How the lens works

Public, so anyone can check it. Same lens, same ticker, same day: the same read, for anyone.

A read has three filters: the Sky (where the planets are today), the Stock (how they line up with the ticker's first day of trading) and the Lens (how they line up with any chart you choose). A lens is a date, with an optional time and city. It can be your own birthday, a friend's, or a public date like the first Bitcoin block. We never look at prices: no quotes, no charts, no market data.

What the lens adds

1. We cast the lens chart for its date: at noon if there is no time, in the city's time zone if the city is in our list, otherwise in UTC. A time adds the lens Moon; a listed city adds the Ascendant and Midheaven.
2. Through the session we time every aspect (conjunction, sextile, square, trine, opposition) that the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars make to the lens chart.
3. Each lens hit weighs what it touches in the lens chart: Mercury, Mars, Saturn 3; Moon, Jupiter, Neptune 2; Sun, Venus, Uranus, Pluto, Ascendant, Midheaven 1. At most one slow planet (Jupiter to Pluto) within 1 degree of the lens chart also counts, at weight 1.
4. The Lens tone: the 3 heaviest hits count. Sextiles and trines add to easy, squares and oppositions to tense. Easy minus tense of 2 or more reads Easy, tense minus easy of 2 or more reads Tense, anything between reads Mixed.

How the three filters combine

1. The session is cut into 15-minute slots. In each slot, every timed hit within 30 minutes adds its weight to its filter if easy and takes it away if tense. Sky hits weigh 1 to 3 and Stock hits 3 or 4.
2. Sky window: at least one filter easy and none tense. Friction: the lens tense, or two filters tense. Neighbouring slots of the same kind join into one window.
3. Each window lists its three filters (Easy, Tense, Mixed when they cancel, Quiet with no hit, Off with no lens or no stock chart) and the aspect that drives it.
4. The day's word: Glow when there is a sky window the void Moon doesn't touch and no filter is Tense for the day; Rest when a filter is Tense and there is no such window; Soft otherwise.
5. With no lens, only Sky and Stock count. The gauges come from the sky and the stock only, so a lens never changes them.

Public lenses in the app

• NYSE founding: 1792-05-17, New York
• Nasdaq's first day: 1971-02-08, New York
• First Bitcoin block: 2009-01-03 18:15 UTC
• Charles Dow: 1851-11-06

Dates before 1880 use a simpler orbit for Pluto, so its position there is approximate.

Worked example, 2026-10-20, times in CT

The same ticker and day, read twice by the same engine the app uses: once with no lens, once through a sample birthday (1990-03-21, no time or city, nobody in particular). Different lenses can give different windows.

Astrology for reflection and discipline. Not investment advice. The same lens, ticker and day give anyone the same read. Astrology does not predict prices. We are not a registered investment adviser or broker. Windows are astrological timing reads calculated from planetary positions and the chart date you enter. We use no price or market data.