Al Nathrah

Al Nathrah, meaning 'the Gap' or 'the Crib,' corresponds to the Beehive Cluster (Praesepe) in Cancer. This mansion causes love, friendship, and fellowship among travelers, while also having the peculiar effect of driving away mice and afflicting captives.

The Beehive Cluster's dense congregation of stars gives this mansion a quality of community, nurturing, and the warmth of shared experience.

As the sixth manzil, Al Nathrah occupies the heart of Cancer, the sign of home and family. The Beehive Cluster (Praesepe), visible to the naked eye as a hazy patch, was used by ancient navigators as a weather indicator: when it dimmed, storms were approaching. This association with navigation carries into the mansion's electional guidance.

The Moon in Al Nathrah specifically favors navigation and sea travel, setting it apart from many other mansions that counsel against maritime ventures. The community-oriented energy of this mansion makes it a good time for joining with others and seeking companionship on journeys both literal and figurative.

With Moon here, 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.