Chuck Neoteric · 2026
A living portrait of planetary energy, rendered as a nebula. Every time you open it, it has already changed.
The night sky has always been a clock. Ancient astronomers — Babylonian, Greek, Arabic, Chinese — mapped the planets not as mystical forces but as measurable phenomena: objects moving through space on predictable paths, crossing specific positions relative to where they were when you were born. Transit Nebula I is built on those same measurements.
Using Jean Meeus's astronomical algorithms — the same formulas that power modern ephemeris software — the work calculates where each of eight planets sits today, relative to their positions on your birth date. The angular relationships between then and now (conjunctions, trines, squares, oppositions) produce a score for each axis. Those scores become the nebula you see: the proportional weight of each color in the swirl. A high score means that axis's color is prominent throughout the field. A low score reduces it to a faint trace. The structure of the nebula — the way it moves, the shapes it takes — is pure noise, different every day. Only the palette is yours.
The result is not prediction. It's a portrait — a snapshot of where today's sky intersects your own. Dense, luminous clouds mean strong activation. Faint wisps mean quiet. The nebula doesn't tell you what will happen; it shows you what's in motion.
Each color corresponds to one axis. The density and size of a color cloud reflects that axis's score for today: a large, bright cloud means strong activation; a faint wisp means the axis is quiet. There's no hierarchy — high energy is not inherently better, and low energy is not inherently bad. It's weather. You work with it.
The overall balance of color — whether one hue saturates the field or all eight swirl together in equal weight — is its own kind of information. No axis is pinned to a location; the colors move freely through the gas, their proportions shaped by your chart, their paths shaped by the noise.
The nebula drifts very slowly. It breathes. It is not still, but it is not loud. Time your attention to it.
For a written interpretation of today's energy across all eight axes, visit the Daily Reading. For the pure visual with no text, the Nebula Art is the work itself. For a technical account of how planetary positions are calculated and where this implementation sits relative to professional ephemeris tools, see the Astrological Method.