Mahabote · Burmese astrology
Your Burmese born-day sign
Burmese astrology keeps an eight-day week — Wednesday divided into a morning and an afternoon that belongs to Rahu. Each day carries a planet, an animal and a direction, from Sunday’s Galon bird to Saturday’s Naga. Your born-day sign is the one you were born under.
Burmese tradition keeps an eight-day week — Wednesday splits into a morning (Boddahu) and an afternoon that belongs to Rahu. The time is only needed for a Wednesday birth.
The eight born-day signs
Each day of the Burmese week has a planet, an animal and one of the eight directions — the arrangement you see as the planetary posts around a pagoda, where people pour water over the image of their born-day sign.
| Day | Animal | Planet | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Galon (garuda) | Sun | Northeast |
| Monday | Tiger | Moon | East |
| Tuesday | Lion | Mars | Southeast |
| Wednesday AM | Tusked elephant | Mercury | South |
| Wednesday PM (Rahu) | Tuskless elephant | Rahu | Northwest |
| Thursday | Rat | Jupiter | West |
| Friday | Guinea pig | Venus | North |
| Saturday | Naga (serpent) | Saturn | Southwest |
The wider Mahabote
The born-day sign is the foundation of Mahabote, the Burmese system of prediction. Beyond the eight day-signs, Mahabote assigns one of seven houses — including Binga, Adipati and Puti — from the birth day and year, read for character, relationships and fortune. Because the house formulae vary between teaching lineages, AsterNym computes the well-established born-day sign and leaves the houses as tradition to explore.
AsterNym explores these as cultural and metaphysical traditions, not scientific predictions.