[ { "registryIndex": 0, "history": "Tropical natal astrology belongs to a long textual tradition that was repeatedly revised. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos explicitly anchors signs to equinoxes and solstices. Contemporary Western practice combines that zodiac with later planets, competing house systems and several approaches to interpretation; it is not a single unchanged ancient system.", "mythology": "Planet names and zodiac images supply a symbolic vocabulary. Ptolemy also argued through seasonal qualities such as heat and moisture, so historical astrology cannot be reduced entirely to stories about gods.", "provenance": "A reproducible chart records the birth evidence, civil-time conversion, coordinates, ephemeris and chosen zodiac. The interpretation requires a separate named school or author.", "useCases": [ "Learn how a complete natal chart differs from a Sun-sign description.", "Compare house systems while keeping the same birth instant and planets." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Chart synthesis", "method": "Read a planet together with its sign, house and angular relationships, then compare recurring themes. Treat any personal meaning as a proposed reading that the person can question.", "example": "A worked exercise can compare one planet's house under Placidus and whole signs and explain why the topic assignment changes." } ], "limits": [ "An accurate ephemeris establishes positions, not a verified personality assessment.", "Seasonal explanations inherited from northern writers require care when presented as universal symbolism." ], "related": [ 1, 2, 4, 18 ], "references": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.4–24", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/ptolemy/tetrabiblos/1b%2A.html", "kind": "historical primary text in translation" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "first-party technical documentation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Tropical natal / modern Western", "status": "Computed raw", "recipe": "UTC and location → apparent planets, angles, houses, aspects.", "choices": "House geometry, orbs, true/mean nodes, apparent/geometric positions.", "sources": [ "api" ], "slug": "tropical-natal-modern-western" }, { "registryIndex": 1, "history": "Western sidereal astrology is a modern Western tradition associated with zodiac calibrations such as Fagan–Bradley. Its defining computational decision is where the twelve equal signs begin relative to a stellar reference. It should not be collapsed into Indian astrology simply because both can use sidereal coordinates.", "mythology": "The familiar twelve sign images remain available, but their coordinates are referred to a different origin. The astronomical constellations occupy unequal areas of sky; twelve equal sidereal signs are a symbolic grid rather than those boundaries.", "provenance": "Record the named ayanamsha, date, precession treatment and ephemeris. Swiss Ephemeris documents many calibrations and cautions that a conventionally 'fixed' zodiac is not perfectly inertial over long periods.", "useCases": [ "Compare the same birth chart under tropical and Fagan–Bradley coordinates.", "Study how reference-frame choices affect sign labels and return times." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Controlled comparison", "method": "Change only the zodiac calibration first. Keep bodies and aspect tolerances constant, then compare interpretations from identified tropical and sidereal authors.", "example": "Subtracting the same angular offset from two longitudes preserves their mutual separation. A changed sign does not mean their aspect disappeared." } ], "limits": [ "No ayanamsha is established as astrologically correct by astronomical precision alone.", "A Western sidereal preset does not supply a complete Jyotish rulebook." ], "related": [ 0, 21, 46, 48 ], "references": [ { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: sidereal astrology and ayanamshas", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm", "kind": "first-party technical documentation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Western sidereal", "status": "Computed raw", "recipe": "Apply chosen date-dependent zodiac reference.", "choices": "Fagan–Bradley and other ayanamshas; equal signs are not IAU constellations.", "sources": [ "swiss" ], "slug": "western-sidereal" }, { "registryIndex": 2, "history": "Hellenistic astrology is represented by surviving Greek-language authors including Ptolemy and Vettius Valens. Their disagreements matter: a modern reconstruction should identify its textual basis. Current traditional revival practice often emphasizes seven visible planets, sect, sign rulers, lots and time-lord techniques.", "mythology": "Fortune and Spirit express different relationships among the Sun, Moon and Ascendant. They are calculated points, not additional celestial bodies. Ancient explanations could treat planets as signs of events or as causes, rather than sharing one philosophy.", "provenance": "Distinguish the historical author, the translator's choices and a contemporary teacher's reconstruction. Whole-sign places and quadrant angularity can serve different functions in a reading.", "useCases": [ "Read historical chart examples with their original terminology.", "Explore how sect and rulership organize a chart beyond isolated sign descriptions." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Condition before synthesis", "method": "Establish day or night, identify the relevant house and its ruler, then inspect that ruler's condition and connections before offering a topic-based reading.", "example": "Calculate Fortune using both the sect-reversing and Ptolemaic conventions to show where a textual decision changes a night chart." } ], "limits": [ "Traditional does not mean every ancient author agreed.", "This engine's lots and sect do not constitute complete dignity, bounds or judgement tables." ], "related": [ 3, 14, 20, 49 ], "references": [ { "title": "Annual Profections, Lots, and Zodiacal Releasing", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/tma_article190314_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner exposition of historical techniques" }, { "title": "Finding Fortuna", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/fortuna", "kind": "practitioner historical argument with textual references" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Hellenistic / traditional", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Seven classical planets, sect, whole signs, Fortune and Spirit.", "choices": "No complete dignity, bound-ruler, time-lord or judgement engine.", "sources": [ "fortune", "spirit", "profections" ], "slug": "hellenistic-traditional" }, { "registryIndex": 3, "history": "Persian, Arabic-language, medieval Latin and Renaissance astrology form connected but distinct histories. Iranica documents Sasanian engagement with Greek and Indian works and later Arabic and Latin transmission. Scholars translated, combined and revised material; the label 'Arabic astrology' identifies neither one ethnicity nor one complete doctrine.", "mythology": "Some Iranian traditions integrated celestial knowledge with Zoroastrian cosmology. Later authors worked in different religious settings. A planetary technique crossing languages does not imply that its users shared the same theology.", "provenance": "Choose a specific work and translation: a lot table, electional rule or timing method needs a textual attribution. William Lilly's Christian Astrology is an accessible Renaissance-era English witness, not a substitute for the entire transmission history.", "useCases": [ "Compare how a rule changes between authors and translations.", "Reconstruct a historical chart alongside the astronomical knowledge available to its author." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Text-led reconstruction", "method": "State the selected author's vocabulary and sequence of judgement before calculating. Keep modern additions in a separate comparison.", "example": "For a lot, publish its day/night formula and the cited edition so another reader can reproduce the result without guessing the intended tradition." } ], "limits": [ "Lost intermediary texts leave genuine historical gaps.", "Modern accurate positions and historically reproduced tables answer different research questions." ], "related": [ 2, 14, 15, 20, 27 ], "references": [ { "title": "Astrology and Astronomy in Iran", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/astrology-and-astronomy-in-iran/", "kind": "scholarly historical synthesis" }, { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/CA/", "kind": "historical primary text and edition information" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Persian / Arabic / medieval Latin / Renaissance", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Shared planetary foundation plus source-specific lots, elections and timing.", "choices": "Select text and historical calendar; all medieval doctrines are not one preset.", "sources": [ "iran", "fortuna" ], "slug": "persian-arabic-medieval-latin-renaissance" }, { "registryIndex": 4, "history": "Psychological and evolutionary astrology are related modern approaches, not synonyms. Liz Greene's work joins astrology with depth psychology and Jungian interpretation. Jeffrey Wolf Green's school presents a distinct evolutionary paradigm centered on Pluto, the lunar nodes and their rulers, framed as a soul's development.", "mythology": "Psychological readings can use myth as an image for inner conflict or development. Evolutionary teachings may make explicit claims about karma and reincarnation. Those metaphysical premises belong to the school and should not be reported as biographical discoveries.", "provenance": "Name the practitioner framework before assigning meaning to a placement. A shared Pluto or node coordinate can support quite different narratives in different schools.", "useCases": [ "Use a chart as an optional prompt for reflective writing.", "Compare the language of psychological themes with the assumptions of evolutionary teachings." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Reflective dialogue", "method": "Offer a symbolic theme and invite examples, counterexamples and alternative explanations rather than treating the theme as a diagnosis.", "example": "A Saturn discussion might explore experiences of limits and responsibility, while allowing the person to reject that framing." }, { "name": "School-specific mapping", "method": "For the JWG approach, distinguish Pluto, its opposite point and the nodal rulers before summarizing the school's proposed developmental narrative.", "example": "Label a 'soul lesson' statement as practitioner belief, not measured natal data." } ], "limits": [ "Astrological terminology does not establish clinical psychological validity or reveal past lives." ], "related": [ 0, 5, 7, 17 ], "references": [ { "title": "Liz Greene at Astrodienst", "url": "https://www.astro.com/people/greene_e.htm", "kind": "practitioner publisher biography" }, { "title": "Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology", "url": "https://schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/", "kind": "original school description and doctrinal source" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Modern psychological / evolutionary", "status": "Raw foundation", "recipe": "Use natal planets, angles, aspects and nodes as interpretive inputs.", "choices": "No automated personality, karmic or reincarnation assertions.", "sources": [ "api" ], "slug": "modern-psychological-evolutionary" }, { "registryIndex": 5, "history": "Alice Bailey's esoteric astrology belongs to a modern spiritual teaching corpus maintained by Lucis Trust. The seven rays are central to that corpus. This is a particular lineage of esoteric thought, rather than a collective name for all spiritual astrology or a reconstruction of ancient astronomy.", "mythology": "Lucis Trust describes seven expressions of spiritual unity: Will or Power, Love-Wisdom, Active Intelligence, Harmony through Conflict, Concrete Knowledge, Devotion or Idealism, and Ceremonial Order. These link cosmic, psychological and spiritual categories. Calling them 'rays' does not identify them with measured electromagnetic or particle radiation.", "provenance": "Use Bailey's texts and the lineage's explanations for ray names and correspondences. Each claimed sign, planet or rulership relationship should carry its source rather than be silently borrowed from ordinary natal astrology.", "useCases": [ "Study the internal structure of Bailey's spiritual cosmology.", "Compare esoteric correspondences with conventional planetary rulership tables." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Doctrinal comparison", "method": "Begin with the astronomical placement, identify the school's corresponding category, and explain the spiritual meaning as an attributed teaching.", "example": "Present a conventional sign ruler next to a Bailey-school correspondence, with an explanation that the second is an interpretive overlay and not a newly calculated planet." } ], "limits": [ "No ray-identification algorithm has been validated in this engine.", "Spiritual developmental rank cannot be established from birth coordinates." ], "related": [ 4, 12, 46, 47 ], "references": [ { "title": "The Science of the Seven Rays", "url": "https://www.lucistrust.org/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/the_science_the_seven_rays", "kind": "original lineage teaching" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Esoteric / Alice Bailey / seven rays", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Overlay school-specific rulership and ray correspondences.", "choices": "A teaching system; physical cosmic rays do not validate spiritual ray categories.", "sources": [ "bailey" ], "slug": "esoteric-alice-bailey-seven-rays" }, { "registryIndex": 6, "history": "Modern harmonic astrology is closely associated with John Addey and later authors such as David Hamblin. Hamblin's own account describes both this development and David Cochrane's related vibrational approach. These schools give numbers and aspect families interpretive importance, but do not share a universally standardized meaning for every harmonic.", "mythology": "Musical harmony and number symbolism provide analogies for patterned relationships. A harmonic chart is a mathematical remapping; its existence does not demonstrate a physical vibration traveling from planets to people.", "provenance": "Record the multiplication factor, original coordinate frame, included points and tolerance. Keep a named author's harmonic interpretation separate from the arithmetic.", "useCases": [ "Reveal aspect families that are hard to see in a conventional wheel.", "Test how a proposed pattern changes as the harmonic number or allowed orb changes." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Pattern inspection", "method": "Multiply each longitude by N and reduce modulo 360. Trace each apparent conjunction back to its original angular separation before applying a symbolic reading.", "example": "Points at 10° and 82° are 72° apart. In the fifth harmonic both become 50°, revealing the exact quintile relationship." } ], "limits": [ "High factors amplify input error and create more opportunities for selective pattern finding.", "Most Indian divisional charts require their own mappings and cannot be replaced by this operation." ], "related": [ 8, 9, 23 ], "references": [ { "title": "David Hamblin, The Importance of Harmonics", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/aa_article220307_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner essay" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Harmonic / vibrational approaches", "status": "Interactive transform and pattern search", "recipe": "Integer H1–360: N × longitude modulo 360. Inspect harmonic conjunctions, natal orb equivalents, midpoint branches, antiscia and multi-planet groups.", "choices": "The primitive-edge filter differs from lowest harmonic per combination. No proprietary vibrational scoring.", "sources": [ "harmonic" ], "slug": "harmonic-vibrational-approaches" }, { "registryIndex": 7, "history": "Draconic astrology appears in modern practitioner literature associated with writers including Dennis Elwell and Pam Crane. The reviewed exposition by Victor Olliver describes a natal chart rotated so that the north lunar node becomes zero Aries. It is a derived zodiac, not an additional sky observed at birth.", "mythology": "Dragon imagery refers to the traditional head and tail names of the lunar nodes and their connection with eclipses. Some modern readers interpret the rotated chart through soul purpose or past-life themes; these are spiritual readings, not information measured by the nodal calculation.", "provenance": "The explorer rotates the recorded tropical longitudes using the selected true or mean North Node. It shows the original and rotated positions, node-relative speed and contacts back to the tropical chart. Its wheel does not display natal or rotated house cusps.", "useCases": [ "Select a body to compare its tropical position with its node-relative position.", "Inspect tight contacts from a draconic body to the natal tropical chart.", "Compare mean-node and true-node rotations while keeping the birth profile fixed." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read one position through both references", "method": "Choose a body in the wheel, selector or table. Read its original and rotated sign, then inspect its contacts to the tropical chart. In Blaquier's approach, the draconic factor is a symbolic motivation expressed through the tropical factor.", "example": "A natal longitude of 80° with a 20° node becomes 60°. The same subtraction applies to every body, so internal longitude separations do not change." }, { "name": "Keep the comparison rule visible", "method": "The named Blaquier option lists conjunctions and oppositions and starts at a 3° orb. The exploration option also includes sextiles, squares and trines. Read the orb and separation beside each row before interpreting it.", "example": "A 61° separation is a sextile with 1° orb. It can appear in five-aspect exploration, but it does not belong to the displayed Blaquier conjunction/opposition set." } ], "limits": [ "The longitude wheel has no physical house cusps or draconic-to-natal house overlay.", "Same-body cross-chart offsets share one node angle and are not independent discoveries.", "Node-relative speed is not the original planet's geocentric retrograde classification.", "A node rotation does not measure past lives, ancestry or destiny." ], "related": [ 1, 4, 6, 17 ], "references": [ { "title": "Victor Olliver, Draconic Astrology", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/tl_article220506_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner exposition" }, { "title": "María Blaquier: Draconic Astrology", "url": "https://mariablaquier.com/draconic-astrology/", "kind": "practitioner primary" }, { "title": "María Blaquier: Draconic Chart Interpretation", "url": "https://draconicchart.com/draconic-chart-interpretation", "kind": "practitioner method" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Draconic", "status": "Computed transform", "recipe": "Draconic longitude = (tropical longitude − selected North Node longitude) mod 360°. Node-relative speed subtracts node speed. Cross-chart contacts compare the selected draconic longitude with the recorded tropical longitudes.", "choices": "Choose true or mean nodes, a body, overlay method and a 0–10° maximum orb. Blaquier's conjunction/opposition method defaults to 3°; a different orb or five-aspect mode is an exploration setting.", "sources": [ "draconic" ], "slug": "draconic" }, { "registryIndex": 8, "history": "The Hamburg School grew around Alfred Witte's methods, with Friedrich Sieggrün and Ludwig Rudolph involved in its organization and publishing. Witte-Verlag traces a connected publication to 1925 and the English name 'Uranian' to the following decade. The term names a methodological tradition, not just one organization.", "mythology": "Planetary pictures combine symbolic factors in equations. Eight additional factors bear names such as Cupido, Hades and Poseidon, but these are hypothetical bodies. Their mythological names and reproducible model positions should not be confused with discovery of physical planets.", "provenance": "Specify the dial, midpoint conventions, planetary-picture rulebook and hypothetical-body orbital model. Swiss Ephemeris identifies its Hamburg factors as unobserved and uses revised model elements.", "useCases": [ "Explore symmetrical angular patterns and compare dial representations.", "Study Hamburg School publications within their German and international history." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Planetary-picture reading", "method": "Identify a relationship such as A/B = C, state its tolerance and dial equivalences, then apply an attributed rulebook entry.", "example": "Two points at 20° and 60° have a midpoint at 40°. A third point there supplies a geometric picture before any meaning is assigned." } ], "limits": [ "Calculating eight hypothetical factors does not implement the full school.", "Dial equivalence can hide whether a relationship was a conjunction, square or opposition in the original wheel." ], "related": [ 6, 9, 11 ], "references": [ { "title": "Witte-Verlag: Alfred Witte's method", "url": "https://www.witte-verlag.com/hamburger-schule.html", "kind": "lineage publisher history" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: hypothetical bodies", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm", "kind": "first-party technical documentation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Uranian / Hamburg School", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Midpoints, harmonic dials and eight hypothetical body models.", "choices": "Planetary-picture rulebooks and comprehensive midpoint trees not implemented.", "sources": [ "swiss", "hdref" ], "slug": "uranian-hamburg-school" }, { "registryIndex": 9, "history": "Cosmobiology is particularly associated with Reinhold Ebertin's publishing and teaching. The Kosmobiologische Akademie's institutional history records earlier uses of the name and Ebertin's subsequent conferences and publications. Its claimed research orientation is part of the movement's identity, not itself evidence that its interpretations have been scientifically established.", "mythology": "Midpoint schools translate planetary combinations into symbolic themes, often using compact descriptions rather than extended mythic narratives. The mathematically named 'cosmogram' remains an astrological representation; it is not a biological measurement.", "provenance": "A midpoint calculation can be shared across schools, while an Ebertin-style combination dictionary requires an explicitly identified edition. This wiki does not infer an entire doctrine from a generic midpoint output.", "useCases": [ "Inspect three-point angular patterns systematically.", "Compare the same pattern in a full wheel and a reduced dial." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Midpoint audit", "method": "Calculate both opposite midpoint branches, record the original separation, and examine which third points fall within a preselected tolerance.", "example": "For 350° and 10°, the short-arc midpoint is 0°, with the opposite branch at 180°. Ordinary averaging gives the opposite branch, so the branch must be labeled." } ], "limits": [ "A dense midpoint list needs a selection rule to avoid choosing only memorable matches.", "The reviewed institutional history does not independently verify every rule in the school's interpretive handbook." ], "related": [ 6, 8, 17, 19 ], "references": [ { "title": "Kosmobiologische Akademie: institutional history", "url": "https://www.kosmobiologische-akademie.de/geschichte/", "kind": "original institutional history" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Cosmobiology / midpoint schools", "status": "Raw foundation", "recipe": "Two midpoint branches and custom angular relationships.", "choices": "Full school-specific rulebook not independently verified in this review.", "sources": [ "hdref" ], "slug": "cosmobiology-midpoint-schools" }, { "registryIndex": 10, "history": "Fixed-star astrology contains multiple methods rather than one extra layer of zodiac degrees. Contemporary work by Bernadette Brady uses parans and stellar phases, while other practitioners compare projected ecliptic longitudes. Historical Behenian star selections belong to a particular transmitted corpus and should not be assumed to equal any modern bright-star list.", "mythology": "Star and constellation stories supply cultural interpretations. Brady's Starlight explicitly joins sky maps, myths and planetary-star combinations. The culture and source of a story matter: a catalog identifier alone does not establish one universal meaning.", "provenance": "Name the star catalog, epoch corrections, visibility assumptions and contact method. A paran relates angular events such as rising or culmination; equal ecliptic longitude is a different condition.", "useCases": [ "Connect a chart with the visible sky and named constellations.", "Compare longitude contacts with a properly calculated paran report." