Al Farch al Mukdim
ManzilThe Fore-spout · Arabic Manzil 24
Astrological Influence
Al Farch al Mukdim, meaning 'the Fore-spout of the Water-bucket,' corresponds to beta and alpha Pegasi. This mansion causes union, health of captives, and destroys buildings and prisons. The water-bucket imagery connects this mansion to sustenance, cleansing, and the flow of life-giving resources.
The mansion's simultaneous promotion of union and destruction of prisons suggests liberation through connection.
In the Arabic Manzil System
The twenty-fourth manzil begins the pair of 'water-bucket' mansions, drawing on the ancient Arabic constellation of the Water-bearer (which overlaps but is not identical to the Greco-Roman Aquarius). The fore-spout represents the initial outpouring of life-giving water, carrying themes of release and nourishment.
Lunar Influence
When the Moon transits Al Farch al Mukdim, it favors planting, sowing, bargaining, and marriage but discourages navigation. The nourishing, unifying quality of this mansion supports domestic and commercial activities while cautioning against maritime ventures.
Moon Election Guidance
With Moon here, plant, sow, bargain, marry but do not navigate.
Meteorological Nature
When the Moon occupies this mansion, the weather influence is described as: Moist.
Ruling Spirit
The ruling angel of this mansion is Tagriel.
Talismanic Tradition
Purpose: For love and favor
Image: A woman washing and combing her hair
Material: White wax and mastic
Perfume: Good odors
Reckoning and Sources
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.
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