Guide I · your own chart

THE CHART GUIDE

half of it is written in your hand

A personality test hands you a verdict. This hands you six pages you have to fill in. Each takes one area of a life the old scheme assigns to a house - money, home, work, partnership, character, the body - derives what your own chart says holds it, then stops where the arithmetic runs out and puts three questions to you instead. You finish holding eighteen answers about your own life, prompted by a two-thousand-year-old taxonomy you could not have flattered yourself with.

$18.98Ordering opens soon See the whole thing first

An actual cast - cover page, unretouched.

Public-domain sources, cited by book and chapter
Real arithmetic - Swiss Ephemeris, Agrippa's tables, the sunrise equation
Every number printed on the page, so it can be checked
No outcome promised, ever - the gap is printed too

I · What arrives

Every part of it, named

The cover

Your chart wheel drawn in gold, a wax seal, the cast number, your name in script.

The reckoning

How to read the document - and your Sun, Moon and Ascendant at a glance.

The method

Four operations worked on your own numbers: place a body, read a whole-sign house, judge a dignity, catch the switch from reporting to promising.

Six worksheet pages

One per domain: the derivation at the top, then the question that house puts to you and ruled space to answer it. Money, home, work, partnership, character, the body.

Eighteen questions

Three per domain, answerable in a sitting and uncomfortable to answer honestly - what your work costs your body, which term of a bargain you would change, what you inherited and keep on purpose.

The temperament count

Your placements tallied across the four triplicities and read against the four-humour doctrine. If the count ties, the guide says so instead of inventing a type.

The placements

Two plates: all seven traditional bodies, each set in the three registers.

The sidereal count

The Vedic page - Lahiri ayanāṃśa, Sanskrit signs, your Moon's nakshatra.

The colophon

The house seal, the method stated plainly, and the gift note if it is one.

The numbers, in place

Every placement entry carries its own longitude, daily motion, retrograde state and whole-sign house - printed beside the claim, not in an appendix.

II · What you can do after reading it

A guide is judged by what it leaves you able to do

Place any planet

Read a longitude and say which sign, degree and whole-sign house it falls in - the operation every chart rests on.

Judge a dignity

Name a placement's domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall, and cite the scheme that assigns it.

Reconcile two skies

Explain why your Western and Vedic charts disagree by roughly 24 degrees, and which of them is arithmetic.

Catch the switch

Spot the exact sentence where any reading stops reporting a position and starts promising a life.

Trace a domain

Take any area of life - money, marriage, vocation - and derive what the scheme assigns it: house, sign, ruler, placement, in that order.

Count a temperament

Tally any chart across the four triplicities and say which humour the doctrine gives it, and when the count refuses to give one.

Audit six areas of your life

Work through money, home, labour, partnership, character and standing with a frame that asks about the parts people skip - and keep the answers.

III · How it is made

The instrument, in the open

Real ephemeris, not an app guess

Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris - the DE431-derived data professional astronomy software uses. Your birth time and place set the houses; nothing is rounded to a horoscope column.

Whole-sign houses, traditional dignities

The reading uses the Hellenistic house system the old sources actually describe, and names each body's domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall - the vocabulary the texts use, not a modern rewrite.

Two traditions, kept separate

The tropical Western cast and the sidereal Vedic count are printed as two distinct pages with the ayanāṃśa stated. We never average them into one flattering blur.

Typeset, then rasterised

The document is generated as a print-grade HTML plate and rendered to PDF at A4 - same engine every order, so a reprint in a year is byte-identical.

IV · Why it is built this way

The reasons, stated

Because the arithmetic is real and the meaning is not

Where Mars sat at your birth is a computable fact. Whether that fact bends a life is not. Most readings blur the two so the whole page borrows the credibility of the half that is checkable. We split them and label both.

Because a document should survive scrutiny

Every claim carries its source: which text says it, which chapter. If a friend who knows astronomy reads your copy, the numbers hold - that is the point of printing them.

Because the honest gap is the product

The third register on every placement states what neither the source nor the instrument can settle. That is the line most of this industry deletes.

V · Read it before you buy it

Actual output, unretouched

The cover plate - chart wheel struck in gold on laid stock.

A worksheet page - the derivation above, the question that house puts to you and ruled space below.

A placements plate - rite, instrument and honest gap for each body, with the real longitudes.

The temperament count - and what it says when the tally refuses to give a type.

