Cast A Chart

Screen At A Glance

Legend

1. Your question
2. Location
3. Time: use the current time or specify a custom time
4. Date, time and timezone for a custom time
5. Houses (optional)
6. Advanced options
7. Cast chart button

Before You Cast

• Open the screen from Cast chart in the top bar, or from the Cast chart button on the Dashboard.
• In the packaged desktop app, casting a horary chart requires activation. Until then the screen explains that you need to activate Vox Stella in Settings.
• If the horary engine is offline, the screen says so and no chart is cast or saved until the backend is connected again.
• When casting is blocked, the reason appears under the Cast chart button.

Required Fields

Your Question

Enter a clear, specific horary question. The hint under the field reads: ask a specific, answerable question that matters to you right now.

Location

Enter the place for the chart. Suggestions appear while you type, such as London, UK.

If you leave either field empty, the form highlights it when you click Cast chart.

Time Options

You can cast using either:

• Use current time
• Specify custom time

With Specify custom time:

• both Date and Time are required
• the Timezone field appears and is detected from the location, for example Auto-detected timezone: Europe/Paris
• Choose manually lets you pick the timezone from a list instead, and Detect automatically switches back
• if the timezone can't be detected from the location, the form asks you to choose it manually or enter a more specific place

Houses (Optional)

• Automatic (recommended): houses are picked from your question's wording.
• Choose houses manually: enter houses as comma-separated numbers in Houses (comma-separated).

A manual entry needs at least the querent's and the quesited's houses, for example 1,7 for the querent and a partner or opponent. The form lists common pairs:

• 1,2 for money
• 1,5 for children
• 1,10 for career
• 1,4 for home

Advanced Options

Advanced options (override warnings and adjust reception weighting) appear only when the horary engine is connected. Click Advanced options to open them.

Override warnings has four checkboxes:

• Ignore radicality warnings
• Ignore void-of-course Moon
• Ignore combustion
• Ignore Saturn in the 7th

Overrides change the verdict, so use them only if you know why.

Reception weighting has a Mutual exaltation boost slider from 0% to 30%. It adds confidence when the significators are in mutual exaltation; the default is 15%.

What Happens When You Click Cast Chart

• The form checks the question, the location and, for a custom time, the date, time and timezone.
• The horary engine casts the chart.
• The chart is saved on this device and opens in the chart view, ready to read.

Practical Tips

• Ask one precise question rather than a broad topic.
• Use a custom time only when you want a specific past or planned moment.
• Leave houses on Automatic unless you already know which houses the question needs.