Readings from the Almagest of Handreth for Midsummer, 1414
Year of the Sea Lions Roaring
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.
Full Selûne in the Second decan of the Chalice
Selûne stationed here tends to lack stability and encourages both physical and mental restlessness.
Anadia in the First decan of the Star
Anadia here shows a strongly-sexed individual and endorses the urge to take the initiative in all spheres of life.
Anadia Applying Trine Chandos
This trine shows an ability to act with energy and enthusiasm. The philosophic and humanitarian impulses of the natives, as represented by Jupiter, find outlet in constructive action, as indicated by Mars. The natives take practical action to help those less fortunate than themselves, instead of merely feeling sorry for them.
Anadia Separating Sextile Garden
This sextile signifies capacity for rapid, decisive action and bestows willpower and courage. Unique accomplishments may bring the natives fame and high position. Sometimes there is a do-or-die attitude, even to the extent that the will is too powerful for the body that must house it. In any event, the natives have forceful dispositions and know exactly what they want.
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 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 First decan of the Stone
Karpri stationed here seeks to dissolve the uncompromising nature associated with the degrees and decan.
Retrograde Chandos in the Third decan of the Star
Chandos here stresses the intellectual capacity and reveals a generally more serious attitude.
Chandos Applying Oppose Garden
This opposition signifies restlessness and unwise attempts at financial, religious, and social expansion. Often that expansion involves large outlays of money and resources belonging to the natives and their friends. Such projects can run into unforeseen difficulties, leading to financial ruin for the natives and for those who invest in their enterprises.
Chandos Separating Sextile H'Catha
This sextile gives a mystical, expansive, and kind - but not necessarily practical - disposition. There can be an active imagination which expresses itself best through religion, philosophy, and art. The natives will probably lack the discipline and common sense to make use of their altruistic inspirations. There is often a good deal of sentimentality.
Retrograde Glyth in the Second decan of the Stone
Glyth is inclined to be highly passionate in this decan, but it also promotes a greater need for freedom or personal independence. This clash of desires places a strain on all personal relationships.
Glyth Applying Oppose H'Catha
This opposition can make the natives mistrustful of others, morbid, and morose. They are subject to irrational fears, stemming from their unconscious minds and past memories, which color their attitudes toward others. Their anxiety and reserve also make other people suspicious.
Garden in the Third decan of the Eagle
Garden in this decan is resourceful and conscientious.
H'Catha in the First decan of the Chalice
The location of H'Catha in these degrees features eccentric food-fads, but adds creative flair.
"Even the gods watch the stars." Turmish Astrologer's saying.