WYRD
the app
The sky that is there.
Fifteen signs on the stars the Sun crosses, each as wide as its own stars, worked out from the sky as it stands. Astrology from the first step, for anyone new to it.
This minute: the Sun in … · the Moon in … · the Wyrd in …
How the fifteen are drawn: the Sun’s yearly path is cut where it crosses the constellation borders of the International Astronomical Union. The house adds Canis and Cetus, and widens Scorpio to take in Antares, its brightest star.
Each sign keeps the width its stars give it, so the Sun spends forty-four days in Virgo and nine in Scorpio.
Three of the fifteen are Aether, the fifth element: Canis, Ophiuchus and Cetus.
the Sun… 
the Moon… Worked out in this page from the standard tables of the sky, and held to the house’s own reckoning: the Sun and the Moon within a fiftieth of a degree, the Wyrd within a twentieth.
A birth date is enough for the Sun. The date stays in this page.
A chakra is a seat of the body’s energy, and the chakras are read as a ladder up the spine. The seven most people know, from the Root to the Crown, are set down in a sixteenth-century Sanskrit text, in English since 1919.
Wyrd’s ladder has fifteen rungs, from the Earth Star below the feet to the Source above the head, and each sign holds exactly one. The eight beyond the seven come from newer traditions; the ladder of fifteen is the house’s own.
This minute the Sun stands on the …, and the Moon on the ….
In a reading, each light of a birth chart stands on a rung. The app reads the whole ladder.
Each is a real star, its light measured and its distance known, and each has been photographed. The sky turns from star to star as the page moves.
Each star holds a seat, and each seat has its keeper. In the app they are met one at a time, as they are earned.
β Ari
A white star of class A (A5 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
35 Ari
A blue-white star of class B (B3 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
ε Tau
A yellow-orange star of class K (K0 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
α Tau
An orange star of class K (K5+ III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
α Ori
An orange-red star of class M (M1–M2 Ia–Iab) — a supergiant, a heavy star late in its life and among the largest and most luminous stars there are.
ε Gem
A yellow-orange star of class G (G8 Ib) — a supergiant, a heavy star late in its life and among the largest and most luminous stars there are.
γ Cnc
A white star of class A (A1 IV) — a subgiant, leaving the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life and beginning to swell.
55 Cnc
An orange-gold star at the border of classes G and K, a dwarf just starting to age: it still burns hydrogen in its core, as the Sun does, and is a little smaller, cooler and older than the Sun.
α Cnc
A white star of class A with unusually strong lines of metals in its light — a “metallic-line” star.
β Cnc
An orange star of class K (K4 III Ba1) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
ζ Cnc
A yellow-white star of class F (F8 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
ο Leo
A pair: a yellow-white giant at the border of classes F and G, swollen past its middle years, with a white metallic-line star of class A beside it.
α Leo
A blue-white star of class B (B8 IVn) — a subgiant, leaving the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life and beginning to swell.
δ Leo
A white star of class A (A4 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
β Leo
A white star of class A (A3 Va) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
β Vir
A yellow-white star of class F (F9 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
ε Vir
A yellow-orange star of class G (G8 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
κ Vir
An orange star of class K (K2/3 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
α Vir
A blue-white star of class B — the hottest of the thirty-five — between a giant and a subgiant: it is just leaving the hydrogen-burning middle of its life.
α Lib
A white star of class A, a mild metallic-line star between a dwarf and a subgiant — still in the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life, beginning to leave it.
σ Lib
An orange-red star of class M (M2.5 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
α Sco
An orange-red star of class M (M1.5 Iab–Ib) — a supergiant, a heavy star late in its life and among the largest and most luminous stars there are.
δ Oph
An orange-red star of class M (M0.5 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
α Oph
A white star of class A (A5 IVnn) — a subgiant, leaving the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life and beginning to swell.
GC Oph
ε Sgr
A blue-white star of class B (B9.5 IVp) — a subgiant, leaving the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life and beginning to swell.
β Cap
A yellow-orange star of class K (K0 II + B8 V) — a bright giant, larger and more luminous than an ordinary giant because it was born heavier.
γ Cyg
A yellow star of class F (F8 Iab) — a supergiant, a heavy star late in its life and among the largest and most luminous stars there are.
β Aql
A yellow-orange star of class G (G8 IV) — a subgiant, leaving the long hydrogen-burning middle of its life and beginning to swell.
ω² Aqr
A blue-white star of class B (B9 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
γ Aqr
A white star of class A (A0 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
δ Aqr
A white star of class A (A3 Vp) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
α Peg
A hot white star on the line between the blue-white and white classes, just starting to swell; catalogues call it anything from a dwarf to a giant.
ο Psc
A yellow-orange star of class K (K0 III) — a giant, past its middle years: its core is spent of hydrogen and its outer layers have swollen and cooled.
λ Psc
A white star of class A (A7 V) — a main-sequence star, what astronomers call a dwarf, still burning hydrogen in its core as the Sun does.
Every sign opens onto a realm of the house’s lore, and the New Edda tells their story across sixteen chapters. The app holds the realms, the saga and the runes, and opens them as they are earned.
Ginnungagapthe world that moves
The First Edition of Two of Cups Reversed is one hundred numbered copies. Each holds both versions of the song, which come only with the First Edition; the WAV files and every stem; the stem player; and a sync license for those songs.
The files arrive through a link by email, and stay with the buyer once downloaded.
$190
Have a code? It goes in at checkout.
Clearing music is hard for streamers, video makers, podcasters and independent filmmakers. One music library lists $299 to license one song for one independent film, and quotes wider uses on request.
The First Edition carries its license with it: non-exclusive, perpetual and worldwide, for both versions of its song. The songs, the stems and the license come together, at $190.
The stem player runs in the browser: any pace from half speed to double, the pitch held or let go, forward or in reverse, and each stem with its own level, mute and solo. The WAV files and the stems come with the First Edition.
Each reading is cast on the true sky and written by the astrologer who built the instrument. Ten a week, so each one gets the hours it needs.
Each reading arrives as a PDF by email, within seven days of its week opening.
the shop · in the making
First Breath casts the true sky of a birth. The Cosmic Triad reads it in three lights: the Sun, the Moon and the Wyrd. Each week the rite turns with the sky.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play.
