The sample

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We would rather you saw the thing than took our word for it.

Below is a complete page from a real Commission, reproduced with permission and with the identifying details changed. It is page fourteen — the core wound, triangulated across three systems. It is the page that tends to decide people, which is why it is the page we show.

A page headed “Everything in this document proceeds from three facts.” Three cards give the date 1979-06-14, the local time 04:12, and the place Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. A table beneath lists the coordinates 44.9778°, -93.2650°, the time zone America/Chicago at UTC-5 in force on that date, the Placidus house system, the Lahiri sidereal reference with an ayanamsa of 23.5700°, and Swiss Ephemeris 2.10. A closing passage explains that the planetary readings are robust but the house and angle readings rest on the birth time being accurate to within about three minutes. — One · The Facts of Your Birth

The document shows its working before it says anything about you: the coordinates, the time zone actually in force that year, the house system, the ayanamsa and the ephemeris.

A natal wheel diagram of the sky over Minneapolis at 04:12 on 14 June 1979, drawn in ink and verdigris with the twelve houses numbered around the rim, the Ascendant and Midheaven marked, and coloured aspect lines crossing the centre. Beside it a fifteen-row table lists each body with its position, house and dignity: Sun at 22°44′ Gemini in the first house, Moon at 15°10′ Aquarius in the tenth, Ascendant at 0°38′ Gemini, Midheaven at 4°28′ Aquarius, and on through Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron and the nodal axis. Below, two labelled bar charts show the elemental weight — six points in Air — and the modality balance of five Fixed, five Mutable and two Cardinal. — Two · The Natal Wheel

The full wheel with aspect lines, a fifteen-row placements table, and the element and modality balance as direct-labelled bars.

A page headed “Triangulated across three systems.” It reads Chiron at 12°05′ Taurus in the twelfth house, the South Node at 11°47′ Pisces in the eleventh, and Metal at 10.2 per cent — the smallest of the five elements — as one finding rather than three, and notes that in Chinese medicine Metal governs the lungs and large intestine and its emotion is grief. It quotes a Moon–Chiron square at an orb of 3°05′ and a Chiron trine to the North Node at eighteen arcminutes, the tightest aspect in the chart. A pull quote set against a verdigris bar reads: “What is missing is not love. It is the apparatus for receiving it, and that apparatus can be built.” — Fourteen · The Core Wound

The page that tends to decide people. Chiron, the South Node and the weakest element in the Four Pillars, read together rather than in three separate chapters.

The closing letter is not shown. It is the last page written, it is addressed by name, and it is the one page we would rather you came to unseen.

The whole sample document

The complete Record, the twelve pages of counsel, the colophon, and all five annexes — 29 pages, set exactly as your own would be.

Download the sample PDF PDF · 29 pages · 620 KB

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If you would rather start smaller, The First Page is free and it is genuinely good. It gives you your Sun, your Ascendant, and your Chinese zodiac animal and element, written properly and at length.

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