Planetary condition is not one score. Stelliums separates what belongs to the planet, who hosts its exact position, where it can act, how it is moving, how close it is to the Sun, and whether its host is configured to it.

Read the evidence in layers

• Sign condition reports domicile, exaltation, opposite domicile, and depression independently.
• Sect identifies whether the planet belongs to the day or night team; Mercury follows its orientation to the Sun.
• Triplicity and Egyptian bound name rulers of the element and exact degree.
• The Chaldean face names the ruler of the exact ten-degree segment, beginning with Mars at 0 degrees Aries.
• Place distinguishes angular, succedent, and cadent houses; planetary joy reports the traditional house assigned to that planet.
• Motion and solar proximity remain measured astronomical evidence.
• Reception names every dignity by which another planet hosts the placement. A traditional aspect and mutual return are displayed separately.

How to read reception

Start with the guest planet, then identify each host and the exact dignity involved. Check whether guest and host are joined by a traditional sign-based aspect. Check mutuality only when the guest also rules the host position by a named dignity. Stelliums does not convert reception into an automatic promise of help or success.

Why mixed testimony remains visible

A planet may be angular but contrary to sect, hosted by a benefic but unconfigured, in its joy but under the beams, or mutually received while retrograde. Keeping these facts separate makes the judgment auditable and prevents a decorative strength meter from replacing technique.

Use the dedicated sect-light triplicity workbench

Begin with the operative luminary: the Sun in a day chart or the Moon in a night chart. Its elemental triplicity supplies a day ruler, a night ruler, and a participating ruler. The chart sect identifies the first ruler to inspect, while the other two remain named co-rulers.

• Confirm the sect light and its exact sign.
• Read the ruler selected by chart sect first.
• Retain the opposite-sect and participating rulers as separate testimony.
• Follow each ruler to its exact natal sign, Whole Sign place, sect relation, motion, solar condition, and configuration to the light.
• Return the three contexts to the complete natal synthesis without totaling them.

Preserve the hierarchy in a technical report

Planetary Condition Technical Report version 2 carries the operative luminary and its day, night, and participating triplicity rulers into an immutable PDF beside exact natal place, sect relation, motion, solar condition, reception, and aspectual direction.

Atmospheric appearances: the observed-sky layer

For the Moon and five non-solar planets, Stelliums asks Swiss Ephemeris for the nearest modeled visibility phenomenon before and after the chart instant at the saved birthplace. The record names the phenomenon, preserves its UTC event window, and measures its distance from the chart in days.

• The Sun is the source of visibility and is not treated as its own heliacal target.
• Mercury and Venus retain morning and evening appearance families; the Moon retains evening-first and morning-last phenomena.
• Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn retain heliacal rising and setting.
• Every result states the atmosphere, observer, altitude, lunar-interference, precision, and latitude policy used.

Exact stations: the speed-zero layer

For Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, Stelliums solves the nearest exact station before and after the chart. A station direct is the root where signed longitude speed changes from negative to positive; a station retrograde changes from positive to negative.

• Dates are UTC and solved to one-second root precision.
• The frame is geocentric, tropical, and ecliptic longitude.
• Signed speeds immediately before and after each root are retained for audit.
• The Sun and Moon are marked not applicable.
• Older charts must be recalculated; Stelliums does not backfill invented station dates.