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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Traditional technique · Intermediate

Sect

Also called day and night charts

Whether a chart is a day chart (Sun above the horizon) or a night chart, and the planets said to belong to each.

The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn belong to the day sect; the Moon, Venus and Mars to the night; Mercury depends on its position. Hellenistic astrologers read planets of the chart's own sect as better placed. The site marks each chart day or night.

How it is worked out
Day chart when the Sun is in houses 7 to 12 (above the horizon).
  • Kind: Technique, History
  • Tradition: Hellenistic astrology, Traditional Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Diurnal, Nocturnal, Benefic, Malefic, Horizon

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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