The 28 lunar mansions · 23rd of 28
Saʿd Bulaʿ سعد بلع
The luck of the swallower. A theme of taking in and digesting; healing and quiet absorption.
- Its stars
- Albali and its neighbours (ε, μ and ν Aquarii)
- Where it lies
- 12°51′ Capricorn to 25°43′ Capricorn, as Baghdad counted it
- How often
- The Moon passes through about every 27⅓ days and stays roughly a day
- Next visit
- Calculating…
Born with the Moon in Saʿd Bulaʿ
You absorb and digest. 'The luck of the swallower' was a station of taking things in and healing quietly, and you process life deeply before you respond.
Gifts
Reflection, recovery, understanding
Watch for
Holding feelings in for too long
A theme your life returns to. Your theme is integration. Experiences that seem hard at first become, in time, the source of your wisdom.
A night in Saʿd Bulaʿ
The astrologers of Baghdad chose the night for a task by the Moon's mansion. For Saʿd Bulaʿ the old lists say:
Good for
- starting a course of remedies
- new clothes and jewellery
- journeys (Ibn Abi'l-Rijal)
Better left for another night
- marriage
- journeys (Picatrix)
- depositing valuables
A thought for the night I take in only what nourishes me today.
The readings are modern, drawn from each station's traditional name and meaning. They describe tendencies, not events, and are offered for reflection and fun.
Sources
- Al-Bīrūnī, The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (1029), the chapter on the lunar mansions. Translated by R. Ramsay Wright (1934).
- Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm), Book I, chapter 4: the 28 mansions and the works begun in each.
- Ibn Abī l-Rijāl (Haly Abenragel), The Distinguished Book on the Judgements of the Stars, Book VII: elections by the Moon's mansion.
- Star identifications follow Paul Kunitzsch, Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber (1961), and the usual modern lists.
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