Al Jubana

Al Jubana, meaning 'the Claws,' corresponds to the stars of Libra's scales (Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali). This mansion hinders journeys, marriage, harvest, and merchandise, though it favors the redemption of captives. The Claws, originally part of the Scorpion constellation, carry a quality of grasping and holding.

Despite its hindering tendencies, the mansion's association with freeing captives suggests a deeper theme of liberation through constraint.

The fourteenth manzil sits at the fulcrum of the zodiac, corresponding to the scales of Libra. These stars were once considered the claws of the Scorpion before being separated into their own constellation, and this origin story informs the mansion's grasping, restraining quality. The balance between holding and releasing captives mirrors Libra's essential theme of justice.

When the Moon transits Al Jubana, it is favorable for buying cattle but unfavorable for navigation. The restrictive quality of this mansion suggests a period for careful, measured action rather than bold ventures. Financial dealings involving tangible assets are supported.

With Moon here, buy cattle but do not navigate.

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.