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Method-specific reading", "method": "Select stars before inspecting the result, calculate the chosen contact type, then attribute any meaning to its cultural or practitioner source.", "example": "A star and planet can share projected longitude while being far apart in latitude. Report that as a longitude contact, not a close visual conjunction." } ], "limits": [ "Different paran day windows and angular tolerances can produce different lists.", "This engine's star longitudes are not a complete Behenian or paran implementation." ], "related": [ 11, 13, 46, 50 ], "references": [ { "title": "Zyntara Starlight features", "url": "https://zyntara.com/starlight/features/", "kind": "original practitioner software and method description" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Fixed-star / Behenian / parans", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Epoch-corrected catalogue positions and longitude contacts.", "choices": "Parans require rise/set event coincidences; Behenian selection/interpretation not bundled.", "sources": [ "stars", "api" ], "slug": "fixed-star-behenian-parans" }, { "registryIndex": 11, "history": "Minor-body astrology expanded as observations and usable ephemerides made more objects accessible. Demetra George's work is an influential practitioner source for Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta and for interpreting asteroid names through myth. Centaurs and dwarf planets add further astronomical populations; those classifications are not interchangeable.", "mythology": "George uses goddess narratives to broaden astrological symbolism. Her approach illustrates a meaning-making method: connect a named object with stories and contemporary experience. The naming process does not demonstrate that the body causes the themes of its namesake.", "provenance": "Identify each object by catalog number, not only a familiar name, and retain the relevant ephemeris version. Distinguish real minor bodies from hypothetical Hamburg factors and mathematical points also called Lilith.", "useCases": [ "Study how modern astrologers introduce new symbolic categories.", "Build a deliberately selected small-body comparison rather than an unfiltered list." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Myth-led inquiry", "method": "Choose an object and a documented mythic interpretation in advance, inspect its chart contacts, and record both fitting and unfitting personal examples.", "example": "A Ceres study can compare versions of the goddess narrative before considering the author's proposed themes; it need not turn those themes into claims about the reader." } ], "limits": [ "Thousands of optional objects greatly increase accidental matches.", "An available object identifier does not guarantee the engine has its required ephemeris file." ], "related": [ 4, 8, 10, 46 ], "references": [ { "title": "Demetra George, Asteroids and Mythic Astrology", "url": "https://demetra-george.com/pdf/Asteroids_Mythic_Astrology.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner essay" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Asteroid / centaur / dwarf-planet astrology", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Real object IDs and matching ephemeris files.", "choices": "Six minor bodies supplied; arbitrary IDs accepted; full TNO/minor-planet files absent.", "sources": [ "swiss" ], "slug": "asteroid-centaur-dwarf-planet-astrology" }, { "registryIndex": 12, "history": "Heliocentric astrology applies astrological interpretation to a Sun-centered chart. It is a distinct use of astronomical coordinates, not simply another house system. Philip Sedgwick's writings provide one contemporary practitioner framework, including Earth and relationships to planetary orbital features.", "mythology": "Sun-centered readings may use Earth as a symbol of participation in a larger system. Sedgwick's Earth-sign material assigns life lessons through that symbolism. Such language belongs to his interpretive model, while the heliocentric position itself belongs to astronomy.", "provenance": "The workspace reads the engine's actual heliocentric positions, including Earth, and retains their returned coordinate flags. The wheel shows longitudes; its radial spacing is for labels. The inspector gives physical latitude, Sun–body distance and longitude speed.", "useCases": [ "Inspect Earth's actual heliocentric position and distance.", "Explore selected-body conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines and oppositions.", "Include the Moon to compare its separate Sun-centred coordinates with Earth's." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read a Sun-centred configuration", "method": "Select a body on the wheel or in the table, then inspect its longitude contacts. Use the listed orb and separation rather than the visual label spacing. Compare with a geocentric chart separately when the chosen practitioner method calls for it.", "example": "A 90° heliocentric Mercury–Earth longitude separation is a square in this frame. It is not a measurement of Mercury's apparent elongation from the Sun in Earth's sky." }, { "name": "Place Earth symbolism in its source", "method": "The Earth inspector identifies Sedgwick's Earth–natal-Sun polarity as a developmental reading. Follow that source for his approach; the workspace does not generate a complete Sedgwick report or provide a school selector.", "example": "Read Earth's displayed sign, then consult the corresponding natal Sun sign as a symbolic polarity. Keep the physical ephemeris value instead of forcing an exact opposition to an apparent Sun longitude." } ], "limits": [ "No terrestrial Ascendant, Midheaven or house cusps are assigned.", "The Moon is an optional calculated body; omission is a display choice.", "Displayed aspects are ecliptic-longitude separations, not three-dimensional angular distances.", "No automatic school-specific interpretation or event forecast is generated." ], "related": [ 0, 5, 42, 46 ], "references": [ { "title": "Philip Sedgwick, Sun Signs, Earth Signs and Helio Data", "url": "https://philipsedgwick.com/Helio/EarthSun.htm", "kind": "original practitioner teaching" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris programming interface", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "first-party technical documentation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Heliocentric", "status": "Computed raw", "recipe": "Use the recorded Sun-centred ecliptic coordinates. Compute shortest ecliptic-longitude separations between the selected body and other displayed bodies; compare them with the five major aspect angles.", "choices": "Select a body, optionally include the Moon and set a 0–10° maximum orb. The five major aspect types are fixed. The coordinate frame and interpretation school are not selectable controls in this workspace.", "sources": [ "api" ], "slug": "heliocentric" }, { "registryIndex": 13, "history": "Locational astrology predates its modern computerized maps. Continuum, which preserves Jim Lewis's legacy, credits him with making Astro*Carto*Graphy accessible through computer technology rather than inventing every form of location astrology. Relocation, astrocartography and local-space methods should remain distinguishable.", "mythology": "Practitioners apply planetary themes to places and directions. A 'Venus line', for example, names a planetary-angular relationship in a map; its association with harmony or attraction is an interpretation, not a measured property of the city.", "provenance": "Relocation, angular world maps and Local Space are separate operations. The astronomy sources explain reference frames and horizon events; practitioner manuals specify how their software combines those coordinates with a locational reading. The calculation recipe below describes Astral Atlas’s implemented model. A feature documented by another program is not automatically available here.", "useCases": [ "Compare the same chart instant across destinations with the map and a relocated chart.", "Distinguish an angular world-map line from a bearing measured around one local horizon.", "Inspect why a body has no rising or setting line at a high latitude before treating a gap as missing data.", "Compare Western and Jyotish planetary themes while keeping the modern locational technique explicitly identified." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read the angular condition first", "method": "In World maps, select planets and AC, DC, MC or IC lines. Choose a destination, inspect the line label and distance, then read its planet-and-angle symbolism alongside the natal context. A meridian transit does not require the body to be overhead or visible.", "example": "For invented right ascension 100° and Greenwich sidereal angle 30°, the MC longitude is 70° east and IC 110° west. At the equator, the geometric AC and DC longitudes are 20° west and 160° east." }, { "name": "Compare a relocated chart", "method": "In Local Space & relocation, enter an origin and choose Calculate relocated chart. Keep the original UTC instant. Compare its Ascendant, Midheaven and the selected chart convention before adding an interpretation. Entering the same clock reading in the destination’s time zone would describe a different instant.", "example": "A destination can change local angles while the same-instant geocentric planet longitudes remain the same. This is an editorial comparison exercise, not a prediction about the destination." }, { "name": "Choose the Local Space origin rule", "method": "“Natal directions moved to this origin” carries the birthplace azimuths to a new origin. “Directions calculated at this origin” requires a fresh origin calculation and uses its own topocentric azimuth and altitude. Compare the destination bearing with the selected planet direction.", "example": "A displayed azimuth of 90° points east from the chosen origin. Moving that bearing and recalculating Venus’s local direction are different operations and can produce different lines." }, { "name": "Keep the interpretation in its declared context", "method": "Use the shared reading lens to choose planet meanings. In a Lahiri/Jyotish view, the map uses graha themes as a modern Atlas synthesis; it does not claim to implement a classical Jyotish relocation judgement. The geometric map still uses the same equatorial positions.", "example": "Switching zodiac labels can change the displayed sign or interpretation while leaving a Venus–MC line in the same place. A shifted sign label is not a shifted sky position." } ], "limits": [ "Map lines express geometry, not guaranteed experiences or measured influence strength.", "A body can be circumpolar or remain below the horizon at a particular location. A missing horizon line and a line clipped outside the displayed latitude range are different situations.", "The map’s zero-altitude convention is not a weather-corrected sunrise prediction or a model of terrain obstructions.", "The nearest displayed segment is an approximation; it is not an exact distance to an untruncated global curve or a universal astrological orb.", "Parans, extra aspect lines and a full automated relocation judgement are not implemented. A visual line crossing does not identify a paran by itself.", "Local Space retains negative true altitudes for below-horizon bodies. Azimuths within 0.01° of the zenith or nadir are omitted; a great-circle projection is not a planet’s path across Earth." ], "related": [ 0, 10, 18 ], "references": [ { "title": "Continuum and the Jim Lewis Slayden Foundation", "url": "https://continuumacg.net/about.html", "kind": "original lineage and institutional account" }, { "title": "Skyfield: Positions — local horizon and atmospheric refraction", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/positions.html", "kind": "first-party astronomy documentation" }, { "title": "Skyfield: Almanac Computation — horizon events and meridian transits", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/almanac.html", "kind": "first-party astronomy documentation" }, { "title": "Astro Gold: Astro Locality Maps — mapping method conventions", "url": "https://www.astrogold.io/AG-MacOS-Help/astro_locality_maps.html", "kind": "first-party practitioner software documentation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Locational / relocation / astrocartography / local-space", "status": "Interactive maps and relocation", "recipe": "At the selected instant, use apparent geocentric right ascension α, declination δ, Greenwich apparent sidereal angle θ, latitude φ and east-positive longitude λ. Hour angle H = θ + λ − α. The MC meridian has H = 0° and the IC meridian H = 180°. Geometric horizon lines satisfy cos H = −tan φ tan δ: rising uses negative H, setting positive H, then λ = α + H − θ. If the right-hand side lies outside −1 to +1, this model has no horizon crossing at that latitude. Local Space instead projects an initial topocentric azimuth. Relocation preserves the UTC instant and recalculates local axes at the new coordinates.", "choices": "Here the world map uses a geometric altitude of 0° with no atmospheric refraction or parallax correction. Apparent equatorial coordinates include astronomical corrections; “apparent” does not mean that atmospheric refraction was added. Latitude sampling is 0.25° and the displayed range is −85° to +85°. Reported distance is to these sampled segments on a sphere. Changing tropical to Lahiri changes sign labels and the selected symbolic lens; it does not move these physical map lines.", "sources": [ "locational", "api" ], "slug": "locational-relocation-astrocartography-local-space" }, { "registryIndex": 14, "history": "Horary or interrogational astrology judges a question from a question-related chart. William Lilly’s Christian Astrology (1647) contains English instruction and worked question judgements. Prashna belongs to Indian question astrology; for one named approach, P. V. R. Narasimha Rao’s chapter 29 applies Tajaka combinations to Prashna charts. That author’s account is not a universal protocol for every Prashna lineage. The comparison here does not assume identical chart or judgement rules.", "mythology": "The question becomes a symbolic scene: planets can signify the questioner, other people or the matter being asked about. Traditional house language is contextual; it does not authorize inventing identities or intentions for real people.", "provenance": "Record the exact question, its context, the rule used to choose the moment, the local clock time, time zone and question location. Cite the selected text when assigning houses and weighing testimony. This Atlas worksheet uses tropical Regiomontanus with classical sign rulers independently of the natal reading lens. Selecting Lahiri elsewhere does not turn it into a Prashna calculation. Lilly’s historical text and Rao’s named teaching support different methodological descriptions; neither is empirical proof of an answer.", "useCases": [ "Reconstruct a historical question chart with its recorded context and named method.", "Learn to distinguish an astronomical event, a traditional condition and an interpretive conclusion.", "Keep supporting and contrary testimony in a worksheet and later record what happened.", "Compare a Western method with a named Prashna approach without substituting one rule set for the other." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Choose and document the question chart", "method": "In the Horary worksheet, enter the actual question moment and location under the chosen practice. “Use profile location only” copies a location, not the natal timestamp. “Use current UTC time” is appropriate only if that is the intended question moment. Explain the choice in the notes.", "example": "A question received today is not cast for a person’s birth date merely because that profile is open. Two different choices of question moment must remain two explicitly different study charts." }, { "name": "Assign significators and inspect condition", "method": "Select the house for the matter and document why it fits. Inspect the significators and Moon against all five essential dignities in Lilly’s printed table. Select a planet to see its exact term and face, the day/night triplicity ruler and any coexisting detriment or fall.", "example": "Mercury at 10° Virgo receives both domicile and exaltation flags. Mercury at 10° Pisces receives detriment and fall flags. These are sign-table classifications, not an automatic answer about the people represented." }, { "name": "Separate essential dignity from chart circumstances", "method": "Select a planet to inspect its Regiomontanus house category, signed apparent motion and solar-proximity condition. The solar ledger uses the explicit pp.113–115 preset, reports raw longitude separation and distinguishes instantaneous narrowing/widening from a complete application/separation doctrine. Sun/Moon direct motion receives no direct-fortitude claim.", "example": "An invented Sun at 29° Aries and Venus at 1° Taurus are 2° apart across a sign boundary. Under the selected preset, Venus is under the beams rather than combust because combustion requires the same sign. This is not an optical-visibility result." }, { "name": "Read reception in the displayed direction", "method": "Read “A hosts B” as B occupying one or more dignities held by A at B’s exact position. The display includes domicile, exaltation, triplicity, terms and faces under the selected endpoint convention. Aspect requirements and the sufficiency of minor reception testimony belong to the chosen historical method; positional hosting alone is not a complete reception judgment.", "example": "If Mercury is in Pisces, Jupiter can receive Mercury by domicile even when no major aspect falls within the chosen allowance. That label alone does not establish mutual reception or agreement between two people." }, { "name": "Follow the event sequence", "method": "Compare present application with the computed sequence of exact contacts, ingresses and stations. Examine the Moon’s contacts before its sign exit, then record supporting and contrary testimony. Translation and collection of light still need manual assessment.", "example": "An invented Mercury at 10° Virgo and Jupiter at 12° Taurus are 2° from a trine. If Mercury moves direct at 1.2° per day and Jupiter at 0.2° per day, the current motion is applying; an actual time of contact still requires following both trajectories." }, { "name": "Compare a named Prashna method", "method": "State which Prashna text or teacher is being studied, along with its zodiac, ayanamsha, chart and judgement rules. Rao’s Tajaka discussion is one sourced route for comparison. Preserve those choices separately; the current Western worksheet does not calculate that Prashna protocol.", "example": "A Prashna study may name a particular Tajaka combination. Relabeling a tropical Regiomontanus chart as “Vedic” does not calculate that combination or establish its prescribed interpretation." } ], "limits": [ "No automatic yes/no answer or complete traditional judgement is produced.", "The five essential dignities are evaluated under Lilly’s printed table. Alternative tables, historical minute rounding, a complete accidental-dignity score and full reception/perfection judgment remain separate. Exact-cutoff options are declared arithmetic conventions.", "House membership uses ecliptic longitude. If Regiomontanus cusps are unavailable at the selected location, this preset cannot assign its house-ruler significators.", "The seven-day search is finite. A missing event is not a claim that it never occurs, and an applying aspect now need not complete before intervening changes.", "The Moon’s “perfects before sign exit” count is not interchangeable with every historical definition of void of course.", "A computed angular event does not demonstrate the outcome of a question. A chart cannot establish another person’s hidden actions or intentions." ], "related": [ 2, 3, 15, 21 ], "references": [ { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology", "url": "https://www.skyscript.co.uk/CA/", "kind": "historical primary text and edition information" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112", "url": "https://archive.org/stream/b30338724/b30338724_djvu.txt", "kind": "historical primary text; original edition OCR" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach, chapter 29", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "first-party practitioner teaching; one Prashna approach" }, { "title": "William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0138.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg", "kind": "historical primary printed table; all twelve rows independently transcribed" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.48 · house categories", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0082.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.113 · solar conditions", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0147.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" }, { "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", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0149.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" }, { "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", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" }, { "title": "William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.110 · application and separation", "url": "https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30338724_0144.jp2/full/1800,/0/default.jpg", "kind": "original historical text; independently visually verified" } ], "family": "Cross-tradition", "systems": "Horary / interrogations / Prashna", "status": "Independent question chart and worksheet", "recipe": "Enter the question, local date and time, IANA time zone and coordinates; resolve a repeated clock time when needed. The worksheet calculates a separate chart, takes the querent from the first-house cusp ruler and the matter from the selected house’s cusp ruler, and displays seven classical planets. It evaluates domicile, exaltation, day/night triplicity, bounds and faces using Lilly’s printed table, plus detriment and fall. The default continuous intervals assign exact internal cutoffs to the next segment; an upper-inclusive comparison assigns them to the previous one. Sign rollover remains at 30°. All five absent dignities establish peregrine under this table only when day/night is known. For each major aspect, pair allowance = half the sum of the adopted full planetary orbs. Applying/separating uses relative longitude motion. A separate seven-day search finds exact 0°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 180° contacts, sign ingresses and stations. A separate accidental-condition ledger reports angular/succedent/cadent category, direct/retrograde/zero motion, and exclusive cazimi/combust/under-beams/outside-range categories using a declared longitude-only rule.", "choices": "The fixed full-orb list is Sun 15°, Moon 12°, Mercury 7°, Venus 7°, Mars 7°, Jupiter 9°, Saturn 9°. For Mercury and Jupiter, the pair allowance is (7° + 9°) / 2 = 8°. Hosting labels show all five positional dignity relations from holder to occupant without requiring an aspect. Day uses true topocentric Sun-center altitude at or above zero, without refraction. The worksheet exports the selected table, endpoint convention, planetary facts and both hosting directions. The Moon summary counts exact major contacts before its next ingress within the search window. These are declared worksheet rules, not a complete classical judgement or a generic definition of void of course. Solar thresholds follow the pp.113–115 instructional passage: cazimi <=17 arcminutes; otherwise same-sign combustion <8.5 degrees; otherwise beams <17 degrees. Endpoint inclusion and 1e-10 degree boundary tolerance are explicit Atlas conventions. The conflicting p.300 thresholds are documented separately.", "sources": [ "iran" ], "slug": "horary-interrogations-prashna" }, { "registryIndex": 15, "history": "Electional astrology selects a proposed starting time for an activity. John Frawley's account describes a traditional Western practice spanning major public beginnings and ordinary activities. Indian muhurta has its own combinations of calendrical and astrological rules. Similar purposes do not make the two rule sets identical.", "mythology": "The chosen beginning is treated symbolically as a seed for what follows. Practitioners associate particular planetary conditions with qualities desired for the activity; this is the rationale of the tradition, not demonstrated control over future events.", "provenance": "State the activity, location, feasible interval and rule priorities before searching. A useful record distinguishes compulsory scheduling constraints from optional astrological preferences and identifies the source of each preference.", "useCases": [ "Explore historical ideas about auspicious beginnings.", "Compare available dates for a low-stakes personal ritual or creative start." