Reading a Uranian List: Summary First, Then the Entries

Uranian pages always give long lists. One card on the "Personal points" page may hold nearly ten midpoints, and the "Planetary pictures" page a hundred or more. So the app puts a short summary at the top and opens the first three entries. The rest show only their heading line until you tap them.

Three questions before you read

1. Whose axis is this?

The point that owns the axis tells you whose matter it is. Witte writes that the Meridian shows the person himself, and that the Ascendant gives the connection with other people, both new ties and partings. The Node shows the link between man and woman, because the paths of the Earth and of the Moon cross there; the app reads it more widely as the link between people. The lead lines for the Sun, the Moon and the Aries Point are the app's own convention.

2. What is closest to the axis?

The entries run from the tightest orb, and the tightest should be read first. If a factor stands on the axis itself, the summary names it before the midpoints.

3. Does a factor keep coming back?

A factor that is in two or more pairs on the same axis sets the tone of that card.

Points two and three are the app's own convention, resting on the weight Witte gives to exactness.

What the summary says

The summary has at most three sentences: whose matter the axis is about and which factors stand on it, the themes closest to the axis (three at most), and the tone if a factor keeps coming back. Then it says how many more entries are below. Witte does something similar: he says there are many more connections, and then takes up only the chief points.

A card with one entry has that entry as its summary, and an empty card has none. The summary is labelled as made automatically from the list below: the app composes it by rules, so the same chart and settings give the same words every time.

The entries below

Each entry is one planetary picture, written A/B = C, with its orb and a reading. "Written for this picture" marks a reading of its own; "Pair + third factor" marks the meaning of the pair joined to the role of the third factor. Pictures with Pluto (found after Witte wrote) and the six with Zeus as third factor rest on no article by Witte; the app modelled them on the others.

Read them the way Witte reads his own examples: take each pair as a short phrase, then join the phrases into one story. He also writes that the other planets that join in describe the matter more closely, so the later entries add detail; they do not overturn the summary.

The forecast pages "Natal contacts", "Contact dates" and "Two-chart dial" follow the same idea. There the time frame is mentioned once, and no date is promised.

Take care

Lists this long hold many entries that arise by chance, and the summary knows nothing the list does not. Witte himself calls the meanings he proposes provisional. Compare every text with your real life.

To try it, open "Personal points", read the summary of the card "Meridian (MC)", then open the first three entries and see which pair each theme comes from.

Sources

Articles by Alfred Witte. Page numbers are those printed in the journal.

• "Die Auswertung eines aktuellen Planetenbildes", Astrologische Rundschau, 1921/1922, pages 45 and 48
• "Der erste Transneptunplanet Cupido?", Astrologische Blätter, July 1923, page 53
• "Der 4. Transneptun-Planet Kronos", Astrologische Rundschau, January 1924, page 95
• "Das Planetenbild", Astrologische Blätter, April 1924, page 15
• "Die Differenzierung der Planeten", Astrologische Rundschau, April 1924, page 17
• "Der 2. Transneptun-Planet Hades", Astrologische Rundschau, June 1924, page 79
• "Direktionen und Planetenbilder", Astrologische Rundschau, May 1925, page 54

The app's own conventions: the lead lines for the Sun, the Moon and the Aries Point, the order by orb, the cut at three themes, the rule for a factor that keeps coming back, opening the first three entries, and the wording of the summary.