University offer
Which university offer should I accept?
Our study calculator names six subjects from your chart. This is for when the offers are already in: real courses at real universities, ranked across eight layers — including two that are not astrology at all and say so.
The eight layers
- The course
- Matched against the subject table and weighted by your Day Master element, Life Path and Ten God orientation — the same reading behind /study. Heaviest layer, because it is what three years consists of.
- How it is assessed
- Coursework, exams, dissertation, lab, seminar or studio, read against how you actually work. This is the field worth digging a prospectus for: two degrees in the same subject can be graded completely differently, and it changes the experience more than the syllabus does.
- The city
- Your astrocartography lines on the university's location, read for study rather than for work or living. Mercury and Jupiter carry the most weight here — Jupiter is classically the planet of higher education.
- Where it leads
- Whether the course feeds the careers your own chart favours. Plenty of people study one thing and do another, so a mismatch is information rather than a warning.
- Distance from home
- A plain haversine calculation between your birthplace and the university, weighted by how far you said you want to be. Not astrology, and the page says so on the card.
- Campus or city
- A stated preference, weighted against what your Day Master element is traditionally read as wanting. Also not astrology in any strict sense.
- University name
- Chaldean numerology on the institution's name. The lightest layer here, and included because people ask.
- Enrolment date
- Read from the almanac for 入學, starting a course of study. Weighted lightly, because a university start date is rarely movable — so read it as a note rather than an instruction.
Why two layers here are not astrology
Distance from home and campus-versus-city are in this calculator because they are among the better predictors of whether someone actually finishes a degree, in both directions — people who wanted to get away and could not, and people who went too far and could not settle.
A page that ranked universities on the digit sum of their name while ignoring that the reader would be four thousand miles from everyone they know would be worse than no page. So they are included, weighted according to what you say you want, and labelled on the card as what they are: a distance calculation and a preference. Dressing either up as a chart reading would be the dishonest way to have them.