Destiny matrix lines

Three values, not one. The sky point combines the vertical axis — month and foundation — and is read as what the paternal line hands down. The earth point does the same for the horizontal axis, day and year, and is read as the maternal inheritance. Purpose is those two combined.

Purpose draws on all four corners by way of the axes, yet it spreads more evenly than the center does. Two people picked at random share a purpose arcana about one time in eighteen, while they share a central arcana nearly one time in ten.

It sits inside the chart rather than on its edge. Two keys run inward — one from the foundation, one from the talents corner — and where they meet is the crossing point. Add the crossing point to the lower key and you have the love line.

Note: different schools place this point differently, and some do not use it at all. We build it the way the canonical construction does and say so, rather than presenting one school's version as the only one.

Same crossing point, other key. Add the crossing to the right-hand key — the one running in from the talents corner — and the result is read as the material line.

Both lines therefore share a parent value, so they are not independent. The link is weaker than it sounds, though: love and money land on the same arcana on 7.0% of dates, against 5.8% if the two lines had nothing in common.

The four corners of the square are the ancestral positions: paternal at the top-left, maternal at the top-right, with the two lower corners carrying what the lines pass on — inherited strength and inherited difficulty. Along each diagonal run three intermediate values, computed by adding the corner to the center and repeating.

All of it comes from the birth date alone — no parental dates are involved, despite the naming. Two siblings born on different days get different ancestral lines from the same parents, which is the plainest possible demonstration of what the method is actually measuring.