How a day gets
its color
Green — a good day for you. Everything we read agrees.
Gray — mixed. What we read disagrees, so we don’t pick a side.
Red — not your day. Everything agrees it’s a poor time.
A clear day means a green one.
1 · Every date has a number.
Add all its digits — tap any date on the calendar and its card shows this sum. The number says what the day is for. (11, 22 and 33 are left alone.)
1the leader — gets things started
2the peacemaker — smooths things over
3the creator — says it out loud
4the builder — does the steady work
5the traveler — moves and changes things
6the nurturer — looks after people
7the genius — studies and thinks
8the powerhouse — money and power
9the finisher — finishes things off
11the visionary
22the master builder
33the master teacher
2 · The day’s number meets yours.
Numbers have friends and enemies. A day friendly to your numbers is green for you; an enemy day reads red; neither reads gray.
3 · Then your chart adjusts it.
Your chart is a map of where the sky sat on the day you were born. We read it more than one way. Agree, and the day keeps its color. Disagree, and it goes gray — we say so instead of picking a winner.
4 · The sky gets the last word.
An eclipse turns a day red no matter what the numbers said. The four moon quarters shift the days around them.
5 · Where the sky part comes from.
We don’t look these up and we don’t guess them. The moon is worked out from the same arithmetic astronomers use, for the exact date you tapped. Eclipses come from the catalogue NASA publishes — all 909 of them, from 1901 to 2100. The slow-down stretches are worked out the same way the moon is. We follow where Mercury sits in the sky, and find the days it looks like it is going backwards.
We check the two against each other. A solar eclipse can only happen at a new moon. A lunar one can only happen at a full moon. So if our own moon math and NASA’s list ever disagreed about a date, we would know. Across those 200 years they never do.
Pick a date outside those years and the day says so instead of quietly filling the gap. We would rather leave it blank than give you an answer we made up.
6 · The same date always reads the same.
None of this is written fresh each time you ask. A date’s color is worked out from your birthday and the calendar. It reads the same today, next month, and next year. It reads the same for a friend in another country looking at that date. Ask a chatbot the same question twice and you can get two different answers. Here you cannot, and that is the point of a calendar you plan around.
Every mark shows its math. Every day lists what we checked, including the days where the answer was “nothing unusual”. Tap any date on the calendar to see the whole receipt.
For fun and for thinking things over. Not advice about health, money, or the law.