Add narrative text and a day-significance rank to the interpreter
Each of the day's top significant transits now gets a short sentence describing what it classically means and which area of life its house governs, condensed from Sepharial's Transits and Planetary Periods (1920, public domain) plus a small table of traditional house significations. The day-level line also shows its rank out of the 4 defined levels, e.g. "Notable (2/4)". Docs (CLAUDE.md, README, docs/input-output-format.md, docs/reading.md) updated to match, including a full worked example in docs/reading.md.
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Not every day is equally eventful astrologically. A separate,
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optional step can look at today's aspects (part 2, above) and works
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out an overall **significance level** for the day — Quiet, Notable,
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Significant, or Major — based on which planets are involved, how exact
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the angle is, and whether it touches your Sun or Moon (the two most
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personally weighted points in a chart). On a genuinely Major day, it
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also calls out the single most important thing happening, as a hint
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that it's worth paying closer attention to your tarot spread that day
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rather than treating it as routine. Quiet days still get a full
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Significant, or Major, shown together with its rank out of those four
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(for example "Notable (2/4)") — based on which planets are involved,
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how exact the angle is, and whether it touches your Sun or Moon (the
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two most personally weighted points in a chart). On a genuinely Major
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day, it also calls out the single most important thing happening, as a
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hint that it's worth paying closer attention to your tarot spread that
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day rather than treating it as routine. Quiet days still get a full
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reading — this step only adds a "pay attention today" flag, it never
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removes anything.
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For each of the handful of events that make up today's score, you also
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get a plain sentence about what it classically means and *which area
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of your life* it's playing out in — drawn from the house it falls in
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(see "Today's sky", above). For example, a tense aspect from Saturn
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landing in your 6th house reads as a day for your daily work and
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routine to feel a bit stuck, not just "Saturn is doing something."
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That wording is condensed from a public-domain 1920 astrology book
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(Sepharial's *Transits and Planetary Periods*), the same way the tarot
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card meanings are condensed from Waite's 1911 book.
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## What a day's reading actually gives you
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Put together, one day's reading contains: your natal chart (for
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reference), today's sky and how it's speaking to your chart, how
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significant today is overall, and your 10-card Celtic Cross spread for
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the day. Right now these sit side by side — the astrology tells you
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*how eventful* today is and *where* to pay attention, and the tarot
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spread gives you the actual guidance to sit with. They don't yet get
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woven into a single narrative (e.g. a spread explained *in light of*
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today's significant transit) — that combined storytelling is the next
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piece to build, not something you get today.
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significant today is overall (with a plain-language note on each of the
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main events driving that), and your 10-card Celtic Cross spread for the
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day. Right now these sit side by side — the astrology tells you *how
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eventful* today is and *where* to pay attention, and the tarot spread
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gives you the actual guidance to sit with. They don't yet get woven
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into a single narrative (e.g. a spread explained *in light of* today's
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significant transit) — that combined storytelling is the next piece to
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build, not something you get today.
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*(This page, like that piece, is still a work in progress — expect it
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to grow as the reading itself does.)*
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## A worked example
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Here's what an actual day's reading looks like end to end, for someone
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born 14 March 1988 in Berlin, checking their reading on 5 July 2026.
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**Natal chart (excerpt).** Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aquarius, Ascendant in
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Sagittarius.
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**Today's sky (excerpt).** Moon phase: Waning Gibbous. Several planets
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are forming aspects back to the natal chart above — see below for which
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ones actually matter.
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**How big is today.**
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```
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Day significance: Major (4/4)
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(a major transit today - worth a deeper Celtic Cross look)
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Top 5 significant transits:
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1. Transiting Pluto in Aquarius (house 3) Conjunction natal Moon in Aquarius (house 3) (orb 2.9°, score 9.60)
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In matters of communication, siblings, and everyday learning (house 3). Brings deep, often
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hidden transformation - the surfacing or dismantling of something that has outgrown its old form.
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2. Transiting Neptune in Aries (house 5) Sextile natal Moon in Aquarius (house 3) (orb 2.5°, score 9.25)
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In matters of romance, creativity, and children (house 5). Brings a state of chaos and confusion -
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an involved, uncertain condition of affairs, with plots, subtlety, or unseen influences at work.
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3. Transiting Uranus in Gemini (house 7) Trine natal Moon in Aquarius (house 3) (orb 2.0°, score 8.96)
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In matters of partnerships and close relationships (house 7). Brings separations, estrangements,
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sudden dislocations and violent upsets. Success through official or civic channels, and beneficial
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changes or appointments, are possible.
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```
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In plain terms: today is about as big as this reading gets (Major,
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4 out of 4), and the story is squarely about the Moon — a slow-moving
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Pluto sitting right on top of it, a chaotic Neptune touching it gently
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from the 5th house, and a disruptive-but-possibly-lucky Uranus trine
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from the 7th. Communication, romance, and relationships are all
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quietly under pressure at once.
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**Tarot spread (excerpt).** Drawn independently, using today's date:
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- *The Present* — The Emperor, reversed: immaturity or a loss of
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authority, rather than confident structure.
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- *The Challenge* — The Devil: force, ravage, an obstacle that isn't
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easily reasoned with.
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- *The Near Future* — The World, reversed: stagnation, things staying
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fixed in place rather than resolving.
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Read side by side, the astrology and the tarot happen to rhyme here —
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both point toward something that wants to shift (Pluto's "hidden
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transformation," The Devil's "force") running into something that
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feels stuck (a reversed World, an afflicted Moon) — but that's the
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reader's own synthesis for now, not something the app does for you (see
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above).
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