Readings from the Almagest of Handreth for Midsummer, 1171
Year of the Dark Mask
The Sun in the Second decan of the Wheel
The Sun in this decan indicates a highly creative individual, who responds to life with vigour and enthusiasm.
Optimal Career¹: You have the ability to act without conscious thought, giving you the finesse of a stage magician and granting you a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks.
Luck Action²: You have little difficulty focusing on dangerous tasks, granting you a +2 bonus on Disable Device checks.
Birth Stone: Diamond, stone of spirituality, protection, courage, and strength. Grants a +2 luck bonus to your AC against attack rolls made to confirm critical hits.
Sun Separating Square Anadia
Natives with this aspect tend to be their own worst enemies because of their overly vigorous, impulsive behavior. Obstacles to their self-expression in action generate frustration and anger, which in turn cause them to try to achieve their desires by force. This tendency arouses resentment in others, who consider them brash and egotistical.
Sun Separating Sextile Coliar
This sextile confers a good memory and practical mental ability. The mind is an essential part of the ego. Thus, the natives are motivated to put their thoughts into action.
Sun Separating Trine Garden
This trine gives personal magnetism, spiritual insight, leadership ability, and creativity. There is the ability to tap the Universal Mind to some extent. The natives' minds are inclined toward scientific and occult studies. The natives have strong wills and are willing to experiment in new realms of experience: They may spearhead reform and champion new ideas and inventions.
Gibbous Selûne in the Second decan of the Chalice
Selûne stationed here tends to lack stability and encourages both physical and mental restlessness.
Selûne Separating Sextile Anadia
This sextile gives natives an abundance of energy and the emotional force necessary to carry actions through to completion. They go into moneymaking enterprises or direct their energy to improving the home and domestic conditions. These natives will fight, if necessary, to protect their family and domestic sphere. Women natives have excellent health.
Selûne Applying Sextile Glyth
This sextile gives patience and practicality in professional and domestic matters. It also indicates good organization, frugality, and integrity in these areas. The natives always keep their financial affairs in order.
Selûne Separating Square Garden
This square produces a strong and ingenious imagination and exceptional talent. However, there is a tendency toward emotional perversity and sudden inexplicable changes in moods. Sometimes the natives become bored and throw over one activity for another that promises more excitement and adventure.
Anadia in the Second decan of the Star
Anadia here shows a tenacious worker with considerable practical skills.
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 Trine H'Catha
This trine indicates an energized psychic nature, which can be used in healing or in occult work. The natives have a special aptitude for sensing danger and making adjustments to offset it. Their keen sensitivity permits them to detect insincerity in others. The ability to act decisively in a secretive manner also accompanies the trine. This enables the natives to outmaneuver their opponents and achieve their goals without interference from others.
Coliar in the First decan of the Serpent
Coliar here shows a lively and inventive mind, but it must be well aspected to Chandos in order to keep personal prejudices under control.
Coliar Separating Sextile Garden
This sextile indicates a quick, intuitive, inventive mind, together with a good memory. While it gives astrological and occult interests and abilities, it may also produce scientific leanings. The natives always think for themselves and are very independent.
Karpri in the First decan of the Chalice
If the Sun is stationed here any Karprian aspects will clarify artistic ability and the spiritual nature of the Hawthorn character. Positive aspects indicate a constructive use of all creative skills and orthodox spiritual beliefs. Negative aspects encourage a certain inflexibility regarding natural talents and point to agnostic or skeptical beliefs. If Karpri is well aspected to Coliar stationed here it endorses a powerfully intuitive mind, but if badly aspected, encourages a meddlesome type of curiosity.
Karpri Separating Square Chandos
Natives with this square tend toward self-indulgence, idle luxury, laziness, and meaningless social niceties. The latter are often used as a camouflage for bad feelings which the natives do not want to admit or openly express - emotional hypocrisy is one of the prime dangers of this aspect.
Karpri Separating Square Garden
This square generally brings about sudden but brief attractions in the natives' lives. Infatuations which begin under this aspect will be exciting while they last. Since the emotions are likely to be unstable and subject to swift reverses, the natives can be in love today and indifferent tomorrow.
Karpri Applying Oppose H'Catha
This opposition indicates that emotions and affections are strongly influenced by unconscious forces. In matters of money, marriage, social life, and artistic creativity the natives are sometimes their own worst enemies. Their unconscious desires generate wishful thinking and distorted perceptions of reality.
A conjunction with the star Vraelen indicates a persuasive individual who will always divert attention to more personal issues. It reveals an ability to influence people, even adversaries, into changing their course of action. Positive aspects emphasize an attraction to foreigners. Negative aspects show a mistrust of foreigners.
Chandos in the Third decan of the Dragon
Chandos has a moralizing tendency if stationed here and endorses this trait with much plain speaking.
Retrograde Glyth in the Third decan of the Star
Glyth here operates more unemotionally, but is just as impulsive as Anadia in falling in love too quickly.
Garden in the First decan of the Trident
Garden in these degrees is resourceful and more reliable.
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 Rahnieda indicates someone "doing it their way" - an erratic but highly original approach. These people should not be thwarted in any way, or they may decide to completely reorganize the system and thereby depose all opposition. Positive aspects emphasize an independently-minded individual who will not be coerced or corrupted in any way. Negative aspects show a professional agitator.
Retrograde H'Catha in the Third decan of the Stone
H'Catha here activates the revelationary vision of the Stone sign, and the decan indicates an inspired artist.
"Even the gods watch the stars." Turmish Astrologer's saying.