Al Hak'ah

Al Hak'ah, meaning 'a White Spot,' corresponds to the stars lambda and phi Orionis near the head of the Hunter. This mansion carries a benevolent and constructive influence, helping the return from journeys, the instruction of scholars, and the building of structures. It promotes health and goodwill.

The mansion's association with scholarship and building suggests an energy that favors both intellectual and material construction. When emphasized in a chart or transit, Al Hak'ah supports learning, teaching, and the creation of lasting foundations.

Positioned third in the Arabic series, Al Hak'ah transitions from the disruptive energy of Al Dabaran into a more constructive phase. Its association with Orion, the great celestial hunter, lends it a quality of purposeful action directed toward beneficial ends. The 'white spot' of its name may refer to the faint nebulosity visible near these stars.

When the Moon transits Al Hak'ah, it favors educational pursuits, building projects, and matters of health. Traditional texts advise beginning military campaigns under this transit but counsel against sowing or undertaking charitable works, suggesting that the mansion's energy is better suited to active, assertive endeavors than to passive cultivation.

With Moon here, begin war but do not sow or undertake any good.

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.