Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah
ManzilThe Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding Places · Arabic Manzil 23
Astrological Influence
Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, meaning 'the Lucky Star of Hidden Things,' corresponds to gamma Aquarii and its neighbors. This mansion favors besieging and revenge, destroys enemies, causes divorce, and helps prisons and buildings, though it hastens messengers while hindering childbirth.
Despite being part of the Lucky series, this mansion's influence is more complex and aggressive than its predecessors, revealing that 'luck' in the Arabic system encompasses strategic advantage as much as simple good fortune.
In the Arabic Manzil System
The twenty-third manzil concludes the Sa'd series with a turn toward hidden matters and strategic action. Its emphasis on concealment and revelation creates a bridge between the open fortune of the preceding mansions and the more specific, targeted influence of what follows.
Lunar Influence
The Moon in Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah is described as unfortunate for everything except taking medicine, making it the most restrictive of the Lucky series mansions. This paradox suggests that the mansion's 'luck' operates beneath the surface, in hidden ways that are not immediately apparent.
Moon Election Guidance
With Moon here, unfortunate for everything except taking medicine.
Meteorological Nature
When the Moon occupies this mansion, the weather influence is described as: Dry.
Ruling Spirit
The ruling angel of this mansion is Aziel.
Talismanic Tradition
Purpose: For the preservation of trees and harvest
Image: A man planting
Material: Sealed in the wood of a fig tree and hung on the tree
Perfume: Flowers of the fig tree
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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