The Book of Changes
Sixty-four figures of change, consulted in China for nearly three thousand years; here in James Legge’s translation of 1882.
By invitation
The ancient sky,
read for your life.
Dendera is a museum of ancient wisdom that answers when you ask. Bring it a question about your chart at any hour, and it reads you the old books themselves, from astrology and the Book of Changes to dreams and the lore of animals and stones, and shows you the page.
Like the healing sanctuary it is named for, it starts from a hope: that your chart is a place to begin, not a verdict. Where no reviewed rule covers part of a chart, it says so instead of guessing.
A sample reading
Every line names its book and page
This is the chart and the statement list from the Dendera app, showing a sample chart. Each statement keeps its book, page and passage one tap away; where no reviewed rule applies, the reading says so.
What the books say about it
The Sun in Cancer is sensitive and sympathetic, with persistence and tenacity.
Source
Alan Leo, Astrology for AllBook Part I · Chapter VII · page 22
The book’s words They are very reserved and sensitive, sympathetic and tenacious, persistent and impatient, impressionable and emotional.
The Sun in Cancer has an exceptional memory and readily recalls small details from the past.
Sources (2)
Alan Leo, Astrology for AllBook Part I · Chapter VII · pages 20–21
The book’s words The Cancer individual has the most remarkable memory of any given by the twelve signs
Alan Leo, Astrology for AllBook Part I · Chapter VII · pages 20–21
The book’s words it is no difficulty for them to recall minute incidents of the past.
The Moon in Aquarius strengthens imagination, intuitive perception and mental sensitivity, while attracting interest in unusual and novel subjects.
Sources (2)
Alan Leo, Astrology for AllBook Part I · Chapter XVII · page 59
The book’s words It increases the imagination, intuition, and mental sensitiveness generally.
Alan Leo, Astrology for AllBook Part I · Chapter XVII · page 59
The book’s words Subjects that are unusual, original, eccentric, and novel, attract the native.
Ascendant in Cancer No reviewed rule covers this yet, so the reading says nothing about it.
Ask Dendera
Visitors once slept beside Hathor’s temple at Dendera, hoping for a healing dream. Now you can ask Dendera itself, and it reads you what the old books say.
Ask at any hour
Bring Dendera a question about your chart or a transit, day or night. It finds what the old books say, reads it with you, and shows you the page.
It answers; it never decides
Dendera speaks in the old books’ own images, but it never pronounces your fate. It adds nothing to what the books say, and when they are silent, it tells you so.
Alerts worth waiting for
When a transit is coming, Dendera writes three days ahead, so you can prepare, and again on the day, so you can meet it. Only the ones that matter, never a stream.
Old books, read for a life still being written
Recovered from the old books
In Alexandria, the great library stood inside the Mouseion, the shrine of the Muses that gave us the word museum. Dendera gathers the old books of the sky and the soul in that spirit: works now in the public domain, checked against scans of their printed pages, with the Greek, Latin and Chinese translated for Dendera.
A place to begin, not a verdict
Every placement can be lived in more than one way. Dendera sets the gift beside the difficulty, and the choices stay with you.
Every line links to the page it came from
Each statement Dendera makes about a chart names the work it comes from, so you can read the passage for yourself. Where no reviewed rule applies, it says so rather than filling the gap.
The books of the sky and the soul
Astrology, the Book of Changes, dreams and the lore of animals and stones, from Ptolemy’s Alexandria and the China of the Zhou to William Lilly’s London. Each tradition keeps its own frame and its own voice. Dendera sets them side by side and never blends them into one.
Tetrabiblos
Ptolemy of Alexandria’s four books on the stars, read and argued over by astrologers for nearly two thousand years.
The Interpretation of Dreams
A dream interpreter’s handbook, gathered from the dreams of his day and what followed them; the fullest to survive from the ancient world.
Physiologus
Written in Greek, probably in Alexandria, it taught a thousand years of readers what each animal signifies.
The Secrets of Albertus Magnus
A medieval book of the hidden virtues of herbs, stones and beasts, here in an English edition of 1691.
Christian Astrology
One of the first full textbooks of astrology written in English, published in London in the years of the Civil War.
Named for a temple on the Nile
The ceiling
Around 50 BC, a sky was carved on a chapel ceiling at the temple of Hathor at Dendera. It draws on Babylonian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman astronomy at once: one sky, drawn by more than one culture.
The sanatorium
Beside the temple, people came to bathe in its sacred water and to sleep, hoping for a healing dream. Dendera starts from the same hope: that a chart is a place to begin.
Where you begin is not where you end.
Dendera opens by invitation. Leave your email address with the form at the top of the page and we’ll write to you when there’s a place.