Readings from the Almagest of Handreth for 4 Kythorn, 1122
Year of the Rose Pearls
The Sun in the Second decan of the Serpent
The Sun in this decan reveals a strong-willed self-reliant individual with immense powers of endurance and a strong maternal or paternal instinct.
Optimal Career¹: Your attention to the smallest detail, to observation and measurement, grants you a +2 bonus on Craft (alchemy) checks.
Luck Action²: Ever vigilant for calls of distress from those in your care, you gain a +2 bonus on Listen checks.
Birth Stone: Selenite, stone of reconciliation and energy. Grants a +1 bonus on all Constitution checks.
Sun Applying Square Garden
This square indicates a propensity for erratic behavior, eccentricity, and unwise action. The natives have originality, but often their ideas are impractical, or else they do not possess sufficient perseverance, training, experience, and discipline to carry them out.
Sun Applying Square H'Catha
This is the aspect of self-deception par excellence. If the natives are mystically inclined, they often consider themselves the chosen vessels of some god. This belief is often the result of an unconscious desire for importance.
Disseminating Selûne in the First decan of the Spear
If Selûne is stationed here it emphasizes all the positive and negative lunar traits, and the highly intuitive nature indicates a flair for astrology.
Anadia in the Second decan of the Dragon
Anadia placed here is an odd mixture of energies. This decan reveals a high energy level which can become blocked or frustrated while also indicating a certain amount of self-determination, albeit conducted through unpredictable actions.
Anadia Applying Sextile Karpri
This sextile confers a happy, energetic disposition. It is favorable for harmony between the sexes, as well as emotional compatibility in marriage. The natives are socially inclined, vivacious, and lively. This aspect favors artists, especially those who work in sculpture or other media requiring the use of tools. It also favors business enterprises concerned with artistic creations or merchandise.
Anadia Separating Sextile Glyth
This sextile manifests its best qualities where strenuous work and physical discipline are required. Endurance and fortitude are the prime virtues of this aspect. Precision in workmanship is favored. Mechanical abilities are often part of the general capacity for careful work. The natives use their energy in the most practical and efficient way.
Anadia Applying Oppose Garden
The natives with this opposition are inclined to explosive outbursts of energy which can be manifested in quarrels. Ill temper and irritability are common. These people are averse to any kind of routine and discipline. Their efforts are spasmodic; however, when they do work they can overexert themselves. Lack of moderation is the main vice of this opposition.
Anadia Applying Oppose H'Catha
This opposition is indicative of a subtle and hard-to-control desire nature. The tendency of aggressiveness and violence functions through the unconscious in such a manner that the natives are not always aware of the motivations behind their actions. The danger of this opposition is its emotional character. The natives' unconscious desires and actions stemming from them may not checked by conscious reasoning.
Coliar in the First decan of the Raven
Coliar is traditionally in detriment in this decan displays a lack of mental application. Ability is not always shown early in life with this placement and further education is usually more successful.
Karpri in the Third decan of the Star
Any Karprian aspects to the Sun stationed here enhance the perceptiveness of the Star character. Positive aspects indicate intuitive thinking, but negative aspects are inclined to promote self-deception.
Karpri Separating Trine Glyth
This trine indicates a sense of order, balance, and proportion in art and music. It is frequently found in the horoscopes of artists; it gives an excellent sense of rhythm and structural relationship in time and space. The aspect is also favorable for architects, designers, mathematicians, and people who work with structures that must be both functional and aesthetic.
Karpri Applying Trine Garden
This trine indicates an effervescent, fun-loving nature that is full of surprises and tends to see the bright side of life. It gives a spontaneous quality which is especially favorable for the performing arts. The natives frequently have exciting romances and marriages, unusual friends, and much popularity. There can also be sudden good fortune in financial matters.
Karpri Applying Trine H'Catha
This trine evidences a highly romantic nature. It bestows talent and sometimes genius in music, art, and poetry. However, the natives are not inclined toward practical affairs, unless other factors in the horoscope so indicate. They are likely to have unusual romances and to meet lovers under unusual circumstances, which appear in some way to be preordained and are often accompanied by premonitions.
Chandos in the Third decan of the Raven
Chandos, when located in these degrees, helps stabilize the inconsistency of both the degrees and the decan. While encouraging plain speaking, it also encourages honesty and reliability.
Glyth in the First decan of the Raven
Glyth is not well placed in this decan. There is a tendency to fall in love too quickly and too often.
Glyth Applying Trine Garden
This trine gives intuitive insight into the workings of the laws of the universe. The natives understand the meaning of karma and are, therefore, in a position to structure their lives with this in mind. Strong willpower is combined with the ability to make practical use of creative inspiration. This aspect is excellent for mathematicians, scientists, astrologers, yogis, and occultists in general. The natives can control subtle energies in an exact, systematic, and scientific way.
Glyth Applying Trine H'Catha
This aspect gives the ability to carry on organizational plans and professional activities behind the scenes. For this reason it favors investigators and workers on secret projects, especially government projects. Military strategists, generals, and occult investigators are also favored. The natives are skillful at ferreting out secrets and solving mysteries. Few clues, no matter how subtle, will escape their notice.
Retrograde Garden in the Third decan of the Star
Garden here adds to a natural versatility which encourages the pioneering spirit of Anadia and endorses the cleverness of Coliar.
Garden Separating Conjunct H'Catha
This conjunction, which takes place about every 171 years, corresponds to a period of major spiritual and scientific progress for humanity. Its occurrence is marked by the incarnation of a whole group of highly developed souls who introduce new philosophies and political and social systems and thus further man's evolution.
Retrograde H'Catha in the Third decan of the Star
H'Catha here endorses a writing skill and a lively imagination.
"Even the gods watch the stars." Turmish Astrologer's saying.