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The Soul Story

Zodiacal Releasing drafted as a living narrative, the angular triads, peak periods and loosings of the bond that divide a life into chapters, with the tone and ruler of every period delineated from the birth chart.

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Whole-sign releasing in the lineage of Valens. Periods use 360-day years & 30-day months; each sub-period is 1/12 of its parent. Low-precision ephemeris (sign & degree). Enter the UTC offset in effect at birth (include historical daylight saving).
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✦ Reading your chart…
Zodiacal Releasing · Soul Story

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Before you read your story

A quick orientation to Zodiacal Releasing, the timeline underneath everything else in this reading. Come back to this tab any time something feels unfamiliar.

① A timeline of your life

Zodiacal Releasing (ZR) takes your birth chart and turns it into a timeline, pressing play on the chart you were born with. It shows which themes, houses, and planets are most active in any stretch of your life. It won't tell you exactly what will happen, but it names the quality and subject of the chapter you're in, so you can meet it prepared.

② Your team: sect, and the benefic & malefic of sect

Your sect, whether you were born by day or night, sorts your planets into two teams and is the single biggest ingredient in a period's tone:

  • Day chart (Sun above horizon): ally is Jupiter; toughest teacher is Mars.
  • Night chart (Sun below): ally is Venus; toughest teacher is Saturn.

Periods touched by your ally tend to bring ease and support; those touched by your tougher planet bring the more effortful chapters, workable obstacles, not doom.

③ Two lenses: Fortune & Spirit
  • Releasing from the Lot of Fortune reveals the timeline of your circumstances and your body: the terrain you'll be moving through at a given time, the cards the universe is dealing you. 
  • Releasing from the Lot of Spirit shows the timeline of your life's work and direction: what you're called to do, how you play the cards you're dealt. 
  • We can look at Fortune + Spirit timelines side-by-side to get a sense of the terrain AND how you're called to move through it, a complete picture of the energy of a given moment (see the Spirit & Fortune tab).
④ How to read zodiacal releasing timelines

In a Zodiacal Releasing timeline, you will see L1, L2, L3, and L4. L stands for level. Each level zooms in on the one before it, and every level is happening at once; you are always inside all four simultaneously, like a nesting doll.

Distinguishing the levels helps if you think about your life like a book, as seen in the graphic below. In a given chapter (L1), you'll have many pages (L2), which contain several paragraphs (L3) and sentences (L4). Notice how even at the sentence level, that sentence is still part of the paragraph, page, and chapter holding it. The same is true of your timeline: a rough sentence can sit inside a wonderful chapter, and a wonderful sentence can sit inside a demanding paragraph. Nothing on a lower level ever overrides what the higher levels promise; it just adds texture to it.

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PEAK PERIODS & ANGULAR TRIADS
  • Wherever your Lot of Fortune sits, every sign of its modality (cardinal, fixed, or mutable) becomes a peak period: a busier, more active chapter. Peak means active, not “good”, it can be wonderful, demanding, or both.
  • The sign just before a peak is the preparation (building); the sign just after is the follow-through (integrating).
  • That cycle–prep, peak, follow through– shows up 4 times in your chart (3 zodiac signs X 4 = 12 zodiac signs. We call these angular triads. 
  • When you read the 3 zodiac signs in each angular triad like a story, you end up with 4 subplots that show up over and over again in your life, as revealed through zodiacal releasing. 
READ THIS TWICE: THE TONE OF A PERIOD

Each period carries a tone (favorable, mixed, surmountable, difficult, or quiet) based on how that zodiac sign is set up in your birth chart. For example, a Capricorn period would be favorable for a day chart with Saturn in Capricorn, but challenging for a night chart with the same placement. 

The important thing to remember is this is an energetic weather report, not a verdict. “Difficult” does not mean "joyless".  Remember spiritual growth often feels materially challenging.  Use the tone to orient, but trust your own experience–use the date ranges below to help you reflect on periods that have already happeend.

Your chart at a glance

Below are the angular triads in your birth chart and how to work with each zodiacal period as it's activated in your zodiacal releasing. Below this table, you'll find more detailed breakdowns and date ranges.

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The subplots

The four subplots below are your chart's angular triads, each one a prep → peak → follow-through arc that recurs at every level, at any point in your life.
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✦ How to Work With It
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Whole-sign Zodiacal Releasing · 360-day years, 30-day months · peaks measured by modality from the Lot of Fortune · loosing of the bond jumps to the opposite sign once per parent period. Each subplot's breakdown is a starting point. Edit it before sharing.

Spirit & Fortune, side by side

Your Fortune and Spirit ZR timelines run at the same time, and seeing how they interact can be incredibly illuminating.

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  • Fortune is what life hands you, body, circumstance, the stage you act upon, released from {{ converge.fortuneStart }}. 
Read them together to see how your intention and your conditions move in and out of phase.

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The full timelines, start to finish

Spirit on the left, Fortune on the right, read straight across to compare what is happening on each at any age. Each L1 chapter lists its dates, then its L2 sub-periods beneath. The dot colour is the period's quality.

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Both timelines released whole-sign on 360-day years (30-day months). Convergence = the same whole sign activated on Spirit and Fortune at once (shared-sign) or both timelines in a peak period together (twin peak). Use the side-by-side tables above to read the exact dates of every chapter and sub-period.