Each band shows the days of the month on which that condition held. Days are read at 12:00 UTC. The bands carry no favourable or adverse colour, deliberately: events falling more often inside a window is not good news.
Tested condition
Budha retrograde or combust
2–23 February 1988
In force on 22 of the month's 29 days.
What already happened while this same condition held — counted across the whole record:
Tested against: market events. Categories this condition was not tested against are left out rather than shown as a zero; that restriction is this platform's stated configuration, not a statement of the texts.
Classical basis. The price (argha) and motion chapters of the Bṛhat Saṁhitā link anomalous motion of the significator of trade to disturbance in prices. Retrogression and a 12° combustion orb are Horā’s stated operationalisation.
Station
Budha turns retrograde
2 February 1988
2 February 1988 — the change of direction is first seen at 12:00 UTC on this day.
Not tested by the record
None of the seven tested conditions is keyed to this event on its own, so the record offers no count for it. It is listed because it is a fact of this month's sky, and no number is attached to it.
Classical basis. A station is read from the change of sign of the body's speed, sampled at 12:00 UTC each day. No time finer than the day is computed.
Ingress
Rāhu enters Kumbha
2 February 1988
2 February 1988, moving backward — first found in the new rāśi at 12:00 UTC on this day.
Not tested by the record
None of the seven tested conditions is keyed to this event on its own, so the record offers no count for it. It is listed because it is a fact of this month's sky, and no number is attached to it.
Classical basis. An ingress is the crossing of a sidereal (Lāhirī) rāśi boundary, sampled at 12:00 UTC each day. Only Maṅgala, Guru, Śani and Rāhu are shown; Budha and Śukra change sign every few weeks and no tested condition is keyed to their ingress.
Ingress
Guru enters Meṣa
3 February 1988
3 February 1988 — first found in the new rāśi at 12:00 UTC on this day.
Not tested by the record
None of the seven tested conditions is keyed to this event on its own, so the record offers no count for it. It is listed because it is a fact of this month's sky, and no number is attached to it.
Classical basis. An ingress is the crossing of a sidereal (Lāhirī) rāśi boundary, sampled at 12:00 UTC each day. Only Maṅgala, Guru, Śani and Rāhu are shown; Budha and Śukra change sign every few weeks and no tested condition is keyed to their ingress.
Tested condition
Maṅgala and Śani within 10° of conjunction or opposition
7–29 February 1988
In force on 23 of the month's 29 days.
What already happened while this same condition held — counted across the whole record:
Tested against: geophysical events, political events, market events. Categories this condition was not tested against are left out rather than shown as a zero; that restriction is this platform's stated configuration, not a statement of the texts.
Classical basis. Classical mundane doctrine: the mutual affliction of Maṅgala and Śani marks strife and scarcity. The 10° orb is Horā’s stated configuration; the texts describe, they do not measure in degrees.
Ingress
Maṅgala enters Dhanu
13 February 1988
13 February 1988 — first found in the new rāśi at 12:00 UTC on this day.
Not tested by the record
None of the seven tested conditions is keyed to this event on its own, so the record offers no count for it. It is listed because it is a fact of this month's sky, and no number is attached to it.
Classical basis. An ingress is the crossing of a sidereal (Lāhirī) rāśi boundary, sampled at 12:00 UTC each day. Only Maṅgala, Guru, Śani and Rāhu are shown; Budha and Śukra change sign every few weeks and no tested condition is keyed to their ingress.
Tested condition
Within 18 days either side of an eclipse
15–29 February 1988
In force on 15 of the month's 29 days.
What already happened while this same condition held — counted across the whole record:
Tested against: geophysical events, political events, market events. Categories this condition was not tested against are left out rather than shown as a zero; that restriction is this platform's stated configuration, not a statement of the texts.
Classical basis. Proximity to an eclipse season — the luminaries near the nodal axis. The eighteen-day span is Horā’s stated convention.
Tested condition
Graha-yuddha — two tārā-grahas within 1°
22–24 February 1988
In force on 3 of the month's 29 days.
What already happened while this same condition held — counted across the whole record:
Tested against: geophysical events, political events, market events. Categories this condition was not tested against are left out rather than shown as a zero; that restriction is this platform's stated configuration, not a statement of the texts.
Classical basis. Bṛhat Saṁhitā, the graha-yuddha chapter: a war between planets is said to distress nations, and the people of the defeated planet to suffer.
Station
Budha turns direct
24 February 1988
24 February 1988 — the change of direction is first seen at 12:00 UTC on this day.
Not tested by the record
None of the seven tested conditions is keyed to this event on its own, so the record offers no count for it. It is listed because it is a fact of this month's sky, and no number is attached to it.
Classical basis. A station is read from the change of sign of the body's speed, sampled at 12:00 UTC each day. No time finer than the day is computed.