Astrology wiki
Explore wiki concepts, word origins, evidence and their connections to traditions and tools.
34 terms
Almanacs, divisions & periods →
Panchanga, vargas and Vimshottari retain their tradition-specific rules while cross-linking to the general methods branch.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Almanacs names calendrical handbooks, divisions names chart subdivisions, and periods names time sequences. The title gathers three different kinds of method.
“Almanacs, divisions & periods” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Ancient & historical contexts →
Texts and objects from distinct periods; source-specific transmission belongs in separately labelled historical connections.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Ancient marks great age; historical contexts places texts and practices in their settings. These are modern organizing words rather than an ancient school's self-name.
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Authored calendar syntheses →
Modern calendrical constructions have identifiable authors and protocols; distinguish them from living Indigenous calendar traditions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Authored identifies named creators; calendar synthesis means a constructed combination of calendrical ideas. The title distinguishes authorship without suggesting a particular ancient-language name.
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Calendars & stem–branch methods →
Shared cycles support several practices; a calendar designation is not itself a personality interpretation.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Calendars names date-reckoning systems; stem–branch translates the paired Chinese gān–zhī naming. The title highlights calendrical methods built on that pairing.
“Calendars & stem–branch methods” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Chart frames & transformations →
Derived longitudes and alternative coordinate or classification frames; each must disclose its calculation convention.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Frame names a reference structure; transformation means a change of form. The heading describes ways of re-expressing chart positions under a stated rule.
“Chart frames & transformations” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Chart geometry & conventions →
Mathematical transformations, houses, aspects and classification rules; accuracy and interpretive validity are separate questions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Geometry derives from Greek earth-measurement vocabulary; conventions means agreed rules. This heading names how charts are drawn and divided.
“Chart geometry & conventions” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Charts & divination boards →
Zi Wei / Tử Vi and the three cosmic-board traditions are separate methods, not interchangeable presets.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Chart names a diagram, and board a working surface or patterned layout. Divination identifies their interpretive use; the title groups devices rather than one named doctrine.
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Chinese & East Asian traditions →
Calendrical, chart and divination traditions with distinct regional histories and conventions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Chinese identifies Chinese traditions, while East Asian broadens the regional frame. The pairing describes geographic scope rather than a single historical name.
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Contemporary spiritual overlays →
Attribute soul-origin and related narratives to their sources; astronomical contacts do not establish those identities.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Spiritual concerns spirit; overlay borrows the image of a layer placed upon another. The title describes added interpretive frameworks.
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Elemental & cycle overlays →
Element, animal, mewa and parkha components require their own documented rules.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Elemental refers to the named element classifications; cycle emphasizes recurrence; overlay uses the map-layer metaphor for adding classifications to a calendar.
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Foundations & evidence →
Learn the coordinates, calendars, chart conventions and kinds of evidence used across the atlas. These are shared reading foundations, not a theory of common historical descent.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Foundations uses the building-base metaphor for prerequisites; evidence names what supports an account. The combined heading was chosen to organize the atlas.
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Historical & Western traditions →
Browse ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean contexts alongside later and modern Western schools. Neighbouring articles are not automatic ancestors or descendants.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Historical concerns the past; Western is a relative cultural-geographic label. The pairing organizes traditions without asserting that they began in one western location.
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Human Design & related systems →
Read the original system, its documented extensions and later reinterpretations with their authors identified.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Human Design is Ra Uru Hu's title; family marks related authored systems. The grouping word does not make every member an authorized branch of the originating organization.
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Maya counts & calendar keeping →
Read the sacred count and the Haab, Long Count and Calendar Round as distinct connected structures.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Maya is the people/cultural designation; counts and calendar keeping emphasize maintained sequences of days. The title avoids treating every Mayan-language count as one identical word.
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Mesoamerican calendars & divination →
Living and historical calendrical traditions deserve their own community names and methods; they are not ancestors by default of modern calendar syntheses.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Meso- means middle; Mesoamerican identifies a cultural region of the Americas. Calendars and divination describe the two kinds of practice grouped here.
“Mesoamerican calendars & divination” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Methods & applications →
Choose a question or construction, then inspect the schools and conventions that use it. Methods can connect across several traditions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Method ultimately comes from Greek methodos, a way of inquiry; application concerns putting something to use. The phrase groups procedures by task.
