Readings from the Almagest of Handreth for 13 Marpenoth, 1300
Year of the Starfall
The Sun in the First decan of the Swan
The Sun here denotes some powerful individual traits of character with well defined ambitions and interests. There is an ability to organize with great flair and detail.
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.
Sun Applying Trine Chandos
The enthusiastic, optimistic, outgoing quality of this trine is directed into religious, philosophic, legal, social, and community affairs rather than into personal physical action.
Sun Separating Conjunct H'Catha
Natives often seem to be transfixed by celestial music which only they can hear. They are subject to desires and emotions emanating from a subtle and high source which can lead them either into confusion and self-deception or to divine inspiration.
Waning Selûne in the Second decan of the Stone
Selûne is not well placed in this decan and denotes a rather cool emotional nature.
Selûne Applying Sextile Garden
The natives are able to let go of the past. This aspect gives quick emotional responses and intuitive rapport with others. The natives are able instinctively to take advantage of new opportunities that arise in daily life and respond to them in original ways. They possess a magnetic quality that infuses excitement and fun into everyday conditions. They have unique imaginations.
Anadia in the First decan of the Wheel
Anadia here indicates a high degree of physical and mental energy, which endorses great potential if positively directed.
Anadia Separating 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 Applying Square Garden
This square tends to cause recklessness and dangerous sudden action. The natives are too impulsive for their own good. The natives are prone to disagree with their friends and associates.
Coliar in the Second decan of the Wheel
Coliar placed in these degrees is another restless directive which indicates a lack of practical application of the mind.
Karpri in the First decan of the Serpent
Any Karprian aspects to the Sun or Moon stationed here will reveal the psychic level of communication. Positive aspects emphasize a high level of psychic activity operating which plumbs the depths of unconsciousness. Negative aspects indicate confusion and misinformation.
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.
Retrograde Chandos in the Third decan of the Butterfly
Chandos here is well placed in the degrees and the decan indicates honesty and a fearless pursuit of justice.
Retrograde Glyth in the Third decan of the Butterfly
Glyth is well placed in the degrees, but the decan indicates a need for personal independence. The financial judgement is soundly based and shows successful speculation on the stock market.
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 Dragon
Garden in this decan stresses all the Gardenian traits. The intellectual capacity may be developed to the full. A conjunction with Garden, while a sign of progressive thinking, is inclined to contribute extreme restlessness and unconventional behavior.
Retrograde H'Catha in the Third decan of the Trident
H'Catha in this this decan indicates a true visionary. Radical attitudes adopt an intuitive logic or cleverness by bypassing conventional theories.
"Even the gods watch the stars." Turmish Astrologer's saying.