Everything visible to the naked eye. The complete cast of Hellenistic astrology.

the list ends at saturn, and that ending is not an accident of eyesight. saturn is the last light a person can find unaided, so in this system it is both the seventh planet and the edge of the sky. everything past it was found with glass, centuries later, and is handled separately: the trans-saturnians →

This page is a seed. The full write-up is coming; for now it exists so the links that point here resolve, and so the shape of the codex is visible while it grows.

what belongs here

  • what it is, plainly
  • where it comes from: the text, the translator, the century
  • why it matters to how this site reads charts
  • what the modern alternative is, and where they diverge