Learn / Explorer / Planetary Events
What happened historically?
Measure the market around a planetary event
So what counts as an event?
Start here if the Explorer is new to you. Almost every claim you have heard names an event — a conjunction, an ingress, a planet turning retrograde — and this is the tab built to count exactly those.
An event is a moment. Two planets reaching a particular angle, a planet crossing into a new sign, a planet appearing to change direction. You narrow down to a set of them by the kind of event and the planet involved, then choose what defines a group. Each event is matched to a trading day, and that day’s move is measured.
One thing is worth getting straight before you start. The planet you pick is the anchor, and every grouping is relative to it. Choose Jupiter and group by rashi, and you are grouping by Jupiter’s sign at each event — not the other body’s, and not some property of the event itself.
When is this the right tab?
When the thing you want to check is a moment rather than a state. “Do markets do anything around a Moon–Jupiter conjunction?” is an event question. The Daily tab cannot answer it however finely you slice, because a conjunction happens and is over.
This is also the only tab that feeds Backtest. Both use the same guided selection, so a group you find here carries across as exactly the same set of events. You get from “these look interesting” to a rule with a stop-loss without rebuilding anything.
How do you pick a set of events?
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Start with the kind of event. A conjunction (two bodies arriving at the same longitude), an ingress (a body crossing from one sign into the next), a retrograde turn, and so on. Sub-type narrows it further where one exists.
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Choose the planet. This one is the anchor. Everything downstream is measured relative to the planet you pick here, and picking one is required — without an anchor there is nothing for a grouping to be “of”.
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Optionally name the counterpart. Leave it on All to keep every body the anchor met, or pick one to study a specific pairing. Leaving it on All is what unlocks grouping by counterpart.
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Choose the resolution — what defines a group. The anchor’s own rashi, nakshatra or pada at the moment of the event, or the counterpart it met. Each dropdown only offers values that actually occur under the choices above it, so you cannot build a query that matches nothing.
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Read one row per group. Each event is mapped to the first trading day on or after its date, and that day’s move is what gets measured. Several events landing on one trading day inside a group are counted once.
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Weigh the day count first. Event groups are much smaller than the Daily tab’s — you are counting occurrences, not every trading day — so a striking average over a handful of events deserves real suspicion.
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Hand the selection to Backtest. Backtest this selection carries these exact events across and lets you give them an entry, a stop and an exit. Opening an individual group works as it does on every tab, and each group can be sent over on its own too.
Where could the selection mislead you?
What the selection actually matches
A planet is matched wherever it appears in an event, not in a fixed position. Picking Jupiter finds every Jupiter event regardless of how the record happens to be ordered, and a three-body event is found by all three of its bodies. If you have older figures from this site to compare against, expect today’s counts to be substantially larger — the earlier ones were wrong rather than merely incomplete.
Grouping by counterpart forms no groups for a three-body event, because there is no single counterpart to name; it still works as a filter there. And a group’s event count need not match the number Backtest reports for the same selection — Backtest counts each event once and drops events with no forward price data, while this tab counts trading days. Same events, tallied for different purposes.
The likeliest way to misread this
Reading the resolution as a property of the event instead of the anchor. “Conjunctions in Aries” is ambiguous — this tab always means conjunctions where your chosen planet was in Aries, and swapping the anchor for the other body gives a legitimately different table from the same events. Check which body is selected before you interpret a row.
When a group here does look like something, remember what you are holding: a set of days that leaned, and nothing about whether you could have traded the lean. Backtest this selection carries these exact events over so you can find out.
Or keep counting first. The Daily tab groups every trading day by where a planet sat, instead of picking out moments — bigger samples, duller answers, and the easiest place to learn the controls.
The standing caveat
Celestial Market Lens measures what markets did around historical planetary events. That is a description of the past. It is not a prediction, not a recommendation, and not investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Past results do not tell you what will happen next, and you are responsible for anything you do with money.