About

This is a reference work on the Western astrological tradition and the seasonal calendars of pre-Christian and folk Europe, with a chart tool attached. It exists because most of what is written about both subjects online is confidently wrong in ways that are easy to check.

How evidence is handled

Historical claims are stated as facts and carry sources. Interpretive claims are stated as what a named tradition held in a named period, attributed to a specific source, and are never presented as predictions or as psychological findings. Entries mark five registers: what is established, what is contested among scholars, what a tradition holds, what is a correction to a common error, and where the evidence simply runs out.

Entries about pagan tradition carry an evidence grade running from a contemporary insider document or dated object down to a modern reconstruction. This is not a ranking of worth. A practice devised in 1958 can matter enormously to the people who keep it. The grade exists so that anyone who wants to know how old something is can find out, which is otherwise surprisingly hard.

A standing principle

Much of what circulates as ancient pagan tradition is considerably more recent than claimed, and a good deal of it was assembled in the twentieth century. Saying so is not a debunking exercise. Where this site corrects a common account, it tries to give back something more interesting than it took: who wrote the thing, when, why, and what the older practice underneath it really was.

Traditions here are named by place and period, never by people. A tradition belongs to a region and a time, not to anyone's ancestry, and nothing on this site should be read as suggesting that descent grants or withholds a right to study or practise anything.

What this site covers and what it does not, and the reason for the boundary, are set out on thescope page. The short version: the limit is what this site is equipped to do well, stated so that it can be checked and so that it expires when the limitation does.

What this site will not do

• Tell anyone what will happen to them.
• Make medical, financial, legal, mortality, or relationship-viability claims.
• Send a daily notification, keep a streak, gate anything behind payment, or upsell a reading.
• Transmit birth details anywhere. See Methods for how that is enforced.

The first of those is structural. Entries are not written in the second person, and the build fails if one is. There is no component anywhere in this site capable of generating a sentence about a reader.

Corrections

Errors are expected and corrections are welcome. Every claim carries its source precisely so that disagreement can be specific. The sources page lists every work cited and states which details have been verified and which have not.