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Constraint-based comparison", "method": "Define a small set of symbolic criteria, calculate candidate charts, and explain which criteria each candidate satisfies or compromises.", "example": "For a writing-session ritual, compare two available afternoons under a named rule set while keeping attendance and practical availability as fixed constraints." } ], "limits": [ "Different rules can conflict, so there is no context-free 'best time'.", "An election cannot guarantee success and should not displace practical requirements or necessary care." ], "related": [ 14, 18, 22, 27 ], "references": [ { "title": "John Frawley, Electional Astrology", "url": "https://direct.skyscript.co.uk/electional.html", "kind": "original practitioner textbook excerpt" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Electional / Muhurta", "status": "Needs other input", "recipe": "Search a date interval for caller-defined planetary conditions.", "choices": "Purpose, location, allowed interval and rule priorities required; optimizer not implemented.", "sources": [ "iran", "rao" ], "slug": "electional-muhurta" }, { "registryIndex": 16, "history": "Mundane astrology applies celestial symbolism to collective affairs. Ptolemy's second book discusses regional and seasonal questions, including equinoctial and solstitial beginnings. Later traditions developed further event and cycle readings. Financial and medical astrology are specialized applications rather than new planetary calculation systems.", "mythology": "Seasonal turning points provide images of beginning, culmination and renewal. A country's or institution's 'birth chart' extends natal symbolism to collective entities, but a state can have several plausible founding events rather than one self-evident birthday.", "provenance": "Document the event's historical source and the reason for selecting that instant. Identify whether an ingress, eclipse, conjunction or institutional founding is being examined, and preserve alternative event dates when evidence is uncertain.", "useCases": [ "Study the role astrology played in historical political and seasonal writing.", "Compare astronomical cycles with a clearly sourced historical timeline." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Historical comparison", "method": "Choose the event sample and astrological variables before examining correlations, and include periods that do not fit the proposed pattern.", "example": "A teaching timeline can mark all occurrences of a chosen ingress across a defined interval, rather than showing only years with memorable events." } ], "limits": [ "Historical matching is vulnerable to hindsight and selective event choice.", "This collection supplies no diagnosis, treatment decision, trading signal or verified political prediction." ], "related": [ 3, 15, 18, 49 ], "references": [ { "title": "Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos II.10–13", "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/2C%2A.html", "kind": "historical primary text in translation" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Mundane / ingress / financial / medical astrology", "status": "Raw foundation", "recipe": "Event charts, ingresses and cycles.", "choices": "Only raw geometry; no medical diagnosis, trading forecast or political-event prediction.", "sources": [ "iran" ], "slug": "mundane-ingress-financial-medical-astrology" }, { "registryIndex": 17, "history": "Modern relationship astrology uses different constructions: synastry retains two charts, a midpoint composite combines their corresponding positions, and a Davison chart calculates an intermediate time and place. Liz Greene's composite reading is one psychological approach, not a universal interpretation of all three methods.", "mythology": "The composite's imagined shared identity is a practitioner metaphor. The studio uses it to frame questions about shared activity, without turning the relationship into a literal person or assigning either partner a fixed role.", "provenance": "Person A is the active atlas birth profile; Person B is calculated independently from its own local time, place and time zone. Synastry compares their fixed longitudes. Composite midpoints use the shorter arc and an explicit ambiguity buffer. Davison uses the midpoint of resolved UTC instants and a spherical geographic midpoint, then recalculates a geocentric chart. Each birth keeps the selected zodiac convention at its own epoch.", "useCases": [ "Inspect a selected cross-chart contact and the two people’s natal context.", "Read directional whole-sign overlays without confusing the sending body with the receiving chart.", "Compare the midpoint composite with the declared spherical-midpoint Davison construction.", "Use the separate Jyotish comparison for sign-level graha drishti and Moon/Lagna counts." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Synastry: two perspectives", "method": "Select A's body, B's body and their displayed aspect. Use each person's own account before combining the two body roles with the receiving whole-sign house topic.", "example": "For A's Mercury contacting B's Moon, compare how A explains an issue with how B prefers to receive it. The contact does not establish either person's feelings." }, { "name": "Composite: a declared construction", "method": "Inspect the source longitudes and the selected midpoint. Read its body, sign and available whole-sign house as a question about shared activity. An ambiguous Ascendant prevents a house reading.", "example": "A Sun at 350° and B Sun at 10° produce the short-arc midpoint 0°. Opposite source positions have two equally short branches, so the app does not pick a confident midpoint." }, { "name": "Davison: inspect the reference event", "method": "Confirm the displayed midpoint UTC time and coordinates before reading its recalculated chart. Keep the spherical-location label when comparing a result with other software.", "example": "The display time zone changes the clock label, not the intermediate instant or geographic point. This result is not the corrected-MC or fixed-reference-place variant." }, { "name": "Native comparison and modern sidereal constructions", "method": "Use the Jyotish comparison for its stated sign rules. A sidereal composite or Davison may use the app's graha vocabulary, but the underlying construction remains modern.", "example": "A directional Jupiter fifth-sign contact is not a Western 120° orb test. Neither that contact nor a sidereal combined chart is a Kuta compatibility score." } ], "limits": [ "Birth-time uncertainty affects the Moon, angles and overlays. Both profiles must be checked before interpretation.", "Synastry uses five major longitude aspects and whole-sign overlays. Two fixed natal charts receive no applying/separating transit label.", "The composite averages corresponding planets and angles; it uses whole-sign sectors from a resolved midpoint Ascendant, not twelve averaged natal cusps. Its independently averaged MC need not be the tenth-house cusp.", "Composite source positions within 0.01° of opposition are flagged with both candidate branches. This numerical stability buffer is not a measurement of birth-time accuracy. No physical time, speed or retrograde state is assigned to the composite.", "Davison rejects antipodal, polar and unsupported extreme-latitude midpoint locations. It does not implement corrected-MC or reference-place alternatives.", "The native comparison does not supply Kuta scores, Kuja Dosha, degree-strength drishti, Navamsa matching or a complete kundli judgement.", "No aspect count or chart narrative can establish consent, trust, suitability or a relationship’s future.", "Combined-chart graha sign contacts are a modern interpretive layer on the chosen construction; they are not presented as a traditional Jyotish relationship technique." ], "related": [ 4, 7, 9, 19, 21 ], "references": [ { "title": "John Green and Chris Brennan: Synastry — The Astrology of Relationships", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-165-transcript-synastry-the-astrology-of-relationships/", "kind": "original practitioner interview" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Composite Chart, Midpoint-method", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch621", "kind": "first-party calculation documentation" }, { "title": "Liz Greene: The Composite Chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_composit_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner article" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Davison Relationship Chart variants", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch64&lang=e", "kind": "first-party calculation documentation" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology — An Integrated Approach, §10.2", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Shri Jyoti Star 10: official help", "url": "https://www.vedicsoftware.com/WebHelp/helpindex.html", "kind": "first-party software manual" } ], "family": "Western", "systems": "Synastry / midpoint composite / Davison", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Calculate two independent births; compare major cross-aspects and whole-sign overlays, construct a short-arc midpoint composite, or calculate the declared Davison midpoint event.", "choices": "Four modes; seven detailed zodiac references, with tropical excluded from the native comparison; a second birth with its own time-zone fold; a 0–10° synastry orb and body filters; selected combined-chart body; native direction and source graha; conversation focus; Davison display time zone. Combined-chart contacts use a fixed 4° orb for five major Western aspects, or classical graha sign rules for the explicitly modern native-vocabulary layer. Download comparison exports both charts and the selected construction as JSON.", "sources": [ "hdref" ], "slug": "synastry-midpoint-composite-davison" }, { "registryIndex": 18, "history": "Transit work compares a later sky with a birth chart. Astrodienst documents this as a forecasting convention; Liz Greene presents a psychological approach. A return chart is a different construction, requiring the selected body's exact return to its natal longitude.", "mythology": "The returning cycle supplies a symbolic image of renewal. Practitioners may read a solar return as an annual chapter or a lunar return as a shorter cycle. These narrative periods are interpretive conventions attached to an astronomical event.", "provenance": "Three workspaces are live. Transits compares an independently calculated sky with fixed natal positions. Exact transit events searches selected natal aspects, sign ingresses or longitude stations over a declared UTC interval and retains repeated crossings and sampled motion. Returns finds the first Sun/Moon natal-longitude crossing in its own window. A selected event or return can produce a full location chart at the unrounded UT1 Julian day. Each epoch uses the chosen zodiac at its own date; displayed house context is whole-sign.", "useCases": [ "Explore selected transit-to-natal contacts with the natal chart held fixed.", "Compare nearby dates, inspect the numerical evidence and download the chosen comparison.", "Find the first solar or lunar return in a chosen window and inspect the actual crossing time.", "Explore a selected return body, the return Ascendant and its classical ruler, then download the full exact chart and search evidence.", "Find repeated exact contacts from one moving planet to one natal target, with one major aspect or all five.", "Compare direct entries and retrograde re-entries into signs, or locate changes of longitude direction.", "Inspect the selected event chart, its sampled motion and numerical evidence, then download the search and chart." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read the selected transit contact", "method": "Choose a transit body or contact row. Read the moving body's role beside the natal target, inspect the aspect and orb, then connect one concrete example to the displayed natal whole-sign topics.", "example": "A Saturn–Moon contact can prompt a review of responsibility and emotional needs. It does not establish an inevitable external event." }, { "name": "Read the exact return chart", "method": "Choose the Returns workspace and search the intended cycle. Read the returning body’s whole-sign house, then the return Ascendant and its classical ruler. Keep the birth chart as context. The Sun/Moon longitude match is built into the return.", "example": "Entering a birthday only suggests a search window; the solver finds the actual return instant. Changing the return location changes local axes and houses without changing that geocentric UTC crossing." }, { "name": "Use the stated reading context", "method": "Lahiri, Raman, Krishnamurti and Yukteshwar returns display seven classical grahas with Jyotish house topics, nakshatra/pada and D9 facts. Tropical, Fagan-Bradley and De Luce display ten planets with Western topics and five major within-return aspects at a fixed 4° orb.", "example": "A Lahiri solar return is a sidereal annual-chart foundation; it does not automatically compute Tajika’s year lord or configurations." }, { "name": "Follow a sequence of exact contacts", "method": "Choose the moving planet, fixed natal target and aspect. Read all found dates with their motion and aspect branch; compare the same natal topic across them. Check uncertainty notices before treating the sequence as complete.", "example": "A square can occur on either side of a natal longitude. Retrograde motion may revisit one branch, but occurrence 1 in a window need not be the first pass of the wider cycle." }, { "name": "Read sign entries in their own reference", "method": "Compare the before and after signs. For personal Western work, connect the selected body and sign with natal house topics. In native sidereal work, separately count the entered sign from natal Moon and Lagna.", "example": "A retrograde crossing at the Aries–Taurus boundary enters Aries even when the numerical boundary is written 0° Taurus. It is not automatically a quadrant-house ingress." }, { "name": "Use a station as a deliberate review point", "method": "Read the direction transition and selected body before interpreting its sign or natal context. A station near a natal factor still needs a separate aspect search to establish an exact contact.", "example": "Stations direct means longitude begins increasing after decreasing. It does not establish that a stalled plan will now succeed." } ], "limits": [ "The Transits snapshot uses five major aspects and instantaneous phase against a fixed natal target. Exact transit events performs a separate time search; an exact hit does not define its orb-entry or orb-exit period.", "The event finder supports ten moving planets and twelve natal targets: those planets, Ascendant and Midheaven. It searches 0°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 180° contacts, with both branches where distinct. Nodes, asteroids and other aspect angles are not included.", "Event windows are at most 730 days, or 90 days for the Moon, within 1800–2399. Candidates are included only after start plus one millisecond and through the end, using UTC rounded to milliseconds. The raw solved Julian day is retained.", "Finite sampling and adaptive subdivision do not prove mathematical completeness. Near-stationary target touches and unresolved intervals are reported as uncertainties; limits that stop calculation must not be presented as a complete result.", "Sign ingress uses equal 30° zodiac sectors, not constellation boundaries. A longitude station is frame dependent and is not a physical halt. The finder does not calculate orb-duration calendars, retrograde shadow intervals, house ingresses or certified exact tangencies.", "Transit-location houses are absent from the snapshot workspace. Event and return charts use their explicitly selected locations and whole-sign display; changing that location does not change these geocentric event instants.", "Returns finds the first supported Sun/Moon crossing in a window of at most 400 days. Its dedicated reading is distinct from using the event finder for repeated same-body conjunctions. Natal lunar-phase returns and precession-corrected tropical returns are not calculated.", "Sidereal degree-aspect searches are modern comparisons, not classical sign-counted graha drishti. Native sign ingress remains a gochara foundation without vedha, Ashtakavarga or integrated dasha judgement. A complete Tajika / Varshaphala judgement is not implemented.", "Small residuals describe numerical convergence in the selected model, not birth-time certainty, independent ephemeris accuracy or a verified personal forecast." ], "related": [ 0, 13, 19, 27, 21, 24 ], "references": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: Solar Return chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch32&lang=e", "kind": "first-party chart-method documentation" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Transits FAQ", "url": "https://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_transits_e.htm", "kind": "first-party practitioner documentation" }, { "title": "Liz Greene: The Horoscope in Manifestation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_transits_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner essay" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: A Brief Introduction to Astrology — Aspects", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_aspect_e.htm", "kind": "first-party practitioner teaching" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: Programming Interface", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "primary calculation documentation" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Lunar Return chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch35&lang=e", "kind": "first-party chart-method documentation" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Return charts FAQ", "url": "https://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_return_e.htm", "kind": "first-party software documentation" }, { "title": "Brian Clark: Working with Solar Returns", "url": "https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/working-with-solar-returns.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner teaching notes" }, { "title": "AstroGraph: TimePassages Desktop Manual, chapter 11", "url": "https://support.astrograph.com/support/solutions/articles/66000476614-desktop-manual-timepassages", "kind": "official practitioner-software manual" }, { "title": "Martin Gansten and Balabhadra: The Jewel of Annual Astrology", "url": "https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004433717/html", "kind": "publisher record of critical primary-text edition" }, { "title": "Astro Gold macOS: Dynamic Events", "url": "https://www.astrogold.io/AG-MacOS-Help/pref_dynamic_events.html", "kind": "official professional-software manual" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Transit duration and retrograde repeats", "url": "https://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_dura_e.htm", "kind": "first-party practitioner-software documentation" }, { "title": "Liz Greene: The Horoscope in Manifestation", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_transits_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner seminar extract" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology — An Integrated Approach, chapter 25", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: Programming Interface, position and speed", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "primary calculation documentation" }, { "title": "NASA StarChild: What does Mercury in retrograde mean?", "url": "https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question46.html", "kind": "official astronomical explanation" } ], "family": "Timing", "systems": "Transits / solar and lunar returns", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Compare a transit snapshot with fixed natal targets; search selected exact aspect crossings, sign ingresses or longitude stations; retain repeats and uncertainty notices. Calculate the selected event at its solved Julian day. The separate Returns workspace finds the first Sun/Moon return.", "choices": "Transits retains its instant, reference, body, orb and native Moon/Lagna controls. Exact transit events adds mode, moving planet, natal target and one/all five major aspects, seven zodiac references, and a bounded UTC window. Select a dated list event below its sampled path, inspect its motion, and calculate its chart for a named place with coordinates and display zone. Returns retains Sun/Moon, seven references and its own 400-day window. Place labels do not look up coordinates; displayed event/return houses are whole-sign.", "sources": [ "api" ], "slug": "transits-solar-and-lunar-returns" }, { "registryIndex": 19, "history": "Secondary progressions, solar arcs and primary directions are different timing constructions. Secondary progression uses a symbolic day-for-year correspondence. Solar-arc methods shift factors by a selected solar motion. Primary directions concern diurnal geometry. Software documentation shows that even a 'progressed' chart can combine secondary planets with differently advanced angles.", "mythology": "The central analogy is that a short celestial interval can represent a longer life interval. This is a symbolic correspondence, not a claim that planets physically moved to the displayed positions at the person's present age.", "provenance": "Record the target age, year length, direct or converse convention and treatment of angles. For primary directions, additional geometric definitions and a time key must be specified before results are comparable.", "useCases": [ "Understand why a progressed chart differs from today's transit chart.", "Audit apparent disagreements between two software packages." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Method-separated timeline", "method": "Display the symbolic date or arc alongside the target life date, then trace each listed contact back to the named construction.", "example": "At exactly 30 symbolic years, a day-for-year method samples 30 days after birth. It does not sample the sky 30 calendar years later." } ], "limits": [ "A uniform one-degree-per-year rotation is not identical to every solar-arc method.", "Primary directions are not implemented by adding an arbitrary longitude offset." ], "related": [ 9, 17, 18, 20 ], "references": [ { "title": "Astrodienst: chart types and progression conventions", "url": "https://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_owtype_e.htm", "kind": "first-party chart-method documentation" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: progressed angle alternatives", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch246&lang=e", "kind": "first-party chart-method documentation" } ], "family": "Timing", "systems": "Secondary progressions / solar arcs / primary directions", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Symbolic time transformations or spherical diurnal rotations.", "choices": "Rate, year length, converse/direct motion and house treatment must be named.", "sources": [ "api" ], "slug": "secondary-progressions-solar-arcs-primary-directions" }, { "registryIndex": 20, "history": "Annual profections and zodiacal releasing are associated with surviving Hellenistic material and its modern reconstruction. Chris Brennan identifies Valens's Anthology as a source for releasing. Firdaria belongs to the broader historical family of period-rulership techniques, but requires a different table and should not be treated as another name for releasing.", "mythology": "A 'time lord' is a planet or sign assigned symbolic authority over an interval. Fortune and Spirit supply starting references in releasing. This is a calendrical ordering of astrological meanings, not an additional orbit or a force changing on a birthday.", "provenance": "Preserve the starting point, completed-age convention, period lengths and hierarchy. Releasing exceptions and firdaria sequences need separately attributed implementations; a list of planet names does not specify a timing algorithm.", "useCases": [ "Choose an age in the Annual profections tool and inspect the activated house, sign and traditional ruler.", "Compare ages twelve years apart, while keeping the same natal starting point.", "Follow the annual ruler into its natal whole-sign house before considering additional timing testimony." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Annual profection", "method": "Enter completed age, starting at zero. This tool advances one sign per year from the tropical Ascendant and uses the seven traditional rulers. It links the activated house and natal ruler’s house to selective sourced topics.", "example": "Published teaching example: Cancer rising at age 0 gives house 1 / Cancer / Moon; age 1 gives house 2 / Leo / Sun; age 12 returns to Cancer and the Moon." } ], "limits": [ "The full releasing hierarchy and firdaria variants remain unimplemented here.", "Retrospective chapter descriptions can fit many different lives; they are not independent verification.", "The age input does not resolve exact birthday times, leap-day birthdays or solar-return boundaries.", "This version does not synthesize sect, dignity, aspects, natal occupants or transits into an overall judgement." ], "related": [ 2, 3, 18, 19, 24 ], "references": [ { "title": "Chris Brennan, Annual Profections, Lots, and Zodiacal Releasing", "url": "https://www.astro.com/astrology/tma_article190314_e.htm", "kind": "original practitioner exposition of historical techniques" }, { "title": "Astrology and Astronomy in Iran", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/astrology-and-astronomy-in-iran/", "kind": "scholarly historical synthesis" }, { "title": "Chris Brennan: Annual Profections lecture (2018)", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/transcripts/ep-153-annual-profections-an-ancient-time-lord-technique/", "kind": "primary practitioner teaching; counting examples" }, { "title": "Chris Brennan: Annual Profections slides", "url": "https://theastrologypodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/annual-profections-slides.pdf", "kind": "primary practitioner teaching; interpretation diagram" } ], "family": "Timing", "systems": "Annual profections / zodiacal releasing / firdaria", "status": "Annual profections available · other methods partial", "recipe": "From the tropical Ascendant sign, advance one sign per completed year of age; use whole-sign houses and traditional rulers.", "choices": "Age 0–150 entered explicitly; no date conversion. Zodiacal releasing and firdaria need separate period methods.", "sources": [ "profections", "iran" ], "slug": "annual-profections-zodiacal-releasing-firdaria" }, { "registryIndex": 21, "history": "Jyotish is a broad Indian astral discipline; the Parashari label identifies a family of horoscope techniques associated with the authority of Parashara. It should not be treated as a single unchanged ancient software specification. Modern teaching combines inherited texts, commentaries and calculation choices.", "mythology": "The grahas have religious identities as well as mathematical positions. Navagraha imagery includes Sun, Moon, five visible planets and Rahu and Ketu. Museum and art-historical evidence documents this changing iconography; it does not demonstrate planetary control over an individual.", "provenance": "The engine supplies selected sidereal natal positions and derived factors. A separate gochara workspace now calculates the transit sky and counts its nine grahas from natal Moon or natal Lagna. D9, Vimshottari and instant panchanga keep their own stated conventions. The selected-graha inspector also derives natal whole-sign placement, classical ruled houses and same-sign natal occupants. The relationship studio adds an independently calculated second birth for directional sign-level graha drishti, whole-sign overlays and counts from the other chart’s Moon and Lagna. The event finder adds bounded sidereal sign-ingress dates and longitude stations. An entered sign can be compared with the fixed natal Moon and Lagna; this adds timing geometry without supplying a complete transit judgement. Daily panchanga adds a separate local-date and place request: sunrise-defined vara, the four angular limbs and their calculated transitions, plus named daylight periods. A missing sunrise day is explicitly distinguished from any available civil-interval calculation. The lunar mansion atlas adds an explorable 27-part wheel and name library around the recorded birth Moon in any of six detailed sidereal references. Each entry separates dictionary-backed word origins, attributed divine and symbol associations, original reflections, and four standard Parashari D9 pada mappings. The divisional workspace now derives the declared sixteen-varga baseline from that same source frame, including special two-sign D2 and unequal sign-only D30. Its optional nearby-time comparison uses three independent UTC charts and leaves the recorded profile intact.", "useCases": [ "Compare sidereal birth-chart structures.", "Study the vocabulary of houses, rulers and planetary periods.", "Inspect the same transit graha separately from natal Moon and natal Lagna.", "Compare two sidereal natal charts with explicitly directed graha drishti and separate receiving houses.", "Follow a selected classical graha through direct sign entries and retrograde re-entries, then compare natal Moon and Lagna counts at each date.", "Read the local sunrise day’s five limbs and their dated endings before consulting a particular calendar or electional rule.", "Explore the calculated birth Moon’s mansion through its Sanskrit name, cited associations and four pada-to-D9 signs.", "Trace a selected graha through a named divisional mapping and compare nearby birth-time samples before interpreting fine divisions." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read in layers", "method": "Establish the lagna and chosen zodiac, inspect houses and their rulers, then compare the Moon mansion, divisional chart and period sequence.", "example": "A sign placement and a house placement answer different structural questions; neither is a complete judgement by itself." }, { "name": "Read a two-chart sign relationship", "method": "Keep A→B distinct from B→A. Inspect the sending graha, its stated sign-aspect rule and the receiving chart's whole-sign topic before asking about a concrete interaction.", "example": "Mars has a fourth-sign contact to a target that is four signs forward, counted inclusively. The reverse contact depends on the other graha’s own rule; it is not automatically reciprocal." }, { "name": "Read the exact sidereal sign entry", "method": "Choose the named sidereal convention and selected classical graha. Use the entered sign after the crossing, count from natal Moon and separately from natal Lagna, then inspect natal ownership and the relevant period convention.", "example": "A graha can enter a sign, retrograde into the previous sign and enter again. Those dates do not by themselves establish favourable results, vedha clearance or dasha agreement." }, { "name": "Use the daily almanac as timing context", "method": "Begin with the selected place, sunrise convention and ayanamsha. Read tithi with paksha, lunar nakshatra with pada, calendrical yoga and karana, then inspect the actual ending times. Keep any optional birth-Moon count as a positional comparison.", "example": "An ending at 02:10 on the next civil date can still lie within the same sunrise-defined vara. Changing that calendar factor is not automatically a change in personal fortune." }, { "name": "Read a mansion without collapsing its different associations", "method": "Choose a reference and identify the actual Moon sector. Read the word-origin evidence, the named deity tradition and the separate Vimshottari period lord and D1 sign ruler. Use the original reflection as a question, then inspect the actual Moon in D9.", "example": "Manually selecting a different mansion explores its entry. It does not move the birth Moon, and the D9 handoff continues to inspect that actual Moon with the chosen reference." }, { "name": "Compare a division with its source chart", "method": "Choose the stated varga method, follow its source segment into the assigned sign and retain the D1 house and ruler context. Read any nearby-time comparison as three sampled charts.", "example": "A D60 assignment can differ after a small birth-time change, while three matching samples cannot certify the whole intervening interval." } ], "limits": [ "Ayanamsha, house conventions and commentary can change a reading.", "Traditional sage attribution is distinct from securely dated manuscript history.", "Gochara shows sign counts, sign rulers, natal house context and motion. It does not evaluate vedha, Ashtakavarga, graha drishti, favourable-position tables or an integrated dasha judgement.", "The separate Vimshottari link transfers the transit UTC instant. Check its local sidereal reference and calculation-year controls; transit chart settings are independent.", "Relationship mode applies a classical seven-graha sign-pattern baseline across two charts as an explicit comparison exercise. The selected Rahu/Ketu pair may receive contacts and enter placements/counts, but projects no aspects in this baseline.", "It does not calculate Kuta scores, Kuja Dosha, fractional or degree-strength drishti, rashi drishti, D9 matching or an integrated relationship judgement.", "Composite and Davison charts using a sidereal reference remain modern relationship constructions, even when their prompts use Jyotish chart vocabulary.", "The event finder searches ten physical planets; Sun through Saturn form its seven-classical-graha subset. It does not search Rahu/Ketu ingresses or stations. Outer-planet events are a modern comparison layer.", "Exact sidereal degree aspects in the event finder remain a modern analysis convention, not classical sign-counted graha drishti. A longitude station does not calculate cheshta bala or establish a complete strength verdict.", "Native sign-entry timing has the event finder's window, finite-sampling and uncertainty limits. Uncertified near-stationary touches must not become definite ingress claims.", "Daily panchanga supplies calendar geometry and named daytime intervals. It does not add festival arbitration, Tarabala/Chandrabala verdicts or a full muhurta judgement.", "At locations without a complete bounding sunrise pair, vara remains unassigned. Any civil fallback is labelled and does not become a traditional sunrise day.", "The lunar atlas uses 27 equal longitude sectors, not unequal stellar boundaries or a separately calculated Abhijit mansion.", "Mansion names and deities are inherited cultural categories; the atlas supplies neither a personality diagnosis nor compatibility or electional verdicts. Word origins and historical assignment variants remain explicit.", "The sixteen-varga workspace implements named mappings and constructed sign contexts; it does not add alternate mapping variants, full strength scoring, forecasts or birth-time rectification." ], "related": [ 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 17 ], "references": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology, an Integrated Approach, §§6.2.1–6.2.20", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "The origin and early development of the nine planetary deities — University of Michigan", "url": "https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/a55fccff-5ad9-4189-be31-5b8e363e0136", "kind": "scholarly dissertation" }, { "title": "Parashara's Light 7.0 User Manual", "url": "https://www.parasharasoftware.com/Parashara-Light-90/Download/PLmanual.pdf", "kind": "official software manual" }, { "title": "Shri Jyoti Star 10 official help: Varga chart variations", "url": "https://www.vedicsoftware.com/WebHelp/helpindex.html", "kind": "first-party professional software documentation" }, { "title": "Astro Gold macOS: Dynamic Events", "url": "https://www.astrogold.io/AG-MacOS-Help/pref_dynamic_events.html", "kind": "official professional-software manual" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris: Programming Interface, position and speed", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "primary calculation documentation" }, { "title": "NASA StarChild: What does Mercury in retrograde mean?", "url": "https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question46.html", "kind": "official astronomical explanation" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Sunrise and sunset conventions", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/panchang/sunrise/panchang-sunrise.html", "kind": "first-party almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Reading Panchang Timings", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/faq/faq-ans1.html", "kind": "first-party almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Komilla Sutton: Personal Panchanga", "url": "https://komilla.com/lib-personal-panchang.html", "kind": "practitioner primary" }, { "title": "Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: nakṣatra (University of Hyderabad)", "url": "https://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/SKT/MW/132.html", "kind": "historical dictionary in scholarly digital edition" }, { "title": "Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa deity sequence, YV32–35/RV25–28, in Indian Astronomy: A Source-book §12.10.1", "url": "https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/indian-astronomy-a-source-book/ocr/1621529/160", "kind": "original Sanskrit text reproduced with translation" }, { "title": "Taittirīya Nakshatra Sukta (Sanskrit Documents)", "url": "https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/nakshatra.html", "kind": "original Sanskrit ritual text" }, { "title": "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 6, Sanskrit with R. Santhanam translation/commentary, printed pp.68–83", "url": "https://vyaspanchang.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82.pdf", "kind": "classical Sanskrit text with modern translation and commentary" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Personal Finances from Hora Chart (2003), pp.1–3", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/hora.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner conference handout" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Correct Siddhamsa Chart of Parasara (2012), pp.1–2", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/para_d24.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner method proposal" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Jyotish / Parashari family", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Read sidereal grahas and Lagna; inspect nakshatras, D9 and the Lahiri timing modules; compare transit signs with the fixed natal Moon or Lagna. For two births, inspect directed sign contacts and receiving whole-sign placements. Search a classical graha's sidereal sign entries to locate when that counted context changes; keep longitude stations and modern degree-aspect comparisons separately labelled. Use the separate daily panchanga to follow local sunrise-day factors and their endings.", "choices": "The gochara view offers six detailed sidereal references, a natal Moon/Lagna anchor and selectable grahas. Rahu/Ketu follow the global true/mean-node setting. Fagan-Bradley and De Luce are labelled comparison references. Vimshottari and birth-instant panchanga remain fixed to Lahiri. Relationship comparison uses six detailed sidereal references and separate A→B/B→A directions; node targets follow the selected true/mean pair. Fagan-Bradley and De Luce remain comparison references. The separate event finder has seven references and ten moving planets, with native vocabulary for Lahiri/Raman/Krishnamurti/Yukteshwar and the seven classical planets. Its UTC windows are at most 730 days, or 90 for Moon; nodes are not searchable. Daily panchanga independently selects a date from 1800–2399, city or entered coordinates/time zone/elevation, one of the six sidereal references, and Swiss Hindu rising or apparent upper-limb sunrise. Fagan-Bradley and De Luce remain comparison references. Lunar atlas controls select the sidereal reference, browse a mansion, search names or source-based word origins/deities/symbols, and filter the list by Vimshottari period lord. Show my Moon restores the live birth-Moon selection. Its D9 link carries the selected reference and the actual natal Moon. The divisional workspace selects one of sixteen mappings and can compare three independently calculated UTC birth-time samples at offsets of 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "jyotish-parashari-family" }, { "registryIndex": 22, "history": "Panchanga means a five-part almanac framework. Contemporary astronomical production is represented by India’s Positional Astronomy Centre and its Rashtriya Panchang. A drik approach computes celestial positions; regional almanac practice also includes inherited rules about how astronomical events are assigned to dates.", "mythology": "Day and mansion names can carry deities, ritual associations and evaluations of auspiciousness. These cultural meanings belong to a religious calendar tradition. They are additional to the geometric definitions of lunar phase and position.", "provenance": "Two workspaces serve different questions. Instant panchanga keeps the four recorded Lahiri divisions at the birth profile’s instant, with civil weekday separate and sunrise vara unassigned. Daily panchanga independently calculates a local sunrise-to-next-sunrise interval, assigns vara there, finds changes of tithi, lunar nakshatra, nitya yoga and karana, and records the declared rise/set convention. It also supplies Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika when a valid daylight interval is available. The lunar mansion atlas adds an explorable 27-part wheel and name library around the recorded birth Moon in any of six detailed sidereal references. Each entry separates dictionary-backed word origins, attributed divine and symbol associations, original reflections, and four standard Parashari D9 pada mappings.", "useCases": [ "Read the five factors at the selected place’s sunrise.", "Select a limb interval or transition to follow its name and ending through the night.", "Compare the same day under a different declared sunrise or sidereal convention.", "Inspect Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika as separate traditional daylight periods.", "Use the original birth-instant view for the recorded natal tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana.", "Explore the calculated birth Moon’s mansion through its Sanskrit name, cited associations and four pada-to-D9 signs." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Start with vara and the five sunrise values", "method": "Confirm the applied date and place, then read the five starting values together. Vara retains the weekday of the bounding sunrise until the next sunrise. The other four limbs have independent angular boundaries and may change during that interval.", "example": "A Monday sunrise day can continue into early Tuesday by the civil clock while retaining Monday’s vara." }, { "name": "Read an ending rather than a vague daily label", "method": "Select a tithi, nakshatra, yoga or karana interval and inspect the full dated ending. The boundary ends that state and begins the next; after midnight, keep the next civil date attached. A state with no change before the following sunrise may continue beyond the displayed day.", "example": "“Ends 02:10, 10 September” closes the selected factor then; it is not a 02:10 start, nor a claim that the entire preceding date carries one unchanged value." }, { "name": "Give each limb its native role", "method": "Read tithi as the lunar phase division with its paksha, lunar nakshatra as the selected sidereal mansion, nitya yoga as the calendrical Sun–Moon sum, and karana as the half-tithi. Traditional texts use these factors in ritual and electional rules; identify the rule for the intended activity before applying an evaluation.", "example": "The same tithi number occurs in both pakshas. Naming the number without its bright or dark fortnight omits calendar context." }, { "name": "Read named daylight periods with attribution", "method": "The tool places the three named periods in weekday-specific eighths of the actual daylight interval. Rahu Kalam is commonly avoided for auspicious beginnings in the cited practice. Kalaprakasika gives Yamaganda’s sequence and explicitly qualifies Gulika differently.", "example": "On a twelve-hour daylight interval, an eighth lasts ninety minutes; on a shorter or longer daylight interval its duration changes. An unmarked gap does not thereby become an auspicious election." }, { "name": "Keep personal comparison separate", "method": "An optional comparison with the birth Moon uses the same sidereal reference for both positions. Inclusive sign and mansion counts describe their relationship. A complete Tarabala, Chandrabala or natal interpretation requires further rules.", "example": "A mansion count alone is positional evidence; the calendar does not convert it into a personal suitability verdict." }, { "name": "Read a mansion without collapsing its different associations", "method": "Choose a reference and identify the actual Moon sector. Read the word-origin evidence, the named deity tradition and the separate Vimshottari period lord and D1 sign ruler. Use the original reflection as a question, then inspect the actual Moon in D9.", "example": "Manually selecting a different mansion explores its entry. It does not move the birth Moon, and the D9 handoff continues to inspect that actual Moon with the chosen reference." } ], "limits": [ "The daily result follows the chosen sunrise convention; regional calendars may use different horizons, references and observance rules.", "If the required sunrise day cannot be formed, vara is unassigned. A clearly marked civil fallback may still show four angular limbs; it is not an At sunrise summary. Skipped or unsupported local dates remain explicit.", "Daylight periods require valid sunrise and sunset boundaries. The daytime weekday tables are not silently applied to night.", "No festival arbitration, fast-breaking rule, Tarabala/Chandrabala rating or complete muhurta judgement is calculated.", "Timeline width measures the displayed clock interval. Angular progress is a separate quantity; neither supplies an event-outcome probability.", "The original birth-instant view remains Lahiri, has no independent event-time input, and does not acquire daily sunrise assignment from this separate tool.", "The lunar atlas uses 27 equal longitude sectors, not unequal stellar boundaries or a separately calculated Abhijit mansion.", "Mansion names and deities are inherited cultural categories; the atlas supplies neither a personality diagnosis nor compatibility or electional verdicts. Word origins and historical assignment variants remain explicit." ], "related": [ 21, 24, 35 ], "references": [ { "title": "Rashtriya Panchang — Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkata", "url": "https://www.packolkata.gov.in/rashtriya-panchang-english.php", "kind": "government astronomical almanac" }, { "title": "Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Komilla Sutton: Personal Panchanga", "url": "https://komilla.com/lib-personal-panchang.html", "kind": "practitioner primary" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Reading Panchang Timings", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/faq/faq-ans1.html", "kind": "first-party almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris Programming Interface: §8.12.1 Hindu rising", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "primary calculation documentation" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Sunrise and sunset conventions", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/panchang/sunrise/panchang-sunrise.html", "kind": "first-party almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Daily Panchang and local-day notation", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/panchang/day-panchang.html", "kind": "first-party almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Kalaprakasika: daylight periods, printed p.175", "url": "https://www.astrojyoti.