“Methods & applications” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Mexica & other regional counts →
Explore the Tonalpohualli and regional counts without assuming Maya names, correlations or interpretations apply unchanged.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Mexica names the people associated with Mexico-Tenochtitlan; regional counts broadens comparison beyond that specific tradition. It is not a collective native calendar-title.
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Modern syntheses & adjacent practices →
Modern authored systems, contemporary spiritual overlays and related symbolic practices. Authored synthesis can involve older ingredients without being their unchanged continuation.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Synthesis means putting together; adjacent means lying nearby. The heading groups modern combinations and neighboring practices without asserting common descent.
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Modern Western schools →
Named modern approaches with differing zodiac choices, symbolic languages and interpretive assumptions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Modern concerns comparatively recent practice; Western identifies a broad cultural lineage. The combined title does not name a single founding author or doctrine.
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Objects & sky layers →
Selected stars, minor bodies and deep-sky reference directions, with observation kept distinct from symbolic overlays.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Objects names the selected celestial bodies; layers borrows the idea of stacked sheets to describe optional information added to a sky view.
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Places & maps →
Relocation, astrocartography and Local Space use different geometric constructions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Places names geographic locations, while maps names their graphic representations. The heading organizes techniques by where a chart is viewed or relocated.
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Questions, chosen times & applied topics →
Horary, electional and topic-specific approaches need separate rulebooks despite their shared tools.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Questions names inquiries, chosen times names selections, and applied topics names subject areas. The wording groups purposes without proposing a historical school-name.
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Regional Asian discovery →
A research hub to separate Burmese, Thai, Balinese and other local practices as specific sources become available.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Regional specifies organization by place; discovery describes the reader's exploration of less familiar systems. It does not claim these traditions were recently discovered or invented.
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Related symbolic practices →
Numerology, tarot correspondences and birthday hexagrams have different histories and require explicitly chosen protocols.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Symbolic refers to representation through symbols; adjacent means nearby. The heading names neighboring practices in the atlas's browsing structure.
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Relationships →
Compare two charts or construct a combined chart; synastry, composite and Davison methods differ.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Relationship grows from relation, connection or reference between things. The plural heading groups techniques comparing people and their chart factors.
“Relationships” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Schools & regional lineages →
Browse the broad Parashari family, Jaimini, KP, Tajika and regional discovery entries without asserting a single line of descent.
Word origin, evidence & sources
School means an organized body of teaching; lineage invokes descent or succession. Regional marks variation by place within South Asia.
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Sky, bodies & coordinates →
Physical objects, celestial reference frames and the distinction between observation and interpretation.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Sky names the visible heavens, bodies the objects within them, and coordinates the quantities locating them. The heading brings physical objects and reference geometry together.
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Sources & ways of knowing →
Distinguish observations, formulas, historical texts, living practices and attributed teachings; inspect what each source establishes.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Source uses the spring or origin metaphor for information; ways of knowing describes approaches to establishing claims. The phrase is an explanatory heading.
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South Asian traditions →
Jyotish-related traditions, regional lineages and techniques. Shared geography or Sanskrit terminology does not make every method one Parashari school.
Word origin, evidence & sources
South Asian identifies a region of Asia; traditions means practices handed down. The words group related material without supplying a single indigenous umbrella-name.
“South Asian traditions” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Tibetan & regional traditions →
A browsing area for Tibetan-derived calendars and separately documented regional Asian practices. This category does not imply Southeast Asian practices descend from Tibet.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Tibetan identifies the central linguistic-cultural context; regional opens the grouping to related local traditions. It is a navigation phrase, not a Tibetan school-title.
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Tibetan & related calendars →
Compare named calendar lineages and regional variants; similar names can conceal different conversions.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Tibetan identifies the tradition and related records connected calendars; calendars describes date reckoning. Named lineages such as Phugpa remain distinct within it.
“Tibetan & related calendars” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.
Time, location & calendars →
How an instant and location are recorded, converted and assigned to a named calendrical convention.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Time and location identify when and where; calendars names systems for arranging dates. Their pairing describes the information needed to establish a chart's instant and place.
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Timing methods →
Real sky changes, symbolic directions and period-ruler schedules are different ways of organizing time.
Word origin, evidence & sources
Timing derives from time and refers to determining when something occurs. Here it names a family of chart-to-date procedures rather than one inherited doctrine.
“Timing methods” is a browsing category chosen for this atlas. Its child entries share a topic or practical connection. This grouping is not evidence that all of them descend from one historical lineage; transmission claims require separate sources.