The atlas
102 traditions, and where each began.
Plutto reads your chart through 102 astrology and divination traditions from 12 regions of the world. Each is pinned on the app's globe at the place it was first practised — a founding place where there is one, a founding centre where there is not — and each is named as its own people name it.
South Asia · 8
- Aṣṭamaṅgala PraśnaThrissur · cast or drawn
- The Kerala temple praśna, still practised there.
- KP (Krishnamurti)Chennai · read from your birth
- K.S. Krishnamurti worked and published here.
- NumerologyVaranasi · read from your birth
- Aṅka jyotiṣa, the number-planet tradition.
- RamalaDelhi · cast or drawn
- Arabic geomancy remade in Sanskrit at the sultanate courts.
- Sarvatobhadra ChakraAwadh · read from your birth
- A muhūrta chakra of the north Indian almanac tradition.
- Sinhala NekathKandy · a practice
- The Sinhala almanac of auspicious hours.
- Tamil numerologyMadurai · read from your birth
- Tamil practice is its own lineage, not a translation of the northern one.
- Vedic (BPHS)Varanasi · read from your birth
- Where the Parāśara tradition was taught and copied.
China · 16
- Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions)Xi'an · read from your birth
- Eight Mansions, from the Tang compass schools.
- Cheng Gu (bone weight)Xi'an · read from your birth
- Attributed to the Tang astrologer Yuan Tiangang.
- Chinese (BaZi)Xi'an · read from your birth
- Chang'an, where the court codified the calendar the pillars run on.
- Da Liu Ren (this moment)Luoyang · read from the moment you ask
- One of the three Han arts, read from the minute.
- Flying Star feng shuiGuangzhou · read from the moment you ask
- Xuan Kong Fei Xing, elaborated in the Qing south.
- Guo Lao Xing ZongXi'an · read from your birth
- The Tang star-astrology of Zhang Guo's tradition.
- Kau Chim (temple lots)Quanzhou · cast or drawn
- Temple lot sticks, from the Fujian coast temples.
- Ling Qi JingNanjing · cast or drawn
- A board oracle of the Six Dynasties south.
- Lo Shu gridLuoyang · read from your birth
- The magic square the Luo river is said to have carried.
- Plum Blossom (this moment)Luoyang · read from the moment you ask
- Shao Yong's plum-blossom method, Northern Song.
- Qi Men Dun Jia (this moment)Luoyang · read from the moment you ask
- Systematised as a Han court art of timing and direction.
- San He feng shuiGanzhou · read from the moment you ask
- The Jiangxi landform school of feng shui.
- Tai Yi Shen Shu (era)Luoyang · read from the moment you ask
- The third, read for eras and the fate of states.
- Taoist phaseMount Qingcheng · a practice
- One of the founding seats of religious Daoism.
- Tie Ban Shen ShuLuoyang · read from your birth
- The Iron Plate numbers, from the same Song lineage.
- Xiao Liu RenCentral China · read from the moment you ask
- A folk hand-count, carried by practice rather than a text.
East Asia · 11
- Gunghap (Korean compatibility)Seoul · read from your birth
- Korean marriage compatibility, read at two depths.
- Nine Star KiTokyo · read from your birth
- Chinese nine-star, developed into kyūsei-kigaku in Japan.
- OmikujiKyoto · cast or drawn
- The shrine fortune slip.
- Onmyōdō (Japanese almanac)Kyoto · read from your birth
- The Heian court's bureau of yin-yang.
- Saju Palja (Korean)Seoul · read from your birth
- The Korean reading of the four pillars.
- Sanmei-gakuTokyo · read from your birth
- Sanmei-gaku, systematised in the 20th century.
- Seimei HandanTokyo · a practice
- Name divination by the stroke counts of the written name.
- Shichū Suimei (Japanese)Kyoto · read from your birth
- Shichū Suimei, the Japanese four pillars.
- Tojeong Bigyeol (Korean almanac)Boryeong · read from your birth
- Yi Ji-ham's new-year almanac, still consulted every January.
- Tứ Trụ (Vietnamese)Hanoi · read from your birth
- The Vietnamese four pillars.
- Tử Vi Đẩu Số (Vietnamese)Hanoi · read from your birth
- Tử Vi Đẩu Số as Vietnam kept it.
The Himalaya · 3
- Mongolian ZurhaiUlaanbaatar · read from your birth
- The Mongolian branch of the same calendrical tradition.
- TibetanLhasa · read from your birth
- Tibetan astrology, half Indian and half Chinese by its own account.
- Tibetan Kar-tsiLhasa · read from your birth
- The Tibetan calendar and its doubled and omitted days.
Persia & Arabia · 8
- Abjad (Arabic)Kufa · read from your birth
- Letter-value arithmetic in the old Semitic alphabet order.
- Firdaria (Persian time-lords)Isfahan · read from your birth
- Persian time-lords, inherited from Hellenistic Greece.
- Fāl-e ḤāfeẓShiraz · cast or drawn
- The tomb people still open the Divan at.
- IkhtiyārātBaghdad · read from the moment you ask
- Electional astrology at the Abbasid court.
- IstikhāraMedina · cast or drawn
- The prayer for guidance, and how its answer is read.
- JafrMedina · read from your birth
- The letter science attributed to Ja'far al-Ṣādiq.
- Lunar mansions (manazil)Hejaz · read from your birth
- The twenty-eight manāzil, named by Arabian astronomers.
- ZāʾirjaFez · read from the moment you ask
- The Maghrebi letter-device Ibn Khaldūn described.
Europe · Sky · 12
- AlchemyAlexandria · read from your birth
- Where the operations were first written down.