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Kalaprakasika_text.pdf", "kind": "historical primary text in English translation" }, { "title": "Drik Panchang: Rahu Kalam methods", "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/tutorials/panchang-utilities/rahu-kalam.html", "kind": "first-party practitioner documentation" }, { "title": "Natha Sampradaya dictionary: Rahu-kala", "url": "https://nathas.org/en/dictionary/rahu-kala/", "kind": "first-party lineage dictionary" }, { "title": "India Meteorological Department: Rashtriya Panchang", "url": "https://mausam.imd.gov.in/responsive/rashtriyPanchang.php", "kind": "government astronomical almanac documentation" }, { "title": "Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: nakṣatra (University of Hyderabad)", "url": "https://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/SKT/MW/132.html", "kind": "historical dictionary in scholarly digital edition" }, { "title": "Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa deity sequence, YV32–35/RV25–28, in Indian Astronomy: A Source-book §12.10.1", "url": "https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/indian-astronomy-a-source-book/ocr/1621529/160", "kind": "original Sanskrit text reproduced with translation" }, { "title": "Taittirīya Nakshatra Sukta (Sanskrit Documents)", "url": "https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/nakshatra.html", "kind": "original Sanskrit ritual text" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Panchanga / drik calculation", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "For the local sunrise day, assign vara from the sunrise weekday. Tithi divides Moon−Sun elongation into 30 parts and karana into 60; nakshatra divides the selected sidereal Moon longitude into 27, and nitya yoga divides the wrapped sidereal Sun+Moon sum into 27. Search actual transitions and partition valid daylight into named weekday eighths.", "choices": "Daily controls select local date, place label, city or manual coordinates, IANA time zone, elevation, one of six sidereal references, and Swiss Hindu rising or apparent upper-limb sunrise. Apply settings, step local dates, return to today at that place, or explicitly use birth date and place. Select a limb or change to inspect its interval. The separate birth-instant view retains four Lahiri cards and angular progress. Lunar atlas controls select the sidereal reference, browse a mansion, search names or source-based word origins/deities/symbols, and filter the list by Vimshottari period lord. Show my Moon restores the live birth-Moon selection. Its D9 link carries the selected reference and the actual natal Moon.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "panchanga-drik-calculation" }, { "registryIndex": 23, "history": "Vargas are divisional classifications within Indian horoscope practice. The received Parashari corpus describes a sixteen-division scheme, while commentators and practitioners differ over some constructions. A declared method identifies the implemented reading of those rules; it does not establish one unchanged ancient software standard.", "mythology": "Numerical names identify divisions of a sign. Associated life topics and divine names belong to religious and interpretive traditions. They are distinct from the measured source longitude and from the software convention used to display a mapped coordinate.", "provenance": "The Divisional charts workspace derives D1, D2, D3, D4, D7, D9, D10, D12, D16, D20, D24, D27, D30, D40, D45 and D60 from the same selected sidereal natal frame. It identifies the source segment, assigned sign and mapping method for each graha and Lagna. Equal-segment degrees are explicitly constructed display coordinates; unequal D30 is sign-only. The separate Navamsa workspace retains its existing D1–D9 chart, ruler, same-sign and sign-aspect controls. Optional sensitivity compares independently calculated charts at the recorded UTC time and two chosen time offsets without changing the birth profile.", "useCases": [ "Select a division and a graha to inspect the source longitude, segment and assigned sign.", "Compare the same graha in D1 and the selected division while retaining its natal house and ruler context.", "Distinguish the two-sign Hora, trinal Drekkana, forward D24 and source-sign D60 conventions from alternative methods.", "Compare the recorded birth chart with two nearby UTC samples to identify changes in assigned signs or mapped Lagna.", "Retain the selected conventions and derivation evidence in a downloadable record." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Trace one assignment", "method": "Read the source D1 position and the selected segment, then inspect the assigned sign and its ruler. The rule explains the mapping; the selected topic and original reflection guide a separate interpretive question.", "example": "At 11° Aries, Parashari D3 assigns Leo. A third-harmonic longitude would be 3° Taurus. The same number three does not make these constructions interchangeable." }, { "name": "Read D2 and D30 within their actual scope", "method": "D2 presents Sun/Moon ownership as the conventional Cancer/Leo chart. D30 assigns five unequal source portions to signs and omits mapped degrees. Keep these special constructions visible before transferring a rule from another varga.", "example": "D30 changes sign at its stated unequal boundaries, rather than advancing through thirty equal one-degree bins. This view therefore cannot supply a D30 degree orb." }, { "name": "Read derived houses without inventing a new horizon", "method": "Count whole signs from the mapped Lagna and retain D1 context. This is an interpretive arrangement of derived signs. The dedicated D9 view continues to show its stated classical sign-pattern aspects.", "example": "If mapped Lagna is Aries and the selected graha is in Cancer, the displayed count is four. That count is not a fourth physical house calculated at a second observation time." }, { "name": "Interpret a three-sample sensitivity comparison", "method": "Compare the recorded chart with independently calculated UTC endpoint charts using the same reference, node setting and divisional rule. Identify which rows change and keep the size of the tested offset visible.", "example": "Matching placements at birth and at ±2 minutes show agreement at three instants. They do not prove that nothing changes between those instants or that the recorded birth time is correct." } ], "limits": [ "This is a declared sixteen-varga baseline; alternate Hora, Drekkana, D24 and other mapping variants are not selectable.", "D30 mapped degrees are intentionally absent. Equal-varga display degrees do not represent a new observed sky.", "Whole-sign divisional houses and sign rulers do not supply full dignity, strength, Vimsopaka scoring or an integrated divisional forecast.", "D60 sign assignment starts from the source sign in both parities. A reversed sixty-name sequence in even signs is a separate, unimplemented layer.", "The sensitivity tool compares three UTC instants only. It does not scan an interval, infer birth-time accuracy or perform rectification.", "Fine divisions can be sensitive to source positions and birth time; a precise display is not evidence of precise birth data." ], "related": [ 21, 24, 25 ], "references": [ { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology, an Integrated Approach, §§6.2.1–6.2.20", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Vedic Astrology classes, volume 1 — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao; compiled class notes", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/classes/book1-for-CD.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner teaching" }, { "title": "Komilla Sutton and Connie Achilles: Vargottama", "url": "https://komilla.com/lib-vargotamma-numbers-panchamahabhuta.html", "kind": "practitioner primary" }, { "title": "Sri Jagannath Center: Navamsha–Dharmamsha, Atri class", "url": "https://srijagannath.org/jyoti%E1%B9%A3a/atri-class/nava%E1%B9%83sa-dharma%E1%B9%83sa-001_a/", "kind": "lineage teaching" }, { "title": "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 6, Sanskrit with R. Santhanam translation/commentary, printed pp.68–83", "url": "https://vyaspanchang.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82.pdf", "kind": "classical Sanskrit text with modern translation and commentary" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Personal Finances from Hora Chart (2003), pp.1–3", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/hora.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner conference handout" }, { "title": "P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Correct Siddhamsa Chart of Parasara (2012), pp.1–2", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/para_d24.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner method proposal" }, { "title": "Shri Jyoti Star 10 official help: Varga chart variations", "url": "https://www.vedicsoftware.com/WebHelp/helpindex.html", "kind": "first-party professional software documentation" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Divisional charts / vargas", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Select one of the sixteen named mappings and a detailed sidereal natal frame. Locate each graha and Lagna in its source segment, apply the declared sign assignment and count whole signs from mapped Lagna. Equal-segment fractions may be stretched to 30° for display; D30 remains sign-only.", "choices": "Choose D1, D2, D3, D4, D7, D9, D10, D12, D16, D20, D24, D27, D30, D40, D45 or D60; one of six detailed sidereal references; true or mean nodes; a graha or Lagna. The optional three-sample birth-time comparison uses ±1, ±2, ±5 or ±10 UTC minutes. Fagan-Bradley and De Luce remain comparison references. The dedicated Navamsa workspace remains available with its existing optional outer-planet comparison.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "divisional-charts-vargas" }, { "registryIndex": 24, "history": "Vimshottari is a planetary-period framework transmitted within Indian natal astrology. Its name refers to a 120-year cycle. Modern practitioners use it alongside a birth chart; it is a symbolic allocation of time, not an astronomical orbit lasting 120 years.", "mythology": "The succession of nine lords reuses the graha vocabulary, including the lunar nodes. A period lord is an interpretive designation. It should not be confused with a planet moving into a new sign on the date that the period changes.", "provenance": "The workspace calculates the Moon-nakshatra Vimshottari sequence from the selected recorded sidereal frame and a 360 or 365.25-day year. It retains the full first mahadasha, including its prebirth portion, and nine antardashas in every major period. Local settings also apply to natal lord facts, the personal wiki reading and the selected-period export. The separate raw ephemeris table retains its labelled default.", "useCases": [ "Locate the major and subperiod active at a specified UTC instant.", "Select any recorded major period and inspect its nine subperiods and exact boundaries.", "Read the selected period lords alongside their Lahiri D1 position, whole-sign house and dispositor." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Distinguish the inspected instant from the selected period", "method": "The instant summary identifies the active major/subperiod pair. Selecting a different timeline segment opens that major period's details without changing the inspected time. Use Inspect this exact start to move the time to a subperiod boundary.", "example": "At a shared boundary the new period owns the instant because the previous interval excludes its end. Selecting a future timeline segment is a browsing action, not an event prediction." }, { "name": "Read the lords with their natal facts", "method": "The side panel supplies the selected major lord's natal facts and, when applicable, the active antardasha lord's facts. Read these together before forming a limited theme. Open D9 separately for a divisional comparison; it does not change the stored Lahiri schedule.", "example": "One quarter of a Ketu-ruled birth mansion elapsed leaves 5.25 of its seven conventional years. Its antardashas still partition the original seven-year period, rather than restarting at birth." } ], "limits": [ "The recorded cycle totals 120 conventional years from the beginning of the birth-containing period, not 120 years after birth.", "Instants outside the stored cycle are reported as out of range; cycles are not extrapolated.", "No automatic event forecast, third-level periods or alternative year conventions are supplied.", "Rahu/Ketu natal display follows the selected node setting, while schedule timing stays based on the Lahiri Moon." ], "related": [ 21, 22, 23, 26 ], "references": [ { "title": "Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Krishnamurthi Padathi — Anthony Writer, Jyotisha Bharati", "url": "https://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/images/wikipedia/commons/9/95/KRISHNAMURTHI_PADATHI.pdf", "kind": "practitioner technical teaching" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Vimshottari dasha", "status": "Computed convention", "recipe": "The natal Moon's Lahiri nakshatra determines the initial lord and remaining balance. Partition each full major period into proportional subperiods. Inspect instants with start ≤ instant < end.", "choices": "Enter a full UTC date and time, choose At birth or Now, select a major period, or inspect an antardasha's exact start. The schedule has no alternate ayanamsha, year-length, age-input or third-level-period control.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "vimshottari-dasha" }, { "registryIndex": 25, "history": "Jaimini astrology names a body of techniques transmitted through terse sutras, commentaries and modern teaching. The boundary between Jaimini and Parashari practice is itself disputed: Rao’s teaching argues for substantial overlap rather than two wholly separate traditions.", "mythology": "Attribution to the sage Jaimini establishes traditional authority within the literature. Terms such as atmakaraka invite spiritual readings, but a ranked planetary degree is a reproducible label; interpreting it as the soul’s purpose is a further religious claim.", "provenance": "The registry names chara-karaka and sign-period methods as research topics. It does not silently substitute Vimshottari, whose mansion-based mechanism is different.", "useCases": [ "Compare commentarial rules for movable significators.", "Study how sign-based periods differ from planetary-period sequences." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Identify the rule set first", "method": "Specify seven or eight karakas, how Rahu is handled, tie rules and the chosen sign-period algorithm before ranking positions or assigning durations.", "example": "If Venus has the highest eligible within-sign degree, it receives the highest rank under that chosen scheme; changing eligibility may change the result." } ], "limits": [ "Compressed sutras can support competing readings.", "Calling every sign-period method chara dasha conceals meaningful differences.", "No validated Jaimini personal result is currently emitted; degree rankings alone would not constitute the full system." ], "related": [ 21, 23, 24 ], "references": [ { "title": "Vedic Astrology classes, volume 1 — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao; compiled class notes", "url": "https://vedicastrologer.org/classes/book1-for-CD.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner teaching" }, { "title": "Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Jaimini / chara dashas", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Requires karaka ranking and specific sign-dasha rules.", "choices": "Seven/eight-karaka and Rahu handling, period direction variants need validation.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "jaimini-chara-dashas" }, { "registryIndex": 26, "history": "Krishnamurti Paddhati takes its name from K. S. Krishnamurti and represents a named modern Indian teaching tradition. Its distinctive technical emphasis is the subdivision of nakshatras into unequal sub-lord sectors, making the selected degree particularly important.", "mythology": "KP retains the Indian planetary and mansion vocabulary. The extra subdivisions do not introduce nine newly observed celestial objects: they assign existing period lords to mathematical portions of a mansion.", "provenance": "Anthony Writer’s teaching document specifies the proportional sub-lord construction. Swiss Ephemeris supplies a KP sidereal reference, but choosing that reference alone does not execute KP judgement.", "useCases": [ "Trace the ruler chain attached to a specified sidereal longitude.", "Compare how nearby degrees fall into different sub-lord sectors." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Build the hierarchy", "method": "Identify the sign and mansion, then partition the mansion using each lord’s Vimshottari share of 120 years. Apply the school’s sequence before examining any cusp significators.", "example": "Ketu’s seven-year share gives 800 arcminutes × 7/120 = 46 minutes 40 seconds of arc; this is a sector size, not a duration." } ], "limits": [ "The current engine does not supply the star/sub/sub-sub chain or a complete judgement.", "Subdivisions make rounding and birth-time uncertainty consequential.", "A KP label should record its ayanamsha and house conventions rather than imply universal agreement." ], "related": [ 21, 24, 23 ], "references": [ { "title": "Krishnamurthi Padathi — Anthony Writer, Jyotisha Bharati", "url": "https://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/images/wikipedia/commons/9/95/KRISHNAMURTHI_PADATHI.pdf", "kind": "practitioner technical teaching" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris technical documentation — Astrodienst", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm", "kind": "technical documentation" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Krishnamurti Paddhati (KP)", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "KP sidereal reference and house geometry available.", "choices": "Star/sub/sub-sub ruler divisions and KP judgement not implemented.", "sources": [ "swiss", "rao" ], "slug": "krishnamurti-paddhati-kp" }, { "registryIndex": 27, "history": "Tajika is a Sanskrit adaptation of Perso-Arabic astrology, particularly associated with anniversary horoscopes. Martin Gansten’s critical edition of Balabhadra’s Hayanaratna documents this transmission and the work’s extensive engagement with earlier authorities. The dated treatise was written in 1649.", "mythology": "The vocabulary has crossed languages and religious settings. This makes it a useful example of technical transmission: a Sanskrit term need not prove an exclusively Vedic origin. Symbolic annual significations are distinct from the geometry of the Sun’s return.", "provenance": "The historical sources provide Tajika’s translated rule corpus. The live Returns workspace now supplies a limited calculation foundation: a selected sidereal Sun return and its full chart at the exact solved Julian day. The native inspector displays graha, whole-sign bhava, Lagna ruler, nakshatra/pada and D9 facts. It does not apply the complete annual judgement rules.", "useCases": [ "Explore the documented transmission of Tajika annual astrology.", "Calculate a declared sidereal annual-chart foundation and inspect the recorded time, coordinates and native chart facts.", "Identify the further rules needed for a named Tajika reading without treating the chart foundation as the complete system." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "From a calculated return to a sourced annual judgement", "method": "Select the intended Sun return and confirm its sidereal reference and place. Inspect the exact return chart, then consult the named Tajika source for its additional aspects, configurations, annual rulers and period rules. Those further judgements are not generated here.", "example": "The return instant establishes when to cast the chart. The displayed Lagna ruler is the classical ruler of its rising sign; it is not automatically the Tajika year lord." } ], "limits": [ "The live sidereal return is a calculation foundation, not a complete Tajika / Varshaphala implementation.", "Muntha, year-lord selection, Tajika-specific aspects and yogas, dignities/strength synthesis, sahamas and annual or subsidiary period judgements are not calculated by this workspace.", "A generic Western return interpretation and Parashari sign drishti cannot stand in for Tajika’s rules.", "Changing ayanamsha or return place must remain explicit. These choices and numerical convergence do not establish the predicted events." ], "related": [ 18, 21, 24, 26 ], "references": [ { "title": "Martin Gansten and Balabhadra: The Jewel of Annual Astrology", "url": "https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004433717/html", "kind": "publisher record of critical primary-text edition" }, { "title": "Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach — P. V. R. Narasimha Rao", "url": "https://www.vedicastrologer.org/articles/vedic_astro_textbook.pdf", "kind": "original practitioner textbook" }, { "title": "Balabhadra: The Jewel of Annual Astrology, chapter2 — Aspects and Dignities", "url": "https://brill.com/display/book/9789004433717/9789004433717_webready_content_text.pdf", "kind": "critical edition and translation of primary text" }, { "title": "Balabhadra: The Jewel of Annual Astrology, chapter8 — Monthly and Daily Revolutions", "url": "https://brill.com/display/book/9789004433717/BP000010.xml", "kind": "critical edition and translation of primary text" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Solar Return chart", "url": "https://www.astro.com/cgi/h.cgi?f=gch&h=gch32&lang=e", "kind": "first-party chart-method documentation" }, { "title": "Astrodienst: Return charts FAQ", "url": "https://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_return_e.htm", "kind": "first-party software documentation" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Tajika / Varshaphala", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Solve the selected sidereal Sun’s return to its natal longitude and calculate the return chart. Further Tajika aspects, dignities, configurations, muntha, annual rulers and period rules remain separate work.", "choices": "For a native sidereal foundation, choose Sun and Lahiri, Raman, Krishnamurti or Yukteshwar in Returns, a UTC window of up to 400 days and the declared return location. Tropical, Fagan-Bradley and De Luce are also available with Western reading context. The workspace also supports Moon returns, which are not automatically Tajika monthly revolutions.", "sources": [ "rao", "api" ], "slug": "tajika-varshaphala" }, { "registryIndex": 28, "history": "This registry entry groups traditions that need separate articles rather than implying a single school. Gansten’s research distinguishes Nadi reading practices from ordinary horoscope interpretation. Lal Kitab has its own Urdu print history, represented by the AstroStudents archive of the 1939 edition and related volumes.", "mythology": "Some Nadi traditions describe manuscripts as statements composed by sages or divinities before a client’s birth. That is a practitioner provenance claim, not a historical fact established by finding a matching reading. Bhrigu attribution likewise needs manuscript-specific investigation.", "provenance": "The named corpus, manuscript or edition is the essential starting point. A software package offering a generic Nadi or Lal Kitab button cannot establish that it reproduces every practice under those names.", "useCases": [ "Compare how textual consultation differs from calculating a horoscope.", "Investigate a claimed lineage through dated editions and documented manuscripts." