Al Sa'd al Bula

Al Sa'd al Bula, meaning 'the Good Fortune of the Swallower,' corresponds to mu and nu Aquarii. This mansion causes divorces, grants liberty to captives, and heals the sick. The 'swallower' may refer to the voracious appetite of fortune itself, which consumes old situations to make way for new ones.

The mansion continues the Sa'd series with an emphasis on dissolution and renewal.

The twenty-first manzil continues the Lucky series with a paradoxical combination of divorce and healing. In the Arabic tradition, divorce was not necessarily viewed as a misfortune but could represent a necessary liberation. The mansion's healing quality suggests that the dissolutions it promotes serve a therapeutic purpose.

The Moon in Al Sa'd al Bula favors marriage, sowing, taking medicine, and leading an army. This unusually broad range of favorable activities makes it one of the more versatile mansions for electional purposes.

With Moon here, marry, sow, take medicine and lead an army.

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.