Read the complete sixteen-page specimen · PDF, 2.2 MB

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VI · How it compares

What the $5 version leaves out

	The Chart Guide	The usual $5 app report	A chatbot answer
Names its source by book and chapter	yes	no	sometimes, often wrongly
Prints the arithmetic so you can re-run it	yes	no	no
Same input gives the same output, years later	yes	no	no
States plainly what cannot be verified	yes	no	rarely
Built to print and hand over	yes	screen only	no
Teaches you the method, not just the answer	yes	no	no
Runs on data you did not report about yourself	yes	no	no
Leaves you holding something you wrote	yes	no	no
Promises you an outcome	never	usually	if asked

VII · Who it is for

We would rather you skipped it than regretted it

Buy it if

Anyone who likes the tradition but winces at the certainty it is usually sold with
The friend who reads history for fun and gets bought candles instead
A birthday, a wedding, a new baby - an $18.98 gift that is a real object, not a novelty
Astrologers who want the raw numbers alongside the claims

Skip it if

Anyone who wants to be told what will happen - no forecast is in here
Anyone who wants advice about their health, money or relationship
Anyone who needs it in five minutes; every copy is cast and read by hand

VIII · The order

What happens after the button

You send the details

Three or four fields. No account, no birth-chart quiz, no upsell page.

It is cast by hand

Your document is generated, then read before it goes out. If the hour gate defers the tracing, you are told the exact window it is waiting for.

It arrives as a file

A print-grade PDF, or SVG line art for a sigil. Yours to keep, reprint and hand on - no platform, no login, no expiry.

To cast yours, we need

Birth date and time - as exact as you know it
Birth place - city and country
The name to set on the cover - yours, or the person it is for

Ordering opens soon

Sent as a gift? We cast around their details and email the document to them - or to you, to hand over.

The correction guarantee

If any number in your document is wrong - a longitude, an hour, a citation, a cell on the square - tell us and you get a full refund, and the correction is published in the journal with your order number on it. If the document does not look like the specimen you read before buying, same terms.

What is deliberately not guaranteed: an outcome. No sigil, hour or placement is claimed to cause anything, and no refund is owed for a life that carried on as normal.

IX · Questions

Asked and answered plainly

What if I do not know my exact birth time?

Send your best estimate and say so. Planet positions barely move in an hour; the Ascendant and houses do. The document prints the time it used, so an approximate cast is labeled as one instead of being quietly presented as exact.

Is this Western or Vedic astrology?

Both, kept apart. Pages two to four are the tropical Western cast with whole-sign houses. Page five is the sidereal Vedic count using the Lahiri ayanāṃśa, with your Moon's nakshatra. The two disagree by roughly 24 degrees, and the document says why.

Do I write in it?

Yes - that is the design. Six pages carry ruled space for eighteen answers, so print it or annotate the PDF. The derived half is fixed forever; the written half is what makes the document worth keeping. Date your answers, set it aside for a year, answer the same questions cold and compare. The chart holds still, which is what makes it a useful ruler.

Is this a personality test?

No, and it is built to survive the comparison. A test asks you to rate yourself and returns your own answers scored. This starts from planetary positions you had no hand in, walks a chain anyone can re-walk, and shows you the rulebook. Where a test hands down a type, the guide hands you a count and states that the doctrine attached to it has never predicted behaviour.

It covers money and work - is that financial or career advice?

No. The tradition assigns domains to houses, and the guide reports that assignment and computes which sign and ruler govern yours. Each domain then prints its own refusal in plain sight: the money page says outright that nothing forecasts your finances and nothing there is financial advice. Read those lines before anything else.

Does the reading predict anything?

No. It reports what the historical sources assign to each placement, what the ephemeris actually computes, and where the two cannot be reconciled. No forecast, no advice, no outcome.

How does it arrive, and how fast?

As a PDF by email, cast by hand from your details. Print it at A4 or US Letter - the plate is built at print resolution, not screen resolution.

X · The sources

Go and check us

Two public-domain editions carry every quotation in these documents. Both are linked so you can read the passage yourself - that is the point of citing by chapter.

The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis)
translated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889 · read the scan at the Internet Archive
The pentacles of Book I ch. XVIII, the planetary hours and virtues of ch. IV, the operating conditions of ch. VIII, and the blank-name instruction of Book II ch. XXI.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 1533; Whitehead edition, 1898 · read the scan at the Internet Archive
The Latin letter table of Book II ch. xx and the seven planetary kameas of ch. xxii - the letter values and magic squares every traced sigil walks.

XI · The rest of the shelf

Cast from the same sources

The Sigil Guide

$18.98

A seven-page guide to Agrippa's 1533 kamea method, worked on your own name: letter values, the square, the traced route, every step numbered and checkable.

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The Solomonic Guide