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Follow the source, not the umbrella", "method": "Determine whether the practice searches a manuscript, interprets planetary combinations or applies an edition’s house rules; then document its required inputs and procedure.", "example": "A palm-leaf reading and a planetary-combination algorithm may both be advertised as Nadi while producing their results in fundamentally different ways." } ], "limits": [ "No universal algorithm for this bundle has been verified.", "Divine authorship and successful personal recognition are not independent historical dating methods.", "Remedial prescriptions and predictive claims are not endorsed by inclusion in the wiki." ], "related": [ 21, 25, 26 ], "references": [ { "title": "Nadi Divination and Indian Astrology — Martin Gansten, 2011", "url": "https://www.martingansten.com/pdf/NadiDivinationAndIndianAstrology2011.pdf", "kind": "original scholarly research" }, { "title": "Lal Kitab Ke Farman, 1939 — AstroStudents archive", "url": "https://astrostudents.ueuo.com/1939/index.html", "kind": "practitioner primary-text archive" } ], "family": "Indian", "systems": "Nadi / Bhrigu / Lal Kitab / regional lineages", "status": "Research gap", "recipe": "Identify the exact corpus and rules before implementing.", "choices": "No canonical universal machine specification verified here; no fabricated result.", "sources": [ "rao" ], "slug": "nadi-bhrigu-lal-kitab-regional-lineages" }, { "registryIndex": 29, "history": "Four Pillars arranges the year, month, day and double-hour into stem–branch pairs. The older calendrical cycles precede their combination as Eight Characters. The Hong Kong Observatory documents the cycle and the relations used to derive month and hour stems. Saju is the Korean name commonly applied to the Four Pillars tradition.", "mythology": "Ten stems and twelve branches carry yin–yang, five-phase and animal correspondences. The animals are symbolic names for branch positions; a Pig year is not a claim about the physical constellation occupied by a planet.", "provenance": "The engine uses the birth instant for solar-term year and month, then reports civil, local-mean-solar and apparent-solar hour variants with explicit day-turnover choices.", "useCases": [ "Learn what the eight characters actually encode.", "Compare regional clock conventions before attempting a traditional reading." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Establish the chart before interpretation", "method": "Compute the four pairs, identify the day stem, and only then examine the school’s phase relations and seasonal rules.", "example": "For a sample birth near an hour boundary, civil, mean solar, and apparent solar time may assign different hour pillars. Compare the three results while keeping the birth instant fixed." } ], "limits": [ "The birthday’s ten-minute proximity to an hour boundary makes the clock convention material.", "Luck direction and start-age methods require additional choices.", "The cycle labels are computable; judgements about temperament or destiny require separate evidence." ], "related": [ 30, 31, 32, 33 ], "references": [ { "title": "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches — Hong Kong Observatory", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm", "kind": "government calendrical explanation" }, { "title": "The 24 Solar Terms — Hong Kong Observatory", "url": "https://www.weather.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm", "kind": "government astronomical explanation" }, { "title": "Facts about Korea — Korean Culture and Information Service", "url": "https://www.korea.net/koreanet/fileDownload?fileUrl=pdfdata%2F2015%2F01%2FFactsAboutKorea_en_0116.pdf", "kind": "government cultural reference" }, { "title": "Wang and Zhang (2020) · traditional five-phase cycle order", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7493062/" } ], "family": "Chinese", "systems": "BaZi / Four Pillars / Saju", "status": "Computed variants", "recipe": "Solar-term year/month plus sexagenary day/hour.", "choices": "Civil, local mean and apparent-solar variants; day starts at midnight or23:00; luck cycles deferred.", "sources": [ "stems", "solarterms" ], "slug": "bazi-four-pillars-saju" }, { "registryIndex": 30, "history": "The Chinese calendar coordinates lunar months with the solar year through intercalation. Its year animal is widely known, but the calendar also specifies a month, day and leap-month status. Modern observatory conversion tables make these date labels independently checkable.", "mythology": "The twelve animals symbolize the earthly branches. Their cultural stories should be distinguished from the calendar algorithm: a story about an animal’s character cannot determine when a new moon occurs or whether a month is intercalary.", "provenance": "The explorer uses lunar-javascript 1.7.7 for modern Chinese date lookup and Swiss Ephemeris for the apparent tropical Sun at the Li Chun boundary. Thirteen selected 2023–2024 and 2033 dates are checked against Hong Kong Observatory tables, including leap months numbered 2 and 11. Those examples do not certify the entire 1901–2100 explorer range.", "useCases": [ "Convert a recorded birthday into a stated Chinese calendar convention.", "Understand how a lunar New Year boundary differs from a BaZi solar-year boundary." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read the selected year boundary", "method": "Open the Chinese calendar explorer and choose China UTC+08, entered local date, or Li Chun solar year. Attach the stem, branch and animal to that exact reference. The wiki reading and report use the selected reference for your saved birth; an independent explorer date leaves your birth profile unchanged.", "example": "At noon Hong Kong time on 5 February 2024, the lunar calendar still names Gui-Mao Rabbit, lunar month 12 day 26. The Sun has already crossed Li Chun, so the solar-year convention names Jia-Chen Dragon." }, { "name": "Preserve the leap marker", "method": "Read lunar year, month, day and leap-month status together. An intercalary month repeats a number; a bare month number is incomplete.", "example": "21 March 2023 is ordinary month 2 day 30; 22 March is leap month 2 day 1 in the HKO tables." }, { "name": "Use the date you actually know", "method": "Choose Recorded date only in the Chinese calendar explorer when the clock is unknown or approximate. The native lookup needs only the recorded Gregorian civil date. It returns the lunar date, leap marker and Lunar New Year-based stem–branch year. China date at an instant and Li Chun remain explicitly unavailable in this mode. Precision and provenance stay separate in the downloaded result. If an approximate interval crosses dates, this lookup covers only the recorded date; it does not establish one result for the entire interval. On this wiki page, explicitly select Entered local date to see the same native date-only reading for a saved unknown-time or approximate-time record. China date and Li Chun remain unavailable without a resolved instant; choosing a reference never silently substitutes another.", "example": "A record dated 10 February 2024 with unknown time can be looked up as lunar month 1 day 1, Jia-Chen Dragon, under the entered-civil-date convention. No UTC moment, hour pillar or Li Chun result is inferred." } ], "limits": [ "A Gregorian year number does not determine the Chinese year for every January or February date.", "Reference meridian and date-boundary choices matter near transitions.", "Leap-month numbering must survive export and display.", "This modern reference-calendar explorer covers 1901–2100 with representative validation only; historical reforms and other regional lunar calendars remain separate.", "The China option uses fixed UTC+08; the local-date option is a reference-table lookup, not birthplace-meridian lunar astronomy.", "Calendar symbols do not supply a complete BaZi interpretation or evidence of animal-based personality traits." ], "related": [ 29, 31, 35 ], "references": [ { "title": "Gregorian–Lunar Calendar Conversion Table of 1995 — Hong Kong Observatory", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/calendar/pdf/files/1995e.pdf", "kind": "government calendar table" }, { "title": "The 24 Solar Terms — Hong Kong Observatory", "url": "https://www.weather.gov.hk/en/gts/time/24solarterms.htm", "kind": "government astronomical explanation" }, { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · What year is it today? (Hui Tai-wai, April 2018)", "url": "https://www.weather.gov.hk/en/education/astronomy-and-time/time-service/00506-what-year-is-it-today.html", "kind": "official calendar convention" }, { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · 2024 Gregorian–lunar conversion table", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/calendar/pdf/files/2024e.pdf", "kind": "government calendar table" }, { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · March 2023 almanac, leap second month", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/astron2023/files/2023cal03.pdf", "kind": "government calendar table" }, { "title": "Hong Kong Observatory · 2033 Chinese calendar, leap eleventh month", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/tc/gts/time/calendar/pdf/files/2033.pdf", "kind": "government calendar table" } ], "family": "Chinese", "systems": "Chinese lunisolar zodiac", "status": "Calendar explorer", "recipe": "Modern Chinese lunar date and sexagenary year; explicit local-date, China UTC+08 and Li Chun references.", "choices": "Use Recorded date only without an invented clock, or enter an exact date/time/timezone to compare local-date, China UTC+08 and Li Chun references. Preserve leap months, repeated-clock choices and the recorded precision.", "sources": [ "hko1995" ], "slug": "chinese-lunisolar-zodiac" }, { "registryIndex": 31, "history": "Zi Wei Dou Shu belongs to the Chinese family of calendrical fate-calculation. Tu Vi is its Vietnamese reception. The available evidence here is strongest for documented contemporary chart construction, not for a securely established origin date or an unbroken single founding lineage.", "mythology": "The chart names stars, palaces and transformations. In this setting, placing a named star in a palace is a calendrical assignment; it should not be mistaken for observing that physical star at a particular ecliptic longitude.", "provenance": "Iztro’s original documentation exposes lunar-date conversion and double-hour inputs. Its associated implementation documentation makes school differences explicit, including year boundaries, late-Zi attribution and alternative transformation tables.", "useCases": [ "Compare two charting schools using the same birth data.", "Learn how palace and star assignments organize a traditional reading." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Inspect a configured palace chart", "method": "Record the source calendar, hour index, required sex/gender parameter and school, then inspect the resulting palaces and their assigned stars before adding time cycles.", "example": "Changing whether a late Zi hour belongs to today or tomorrow can alter date-dependent placements; it is a configuration difference rather than an ephemeris error." } ], "limits": [ "A full personal chart is not currently calculated here.", "Leap-month treatment and transformation tables must be disclosed.", "Chinese and Vietnamese naming or teaching differences should not be flattened into an unsupported universal interpretation." ], "related": [ 29, 30, 32 ], "references": [ { "title": "Iztro official quick start — Iztro maintainers", "url": "https://docs.iztro.com/quick-start", "kind": "technical documentation" }, { "title": "Zi Wei Dou Shu configuration — X-Haose implementation authors", "url": "https://ziwei.x-haose.com/en/docs/guide/guides/config", "kind": "technical documentation" } ], "family": "Chinese", "systems": "Zi Wei Dou Shu / Tử Vi", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Lunar calendar, double-hour index and school-configured star/palace placements.", "choices": "Gender/sex parameter, leap-month, year and late-Zi conventions; full chart absent.", "sources": [ "iztro", "ziweivariants" ], "slug": "zi-wei-dou-shu-t-vi" }, { "registryIndex": 32, "history": "Qi Men Dun Jia, Da Liu Ren and Tai Yi are three distinct Chinese divination systems often grouped as the three cosmic boards. Ho Peng Yoke’s historical study documents their place in the astronomical bureau and their use for interpreting natural events and human affairs.", "mythology": "Board imagery includes named deities, gates or cosmic correspondences according to the particular system. Such language expresses a symbolic model of order. It does not make the boards three interchangeable maps of visible planetary positions.", "provenance": "This is a comparative gateway, not a composite algorithm. Ho’s separate chapters on Tai Yi, Qi Men and Liu Ren are the research starting point; each requires its own transmitted rules and test cases.", "useCases": [ "Study historically documented event-based divination.", "Compare how different board traditions represent the same question or moment." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Choose one board tradition", "method": "Specify the system, question time, calendar convention and board-construction method; assign the relevant symbols before applying that source’s relational rules.", "example": "An event time can be shared input across three boards while their internal objects and reading procedures remain different." } ], "limits": [ "The registry does not calculate these boards yet.", "Claims of secret imperial origins or legendary military success require independent historical evidence.", "A BaZi chart cannot be relabelled as one of these systems merely because both use stems and branches." ], "related": [ 29, 31, 33 ], "references": [ { "title": "Chinese Mathematical Astrology — Ho Peng Yoke, 2003", "url": "https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Mathematical-Astrology-Reaching-Out-to-the-Stars/Yoke/p/book/9780415863100", "kind": "scholarly monograph, publisher description" }, { "title": "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches — Hong Kong Observatory", "url": "https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/gts/time/stemsandbranches.htm", "kind": "government calendrical explanation" } ], "family": "Chinese", "systems": "Qi Men Dun Jia / Da Liu Ren / Tai Yi", "status": "Research gap", "recipe": "Event-calendar cycles with plate, palace and divination rules.", "choices": "Listed as adjacent traditions; separate rulebooks and validation corpus not established.", "sources": [ "stems" ], "slug": "qi-men-dun-jia-da-liu-ren-tai-yi" }, { "registryIndex": 33, "history": "Nine Star Ki is a Japanese-associated cycle practice encountered today through several teaching lineages. The cited original practitioner lessons document a descending annual nine-cycle and related directional work. They are evidence for a particular teaching, not a comprehensive history of every Kyusei school.", "mythology": "The numbers are associated with water, wood, fire, earth and metal. Calling them stars does not mean the calculation measures nine physical stellar positions. The cycle describes symbolic phases and relationships in the practitioner’s framework.", "provenance": "The annual explorer supports two explicit boundaries. The default follows Blooming Grove Studio’s fixed February 4 teaching and needs only an entered civil date. A separate Atlas comparison uses the apparent tropical geocentric Sun reaching 315°, with an explicit local time, IANA timezone and repeated-time choice when needed. The astronomical comparison is not presented as a universal Nine Star school rule. Both use the descending annual nine-cycle and remain separate from sex-dependent Feng Shui ming gua.", "useCases": [ "Explore an annual number and its source-attributed symbolic correspondences for a chosen date.", "Compare fixed February 4 and astronomical 315° year boundaries around the start of spring.", "Inspect the annual cycle and export the selected convention, evidence and reading." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Fixed February 4 annual reading", "method": "Use the entered Gregorian civil date. Dates before February 4 use the preceding effective year; February 4 begins the new annual cycle. Read the annual number with the cited Blooming Grove correspondences. No time or timezone is inferred.", "example": "February 4, 2000 gives annual number 9, Fire. The symbolic meaning is a source-attributed reflection, not a measured personality result." }, { "name": "Astronomical start-of-spring comparison", "method": "Resolve the explicit local date, time and timezone, including a fold choice for a repeated clock time. Use the apparent tropical geocentric Sun at 315° to identify the effective year, then apply the annual cycle. This Atlas comparison can differ from the fixed-date teaching.", "example": "February 4, 2024 at 12:00 in Asia/Tokyo falls before the astronomical crossing: annual number 4, Wood, effective year 2023. The fixed-date teaching gives 3, Wood, effective year 2024." } ], "limits": [ "Annual only: monthly, third-number, daily, hourly and directional methods require separate conventions and are not supplied by this tool.", "The astronomical comparison is an Atlas alternative, not independent confirmation of a symbolic meaning or a universal school rule.", "A fixed civil February 4 boundary and a solar-term instant can disagree. Time uncertainty near the astronomical boundary can change the classification.", "Annual symbols and practitioner character descriptions are interpretive traditions; arithmetic and ephemeris checks do not establish their predictive validity." ], "related": [ 29, 32, 37 ], "references": [ { "title": "Nine Star Ki lessons — 9StarKi practitioner teaching resource", "url": "https://9starki.com/free_lessons.htm", "kind": "original practitioner teaching" }, { "title": "Nine Star Ki FAQ — Blooming Grove Studio", "url": "https://9starki.com/faq.htm", "kind": "original practitioner account of variants" }, { "title": "Wayne Weber · Nine Star Ki Study, Blooming Grove Studio", "url": "https://www.9starki.com/9ki_info.htm", "kind": "original practitioner symbolism; not empirical character evidence" }, { "title": "NAOJ · 2024 solar terms", "url": "https://eco.mtk.nao.ac.jp/koyomi/yoko/2024/rekiyou242.html", "kind": "independent astronomical crossing reference; not symbolic validation" } ], "family": "East Asia", "systems": "Nine Star Ki / Kyūsei", "status": "Partial", "recipe": "Annual descending nine-cycle: fixed February 4 teaching or explicit astronomical 315° comparison, with sourced annual readings and local exports.", "choices": "Annual only; monthly, third-number, daily, hourly, directional and Ming Gua methods remain separate.", "sources": [ "nine" ], "slug": "nine-star-ki-ky-sei" }, { "registryIndex": 34, "history": "Onmyodo, Buddhist Sukuyodo and mansion systems should not be collapsed into one Japanese zodiac. Jeffrey Kotyk’s research distinguishes Buddhist ritual-day astrology from Sukuyodo horoscopy and traces Japanese Buddhist astral practices through Chinese and Indo-Iranian transmission.", "mythology": "Astral deities and ritual images carried religious functions as well as technical meanings. Kotyk documents the reception of imagery with Iranian precedents. This history is more complex than assigning each modern personality type to a Japanese animal or mansion.", "provenance": "The registry is a research gateway to named texts and traditions. Its equal nakshatra calculation is not presented as a complete reproduction of Chinese xiu or every Japanese lunar-mansion procedure.", "useCases": [ "Explore how calendrical learning travelled through Buddhist networks.", "Distinguish ritual scheduling, mansion classification and horoscope interpretation." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Identify what the source actually measures", "method": "First establish whether a text uses a daily mansion sequence, an astronomical mansion position or a full horoscope; apply its calendar and star tables before reading symbolic associations.", "example": "Two sources can list a similar mansion name yet assign a given date differently because one follows a day-count table and another a positional rule." } ], "limits": [ "Twenty-seven and twenty-eight mansion schemes require separate definitions.", "Historic Onmyodo is broader than a natal chart calculator.", "No personal Japanese mansion result is currently validated by this engine." ], "related": [ 22, 29, 33, 35 ], "references": [ { "title": "Japanese Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic — Jeffrey Kotyk, 2018", "url": "https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/issue/196/article/1472", "kind": "original peer-reviewed research" }, { "title": "Tibetan calendar mathematics — Svante Janson, Uppsala University", "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/1401.6285", "kind": "scholarly mathematical research" } ], "family": "East Asia", "systems": "Onmyōdō / Sukuyō / 27–28 mansion systems", "status": "Research gap", "recipe": "Combine specific calendar, mansions and transmitted tables.", "choices": "Equal nakshatras are not a validated replacement for every mansion tradition.", "sources": [ "tibet", "stems" ], "slug": "onmy-d-sukuy-27-28-mansion-systems" }, { "registryIndex": 35, "history": "Tibetan calendar calculation is associated with Kālacakra literature and later lineages. Janson's mathematical account distinguishes Phugpa from Tsurphu; they should be named separately rather than treated as a single interchangeable Tibetan calendar. Losar is also observed through varied Himalayan customs, so a calculated Phugpa year boundary does not determine every community's festival practice.", "mythology": "Kālacakra, Wheel of Time, belongs to a Buddhist religious framework that connects temporal cycles and practice. Phugpa calendar arithmetic and community observances have related histories, but a computed civil date does not establish ritual authority. Losar customs vary across Himalayan communities; the calculator does not select a universal festival practice.", "provenance": "The Phugpa date workspace implements the E1987 epoch and a₂=1/28 coefficient in Svante Janson’s mathematical account. Its mean motions and corrections are calculated as exact rational quantities. The 425 published-reference checks establish fidelity to that account’s tables and examples; they do not certify every contemporary almanac or another Tibetan lineage.", "useCases": [ "Convert a civil date into a complete Phugpa date label under the declared convention.", "Identify both civil occurrences of a repeated lunar-day label, or preserve an omitted label.", "Compare the month pattern and stated assumptions with a dated document or almanac.", "Keep the exact calendar request, meanings, glossary and sources in a downloadable report." