The seven teeth

The seven teeth

Explore each tile and its meaning. Select an image to view the artwork.

Signs and houses in a cast

The sign describes a quality of expression; the house adds an area of life. Houses start on each visit. All twelve house numbers preview your location and current time before you cast, then stay fixed to the reading. Your saved location is used automatically; on your first visit, allow device location access or enter coordinates. Click Change location to update it. Tropical Whole Sign houses are calculated for the moment you cast. House 1 occupies the rising sign, with the remaining houses following in zodiac order. Their boundaries coincide with sign boundaries; the gold triangle at the inner edge of the house-number ring shows the rising degree within House 1. The wheel keeps Aries at the top rather than rotating the Ascendant to the left.

The overlay and meanings stay fixed to the cast time. Hiding the lines does not change the reading. Changing location starts a fresh reading. The calculation uses approximate sidereal time and supports latitudes below 66° north or south; it is a cast-time house diagram, not a birth chart. Planet positions are calculated separately as described below.

Constellations in your local sky

The optional Local sky details list uses star coordinates from d3-celestial by Olaf Frohn (BSD license and attribution). Each plotted star’s altitude and compass direction are calculated for your selected location, date, and time using the U.S. Naval Observatory horizon formulas and sidereal time. The list reports how many reference stars are above a level horizon. A constellation can straddle the horizon.

The sky details refresh every minute before a cast and stay fixed afterward. They work with the house overlay hidden. The wheel shows zodiac symbols and names: the twelve equal tropical signs are distinct from the unequal astronomical constellations. The display includes the twelve constellations associated with these signs, not every constellation along the ecliptic.

J2000 star coordinates are precessed to the date. Calculations are approximate, support 2000–2100, and omit atmospheric refraction, local terrain, and stellar proper motion. The daylight and twilight notice uses an approximate Sun position. Above the horizon does not guarantee naked-eye visibility. Sky calculations support all latitudes; Whole Sign houses require a latitude below 66° north or south.

Planet and Moon positions

The outer ring places the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and dwarf planet Pluto at their apparent geocentric tropical longitudes. Exact-position ticks stay fixed at the calculated angle; connecting lines lead to labels spaced to avoid collisions. Planet and Moon positions below the wheel shows degrees within each sign, altitude and compass direction, and the Moon’s illuminated fraction.

Positions use Astronomy Engine 2.1.19 by Don Cross (MIT license), including light travel time and aberration. Local altitudes use topocentric coordinates, including lunar parallax, at sea level with no atmospheric refraction. Zodiac longitudes use Earth’s center and are the same for everyone at the same instant; altitude and direction depend on your location. They refresh with the sky before a cast and freeze with the reading and download afterward. Planet positions can be shown without location access; local altitude requires a selected location.

Traditional associations are summarized from the linked texts. “In this oracle” passages and reflection questions are original interpretations for The Hunger Oracle.