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Astrological Election Planner
Choose a purpose and the planner weighs the next ten days at the time you set: the planet of each day, and whether the Moon is increasing in light, clear of the Sun's beams and outside the burnt path. It is a first sorting of days, to be finished with the hours.
Preparing the instrument for your time and place
The tradition
Electional astrology chooses the moment to begin, rather than reading a moment already given. Its classic texts are Arabic, Sahl ibn Bishr's On Elections among the first, and they reached Latin Europe in translation and in Guido Bonatti's thirteenth-century Liber astronomiae.
The authors start with the Moon, who carries the beginning: increasing in light, clear of the Sun's beams, out of the burnt path and free of the malefics. Then they look to the planet of the matter, the day and hour, and the angles of the chart.
Reading the instrument
- Ten days from the date shown, each judged at the time set, and ranked by points. The ledger draws all ten in date order; the strongest are marked in crimson.
- The day's ruler is the planetary day in force at that hour, so a time before sunrise counts the previous day's planet, and the instrument marks those days.
- A ranking is a first sorting of days. Choose the day, then an hour of the same planet on the Planetary Hours page.
Where it descends from
- Sahl ibn Bishr, On Elections (9th century)
- The Moon's condition as the first thing to settle for any beginning.
- Guido Bonatti, Liber astronomiae, treatise 7
- The Latin compendium of elections through which the Arabic rules reached Europe.
- Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy II.33
- The mansions of the Moon and what each favours or hinders, paraphrased beside each day.
What this does not claim
The planner judges only what the Sun and Moon can settle. Whether the Moon is void of course, or meets Mars or Saturn, needs the planets, which the site does not yet place, and the pairing of purposes with planets is the site's own. It makes no claim about outcomes.
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