The recorded input
AstroEW starts with a Gregorian date, a local birth time, a city or time-zone reference, and the binary gender input required by the selected calculation library. The gender field is an algorithmic input; it does not define identity.
Location matters because historical time zones, daylight-saving rules, longitude, and optional true-solar correction can change the interpreted traditional hour.
The traditional conversion
The calculation library converts the input into traditional calendar fields and arranges palaces and symbolic stars. AstroEW pins a published open-source library at version 2.6.1 for the chart vocabulary and default rule set.
Different traditions and calculation conventions can set different boundaries or interpret the same placement differently. The report therefore shows the method and does not call one convention universally correct.
What the twelve palaces add
- The Life Palace offers a starting question about identity and direction.
- The Body Palace is a separate context for how lived experience is engaged.
- Other palaces give areas of inquiry such as work, resources, relationships, home, fortune, and movement.
- Opposite and connected palaces prevent one star from being read in isolation.
A reproducible reading
- Copy the displayed date, time, city, time basis, and calculation method into your notes.
- Open the Life Palace and read its theme without treating it as a diagnosis.
- Choose one other palace and compare the question it raises.
- If the input is uncertain or near a boundary, compare an adjacent time and record both results.
Trace the ideas
These public references support the historical or technical context on this page. Interpretive language is AstroEW’s educational framing, and different traditions and calculation conventions may read the same symbol differently.
- iztro documentation · Open-source calculation reference used by AstroEW.
- AstroEW method notes · Our inputs, assumptions, and interpretive boundaries.