The Observatory
Not one line a day.
Everything the sky keeps for you, room by room. Each one introduces itself the first time you walk in; its words are kept here after, so the map is yours to read whenever you want it.
Today
Openthe sky where you stand, read for today
Chart
needs your chartyour birth sky, computed to the arcminute
Council
needs your chartthe signs weigh in; one Judgment rules
Not yet entered — it introduces itself when you do.
You
Openwhere you are now — your chapter, your motion, what you keep
Library
Openevery subject, opened in plain words
Almanac
needs your chartprevious rulings — every Judgment kept, and the reckonings still owed
Not yet entered — it introduces itself when you do.
Timeline
needs your charta life told in the great returns
Not yet entered — it introduces itself when you do.
Two of them need nothing from you. The rest read your own chart, which is why they ask for one.
The Council
Most apps hand you one line.
We hand you the argument.
Aries wants you to move. Virgo wants the details right. Neither is backing down — which is the point. When the arguing is done, one Judgment is handed down: not twelve opinions, not a prediction, one sealed ruling with a shape.
- The trade-off
- what you are actually giving up
- The next act
- one thing, small enough to do this week
- The other road
- what happens if you do not
- How firm
- firm · leaning · split — it says when it is unsure
Three days later it asks how it went, and remembers which voice was right for you. Nobody else can ask that — nobody else said anything specific enough to follow up on.
How Celestial works
All of it computed, none of it written.
Your chart is arithmetic, worked out from the JPL kernel — and if we do not know your birth time, we say so. We never invent a placement.
- Ephemeris
- JPL DE440 kernel
- Accuracy
- Verified to the milliarcsecond
- What leaves it
- A question you bring to the Council, with the sky it is read against; the town you type, to find its coordinates; and what you choose to keep under your account. The Privacy page says exactly what.