Sage Reality 11 · The Firdaria Calculator
What Chapter of Life Are You In?
Your life moves in chapters, and each one is led by a planet for a set number of years. Enter your birth details to see your whole life timeline, the chapter you are living now, the season inside it and when your next chapter begins.
Day or Night → Your Chapters → Your Season → What Comes Next
Your Birth Details
Your birth time tells me whether you were born in a day chart or a night chart, which sets the order of your chapters. If you do not know it, tell me whether you were born during the day or at night.
Bonatti is my default. In a night chart, the two placements put the North Node and South Node chapters at different ages.
Birth time converted with the Swiss Ephemeris chart service, positions calculated with Astronomy Engine. Birthplace search uses GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Calculation service source code.
Learn Firdaria
How I Read the Chapters of Your Life
Firdaria is one of the oldest timing techniques in astrology. It comes from Persian astrologers and was used across the medieval world to divide a whole life into chapters. Each planet takes its turn leading your life for a set number of years, and each planetary chapter is divided into seven smaller seasons ruled by the other planets.
What makes it personal is your birth chart. The same planet can lead two people’s lives in very different ways depending on its sign, its house and the planets it touches. That is why I read every chapter through the natal condition of the planet leading it.
What This Calculator Shows You
- Whether you were born in a day chart or a night chart. This sets the order of your chapters. A day chart begins with the Sun, a night chart with the Moon.
- Your whole life timeline. All nine chapters from birth to age 75, with the ages and dates each one begins and ends.
- The chapter and season you are living now. And when your next chapter begins.
What It Is Not
Firdaria describes the themes of a season of life. These chapters are symbolic invitations to grow, not predictions or promises. Nothing here is fixed or fated.
Go Deeper
Your timeline is one layer. Your Firdaria Reading tells the whole story.
Your Firdaria Reading ($22.22, instant PDF) tells the story of the chapter you are living now through your own chart: what it asks you to release, how it ties to your sign, house and the planets it touches, your seasons, your next chapter and the chapters you have lived. You get both the Bonatti and the classical timeline in one reading.
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- Your birth time: converted to universal time by my chart service, with historical time zone corrections for places where the time zone database is unreliable before 1970.
- Positions: tropical zodiac, geocentric apparent positions, Placidus houses and the True Node. Without a birth time I use solar houses counted from your Sun sign.
- Day or night: set by the Sun’s position above or below the horizon at your birth.
- Chapters: Sun 10 years, Venus 8, Mercury 13, Moon 9, Saturn 11, Jupiter 12, Mars 7, North Node 3 and South Node 2, for a 75-year cycle counted from your birth moment. Each planetary chapter has seven equal seasons. Node chapters have none.
- Nodal placement: Bonatti is my default. In a night chart it places the North Node and South Node chapters right after Mars. The classical order from Abu Ma’shar places them at the end of the cycle. Day charts are the same either way.
- Disclaimer: this calculator is based on my own research and intuitive abilities. It is offered for reflection, spiritual insight, and personal growth, and it is not a substitute for medical, mental health, legal, or financial advice.
With Love and Light,
Tiff