Readings from the Almagest of Handreth for 23 Marpenoth, 1165
Year of the Obsidian Heart
The Sun in the Second decan of the Swan
The Sun in these degrees displays some astute individual qualities and traits which direct the Swan character towards specialist-type careers and learning.
Optimal Career¹: Your friendly demeanor and dogged tenacity helps you find out what you need to know, granting you a +2 bonus on Gather Information checks.
Luck Action²: Your natural agility and resiliency grants you a +2 bonus on Tumble checks.
Birth Stone: Emerald, stone of money, mental clarity, love, protection. grants a +2 bonus on all Will saves against enchantment spells and effects.
1st Qtr Selûne in the Second decan of the Trident
Selûne here shows highly developed intuitive powers and imagination. Any artistic skills are enhanced and this includes technical drawing.
Selûne Applying Square Anadia
This square indicates an emotionally volatile nature - the natives easily become upset and lose their temper. Their tendency to take things too personally leads to emotional outbursts. They are sometimes too independent for their own good. They want to make their own way in life and resent interference. They have domestic problems and disagreements with their parents. All this can have an adverse effect on their professional standing, reputation, and ambitions.
Selûne Applying Sextile Coliar
This sextile confers a good memory and practical mental ability. Mind and feeling are in accord. Thus, the natives are motivated to put their thoughts into action. Matters relating to health and diet are planned and sensibly carried out. Since the natives are careful with personal hygiene, they are the epitome of neatness and cleanliness.
Selûne Applying Square Karpri
This square tends to create financial and social problems in the domestic sphere. The affections are bestowed indiscriminately, leading to problems in love and unhappiness in marriage. The natives are too trusting of spouses or partners and as a result are taken advantage of.
Selûne Applying Square Glyth
This square generates a condition of melancholia and unhappiness. The natives have a bleak view of life and lack emotional vitality. Very often they have a mother complex or some other inhibition stemming from early childhood experiences: they tend to be emotional prisoners of the past.
Selûne Separating Trine H'Catha
Strong mediumistic and psychic proclivities characterize this aspect. Depending on the rest of the horoscope, the natives can have prophetic or intuitive insights into people and future conditions. There is interest in psychology, psychic phenomena, and related subjects. Hypersensitivity to environmental factors can also be connected with this trine.
Anadia in the Second decan of the Chalice
Anadia located in these degrees denotes a certain fluctuation of energy and the urge to manipulate others. There is also a tendency to waste energy on too many different projects.
Anadia Applying Conjunct Karpri
Although this aspect is considered one of the primary aspects concerned with sex, the natives incline toward passionate involvements of all types.
The desire nature of Anadia joined with the attraction principle of Karpri must manifest itself in some form of creativity. Whether it is expressed through sex or through social and artistic activities depends on the rest of the horoscope and other aspects made to the conjunction.
Anadia Applying Conjunct Glyth
On the positive side, this aspect gives a capacity for hard work, enduring strength, resourcefulness, and courage in situations of danger and great difficulty. The strong qualities favor military careers or situations in which the natives must use caution and prudence in the face of danger. Very often, however, they resent people who lead easier lives.
Anadia Separating Trine Garden
This tine gives originality and resourcefulness in action. The natives possess willpower and a capacity to act decisively. They are able to reject old conditions and concepts in order to bring about new ones. The natives are direct and outspoken and have a superabundance of energy. They are able to use original methods in achieving professional ambitions, and they aspire to leadership in organizations and groups.
Coliar in the Second decan of the Serpent
Coliar stationed here shows a practical mind and a need to assimilate facts. A keen memory and powerful imagination is also indicated.
Coliar Applying Square Chandos
This square is detrimental because the natives' abundant ideas are too grandiose for realization. Ideas may not worked out in enough practical detail to be useful. Nor, as a rule, are the natives well organized, and they often lack balance and realism.
Coliar Separating Square Garden
This square indicates an active, original mind but a nervous disposition with eccentric and often impractical ideas. Mentally, the natives are "way out," and likely to jump to conclusions. They have harebrained ideas which are not based on sufficient knowledge or practical experience to be of use.
Karpri in the Third decan of the Chalice
Karpri here will have to be well aspected in order to avoid personal scandals. Negative aspects indicate the desire for power may become extremely weird or strange.
Karpri Separating Conjunct Glyth
This aspect is often found in the horoscope of talented artists. Glyth gives form, structure, and concrete practical expression to the artistic tendencies of Karpri, as well as the patience necessary for attention to detail. Since Glyth rules time as well as space, musicians can be favored by a good sense of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
Karpri Separating 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.
Chandos in the Second decan of the Spear
Chandos here suppresses the emotional nature associated with the degrees and decan.
Glyth in the Third decan of the Chalice
Glyth stationed here promotes passions and jealousies, and problems in personal relationships could be a most relevant aspect in the chart.
Glyth Separating 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.
Retrograde Garden in the Third decan of the Swan
Garden here resorts to extreme behavior that is both self-indulgent and generous.
Garden Separating Square H'Catha
This square is indicative of a generation whose karma it is to live in a time of exceptional social turmoil. The natives are prone to emotional and psychic confusion. The natives can be somewhat high-strung, willful, and nervous. They are inclined to have set ideas and opinions.
A conjunction with the star Mystra's Star implies a "computer mind," someone able to calculate all the facts. Positive aspects to Mystra's Star emphasize specialist skills related to space exploration. Negative aspects indicate nervous break-downs due to an inability to switch-off mentally.
Retrograde H'Catha in the First decan of the Stone
H'Catha here endorses the power of leadership, but a strong emotional nature is featured.
"Even the gods watch the stars." Turmish Astrologer's saying.