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