At long last, I have finally brought one of my personal projects to a close, and I’m thrilled to share the fruits of my labors with you: The Adocentyn Temple Almanac (TATA)! This is a project I started many moons ago, ultimately because I wanted to try my hand at making an offline almanac (originally lunar mansion ingress times and solar decan daycounts) customized by location to provide an abundance of astrological information for timing rituals:
As some of you might recall or have seen me go on about on Twitter, I’ve been working on a bit of a fun project lately, an automated almanac project that I call “The Adocentyn Temple Almanac” (or TATA for short, because I’m cute like that). This is a project where, using the well-loved Swiss Ephemeris codebase and typesetting the output with LaTeX into something nice, I can produce a customizable almanac document for (almost) any populated latitude, longitude, and altitude on Earth. It’s my hope that this becomes a truly useful thing for people: after all, can you imagine having a customized astrological/astronomical almanac for your very own temple room in your house or communal space, specific for where you might actually stand and see the stars? My plan is, in exchange for a modest fee, to produce this almanac (made custom for each person, with a preliminary check to see what information they’d like) as a high-quality PDF, which you can have on your mobile device or laptop as needed, or which you can send off to a printer to have a hardcopy for on-hand off-line reference in your own temple space.
And now, after several years of on-and-off work (and rather later than I originally anticipated, about three years or so—but who’s counting?)—and following up on my blog’s recent 14th birthday last Friday, as well as my recent anniversary of getting started with the Red Work Course that kickstarted so much else in my life—the project is done (at least for its first version), so now I can provide the following blurb instead (as given on the new TATA page of my website with its according sub-pages):
The Adocentyn Temple Almanac (TATA) is a fine-tuned one-year almanac designed for mages, mystics, priests, pagans, and other spiritual workers. TATA comes packed with plenty of astronomical and astrological data, customized for your own specific location and data needs. This almanac is produced using the Swiss Ephemeris (Swisseph) together with the pyswisseph Python extension to the Swisseph codebase. The calculations are performed on a Linux AMD 64-bit machine, and the document itself is produced in LaTeX through PDFTeX.
As an astrological almanac, TATA is a planning tool best used with grimoires, ephemerides, and other such references to organize rituals and spiritual works in a Hermetic or Western esoteric context that observes and respects the natural cycles of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars in relation to the Earth we live upon. TATA is not meant to replace an ephemeris, nor does it function as an automatic election finder, nor does it contain a reference for established lunar/lunisolar calendars (e.g. the Hebrew or Islamic calendars). TATA also does not include any predictions, recommendations for particular activities, or other prognosticatory information, all of which is highly practice- and tradition-specific outside the scope of providing timing information itself. However, depending on user feedback, TATA may be extended to cover more calculations or with more user-specified customization in future versions.
Date and time information, where possible and sensible, is given to the whole minute in your local time (factoring in daylight saving time a.k.a. summer time if applicable). All calculations that involve the Zodiac use the traditional Western tropical Zodiac. All information is presented in English using American English spelling conventions, though the use of astrological symbols (e.g. those for the planets or signs of the Zodiac) will be used throughout as appropriate. The file itself is produced as a PDF, suitable for digital viewing or personal printing.
Information in TATA is displayed in four sections:
- Lists organized by phenomena or calculation
- Daily planner view, displaying all relevant information for a given calendrical day
- Monthly calendar view, displaying the twelve months with high-level information
- Keys and explanations of symbols used and calculations made
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With this project now done (including the last-minute scrambling to fix some glaring non-data issues and functionality additions I only really considered after planning a time with the release using said almanac data), I’m happy to announce that not only can I produce a decent-looking astrological almanac, but (more importantly) that I can produce one for you or your temple/coven/grove/etc.! I am now taking orders for people who would like to order The Adocentyn Temple Almanac for themselves.
The price for a single TATA file for one Gregorian Common Era year for a single location is US$20. However, as a limited-time special (and recognizing that the current year is already well underway): until the end of 2024, the price for a 2024 almanac file is just US$15! NB: while you can order almanac files for future years in advance right now, I would personally wait until much later this year to account for any possible improvements and additions to the almanac as I might announce closer to November or December; after all, I did say that I’m just now completing the first version of the system, and hope to make it more flexible, customizable, and replete with useful information in the future!
For an abbreviated sample TATA v1.0 file for Washington, D.C., USA for the Gregorian Common Era year 2024, click here.
For information about currently-supported features and a changelog of TATA capabilities, click here.
For information about planned development and unsupported features, click here.
For information about terms of agreement for ordering and using TATA, click here.
To request a TATA file, click here for a Google Form to submit your request. Upon submission of your customizations and agreement to the terms specified, I will send you a digital invoice through your selected online payment method. Once I receive your payment and have worked out any questions or development I might have for your calculations, I will begin working on your TATA file, which generally takes a day or two but may take up to two weeks for processing.
To join a groups.io mailing list for discussing TATA (including its use, future improvements to it, or any errors found in it) and for receiving news regarding TATA development, click here.
If you have any questions regarding TATA, or if you’d like to report errors or provide feedback or suggest further improvements, please feel free to contact me through my website.
Due to the customization of them and the request form above, I don’t currently have an option to sell these on my storefronts on Etsy or on Ko-fi like I do my regular ebooks, and I already allow basically the same payment methods as it is as through those platforms, but in the future I may accommodate people paying up-front through through those platforms and then submitting a request form.
If this sounds like something up your alley, I hope you find it useful! Likewise, if you do find it useful or if you know someone for whom it would be useful, let me know what you think and spread the word! The more people keep track of their own rituals and keep in time with the powers of time, the better everyone off will be in the end, and the easier I can help people do just that, the happier I’ll be for us all.