This public-facing reference summarizes the Magi layer used inside Electional. Magi Astrology reads a chart through longitudes and declinations: the ecliptic positions most astrologers recognize, plus the north or south distance of each body from the celestial equator.
What the system tracks
The ordinary Magi body set is the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron. The method does not depend on houses, an Ascendant, or a Midheaven, so a birth date can be enough for many of its core relationship and transit checks.
That does not make birth time irrelevant everywhere in Electional. Other product layers use houses, angles, profections, solar returns, and natal overlays. This page only describes the Magi layer.
Longitudes and declinations
The core chart has two dimensions. Longitude measures where a body falls around the zodiac. Declination measures whether it is north or south of the celestial equator. Magi work treats both dimensions as meaningful, and gives special weight when the same two bodies connect in both dimensions.
In longitude, Magi work uses conjunctions, semi-sextiles, sextiles, squares, trines, quincunxes, and oppositions. In declination, it uses parallels and contra-parallels. Conjunctions, trines, parallels, and contra-parallels are enhancement contacts. Squares and oppositions are turbulent in event charts, while natal aspects are treated more as capacities than defects.
Planetary geometry
Planetary geometry is the larger pattern formed when three or more bodies lock into a symmetrical shape. Grand trines, kites, golden rectangles, yods, and related patterns carry more interpretive weight than isolated contacts. Turbulent geometry, such as a T-square or grand cross, is handled more cautiously in electional or event work.
The useful principle is convergence. One contact can describe a theme. A repeated geometry involving the same planets makes the theme harder to ignore.
Relationship linkages
For relationship analysis, the system looks at interaspects between two charts. Linkage angles are conjunction, trine, and quincunx. Activation angles are square and opposition. Chiron is central in this vocabulary because it signifies marriage, family bonds, lasting commitment, and the public or social meaning of a union.
Common relationship categories include Romance Linkages, Cinderella Linkages, Sexual Linkages, Golden Linkages, Silver Linkages, and the Linkage of Trust. These labels should be read as terms inside the Magi tradition, not as guarantees. A linkage is evidence of a traditional relationship theme; it is not a promise that a relationship will happen or succeed.
Event timing and natalization
Magi electional work uses natalization: the idea that a first action creates a chart for the life of that action. A wedding, business launch, first meeting, first contract, or first public release can be read as a birth chart for the thing begun.
The practical electional rule is simple: prefer enhancement contacts and constructive geometry, and avoid turbulent Saturn contacts for events that need durability, trust, and ease.
The system also gives special attention to whether an aspect is applying or separating. Applying contacts are still moving toward exactness and usually carry more force for an event chart. "Magical Time" refers to the few days around exactness when a contact is treated as especially active.
How Electional uses it
Electional uses this material as a bounded interpretive reference, not as an unlimited scoring override. Magi contacts can explain why a relationship, launch, business, or public-facing moment carries a certain tone. They do not replace the app's natal, transit, lunar, annual profection, or solar-return layers, and they never create medical, legal, financial, or fatalistic claims.
Where optional asteroid or fixed-star discovery is shown elsewhere in the app, it is presented as context rather than a core Magi rule. The public rule of thumb is: cite the exact contact, state the traditional meaning, and keep the interpretation checkable.
Reader guardrails
Magi terminology can sound absolute. In this product it should not be read that way. "Benefic," "turbulent," "romantic," "Cinderella," or "super" describe traditional categories of chart evidence. They are not probabilities, guarantees, or moral judgments.
A publishable interpretation should name the bodies involved, the kind of contact, the chart context, and the concrete life area being discussed. The useful question is not "does this one contact prove the outcome?" The useful question is whether several independent timing layers point in the same direction, with receipts the reader can inspect.