Annexes

The same moment, measured against the fixed stars instead of the seasons. The sidereal zodiac and the tropical zodiac have drifted roughly twenty-four degrees apart over two thousand years, which means most of your placements land in a different sign here — and the interesting question is not which one is right but what each system was built to measure. This annex gives you your Vedic chart and your birth nakshatra with its pada and its ruling planet, and then reads it against the Western chart you already have. Where the two disagree, we say where and why rather than choosing a winner.

Human Design takes two moments rather than one: your birth, and the point eighty-eight degrees of solar arc before it. From those it derives a bodygraph of gates and channels, and the Gene Keys sit on the same gates with a different vocabulary. It is the youngest system in this document by a long way and we do not present it as anything older than it is. What it is unusually good at is naming a decision-making mechanism — how you are built to say yes — and that reads sharply against your day master and your nodal axis. Includes your incarnation cross.

You tell us your Myers-Briggs type and your Enneagram type and wing, and we read them into the chart rather than beside it. This annex has no table of its own, on purpose. A four-letter code printed next to a natal wheel is two facts sitting near each other; the work is in the seams — where your type and your Ascendant are doing the same job, where your Enneagram fear and your Chiron placement are describing one wound in two dialects, and where the type you report and the chart you were born under genuinely do not match. That last case is the most useful of the three and we do not force a fit to avoid it.

Pythagorean numerology: life path, expression, soul urge, and the four pinnacles that divide a life into stages. It is a compact vocabulary for life-stage and it is very good at that particular job.

Everything else in this document describes disposition — what you were built like. This annex describes the record of use: how you have actually done closeness, and what you have needed in order to feel loved. The gap between disposition and record is more diagnostic than either on its own, and this is the annex that most often produces the sentence people quote back to us.