language readings of the term do not make all traditions using it interchangeable. Keep the astronomical marker, the local calendar date and the interpretive school as distinct parts of an explanation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory ·24 solar terms", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm" }, { "title": "NAOJ ·24 solar terms and Japanese seasonal names", "url": "https://eco.mtk.nao.ac.jp/koyomi/faq/24sekki.html" } ] }, { "id": "boundaries", "title": "Three different boundary questions", "paragraphs": [ "The Chinese calendar comparison asks separately which lunar year contains the local date, which lunar year contains the China-reference date, and which solar year is selected by the Li Chun boundary. These are different questions, so differing year labels can be a consistent result.", "The BaZi explorer uses its declared solar-year method. The Nine Star annual tool has its own supported boundary choices. A fixed February 4 rule and the calculated 315° instant must not be described as the same boundary, even when they happen to give the same annual label.", "The birthday’s date alone can support a local civil-date calendar lookup. It cannot select an exact solar-boundary instant without the time information that the moment-based calculation requires. The date-only report therefore keeps those unavailable results explicit." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "inspect", "title": "Check a result near the boundary", "paragraphs": [ "Choose the intended reference before interpreting the annual identity. Record the entered date, time, timezone and any repeated-clock occurrence. Then inspect the selected reference and source instant in the receipt.", "Compare the same instant under the supported references. If a result changes, identify which boundary or date basis changed; do not silently rewrite the saved report to remove the disagreement. Save a new calculation when intentionally changing conventions.", "A calendar boundary chooses a label within a method. It does not by itself establish a favorable year, an event forecast or agreement between different interpretive traditions." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "local-mean-solar-time": { "related": [ "local-apparent-solar-time", "equation-of-time", "ut1", "bazi-shichen", "four-pillars" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare BaZi clock conventions", "href": "/workspace/bazi?clock=local_mean_solar", "description": "Keep one birth instant fixed and inspect the civil, local-mean and local-apparent rows." }, { "title": "Inspect the saved calculation receipt", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-conventions", "description": "Read the longitude correction, selected day boundary and resulting cycle date before comparing pillars." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "from-instant-to-mean-clock", "title": "Convert the instant before choosing a pillar", "paragraphs": [ "Civil time is the legal wall clock supplied with the birth record: its timezone and any daylight-saving rule belong to that record. Local mean solar time is a different convention. Atlas starts from the engine’s UT1 instant, then applies the location’s east-positive longitude at four minutes per degree. It does not treat a civil UTC offset as the longitude correction.", "For a deliberately simple example, at 15° east the local mean-solar correction is +60 minutes from Greenwich UT1. Thus 12:00 UT1 becomes 13:00 local mean solar time in this calculation. The example isolates longitude; it does not infer a legal timezone, daylight-saving history, or a birthplace from that longitude." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · The Equation of Time", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/eqtime" } ] }, { "id": "what-the-explorer-does", "title": "What this BaZi row actually calculates", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer makes a local-mean-solar row for each of its two declared day boundaries, 00:00 and 23:00. It converts the fixed birth instant, derives the hour branch from the resulting displayed clock hour, and derives the day and hour stems from the selected cycle date. The comparison table is therefore a test of named conventions for one instant, not a correction of an uncertain recorded birth time.", "A difference close to midnight or 23:00 can change the displayed clock date, the cycle day, and then a day or hour pillar. An unchanged row means only that these particular outputs agree for the supplied input. The current snapshot does not create a local-solar row for an unknown birth time." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "use-and-limit", "title": "Use a stated convention, not a claim of superiority", "paragraphs": [ "Use local mean solar time when a source, school, or comparison explicitly asks for a longitude-based mean clock. Keep the entered civil record alongside it, including its timezone and any repeated-hour choice. If another calculator gives different pillars, compare the resolved instant, longitude sign, clock convention, and day boundary before treating the characters as a disagreement in interpretation.", "This option is an inspectable calendar convention within Atlas’s introductory Four Pillars method. It does not establish that local mean solar time is universally preferred in BaZi or Saju, and it does not supply strength, favorable elements, luck periods, or a complete judgement." