The astrolabe
The sky over Utah this hour, and the nights it favours for ceremony. The Temple keeps the New Moon and Full Moon as its own calendar; the astrolabe chooses which three nights, and when to begin.
- Moon
- Last quarter, 58% lit, at 0°47′ Cancer
- Course
- Next, a trine to Mercury, Fri 7:35 pm
- New Moon
- Sat, Oct 10, 9:50 am
- Full Moon
- Sun, Oct 25, 10:11 pm
The next windows
Times are Utah local time. Each path is ranked only against itself; a New Moon window and a Full Moon window are never compared.
The New Moon path
The New Moon path is the Temple's own practice of hidden, inward work. Dorotheus permitted the darkened Moon for hidden rites, and preferred the Moon just emerging from the Sun's rays.
New Moon, Sat, Oct 10
Sat, Oct 10 to Mon, Oct 12
First night opens 10:40 pm to 11:00 pm
A quieter window for this path. Moon angular, in the 4th house.
Full readingNew Moon, Mon, Nov 9
Mon, Nov 9 to Wed, Nov 11
First night opens 10:05 pm to 11:00 pm
A quieter window for this path. Jupiter angular, in the 1st house.
Full readingNew Moon, Tue, Dec 8
Sun, Dec 6 to Tue, Dec 8
First night opens 8:18 pm to 10:49 pm
A good window for this path. Jupiter angular, in the 1st house.
Full reading
The Full Moon path
The Full Moon path is the Temple's own practice of illumination and integration. Ramesey held it safest to take inward remedies after the opposition, the nights just past the Full Moon.
Full Moon, Sun, Oct 25
Sat, Oct 24 to Mon, Oct 26
First night opens 9:53 pm to 10:57 pm
Among the strongest windows this year for this path. Moon's next application: trine Jupiter.
Full readingFull Moon, Tue, Nov 24
Tue, Nov 24 to Thu, Nov 26
First night opens 9:06 pm to 11:00 pm
Among the strongest windows this year for this path. Moon's next application: trine Venus.
Full readingFull Moon, Wed, Dec 23
Thu, Dec 24 to Sat, Dec 26
First night opens 7:34 pm to 8:46 pm
A good window for this path. After the Full Moon: Ramesey's rule for potions.
Full reading
How it ranks the nights
The astrolabe follows classical electional astrology, the tradition of choosing a time to begin. Each candidate opening, every four minutes from 7:30 to 11 pm, is scored from 0 to 100. The first night counts as half the block, because an election is the chart of a beginning.
The Moon first
Every electional source reads the Moon before anything else: free of the Sun's beams, free of Mars and Saturn, moving swiftly, and applying to Venus or Jupiter. The Moon carries the most weight.
Then the rising sign
The sign rising at the opening and its ruler come next: well placed, dignified, with benefics on the angles. Sagittarius and Pisces rising, the signs of Jupiter, suit a religious rite.
Cosmobiology as a check
Reinhold Ebertin's 90 degree dial measures stress the classical rules miss. Only pictures with a documented reading count, and they count a little.
Background and hour
The lunation's own degree, nearby planetary stations, and the planetary hour of the opening carry the least weight.
Neither path is inherited
The tradition counts the nights of the exact New and Full Moon as weak times to begin, the New Moon most of all, and no Amazonian or church tradition we know of sets ayahuasca by the moon. The two paths are the Temple's own discipline. Two classical exceptions honour them: Dorotheus allowed the darkened Moon for hidden rites, and Ramesey preferred remedies after the Full Moon. Both favour the nights just after the turn, and so does the astrolabe.
Eclipses are a stance, not a penalty
The classical authors avoided eclipses for ordinary beginnings. The Temple holds some ceremonies at eclipses on purpose, as witnessing rites rather than times for setting intentions. Those windows are ranked on their own track, with the eclipse itself not counted against them.
Astrology is a symbolic, reflective framework, not a validated predictor. These readings describe the sky; they do not replace screening, medical advice or anyone's own judgment. The point values are the Temple's own design, open to inspection in the planner, and tuned by hand rather than fitted to anything. The sky shows weather, not fate.