Al Simak

Al Simak, meaning 'the Unarmed,' corresponds to Spica (alpha Virginis), one of the brightest and most benefic stars in the sky. This mansion causes marital love, cures the sick, and helps sailors, though it hinders journeys by land. Spica's Venus and Mars nature gives this mansion a blend of beauty, vitality, and productive energy.

The 'unarmed' quality distinguishes this mansion from its celestial neighbor Al Simak al Ramih (Arcturus, 'the Armed One'), suggesting receptivity and peaceful influence.

The twelfth manzil is one of the most auspicious in the Arabic system, anchored by Spica, which has been associated with the harvest goddess across virtually every ancient culture. The mansion's healing and marital associations reflect Spica's traditional reputation as a star of abundance, creativity, and beneficial union.

The Moon in Al Simak favors digging and earthwork but discourages marriage and travel by land, creating an interesting paradox with its marital love association. The distinction suggests that the mansion promotes existing love bonds while cautioning against initiating new commitments during its transit.

With Moon here, dig but do not marry or travel.

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.