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Burmese · Mahabote
The little key: seven planets and Rahu in seven houses, from the weekday of birth and the Burmese year. No sky at all.
Burmese astrology
Mahabote, the Burmese little key
Mahabote is the everyday astrology of Myanmar, and it uses no sky at all. Two facts build the chart: the weekday of birth, which gives your planet and your animal — Garuda for Sunday, Tiger for Monday, Lion, Elephant, Rat, Guinea pig, Naga — and the Burmese year, which turns at Thingyan in mid-April and is divided by seven. The remainder names the planet of the first house, and the other six planets follow in a fixed cycle.
The seven houses are Impermanence, Extremity, Fame, Wealth, Kingly position, Sickly and Leader; four are positive and three are liabilities. The reading is where your own planet stands among them. Wednesday is split at noon: the morning belongs to Mercury and the tusked elephant, the afternoon to Rahu and the tuskless one, so a Wednesday birth is the only one that needs an hour.
The app draws the seven houses with your planet outlined, shows the arithmetic that placed them, and names the corner of the pagoda your animal faces.
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Mahabote — The seven houses with their planets, the birth weekday's planet marked, and the Burmese zodiac animal of the day.
Western Modern
The tropical zodiac with quadrant houses: the psychological tradition most of this century is written in.
Vedic · Jyotiṣa
The sidereal zodiac on the Lahiri ayanamsha, read in whole signs.
Western Traditional
Hellenistic and medieval judgement: sect, the five dignities, and the timing those feed. Seven planets, whole signs.
Chinese · BaZi
The Four Pillars — Saju (사주) in Korea, Shichū Suimei in Japan. Not planetary at all: a sexagenary calendar whose only astronomy is the Sun crossing each fifteenth degree.
Uranian · Cosmobiology
The Hamburg school: midpoints on a 90° dial rather than aspects on a wheel.
Mayan · Tzolk'in
The counts of days: thirteen numbers against twenty signs, the Haab, the Long Count. No planets at all, and the hour never enters into it.
Japanese · Nine Star Ki
Nine stars on the Lo Shu square: a principal star from the year, a character star from the month, and the house each year puts you in.