Complications
Every function
earns its place.
In horology, a complication is any function beyond hours and minutes. Ours are astronomical and astrological, each computed from your chart and the present sky, each fitted or removed like a module on a movement.
Natal Wheel
Your chart at its true Ascendant, with Placidus, Porphyry or Whole Sign houses, and every body at its exact degree.
Module 01Natal
Aspect Lattice
Natal aspects drawn as a lattice, with adjustable orbs. Applying and separating aspects are rendered distinctly.
Module 02Natal
Live Transits
The present sky over your chart. A line brightens as a transiting planet closes on exact aspect to a natal point.
Module 03Natal
Sidereal Sky Ring
The sky above your location: the rising degree, the Midheaven, day and night arcs, and the Moon at its true phase.
Module 04Sky
Planetary Hours
Twenty-four unequal hours set by local sunrise and sunset, ruled in Chaldean order. The current hour is lit.
Module 05Sky
Nakshatra Band
The twenty-seven lunar mansions, with the Moon's current nakshatra, its pada, and when it changes.
Module 06Vedic
Tithi & Phase
The lunar day, from Shukla Pratipada to Amavasya, beside a Moon rendered at its exact illuminated fraction.
Module 07Vedic
Void of Course
An arc that opens at the Moon's last major aspect in a sign and closes at its ingress, timed to the minute.
Module 08Sky
Vimshottari Daśā
Your planetary periods as a sub-dial, from mahādaśā to antardaśā, the hand on the current period.
Module 09Vedic
Progressions
The secondary progressed Sun and Moon: one day of motion for each year of life.
Module 10Natal
True Analemma
The Sun on its true figure-eight, from the equation of time and declination, with your birthday marked.
Module 11Natal
Sidereal Tourbillon
A cage turning once per sidereal day at the centre of the dial. It is a working sky hand, indexed to 0° Aries.
Module 12Sky
Day Ruler
The ruler of the day and of the hour, for timing a launch, a letter or a meeting by the classical method.
Module 13Sky
Fixed Stars
Forty bright stars from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, precessed to date, with conjunctions and parans to your chart.
Module 14Natal
Thermodynamic Lens
An optional daily card that reads the sky through the four laws: one action, one lens, one trap, one experiment.
Module 15Daily
Hermes
An astrologer that reads the complications above and states what your clock is showing, with the data it used.
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