Al Batn al Hut

Al Batn al Hut, meaning 'the Belly of the Fish,' corresponds to beta Andromedae (Mirach). This mansion increases harvest and merchandise, helps travelers through danger, strengthens prisons, and causes both marital happiness and loss of treasure. The fish-belly imagery connects to the ancient association of Pisces with the deep, hidden currents of fate.

This mansion embodies the paradox of Pisces: material gain and spiritual loss existing side by side.

The twenty-sixth manzil draws on the Fish imagery that pervades this region of the sky. The belly of the fish represents the deepest, most hidden part of the creature, suggesting that this mansion's influence operates through unseen channels and beneath the surface of events.

When the Moon passes through Al Batn al Hut, it specifically favors travel and taking purgatives. The cleansing, journeying quality of this mansion suggests a time for movement, purification, and passage through transitional states.

With Moon here, travel and take purgatives.

This catalog anchors each manzil to its determinant star in Robson's star-based ordering, with positions given in the J2000 frame. Mansion boundaries here follow the stars, so their widths are uneven and they drift with precession.

The daily Moon mansion on your Today page uses the tropical equal reckoning instead: 28 divisions of 12 degrees 51 minutes 26 seconds measured from 0 Aries, the convention of the Indian elections reported by al-Rijal in The Book of the Skilled VII.101, printed pages 61 through 73 in Benjamin Dykes, Choices and Inceptions: Traditional Electional Astrology (Cazimi Press, 2012). The two conventions name different mansions for the same Moon on many days, which is why each surface states which one it is using.

Where that electional branch grades undertakings as favorable, middling, or cautioned, those grades are historical classifications recorded in the source. They report what the tradition wrote about a mansion, and they judge nothing about your day.