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "local-apparent-solar-time": { "related": [ "local-mean-solar-time", "equation-of-time", "ut1", "bazi-shichen", "four-pillars" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare BaZi clock conventions", "href": "/workspace/bazi?clock=local_apparent_solar", "description": "Inspect the apparent-solar row beside the mean-solar row for the same birth instant." }, { "title": "Read the clock receipt", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-conventions", "description": "Check the reported longitude offset and equation-of-time value, including its displayed sign convention." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "mean-plus-equation", "title": "Add the equation of time after longitude", "paragraphs": [ "Atlas first forms local mean solar time from UT1 plus the longitude correction. It then forms local apparent solar time by adding the engine’s equation of time. The saved receipt labels this quantity “apparent minus mean” in seconds: a positive value moves the apparent clock later than the mean clock, and a negative value moves it earlier.", "The equation of time is not a timezone adjustment and it is not a fixed yearly constant. It represents the varying difference between apparent and mean solar time. Atlas records the value returned for the calculated instant rather than presenting a current value as if it applied to every birth date." ], "sources": [ { "title": "US Naval Observatory · The Equation of Time", "url": "https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/eqtime" } ] }, { "id": "boundary-effects", "title": "Why a small correction can matter", "paragraphs": [ "The apparent correction can leave all four pillars unchanged, or it can move a displayed time across an hour-branch or day-boundary edge. Atlas recalculates both 00:00 and 23:00 variants after the apparent clock is formed. At 23:00, its implemented rule advances the displayed cycle date; the hour stem follows that displayed cycle day.", "Some schools handle late Zi differently, including approaches that retain one day pillar while using the following day’s stem for the hour. That third arrangement is not one of the Atlas rows. A changed apparent-solar result identifies the effect of this named implementation, not a universal rule for every BaZi lineage." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "practical-comparison", "title": "Compare records without flattening the clocks", "paragraphs": [ "For a useful comparison, hold the birth instant and coordinates fixed, then read the civil, local-mean and local-apparent rows with the same day boundary. Record which pillar cells and cycle dates change. If the input time is rounded, estimated, or unknown, preserve that uncertainty; a solar-clock conversion cannot recover a missing instant.", "Local apparent solar time is offered because some sources request an apparent-solar convention. It is not a general claim that a sundial-like clock is better than civil or mean solar time. The visible result remains a limited Four Pillars calculation with separately sourced interpretive material." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "bazi-shichen": { "related": [ "double-hour", "earthly-branch", "bazi-branch-zi", "four-pillars", "day-master", "local-mean-solar-time", "local-apparent-solar-time" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect your hour pillar", "href": "/workspace/bazi?pillar=hour", "description": "Choose the clock and day boundary, then compare the complete hour pair." }, { "title": "Compare all six conventions", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-clock-comparison", "description": "Hold the birth instant fixed while inspecting changes in the displayed clock and cycle date." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "time-unit", "title": "Twelve intervals, one declared clock", "paragraphs": [ "HKO describes shichen as branch-labelled hours and gives their correspondence to modern clock intervals. Its historical account distinguishes this branch-only naming from the later addition of hour stems derived from the day stem.", "The reference sequence is Zi 23:00–01:00, Chou 01:00–03:00, Yin 03:00–05:00, Mao 05:00–07:00, Chen 07:00–09:00, Si 09:00–11:00, Wu 11:00–13:00, Wei 13:00–15:00, Shen 15:00–17:00, You 17:00–19:00, Xu 19:00–21:00 and Hai 21:00–23:00." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · stem–branch sequence and hour tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "apply-clock", "title": "Apply the interval to the selected clock", "paragraphs": [ "In Atlas, enter the recorded civil time with its timezone first. Choose civil, local mean solar or local apparent solar time in the explorer. The resulting clock reading is what selects the hour branch. Applying the same interval table to different clock readings can produce different branches near an edge.", "The implemented intervals include their start and exclude their end. For example, a displayed 00:59 remains Zi; at 01:00 it becomes Chou. This example describes the selected clock, not an instruction to change the recorded birth time." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "day-and-hour", "title": "An hour branch is not the whole hour pillar", "paragraphs": [ "The day-boundary setting determines the cycle day used by the hour-stem calculation. Zi spans midnight, so the same Zi branch can accompany different hour stems when the selected cycle day changes.", "Try the original Atlas example on the Four Pillars guide: 7 January 2000 at 23:30, timezone UTC, civil clock. The midnight option gives day Jia-Zi and hour Jia-Zi. The 23:00 option gives day Yi-Chou and hour Bing-Zi. The unchanged Zi branch does not mean the full readings are identical.", "This exercise follows Atlas’s two implemented conventions. It does not cover the separate late-Zi approach that retains one day pillar while deriving the hour stem from the following day." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "compare", "title": "A practical check before interpretation", "paragraphs": [ "Read the complete hour pair alongside the selected clock, displayed date and cycle date. If another service disagrees, compare these inputs and conventions before interpreting the difference. A rounded time near an interval edge may not support one definite hour pair.", "When the birth time is unknown, a precise hour pillar is unavailable. Choosing a solar clock cannot recover the missing time. Preserve the recorded uncertainty and use only the parts of the chart supported by the available data." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "bazi-stem-wu": { "related": [ "bazi-branch-wu", "heavenly-stem", "chinese-phase-earth", "day-master", "ten-gods", "sexagenary-cycle" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Read the selected stem in context", "href": "/workspace/bazi", "description": "Keep the Chinese character, pillar position and Day Master visible." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-labels", "title": "Two different labels written as Wu", "paragraphs": [ "The Wu stem is 戊, fifth in the stem series. The Wu branch is 午, seventh in the branch series. HKO’s cycle includes Wu-Wu: in that pair the first Wu names a stem and the second names a branch. Keep the characters and roles visible when comparing romanized labels." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · stem–branch sequence and hour tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Day Master and branch reference table, page 5", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "classification", "title": "What Yang Earth identifies", "paragraphs": [ "Joey Yap’s reference table classifies 戊 as Yang Earth. This identifies the stem’s phase and polarity in the named framework. It does not make a Wu branch into an Earth stem, and it does not establish a psychological trait." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Joey Yap · Day Master and branch reference table, page 5", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "position", "title": "Read the position before its relationships", "paragraphs": [ "A Wu stem in the day pillar is the Day Master for that chart. In another pillar it is a stem to compare with the chart’s actual Day Master. The Ten Gods inspector derives that relationship from both stems, so the label Wu alone does not select a universal Ten Gods meaning.", "In a saved report, keep the pillar position, complete pair and calculation settings alongside the reading. If changing a clock convention changes the day stem, inspect the resulting relationship labels again. An unchanged stem in one position does not guarantee that every derived relationship stays the same." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "bazi-branch-wu": { "related": [ "bazi-stem-wu", "earthly-branch", "bazi-shichen", "bazi-hidden-stem", "bazi-main-qi", "bazi-six-combinations", "bazi-six-clashes" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect the branch and its hidden stems", "href": "/workspace/bazi#bazi-hidden-stems", "description": "Select a pillar and inspect its branch table separately from the visible stem." }, { "title": "Inspect an hour-branch result", "href": "/workspace/bazi?pillar=hour", "description": "Read the declared clock before applying the hour interval." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "identity", "title": "Wu branch means 午", "paragraphs": [ "The branch 午 is the seventh Earthly Branch and is labelled Horse in the practitioner reference chart. It differs from 戊, the Wu stem. Romanized Wu-Wu therefore represents two distinct components of a pillar, not a duplicated character." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · stem–branch sequence and hour tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" }, { "title": "Joey Yap · Day Master and branch reference table, page 5", "url": "https://www.joeyyap.com/notes/hydb/Hack_Your_Destiny_With_BaZi.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "hour", "title": "The hour use of this branch", "paragraphs": [ "As an hour label, HKO assigns Wu to 11:00–13:00. In Atlas, apply that interval to the selected clock. A Wu year or day does not imply a birth during those hours: the same branch series labels different calendar units." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · stem–branch sequence and hour tables", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm" } ] }, { "id": "layers", "title": "Separate visible and hidden components", "paragraphs": [ "The lower character of the selected pillar is its branch. The upper character is the visible stem. The hidden-stem inspector is a third view: it looks up the branch’s attributed internal stem membership and then compares each member with the Day Master.", "Do not replace the visible stem with a hidden stem, or interpret the animal label as the whole chart. Use the pair and group inspectors for their explicitly supported membership rules; a matching label alone does not establish a transformation, strength judgement or event prediction." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "lunisolar-calendar": { "related": [ "leap-month", "lunar-new-year", "solar-term", "lichun", "sexagenary-cycle" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare Chinese calendar references", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Keep the local date, China date and Li Chun year alongside their own settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-cycles", "title": "Two cycles, one named calendar", "paragraphs": [ "HKO describes the Chinese calendar as lunar months coordinated with the seasonal solar cycle. Its months contain 29 or 30 civil days; a leap year contains an additional month. The solar terms describe a separate sequence through the tropical year." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · What year is it today? Hui Tai-wai, 2018", "url": "https://www.weather.gov.hk/en/education/astronomy-and-time/time-service/00506-what-year-is-it-today.html" } ] }, { "id": "references", "title": "What the three Atlas references answer", "paragraphs": [ "Entered local date asks for a lookup of the supplied Gregorian date in the modern Chinese reference calendar. China date first converts the supplied instant to a date at fixed UTC+08, then looks up that date. Neither option recomputes lunar months for the birthplace meridian.", "Li Chun solar year is a different question: it selects the year using the calculated 315° solar boundary. That row does not supply a lunar month or day. A solar year and a lunisolar date can be useful together without being the same output." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "moment-example", "title": "Worked comparison · one instant, two civil dates", "paragraphs": [ "Use the original Atlas example 9 February 2024 at 17:00 in America/New_York. The resolved instant is 22:00 UTC that day and 06:00 on 10 February at UTC+08. The entered-local-date lookup still belongs to the 2023 lunar year; the China-date lookup has reached the 2024 lunar year.", "The February almanac places Lunar New Year on 10 February and Spring Commences on 4 February. Thus the example’s Li Chun year is also 2024 under the separately declared solar-year rule. Its agreement with the China-date year is specific to this instant." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · February 2024 almanac, year and solar-term boundaries", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/astron2024/files/2024cal02.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "unknown", "title": "Use only the information actually recorded", "paragraphs": [ "With a date but no birth time, use the date-only lookup. Its receipt preserves the entered date and keeps moment-based China-date and Li Chun comparisons unavailable. If a recorded uncertainty interval crosses civil dates, the displayed date result cannot represent every possible instant in that interval.", "Save the method and reference together with the result. Historical calendar reforms and other regional lunisolar systems require their own rules; this tool does not establish their dates by changing a place name." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "verification", "title": "What the published tables can verify", "paragraphs": [ "The explorer supports 1901–2100 and has selected independent reference checks. HKO’s conversion tables cover those years, but table coverage is not proof that every engine output has been certified. HKO also warns that future astronomical events close to midnight can produce a one-day calendar discrepancy.", "For a consequential comparison, inspect the named reference date, leap marker and original source table. A matching date verifies a calendar correspondence within that scope; it does not verify a personality or event prediction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · Gregorian–lunar tables and uncertainty notice", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/conversion.htm" } ] } ] }, "leap-month": { "related": [ "lunisolar-calendar", "lunar-new-year", "solar-term", "lichun" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare Chinese calendar references", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Keep the local date, China date and Li Chun year alongside their own settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "calendar-specific", "title": "An inserted month follows a calendar’s rules", "paragraphs": [ "HKO’s solar-term overview explains Chinese intercalation by relating lunar months to the major solar terms. An inserted month preserves the calendar’s alignment with the seasonal year. This overview is useful orientation; use the named calendar’s full rules or published tables to determine an actual leap month.", "A leap month is not a Gregorian leap day. It is also not the repeated-day notation found in Tibetan calendar methods. The selected calendar determines how an extra month is numbered and where it occurs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · Solar terms and intercalation overview", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · the repeated second month in 2023", "paragraphs": [ "In HKO’s March 2023 almanac, 21 March is ordinary second month, day 30. On 22 March the date becomes leap second month, day 1. The month number is still two; the leap marker makes the second occurrence unambiguous.", "Try these dates in the Atlas date-only lookup and compare the month, day and leap flag together. Copying only “month 2” loses information needed to reproduce the date." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · March 2023 almanac, leap second month", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/astron2023/files/2023cal03.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "records", "title": "Preserve the marker in records and reports", "paragraphs": [ "When reading a Chinese-calendar result, keep the lunar year, month number, day and leap flag as one date. Record its Gregorian reference date too. Do not turn the second occurrence of a numbered month into a guessed new month number.", "Atlas currently accepts Gregorian birth dates for this workflow. A family record written only as a traditional calendar date needs a supported conversion and its stated leap convention before it can be entered reliably. This page does not add a reverse calendar converter or decide birthday-observance customs." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "traditions", "title": "Do not transfer an ordering rule between traditions", "paragraphs": [ "Use the Chinese-calendar explorer for its declared modern Chinese reference. Use the separate Tibetan tool only under its own accepted lineage and month-ordering contract. The shared English phrase leap month does not make their calculations interchangeable.", "The glossary’s etymology describes the English terminology; it is separate from the astronomical or calendrical rule that produces an extra month. No mythology or historical word origin is inferred from a repeated number." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "lunar-new-year": { "related": [ "lunisolar-calendar", "leap-month", "lichun", "sexagenary-cycle", "earthly-branch" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Compare Chinese calendar references", "href": "/workspace/chinese-calendar", "description": "Keep the local date, China date and Li Chun year alongside their own settings." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "boundary", "title": "Name the calendar before naming the year", "paragraphs": [ "HKO uses the first day of the first Chinese calendar month to change the official Gan-Zhi year. Its account distinguishes this from fortune-telling traditions that use Spring Commences, or Li Chun, instead.", "The phrase Lunar New Year can refer to different cultural calendars and observances. This learning page explains the modern Chinese reference used by the Atlas tool; it does not assign one festival date to every tradition." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · What year is it today? Hui Tai-wai, 2018", "url": "https://www.weather.gov.hk/en/education/astronomy-and-time/time-service/00506-what-year-is-it-today.html" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · the boundaries separate in February 2024", "paragraphs": [ "HKO’s February 2024 almanac places Spring Commences on 4 February and the first day of lunar month one on 10 February. On 5 February, the Chinese lunar-year label remains Gui-Mao, Rabbit, while Atlas’s Li Chun convention has entered Jia-Chen, Dragon.", "This is an explicit comparison of year-boundary conventions, not an error to remove by silently replacing one label. Near the actual Li Chun instant, a date alone is insufficient to determine which side of that instant a birth occurred." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HKO · February 2024 almanac, year and solar-term boundaries", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/astron2024/files/2024cal02.pdf" } ] }, { "id": "use", "title": "Choose a reference that answers your question", "paragraphs": [ "For a Chinese calendar date record, inspect the lunar-year result under the intended date reference. For a method specifying Li Chun, inspect that solar-year row and its instant receipt. In either case keep the complete stem–branch pair, not just the animal label.", "If you compare a recorded local date with the China date at the same instant, midnight can also change the answer. The lunisolar-calendar guide works through that second kind of difference. Saved reports keep the reference selected when they were created." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "meaning", "title": "A calendar label is one input to interpretation", "paragraphs": [ "The comparison report explains the rule that produced each year label. It does not turn the animal into a personality verdict, decide compatibility, or substitute for a complete Four Pillars reading. A tradition using the calendar label must supply its own attributed interpretive rules.", "When reading a family record or another service, ask which calendar and boundary the label means. Matching names without matching that convention can conceal different questions." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "retrograde": { "related": [ "ecliptic-longitude", "geocentric", "annual-profection", "lord-of-the-year", "accidental-dignity", "house-condition" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Inspect the natal annual ruler", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "Read the ruler’s natal position and motion in the selected completed-age result." }, { "title": "Inspect the numerical motion", "href": "/data", "description": "Keep longitude speed, units, coordinate frame and calculation instant together." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "frame", "title": "Motion belongs to a coordinate frame", "paragraphs": [ "Swiss Ephemeris distinguishes coordinate frames and apparent positions. A longitude and its rate of change must be read in the same declared frame. A negative ecliptic-longitude speed is a decreasing coordinate; it does not mean that a planet reverses its physical orbit." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris · coordinates and apparent positions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm" } ] }, { "id": "native-label", "title": "How the profection report labels natal motion", "paragraphs": [ "The Atlas annual-profection tool reads the selected ruler’s natal tropical, geocentric longitude speed in degrees per day. A negative finite value is Retrograde; a positive finite value is Direct. Exactly zero is displayed as Zero instantaneous longitude speed. There is no tolerance band that relabels small nonzero values as stationary.", "This label describes the natal calculation supplied to the report. Changing the completed age can select a different annual ruler; it does not move that ruler forward to a new date or calculate its current transit." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · separate the role from the motion", "paragraphs": [ "Use an invented chart with Taurus rising at 45° ecliptic longitude and completed age 0. The annual ruler is Venus. If its supplied natal longitude is 80° and speed is −0.01° per day, the tool reports Venus in Gemini, whole-sign house two, Retrograde.", "Keep the longitude unchanged and replace only the synthetic speed with +0.01° per day. The annual ruler, sign and house stay the same; the motion label becomes Direct. These are artificial inputs for explaining the rule, not two measured planetary positions or a prediction." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "missing", "title": "Zero, missing and a station are different statements", "paragraphs": [ "A missing or non-finite speed is Unavailable, even when the natal longitude exists. If the natal longitude itself is unavailable, the tool omits the ruler’s natal placement interpretation. It does not fill either gap with a current ephemeris value.", "An exact zero value in a supplied record is an instantaneous result. Finding a station event would require a separate search through time with its own method and accuracy statement. This annual tool does not perform that search or infer a station date from a rounded displayed number." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "reading", "title": "Interpretation requires a named method", "paragraphs": [ "The profection report uses house topics for its attributed reading and shows the natal motion as a fact. It does not assign a favorable or unfavorable outcome from Retrograde or Direct. Tradition-specific judgements about motion belong to their own rules and context.", "When revisiting a saved report, compare its captured settings, input speeds and interpretation rather than assuming a present-day calculation. A new calculation should be saved separately when you intentionally change the underlying birth data." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "domicile": { "related": [ "lord-of-the-year", "annual-profection", "planet", "zodiac-sign", "whole-sign-houses", "accidental-dignity" ], "tools": [ { "title": "Follow the annual-ruler assignment", "href": "/workspace/profections", "description": "Distinguish the ruler of the activated sign from the ruler’s actual natal placement." } ], "sections": [ { "id": "two-questions", "title": "Ruling a sign and occupying it are different", "paragraphs": [ "In the traditional seven-planet map used by this profection tool, Venus rules Taurus and Libra. That assignment can identify Venus as the lord of a profected year even if natal Venus occupies a different sign. The lord-of-the-year article provides the complete ruler table and its source.", "Saying that Venus is in domicile makes an additional placement claim: Venus must actually occupy one of its own signs. Naming Venus as an annual ruler alone does not establish that condition." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan · Annual Profections lecture, traditional ruler selection", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/" } ] }, { "id": "example", "title": "Worked example · a ruler away from its own sign", "paragraphs": [ "Use an invented Taurus-rising chart at completed age 0. Taurus is the activated sign, so Venus is the annual ruler. Put the invented natal Venus at 20° Gemini: it remains the ruler of the activated Taurus sign, but the chart places it in Gemini, whole-sign house two.", "The annual report can therefore name Venus, show its natal Gemini placement and discuss the declared house topics without calling Venus in domicile. Keep the role assignment and the measured placement as two inspectable facts." ], "sources": [] }, { "id": "scope", "title": "Avoid adding a judgement the tool has not made", "paragraphs": [ "This annual-profection tool does not calculate an overall dignity score or synthesize planetary condition. Its traditional domicile table selects a ruler. A separate dignity method may use actual sign occupancy, but that requires its own explicit rules and sourced interpretation.", "Numbered houses and sign rulership are also distinct. Whole-sign house two names a sector counted from the rising sign; it does not mean that the occupying planet owns that sign. The word-origin section below explains the home metaphor without turning it into a physical claim." ], "sources": [] } ] } }