Yalda Night is the ancient Persian feast of the winter solstice, the longest and darkest night of the year, when families across Iran and greater Iran gather to outlast the dark together. Cast for sunset over Tehran on that longest night, its chart is a beautiful mirror of what it is. The Sun sits in Sagittarius, the Jupiter-ruled sign of the sage and the seeker, in the sixth house of daily ritual and service: for Yalda is exactly this, a night of shared wisdom made habit, of reading Hafez aloud and reciting the Shahnameh until well past midnight, an old festival kept alive since the Achaemenid calendar of Darius I.
Its Moon in Virgo in the third house is the soul of the gathering: emotion carried through words, stories and the immediate circle of kin and neighbours, nourishment offered through the meticulous laying of the korsi with pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and dried fruit whose crimson honours the coming dawn. And the Cancer Ascendant is the perfect mask for this most maternal of nights: the crab's protective shell drawn around the family, the matriarch's table holding everyone safe until the sun is reborn. Recognised by UNESCO in 2022, Yalda endures as light kept through the dark.
Date: 20 December 2024
Time: 16:55
Latitude: 35.7218583°
Longitude: 51.3346954°
Location: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
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Ascendant in Cancer
Sun in Sagittarius
Sun in the 6th House
Aspects (Hard) Sun-Square-Neptune
Lord of 1st House in 3rd House
Northnode in Aries, Southnode in Libra
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日主 · Day Master
Solid and dependable, like a mountain: steady, protective and unmovable, the reliable ground others build upon.
Year
Jia
Yang Wood
Chen
Dragon · Earth
納音 覆燈火
藏干 Hidden Stems
Wu 比肩 Companion
Yi 正官 Direct Officer
Gui 正財 Direct Wealth
Month
Bing
Yang Fire
Zi
Rat · Water
納音 澗下水
藏干 Hidden Stems
Gui 正財 Direct Wealth
Day
Wu
Yang Earth
Wu
Horse · Fire
納音 天上火
藏干 Hidden Stems
Ding 正印 Direct Resource
Ji 劫財 Rob Wealth
Hour
Xin
Yin Metal
You
Rooster · Metal
納音 石榴木
藏干 Hidden Stems
Xin 傷官 Hurting Officer
from age 5
Ding Chou
Fire · Ox
from age 15
Wu Yin
Earth · Tiger
from age 25
Ji Mao
Earth · Rabbit
from age 35
Geng Chen
Metal · Dragon
from age 45
Xin Si
Metal · Snake
from age 55
Ren Wu
Water · Horse
from age 65
Gui Wei
Water · Goat
from age 75
Jia Shen
Wood · Monkey
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