- AstrocartographySan Francisco · read from your birth
- Jim Lewis built astrocartography here in the 1970s.
- Barbault cyclic index (world)Paris · read from the moment you ask
- André Barbault's cyclic index of world events.
- Bradley siderograph (markets)Los Angeles · read from the moment you ask
- Donald Bradley's siderograph, 1940s.
- Egyptian decanThebes · read from your birth
- The decans, on the ceilings of the tombs.
- Evolutionary astrologyBoulder · read from your birth
- Jeffrey Wolf Green's school, late 20th century.
- Hermetic lawAlexandria · read from your birth
- The Hermetic corpus, Greco-Egyptian.
- Human DesignIbiza · read from your birth
- Received there in 1987, by its author's account.
- Sacred geometryAthens · read from your birth
- The Platonic solids and the ratios.
- Solar barycentric (Landscheidt)Hamburg · read from the moment you ask
- Theodor Landscheidt's solar-cycle research.
- Traditional medical astrologyKos · read from your birth
- The humoral tradition, from the Hippocratic school.
- WesternAlexandria · read from your birth
- Hellenistic astrology took its form in Roman Egypt.
Europe · Letters · 5
- Angel numbersSedona · read from the moment you ask
- Native to the modern American New Age rather than to any old tradition.
- Gematria (all methods)Jerusalem · read from your birth
- Hebrew letter-value reading.
- Isopsephy (Greek)Athens · read from your birth
- The Greek counterpart, older in the inscriptions.
- KabbalahSafed · read from your birth
- Where Lurianic kabbalah was taught.
- MazalotJerusalem · read from your birth
- The Hebrew zodiac and the planetary hours.
Europe · Folk · 14
- Anglo-Saxon FuthorcYork · cast or drawn
- The Anglo-Saxon rune row, thirty-three staves.
- Baltic and Finnic folkThe Baltic · a practice
- Baltic and Finnic folk practice.
- BibliomancyRome · cast or drawn
- Opening a book at random needs only a book — the sortes Virgilianae are the oldest named form.
- Celtic treeTara · read from your birth
- The tree calendar and the ogham letters.
- Cleromancy (lots)Babylon · cast or drawn
- Casting lots belongs to everyone; the oldest attested practice is Mesopotamian.
- Dowsing / pendulumThe Harz · a practice
- German mining, where the rod was first written about.
- GoralotKraków · cast or drawn
- Polish lot-casting.
- Kipper cardsMunich · cast or drawn
- The 19th-century German deck.
- Playing-card cartomancyParis · cast or drawn
- Reading an ordinary deck, after Etteilla.
- ScryingMemphis · a practice
- Ink poured into the palm, in Egypt, is the earliest recorded form of the practice.
- Sibilla deckMilan · cast or drawn
- The Italian fortune-telling pack.
- Slavic folk divinationKyiv · a practice
- The Slavic seasonal divinations.
- TasseographyLondon · a practice
- Tea leaves, once the tea arrived.
- Younger FutharkUppsala · cast or drawn
- The Viking-age sixteen.
Africa · 4
- Akan day namesKumasi · read from your birth
- The Akan day names.
- MérìndínlógúnIle-Ife · cast or drawn
- Sixteen cowries, in the Yoruba homeland.
- Ngombo, Bamana, bone throwingBamako · a practice
- Bamana sand-work, and the basket and bone traditions beside it.
- SikidyAntananarivo · cast or drawn
- Malagasy seed geomancy.
The Americas · 5
- Andean / Inca wataCusco · read from your birth
- The Inca year and its festivals.
- AztecTenochtitlan · read from your birth
- The tonalpohualli.
- MayanTikal · read from your birth
- The tzolk'in count, still kept in the highlands.
- Native totemThe Plains · read from your birth
- A modern pan-tribal construct; the book says whose imagery it borrows.
- Zapotec / Mixtec countMonte Albán · read from your birth
- The Zapotec and Mixtec version of the same count.
Southeast Asia & Oceania · 9
- Aboriginal Australian sky knowledgeCentral Australia · a practice
- Sky knowledge held in seasonal calendars.
- Khmer HorasastraAngkor · read from your birth
- Khmer horasastra.
- Lao calendarLuang Prabang · read from your birth
- The Lao calendar.
- MahaboteBagan · read from your birth
- Burmese astrology, from the temple city.
- Pawukon (Bali)Bali · read from your birth
- The two-hundred-and-ten day calendar.
- Polynesian moon nightsAotearoa · read from your birth
- The thirty moon nights, as the Māori kept them.
- Tahitian moon nightsTahiti · read from your birth
- The same nights, under their Tahitian names.
- Thai HorasatAyutthaya · read from your birth
- Thai horasat, at the old capital.
- Weton (Java)Yogyakarta · read from your birth
- The Javanese birth day and its numeric weight.
The Body · 7
- Chiromancy (palmistry)Athens · read from the body
- Palmistry arose in China, India and Europe independently; the mounts read here are the Greek planetary set.
- Mian Xiang (face reading)Xi'an · read from the body
- Chinese face reading and its twelve palaces.
- MoleosophyLondon · read from the body
- Named and tabulated in 17th-century England, though moles are read in Indian and Chinese traditions too.
- Physiognomy (European)Athens · read from the body
- The European tradition, from the Greek treatises.
- Shou XiangXi'an · read from the body
- Chinese palm reading.
- Svara ŚāstraVaranasi · read from the body
- Svara yoga, the breath as an oracle.
- Sāmudrika ŚāstraVaranasi · read from the body
- The Indian science of body marks.
The five traditions Plutto computes in full — Vedic, KP, Western, Chinese BaZi and astrocartography — each have a guide.
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