Al Sarfah

Al Sarfah, meaning 'the Changer of the Weather,' corresponds to Denebola (beta Leonis), the tail of the Lion. True to its name, this mansion governs transitions and transformations, particularly in agricultural and natural cycles. It brings prosperity to harvests and plantations while hindering seamen.

The mansion's transformative quality extends beyond literal weather to encompass all forms of change and transition in human affairs.

The tenth manzil marks the tail of Leo and the transition toward Virgo's domain of service and craft. Al Sarfah's weather-changing nature reflects this liminal position: it stands at the boundary between the royal, self-expressive energy of Leo and the practical, analytical energy of Virgo. This makes it a powerful point for initiating changes and turning points.

The Moon in Al Sarfah opens a wide range of favorable activities: travel, navigation, sowing, ploughing, marriage, and sending messengers. This is one of the most permissive mansions for electional purposes, suggesting that the energy of transition and change creates openings for many types of constructive action.

With Moon here, travel, navigate, sow, plough, marry and send messengers.

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.