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Read the complete calendar label", "method": "Open Phugpa date workspace, choose either conversion direction, and calculate. Read the Western-numbered Tibetan year, month, lunar day, leap-month marker and occurrence together. Your selected calendar request carries into this wiki; it is independent of your saved birth profile and zodiac settings.", "example": "Calculated teaching example: in the published 2012 month-1 label pattern, day 5 is repeated and day 19 is omitted. Under this declared calculation, the two day-5 occurrences are 2012-02-26 and 2012-02-27. A reverse lookup therefore presents both dates for selection, while a lookup for month 1, day 19 reports no civil-date occurrence. These dates illustrate this declared calculation version; they are not an independently verified contemporary almanac claim." }, { "name": "Distinguish an omission from missing information", "method": "A date label with zero civil occurrences is an explicit calendar result. Leave it omitted instead of shifting it to the nearest date. A repeated label has two distinct civil occurrences; select one only if the source identifies it.", "example": "In the declared 2012 month-1 pattern, day 19 has no civil occurrence. Day 5 has two: 26 and 27 February. The month grid displays these outcomes separately." }, { "name": "Compare sources without changing the lineage", "method": "Keep the named Phugpa version and epoch attached to every comparison. A difference from Tsurphu or a local almanac is a reason to inspect conventions; it is not permission to substitute Chinese lunar dates or modern observed Moon phases.", "example": "A Gregorian date can fall before Losar while belonging to the preceding Western-numbered Tibetan year. Retain both year labels in the record." } ], "limits": [ "This guide describes one Phugpa version: E1987 with Janson's a₂ = 1/28 coefficient. It does not establish parity with Tsurphu, Bhutanese, Mongolian or every contemporary Tibetan almanac, and it does not substitute modern observed lunar phases for the lineage calculation. A calculated calendar label is not a horoscope, personality reading, auspicious-day judgement or ritual adjustment. Published-reference fixtures check fidelity to Janson's equations and tables, not independent confirmation of every result.", "Gregorian input range: 1900–2100. Reverse lookup uses Western-numbered Tibetan years 1899–2100 and can be clipped at the supported civil-date boundaries.", "Tsurphu, Bhutanese and Mongolian versions, full natal interpretation, auspicious-date rules and ritual adjustments are not supplied by this tool." ], "related": [ 22, 36, 37 ], "references": [ { "title": "Svante Janson · Tibetan calendar mathematics, §§3, 5–8 and Appendix A.1", "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/1401.6285", "kind": "mathematical or cultural source; see individual scope" }, { "title": "Alexander Berzin · Tibetan Astro Sciences", "url": "https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/tibetan-astrology/tibetan-astro-sciences", "kind": "mathematical or cultural source; see individual scope" }, { "title": "Westin Harris · Losar Celebrations Across Himalayan Cultures, Rubin Museum", "url": "https://rubinmuseum.org/losar-celebrations-across-himalayan-cultures/", "kind": "mathematical or cultural source; see individual scope" }, { "title": "Men-Tsee-Khang · Tibetan calendar", "url": "https://mentseekhang.org/calendar/", "kind": "mathematical or cultural source; see individual scope" } ], "family": "Tibetan", "systems": "Phugpa / Tsurphu / Kālacakra", "status": "Phugpa calendar tool", "recipe": "Named Phugpa E1987 construction: rational mean motions, corrections, lunar-day endings and Gregorian civil-date assignment.", "choices": "Phugpa E1987, Janson a₂=1/28. Keep regular/leap month and repeated-day occurrence explicit. Tsurphu and other lineages remain separate.", "sources": [ "tibet" ], "slug": "phugpa-tsurphu-k-lacakra" }, { "registryIndex": 36, "history": "Bhutanese and Mongolian calendars belong to the wider history of Tibetan-derived calendrical learning while retaining regional versions. Janson’s comparative appendix treats these variants separately. Shared terminology does not guarantee the same month numbering or the same civil date.", "mythology": "Animal and element cycles can connect calendar identity with a religious year. A shared animal name therefore signals a relationship between traditions, but it cannot establish that every observance or birthday falls on the same day.", "provenance": "This entry emphasizes local almanac provenance. The relevant evidence is a named regional calendar, its constants and its published examples; the umbrella term Tibetan is not enough to resolve a discrepancy.", "useCases": [ "Compare regional dates for a festival or historical document.", "Understand why two Buddhist almanacs may disagree without a simple copying error." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Compare complete date records", "method": "Record the regional system, era, month number, leap status and repeated-day marker, then convert each using its own rules.", "example": "If two almanacs differ by a month, inspect intercalation and month naming before attempting to fix the difference with a time-zone offset." } ], "limits": [ "Regional usage may require contemporary local confirmation.", "This engine has not validated these conversions.", "A shared underlying tradition should not be used to erase local practice, nor should a calendar difference be interpreted as a personal astrological contradiction." ], "related": [ 30, 35, 37 ], "references": [ { "title": "Tibetan calendar mathematics — Svante Janson, Uppsala University", "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/1401.6285", "kind": "scholarly mathematical research" }, { "title": "Tibetan Astro Sciences — Alexander Berzin", "url": "https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/tibetan-astrology/tibetan-astro-sciences", "kind": "scholar-practitioner explanation" } ], "family": "Tibetan", "systems": "Bhutanese / Mongolian / regional Tibetan calendars", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Variant constants and intercalation rules.", "choices": "Can differ by day or month; no invented single Tibetan birthday.", "sources": [ "tibet" ], "slug": "bhutanese-mongolian-regional-tibetan-calendars" }, { "registryIndex": 37, "history": "Tibetan elemental astrology adds animal cycles, mewa numbers and parkha trigrams to calendrical reckoning. It reflects Chinese-derived materials adapted within Tibetan religious life, alongside Indian-derived astronomical learning. These layers have their own conventions rather than being automatic consequences of planetary longitude.", "mythology": "A nineteenth-century chart in the Rubin collection shows the cosmic tortoise, described as an emanation of Manjushri, with nine numbered squares, eight trigrams and twelve animals. The catalogue identifies an instructional and talismanic function; protective efficacy is a traditional belief.", "provenance": "The museum object supports the symbolism, while Berzin explains the broader practice. Neither supplies a validated universal personal calculation for every lineage represented by this registry.", "useCases": [ "Read the visual vocabulary of a Tibetan astrological chart.", "Compare how yearly and personal cyclic attributes are kept distinct." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Separate the overlays", "method": "Establish the source calendar first; then obtain the animal, element, mewa and parkha using that source’s tables and required personal inputs.", "example": "An element–animal year label supplies only one component. It does not establish a birth mewa, a current-age parkha, or a complete personal assessment." } ], "limits": [ "Some overlays depend on age conventions and sex-specific traditional rules.", "Diagram symbolism is not sufficient evidence for an algorithm.", "These personal overlays remain research-only in the engine." ], "related": [ 33, 35, 36 ], "references": [ { "title": "Chart: Protective Talisman, Rubin collection P1994.13.1 — Himalayan Art Resources", "url": "https://www.himalayanart.org/items/28", "kind": "museum collection and iconographic catalogue" }, { "title": "Tibetan Astro Sciences — Alexander Berzin", "url": "https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/tibetan-astrology/tibetan-astro-sciences", "kind": "scholar-practitioner explanation" }, { "title": "Tibetan Astrology and Karma — Alexander Berzin", "url": "https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/tibetan-astrology/tibetan-astrology-and-karma", "kind": "scholar-practitioner explanation" } ], "family": "Tibetan", "systems": "Element / animal / mewa / parkha overlays", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Calendar attributes and cyclic tables.", "choices": "Choose the lineage first; a shared element–animal year label does not establish a complete personal profile.", "sources": [ "tibet" ], "slug": "element-animal-mewa-parkha-overlays" }, { "registryIndex": 38, "history": "The 260-day sacred count is a living Maya tradition, not merely an archaeological curiosity. Smithsonian material includes Maya daykeepers and explains the continuing Chol Qij cycle. Tzolkin is another widely used name; language and community context matter when presenting names and meanings.", "mythology": "Day signs connect time with animals, land, people and the wider cosmos in daykeepers’ accounts. Their religious significance is not exhausted by a translated English keyword, and a single generic personality paragraph cannot stand for all Maya communities.", "provenance": "The engine supplies arithmetic labels using the declared GMT584283 correlation and a local civil-date convention. Cultural interpretation remains attributed to a named community or daykeeper rather than generated as an alleged universal ancient reading.", "useCases": [ "Learn the interaction of the thirteen-number and twenty-name cycles.", "Compare a computed calendar label with an attributed living tradition." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Count, name, contextualize", "method": "Advance the number and day-name cycles together, then consult the particular community’s explanations and observance practices.", "example": "A sacred-count day label combines a number and a day name under a declared correlation. It is a calendar result, not proof of a fixed character or destiny." } ], "limits": [ "Correlation and day-boundary conventions must be visible.", "Maya languages do not use identical names.", "Modern Dreamspell profiles are a separate system and should not be passed off as this count." ], "related": [ 39, 40, 41 ], "references": [ { "title": "The Calendar System — Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian", "url": "https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system", "kind": "institutional account with Maya practitioner voices" }, { "title": "2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, Part 4 — Mark Van Stone / FAMSI", "url": "https://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/2012Part4.pdf", "kind": "scholarly calendrical explanation" } ], "family": "Mesoamerican", "systems": "Maya Tzolk’in / Chol Q’ij", "status": "Computed convention", "recipe": "Day count modulo13 and20.", "choices": "GMT584283 default; living traditions and boundary conventions deserve explicit attribution.", "sources": [ "maya", "gmt" ], "slug": "maya-tzolk-in-chol-q-ij" }, { "registryIndex": 39, "history": "The Maya calendar combines cycles with a count of elapsed days. Long Count notation supports dated inscriptions, while the Haab organizes a 365-day sequence. The joint recurrence of the 260-day and 365-day counts forms the Calendar Round, a different structure from the Long Count.", "mythology": "Calendar dates can be embedded in accounts of creation, rulership and ceremony. These contexts explain why time could carry religious significance, but a large-cycle rollover is not intrinsically a prediction of the end of the world.", "provenance": "The Smithsonian converter states the Long Count units. The engine records GMT584283 as the selected bridge to Julian day numbers, and preserves numerical results separately from cultural interpretations.", "useCases": [ "Read a Long Count date as a sum of day units.", "Understand which information a Calendar Round date leaves unspecified." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Translate units and cycles", "method": "Use units of 144000, 7200, 360, 20 and one day; compute the Haab position separately and combine it with the sacred-count label if a Calendar Round is needed.", "example": "A Long Count locates a date within a longer chronology. A Calendar Round label recurs after 18,980 days, so that recurring label alone does not identify one unique era." } ], "limits": [ "Changing the correlation changes the Gregorian alignment.", "The Haab should not silently acquire Gregorian leap days.", "Historical interpretation needs inscriptional context as well as correct arithmetic." ], "related": [ 38, 40 ], "references": [ { "title": "Maya Calendar Converter — Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian", "url": "https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/maya-calendar-converter", "kind": "institutional calendar reference" }, { "title": "2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, Part 4 — Mark Van Stone / FAMSI", "url": "https://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/2012Part4.pdf", "kind": "scholarly calendrical explanation" } ], "family": "Mesoamerican", "systems": "Maya Haab / Long Count / Calendar Round", "status": "Computed convention", "recipe": "Mixed-radix Long Count,365-day Haab,18,980-day joint cycle.", "choices": "Correlation constant must be recorded.", "sources": [ "mayaconvert", "gmt" ], "slug": "maya-haab-long-count-calendar-round" }, { "registryIndex": 40, "history": "The Mexica tonalpohualli belongs to the wider Mesoamerican family of 260-day ritual counts. Scholarship on pictorial manuscripts shows calendrical divination embedded in religious and historical contexts. Its numerical resemblance to a Maya count does not establish identical correlations, names or interpretations.", "mythology": "Central Mexican daybooks combine day signs with divine figures and other imagery. Jansen and Perez Jimenez discuss such manuscripts as organized religious knowledge. Reading one requires its visual sequence and cultural setting, rather than a modern zodiac-style list alone.", "provenance": "Stellarium documents one computational implementation of the thirteen-number and twenty-name structure. This registry has not adopted a correlation and validated a personal tonalpohualli result.", "useCases": [ "Compare the structures of related Mesoamerican counts.", "Study how a pictorial daybook organizes ritual time." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Work from a named calendar and codex", "method": "Choose the historical or living tradition and a documented correlation; calculate the numerical label, then consult the relevant manuscript sequence and its scholarship.", "example": "Renaming a Maya day sign with a similar Nahuatl word does not establish a valid Mexica date conversion. Each count needs its own documented correlation and naming convention." } ], "limits": [ "Similar cycle lengths do not prove identical epochs.", "The Sun Stone is not a universal decoder for all Mesoamerican calendars.", "No personal Aztec reading is emitted; cultural names and correlation evidence remain necessary." ], "related": [ 38, 39 ], "references": [ { "title": "The Mat and the Throne — Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez", "url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/19/66/79/84/2019667984/2019667984.pdf", "kind": "scholarly study of Mesoamerican manuscripts" }, { "title": "AztecTonalpohualliCalendar — Stellarium", "url": "https://stellarium.org/doc/0.20/classAztecTonalpohualliCalendar.html", "kind": "original implementation documentation" } ], "family": "Mesoamerican", "systems": "Aztec Tonalpohualli / other Mesoamerican counts", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "260-day numerical structure with culture-specific day names and correlation.", "choices": "Do not rename a Maya result as an Aztec one.", "sources": [ "maya" ], "slug": "aztec-tonalpohualli-other-mesoamerican-counts" }, { "registryIndex": 41, "history": "Dreamspell is a modern creation associated with José and Lloydine Argüelles, developed around 1990–1991. In his own retrospective account, José dates the kit’s design to 1990 and production preparations to 1991. These are creator-reported milestones, not evidence that the system preserves an unchanged ancient Maya calendar.", "mythology": "Its spiritual narrative describes planetary kin, twenty solar seals, thirteen tones, and a journey of collective awakening. Dreamspell Genesis explicitly presents a mythic account of cosmic migration and recovered memory. The thirteen equal 28-day months function as an ideal calendar pattern; they are not measurements of thirteen astronomical lunar months.", "provenance": "Study the Argüelles materials as modern religious creativity, alongside museum accounts of Maya calendars. Keep Dreamspell’s named seals, correlation and leap-day treatment separate from Tzolk’in or living Chol Q’ij practice.", "useCases": [ "Calendar-based journaling and art", "Comparing modern calendar reform with Maya day counts" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Calendar-symbolic reading", "method": "Choose a documented Dreamspell conversion, record the resulting seal and tone, and use their stated symbolism as a reflection prompt.", "example": "A daily journal can track a chosen theme without treating ordinary events as proof of a cosmic program." }, { "name": "Historical comparison", "method": "Place the modern output beside a traditional day count and explain every difference in epoch and day handling.", "example": "Identical cycle lengths do not establish identical dates or meanings." } ], "limits": [ "The engine has no verified Dreamspell adapter, so it supplies no personal Galactic Signature.", "Creator cosmology and galactic-memory claims are beliefs, not established astronomy." ], "related": [ 38, 39, 47, 51 ], "references": [ { "title": "José Argüelles, 28 Meditations on the Law of Time, Meditation 7", "url": "https://www.lawoftime.org/pdfs/28-Meditations-on-the-Law-of-Time.pdf", "kind": "originator account" }, { "title": "Dreamspell Genesis", "url": "https://www.lawoftime.org/timeshipearth/dreamspell.html", "kind": "originator cosmology" }, { "title": "Distinguishing Dreamspell from the Traditional Mayan Calendar", "url": "https://www.13moon.com/not_the_mayan_calendar.htm", "kind": "practitioner explanation" }, { "title": "The Calendar System", "url": "https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system", "kind": "museum / Indigenous cultural education" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Dreamspell /13 Moon / Galactic Signature", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Modern correlated260-cycle plus13×28-day calendar.", "choices": "Distinct from living Maya count; epoch/leap-day rules need a verified adapter.", "sources": [ "dreamspell" ], "slug": "dreamspell-13-moon-galactic-signature" }, { "registryIndex": 42, "history": "Human Design was introduced by the teacher known as Ra Uru Hu. Jovian Archive locates its origin in an eight-day experience he reported in January 1987. That revelation narrative documents the movement’s account of itself; it is not independently verified evidence of a nonhuman source.", "mythology": "The system combines a sixty-four-hexagram zodiac mandala with a nine-center BodyGraph and terminology drawn from astrology, the I Ching, chakras and Kabbalah. Its neutrino-imprinting narrative is doctrinal. The Nobel-recognized discovery that neutrinos have mass does not establish that birth-time planetary arrangements encode personality.", "provenance": "Use the original archive for terminology and graph rules; distinguish those teachings from the engine’s explicitly declared numerical implementation. Birth and prenatal design positions, node choice and subdivision boundaries belong in the calculation record.", "useCases": [ "Learning BodyGraph structure", "Reflective comparison of habits and decision-making language" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Structural reading", "method": "Verify activations, complete channels and connected components before discussing Type, Authority and Profile.", "example": "An activated gate by itself does not define its entire center." }, { "name": "Personal experiment", "method": "Treat a teaching as an optional observation prompt; record experiences that fit and experiences that do not.", "example": "Explore how pausing before a low-stakes choice feels, without allowing a chart label to overrule practical evidence." } ], "limits": [ "These classifications are symbolic system outputs, not validated biological or psychological measurements.", "Small birth-time changes can alter fine subdivisions; software agreement is not scientific validation." ], "related": [ 43, 44, 45, 51 ], "references": [ { "title": "About Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/about-human-design", "kind": "originator archive" }, { "title": "How a Human Design Chart Is Calculated", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/get-your-human-design-chart", "kind": "official practitioner specification" }, { "title": "Human Design Dictionary", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/human-design-dictionary", "kind": "official practitioner glossary" }, { "title": "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015", "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2015/summary/", "kind": "scientific institution" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Human Design / Rave astrology", "status": "Computed convention", "recipe": "Two ephemerides88° solar arc apart;64-gate map; graph-derived structure.", "choices": "302° Gate41 origin; true and mean nodes separate; numerical outputs not certified.", "sources": [ "hd", "hdcalc", "hdingress" ], "slug": "human-design-rave-astrology" }, { "registryIndex": 43, "history": "Richard Rudd describes Gene Keys as emerging from his study with Ra Uru Hu and years of contemplation of the sixty-four hexagrams. His account explicitly connects it to Human Design and dates the Venus Sequence revelation to 2004. This is the founder’s spiritual and intellectual autobiography.", "mythology": "Gene Keys organizes contemplation through Shadow, Gift and Siddhi, and through sequences concerned with purpose, relationships and contribution. Its account of a primordial wound and a holographic genetic cosmos is a spiritual narrative. References to DNA, frequency and evolution should remain attributed metaphors or beliefs rather than laboratory findings.", "provenance": "The official sphere table identifies fourteen planetary selections. The engine computes these gate-and-line selections from birth and design positions; it does not reproduce the proprietary interpretive library or certify an official profile.", "useCases": [ "Slow contemplative journaling", "Exploring values, relationships and creative contribution" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Sphere-focused contemplation", "method": "Choose one sphere, verify its planet and epoch, then read the relevant authorized teaching and reflect on a concrete experience.", "example": "Life’s Work selects the natal Sun; that mapping identifies the textual prompt, not a guaranteed vocation." }, { "name": "Sequence reading", "method": "Follow the sequence’s own order instead of collapsing every sphere into a personality score.", "example": "A relationship reflection can distinguish one’s observations from the symbolic language offered by the Venus Sequence." } ], "limits": [ "A numerical Gene Key is not genetic analysis, an IQ result or a measure of emotional ability.", "Do not infer trauma, illness, wealth or another person’s inner state from sphere labels." ], "related": [ 42, 44, 51 ], "references": [ { "title": "Richard Rudd: Hologenesis and the Sacred Wound", "url": "https://genekeys.com/articles/hologenesis-and-the-sacred-wound-the-story-behind-your-profile/", "kind": "originator account" }, { "title": "What planets does each Sphere correlate to?", "url": "https://genekeys.com/docs/what-planets-does-each-sphere-of-the-golden-path-profile-correlate-to/", "kind": "official practitioner specification" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Gene Keys / Golden Path / expanded spheres", "status": "Computed convention", "recipe": "14 sphere-to-planet selections from birth/design gate.line data.", "choices": "No proprietary descriptive library; profile output is symbolic, not genetic analysis.", "sources": [ "gk", "gkhistory" ], "slug": "gene-keys-golden-path-expanded-spheres" }, { "registryIndex": 44, "history": "Quantum Human Design is Karen Curry Parker’s contemporary reinterpretation of Human Design. In her account, she encountered Human Design in 1999, studied within its teaching network and later developed a different vocabulary influenced by coaching. These details are attributed to her account rather than a verified institutional chronology.", "mythology": "The framework emphasizes possibility, personal narrative and more affirming language. Its use of quantum, frequency and genetic imagery belongs to the creator’s explanatory framework. A metaphor borrowed from physics does not itself supply a physical mechanism or evidence that chart-based language changes DNA.", "provenance": "Read Parker’s definitions as a distinct authored framework. A conventional Human Design BodyGraph may provide shared numerical inputs, but matching numbers does not establish matching terminology, interpretation or certification.", "useCases": [ "Comparing how different teachers frame the same chart", "Optional narrative and values reflection" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Vocabulary comparison", "method": "Place one original Human Design term beside Parker’s chosen framing, identifying the source of each before discussing its effect.", "example": "Compare how two labels invite different questions while leaving the underlying planetary activation unchanged." }, { "name": "Narrative experiment", "method": "Translate a chosen theme into a modest action and assess it using ordinary experience.", "example": "Try a