Al Sa'd al Dhabih

Al Sa'd al Dhabih, meaning 'the Lucky One of the Slaughterers,' corresponds to alpha and beta Capricorni. Despite its ominous name, this mansion helps the escape of servants and captives and aids in curing diseases. The name refers to a pre-Islamic sacrificial tradition, and the mansion's beneficial influence on healing and liberation transforms its violent origin into a theme of release.

This mansion marks the beginning of a series of 'lucky' mansions in the Arabic system.

The twentieth manzil begins the fortunate Sa'd (Lucky) series, a group of four consecutive mansions whose names all begin with 'the Lucky One.' This clustering of benefic mansions in the Capricorn/Aquarius region of the ecliptic is notable and may reflect an ancient observation about favorable conditions when the Moon traverses this area.

When the Moon transits Al Sa'd al Dhabih, it favors taking medicine and travel but discourages lending money or entering marriage. The liberating, healing quality of this mansion makes it especially suited for therapeutic activities and for breaking free from constraining situations.

With Moon here, take medicine, travel, but do not lend money or marry.

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.