different way of describing a creative goal, then evaluate whether it helped communication rather than assuming cosmic causation." } ], "limits": [ "This engine does not implement a separate verified Quantum Human Design rulebook.", "Claims about quantum mechanics, epigenetic change or guaranteed success require evidence beyond practitioner testimony.", "Empowering language need not become a fixed identity or an obligation to feel positive." ], "related": [ 42, 43, 4 ], "references": [ { "title": "Karen Curry Parker: What is Quantum Human Design?", "url": "https://quantumhumandesign.com/what-is-quantum-human-design/", "kind": "originator account" }, { "title": "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015", "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2015/summary/", "kind": "scientific institution" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Quantum Human Design", "status": "Raw foundation", "recipe": "Related Human Design numerical foundation with its creator’s framework.", "choices": "No parity claim for proprietary terminology or any changed calculation rule.", "sources": [ "qhd" ], "slug": "quantum-human-design" }, { "registryIndex": 45, "history": "BG5, Penta, DreamRave and the Design of Forms are extensions within Ra Uru Hu’s teaching corpus. They should not be represented as one additional natal-chart preset. The official BG5 curriculum describes small-group work with three to five people; Jovian materials distinguish waking charts, dreaming matrices and nonhuman forms.", "mythology": "These teachings extend the movement’s energetic cosmology to organizations, sleep and other forms of life. A Penta is described as a transpersonal group structure; DreamRave uses a different matrix from the waking nine-center chart. These are system-specific concepts rather than established organizational science, sleep physiology or zoology.", "provenance": "Use the relevant official curriculum or source text for each extension. A list of natal gates is insufficient to reconstruct every group, dream or species-specific model. Establish the exact required inputs and transformations first.", "useCases": [ "Studying the internal development of Human Design", "Comparing practitioner models of groups and individual charts" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Group-model study", "method": "With participants’ consent, identify the chosen group rules and compare their proposed dynamics with observable communication patterns.", "example": "A three-person group requires an actual group calculation; one member’s Type cannot stand in for the group." }, { "name": "Dream-framework study", "method": "Keep a dream journal and distinguish the model’s symbolic vocabulary from the remembered dream itself.", "example": "A dream theme is material for reflection, not evidence of a hidden energetic attack." } ], "limits": [ "The present engine does not calculate these extension charts.", "Do not use chart categories to screen employees, diagnose sleep conditions or determine animal care." ], "related": [ 42, 44, 17 ], "references": [ { "title": "Extended Human Design Studies", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/extended", "kind": "official practitioner curriculum" }, { "title": "Human Design Dictionary", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/human-design-dictionary", "kind": "official practitioner glossary" }, { "title": "BG5 Business Consultant Certification Curriculum", "url": "https://bg5businessinstitute.com/p/curriculum---bg5-certification", "kind": "official practitioner curriculum" }, { "title": "Understanding Dreams with Human Design", "url": "https://jovianarchive.com/pages/understanding-dreams-with-human-design", "kind": "official practitioner teaching" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "BG5 / Penta / DreamRave / animal-plant design", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Human Design extensions with distinct group or state-specific rules.", "choices": "Base natal graph does not constitute these other charts.", "sources": [ "hd" ], "slug": "bg5-penta-dreamrave-animal-plant-design" }, { "registryIndex": 46, "history": "Galactic and whole-sky astrology extends astrological attention to objects beyond the familiar planets. Philip Sedgwick’s autobiography dates his own interest in the Galactic Center to a 1976 lecture by Joyce Werhman. This documents one influential practitioner’s development, not the sole origin of every deep-sky approach.", "mythology": "Practitioners build symbolism around astronomical names and phenomena: a galactic center may become an image of orientation or origin, while attraction may become a metaphor for attention and belief. Such readings are interpretive analogies. An actual galaxy or gravitational region does not come with an experimentally established personality meaning.", "provenance": "Separate the astronomical catalogue from the practitioner’s symbolism. Here Galactic Center refers to the Sgr A* direction; M87 is a selected proxy for the astrological Super Galactic Center. The Great Attractor catalogue entry represents a chosen direction toward an extended region.", "useCases": [ "Exploring deep-sky objects beside a natal chart", "Studying how scientific discoveries acquire spiritual symbolism" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Coordinate-first comparison", "method": "Specify the object, epoch, reference frame and orb, then compare longitude contacts with actual angular separation on the sky.", "example": "A one-degree longitude conjunction can still place two objects far apart because their latitudes differ." }, { "name": "Attributed symbolic reading", "method": "Choose one named practitioner and clearly label the transition from positional data to metaphor.", "example": "A reflection on attraction is optional; the coordinate calculation does not demonstrate the metaphor." } ], "limits": [ "Different catalogues and practitioner targets can produce different contacts.", "Neither a conjunction nor a black-hole analogy establishes fate, special powers or cosmic ancestry." ], "related": [ 10, 11, 13, 47, 48 ], "references": [ { "title": "Philip Sedgwick: Astrologer Biography", "url": "https://www.philipsedgwick.com/Bio/NewBioAstro.htm", "kind": "practitioner autobiography" }, { "title": "Philip Sedgwick: The Great Attractor", "url": "https://www.philipsedgwick.com/Galactic/GreatAttractor.htm", "kind": "original practitioner interpretation" }, { "title": "Messier 87", "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-87/", "kind": "NASA astronomy" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris Fixed-Object Catalogue", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aloistr/swisseph/master/ephe/sefstars.txt", "kind": "astronomical catalogue" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Galactic / whole-sky astrology", "status": "Computed directions", "recipe": "Date-corrected SgrA*, M87, Great Attractor and chosen-object contacts.", "choices": "Selected reference direction and angular projection must be named.", "sources": [ "galactic", "stars", "m87" ], "slug": "galactic-whole-sky-astrology" }, { "registryIndex": 47, "history": "This registry label groups contemporary spiritual soul-origin interpretations rather than a single documented school with a standard founder or algorithm. Some use named stars or clusters as identity categories. The reviewed astronomical and practitioner sources do not establish a continuous ancient lineage for a universal starseed birthday system.", "mythology": "Arcturian and Pleiadian narratives may function as imaginative stories of belonging, purpose or kinship. The Pleiades also have many older cultural names: NASA notes the Greek Seven Sisters, Japanese Subaru and other traditions. Sharing an astronomical object does not make these different cultural stories interchangeable.", "provenance": "Distinguish three things: the physical object, an attributed cultural narrative, and a present-day practitioner’s soul-origin claim. A catalogue can substantiate coordinates; it cannot substantiate reincarnation, alien ancestry or a personal cosmic mission.", "useCases": [ "Comparative mythology with explicit cultural attribution", "Creative writing or voluntary reflection on belonging" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Symbolic exploration", "method": "Name the story and its source, then explore what its imagery means to the reader without asserting it describes their literal origin.", "example": "A person may use star imagery in art without adopting an ancestry claim." }, { "name": "Claim audit", "method": "Ask what explicit rule assigns an origin, whether another practitioner uses the same rule, and what evidence could distinguish it from alternatives.", "example": "Changing an orb until a preferred star matches is a selection choice, not a discovery of lineage." } ], "limits": [ "There is no verified soul-origin inference in this engine.", "Avoid treating these categories as factual explanations for distress, isolation or superiority.", "Respect living traditions rather than repackaging their sky stories as one universal starseed system." ], "related": [ 41, 46, 48, 51 ], "references": [ { "title": "Seven Sisters Get WISE", "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/seven-sisters-get-wise/", "kind": "NASA astronomy and naming context" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris Fixed-Object Catalogue", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aloistr/swisseph/master/ephe/sefstars.txt", "kind": "astronomical catalogue" }, { "title": "Philip Sedgwick: Astrologer Biography", "url": "https://www.philipsedgwick.com/Bio/NewBioAstro.htm", "kind": "practitioner autobiography" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Starseed / soul-origin / Arcturian-Pleiadian overlays", "status": "No verifiable inference", "recipe": "Catalogue contacts can be computed; claimed origins need a separate asserted rulebook.", "choices": "A conjunction cannot establish alien ancestry or past-life history.", "sources": [ "galactic", "stars" ], "slug": "starseed-soul-origin-arcturian-pleiadian-overlays" }, { "registryIndex": 48, "history": "Constellational astrology uses actual sky regions or selected star patterns instead of twelve equal thirty-degree signs. The IAU standardized eighty-eight constellations and approved Eugène Delporte’s boundaries in 1928, publishing them in 1930. These boundaries serve astronomy; their adoption did not create a new astrological doctrine.", "mythology": "Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, is one of the constellation figures crossed by the Sun’s apparent path. Its presence does not imply thirteen equal signs. The inherited figures preserve one set of cultural naming conventions, while other societies organize the same sky through different patterns and narratives.", "provenance": "A reproducible constellational method must state whether it uses IAU polygons, asterisms, unequal ecliptic segments or a practitioner’s custom zodiac. These alternatives differ from both tropical signs and conventional sidereal thirty-degree signs.", "useCases": [ "Understanding the difference between signs and constellations", "Comparing astronomical sky membership with astrological frameworks" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Astronomical classification", "method": "Transform a position into the coordinate epoch expected by the boundary dataset and determine the containing polygon.", "example": "The same Sun can have a tropical-sign label and a different IAU-constellation label without either calculation contradicting its stated convention." }, { "name": "Interpretive comparison", "method": "Keep the positions fixed while documenting how each school assigns boundaries and meaning.", "example": "Do not divide the circle by thirteen and call the result an IAU chart." } ], "limits": [ "The current engine does not implement an IAU-polygon birth classification.", "Constellation names, unequal boundaries and astrological meaning are separate choices.", "No zodiac convention has thereby demonstrated a validated personality model." ], "related": [ 0, 1, 10, 46 ], "references": [ { "title": "IAU: The Constellations", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/constellations/", "kind": "astronomical institution" }, { "title": "IAU: Frequently Asked Questions", "url": "https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/faq/", "kind": "astronomical institution" }, { "title": "Skyfield: Coordinates", "url": "https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/coordinates.html", "kind": "technical documentation" } ], "family": "Modern", "systems": "Constellational /13-sign / Ophiuchus", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Use IAU boundary polygons in an appropriate equatorial epoch.", "choices": "Not13 equal zodiac signs; sidereal30° signs are a different convention.", "sources": [ "skycoords" ], "slug": "constellational-13-sign-ophiuchus" }, { "registryIndex": 49, "history": "Babylonian celestial practice includes multiple genres across time. Scholarly editions distinguish omen collections concerned with king and kingdom from later birth records listing planetary positions. The Enuma Anu Enlil tradition and surviving horoscope tablets therefore should not be merged into a single modern natal preset.", "mythology": "Celestial phenomena could be understood as signs of divine intention within a wider religious and political world. The resulting omen statements connected observed or anticipated sky conditions with earthly possibilities. This symbolic communication model differs from treating planets solely as personality archetypes or as modern physical causes.", "provenance": "The strongest evidence consists of tablets, their archaeological records, transliterations and scholarly translations. A modern reconstruction must identify its text, date, place, calendar and observational assumptions, while marking damaged or uncertain readings.", "useCases": [ "History of divination and astronomical calculation", "Comparing omen literature with later horoscopic traditions" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Textual reconstruction", "method": "Select a specific tablet passage, distinguish its sky condition from its interpreted outcome, and preserve the editor’s uncertainties.", "example": "An eclipse omen about a kingdom is not automatically an instruction for an individual birthday reading." }, { "name": "Astronomical contextualization", "method": "Use an ephemeris to investigate the possible sky conditions while keeping historical calendar conversion and visibility assumptions explicit.", "example": "Agreement with a reconstructed planetary position supports chronology, not the truth of the omen." } ], "limits": [ "No Babylonian natal or omen judgement is produced by this engine.", "Modern equal-sign outputs alone do not recover ancient scribal practice.", "Translation, dating and incomplete evidence can remain disputed; present alternatives rather than inventing a definitive reading." ], "related": [ 2, 3, 16, 50 ], "references": [ { "title": "Francesca Rochberg: Babylonian Horoscopes", "url": "https://mc.dlib.nyu.edu/files/books/isaw_aphs000011/isaw_aphs000011_lo.pdf", "kind": "scholarly edition of primary texts" }, { "title": "British Museum: Enuma Anu Enlil tablet Sp.II.197", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_Sp-II-197", "kind": "museum object record" }, { "title": "David Pingree and Christopher Brunner: Astrology and Astronomy in Iran", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/astrology-and-astronomy-in-iran/", "kind": "scholarly encyclopedia" } ], "family": "Historical", "systems": "Babylonian omen and zodiac traditions", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Choose tablet corpus, calendar and historical observational reconstruction.", "choices": "A modern natal preset does not reconstruct omen practice.", "sources": [ "babylon" ], "slug": "babylonian-omen-and-zodiac-traditions" }, { "registryIndex": 50, "history": "Egyptian stellar timekeeping and decanal imagery precede the later Greco-Roman zodiacal syntheses. The Met’s copy of Senenmut’s astronomical ceiling records an original of approximately 1473–1458 BCE, with planets, decans, constellations and protective deities. Later monuments such as the Dendera zodiac belong to a different historical setting.", "mythology": "Stellar figures and divine protectors could express the ordering of celestial time within a religious cosmos. The Senenmut ceiling links sky imagery with named months and divisions of day and night. A figure’s ritual role should be established from its monument or text, not inferred from a modern birthday-deity list.", "provenance": "Distinguish an ancient object from a modern facsimile, and early star-clock traditions from later ten-degree astrological decans. Record the decan list, period and location before attempting any reconstruction of stellar visibility.", "useCases": [ "Studying Egyptian astronomy and sacred time", "Comparing monuments with later astrological decan traditions" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Monument-centered interpretation", "method": "Read the iconography, captions and arrangement together, using the museum’s dating and provenance.", "example": "The Senenmut ceiling provides evidence for that monument’s sky scheme, not a universal Egyptian personality calendar." }, { "name": "Visibility reconstruction", "method": "Choose a documented star identification and local horizon model, then examine rising or visibility conditions for the historical epoch.", "example": "Uncertain identification of a decan must remain uncertain even when modern software can calculate thousands of stars." } ], "limits": [ "No personal Egyptian deity or ancient decan assignment is calculated here.", "Ancient decanal lists and modern zodiacal ten-degree divisions cannot be silently equated.", "Astronomical visibility also depends on atmosphere, brightness and horizon conditions." ], "related": [ 10, 22, 49, 51 ], "references": [ { "title": "Astronomical Ceiling from the Tomb of Senenmut", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544566", "kind": "museum object and reconstruction record" }, { "title": "Dendera Zodiac", "url": "https://egyptianmuseum.org/explore/greco-and-roman-period-monuments-dendera-zodiac", "kind": "museum historical explanation" }, { "title": "Swiss Ephemeris Programmer’s Manual", "url": "https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm", "kind": "technical specification" } ], "family": "Historical", "systems": "Egyptian decans / stellar calendars", "status": "Research only", "recipe": "Identify decan sequence, epoch, place and visibility definition.", "choices": "Ancient stellar systems differ from modern online birthday-deity lists.", "sources": [ "egypt" ], "slug": "egyptian-decans-stellar-calendars" }, { "registryIndex": 51, "history": "Numerology, tarot correspondences and I Ching birthday overlays have different histories and should not be presented as one ancient science. Museum evidence places early tarot in fifteenth-century northern Italian card culture; later occult writers added esoteric genealogies. The Yijing has its own Chinese divinatory and philosophical textual history.", "mythology": "Tarot images, numerical patterns and hexagrams can all support symbolic thought, but their associations depend on a deck, translation or authored correspondence table. Later claims that tarot preserves ancient Egyptian secrets are not established by the medieval card evidence. A birthday-generated hexagram is also distinct from consulting an oracle.", "provenance": "Specify the exact text, deck, encoding or casting method. For numerology, disclose alphabet, name spelling and digit-reduction rules. For the Yijing, distinguish the hexagram text from later commentary and any modern astrological overlay.", "useCases": [ "Comparing symbolic languages", "Creative reflection using an explicitly chosen protocol" ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Correspondence study", "method": "Trace one association to its actual author or source instead of assuming all systems agree.", "example": "Two decks may assign different astrological correspondences to a card." }, { "name": "Divinatory reflection", "method": "Formulate a question, choose and record a genuine casting or drawing protocol, then read the result in context.", "example": "A chosen reflective card is not a random draw; a calculated birth hexagram is not a traditional yarrow-stalk consultation." } ], "limits": [ "No draw, name-number result or universal birthday hexagram is fabricated by this engine.", "Meanings vary by lineage and translation; shared numbers do not establish shared historical origins.", "Use symbolic prompts without outsourcing consequential decisions to them." ], "related": [ 41, 42, 43, 50 ], "references": [ { "title": "Tim Husband: Before Fortune-Telling, the History and Structure of Tarot Cards", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/pt/perspectives/tarot-2", "kind": "museum scholarship" }, { "title": "V&A: A History of Tarot Cards", "url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tarot-cards", "kind": "museum scholarship" }, { "title": "Chinese Philosophy of Change (Yijing)", "url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-change/", "kind": "scholarly encyclopedia" }, { "title": "Joseph A. Adler: What Is the Yijing?", "url": "https://academic.oup.com/book/41418/chapter-abstract/352738571", "kind": "academic author / publisher" } ], "family": "Adjacent", "systems": "Numerology / tarot-astrology / I Ching birthday overlays", "status": "Research gap", "recipe": "Explicit name/date encodings or an actual divination protocol.", "choices": "Not inherently astronomical; no name or random draw supplied; excluded from calculated claims.", "sources": [ "hd", "gkhistory" ], "slug": "numerology-tarot-astrology-i-ching-birthday-overlays" }, { "registryIndex": 52, "history": "This is a regional discovery entry, not one astrological system. Burmese Mahabote, Thai horoscope and divination traditions, and Balinese pawukon need separate source histories. Institutional manuscript records demonstrate locally transmitted tables and images; they do not justify deriving the whole region from one generic Indian or Chinese chart.", "mythology": "The British Library’s Thai phrommachat fragment combines animal-cycle pictures, elemental attributes, plants and number diagrams. Pawukon heritage work likewise treats calendrical knowledge as local culture. These images need their own context instead of interchangeable symbolic meanings.", "provenance": "The current evidence includes a specific Thai manuscript catalogue and a local pawukon museum account. Full Burmese Mahabote rules and a validated Balinese conversion corpus remain evidence gaps in this entry.", "useCases": [ "Discover which regional tradition a calculator claims to implement.", "Compare a manuscript’s actual tables with a modern app’s output." ], "interpretation": [ { "name": "Split the bundle into verifiable methods", "method": "Identify the country, calendar, text or teacher and required inputs; establish its epoch and date conversion before applying weekday, cycle or house rules.", "example": "A Burmese weekday classification cannot automatically serve as a Mahabote chart, and neither can replace a Balinese pawukon date." } ], "limits": [ "No unified regional result is calculated.", "Thai, Burmese, Javanese and Balinese practices require separate validation.", "Museum documentation confirms cultural objects and practices, not the predictive accuracy of the rules they contain." ], "related": [ 21, 29, 30, 34, 35 ], "references": [ { "title": "Divination manual, Or 15351 — British Library", "url": "https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-002404723", "kind": "institutional manuscript catalogue" }, { "title": "Museum Pawukon Sidorejo — Sidorejo village government, 2025", "url": "https://sidorejo-kulonprogo.desa.id/index.php/artikel/2025/07/18/museum-pawukon-sidorejo-menghidupkan-kembali-kearifan-lokal-melalui-sistem-wuku-jawa", "kind": "local institutional heritage account" } ], "family": "Regional", "systems": "Burmese Mahabote / Thai / Balinese pawukon / other regional systems", "status": "Research gap", "recipe": "Need jurisdiction-specific calendar conversion, epochs and lineage rules.", "choices": "Names included for future discovery, not presented as fully researched or implemented.", "sources": [ "tibet", "stems" ], "slug": "burmese-mahabote-thai-balinese-pawukon-other-regional-systems" } ]