In the autumn of 1947, an anonymous hand set down a system for reading the racecourse the way an astrologer reads a birth: not by form or pedigree, but by the sky standing over the post at the moment the tapes rose. Three pointers were drawn from that sky — Colour, Gravitational, and Phonetical — and arranged in order of trust. What follows is that method, restored.
Colour Pointers come first and weigh heaviest. They are read from the aspects — the angles — formed between the planets at the moment the chart is cast, each aspect scored by how tight its orb runs. A conjunction within a degree outweighs a trine within three.
Gravitational Pointers follow, drawn from the handicap weights themselves — the scale the horses carry translated into a ranking when the sky offers no clear lead.
Phonetical Pointers close the method: the minutes around post time are divided into four-minute spans, each assigned a period number and a charge, positive or negative, by which the final word is given.
| Aspect | Angle | Character | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☌ | Conjunction | 0° | Strongest pointer; fortunes fused |
| ✱ | Sextile | 60° | Favourable, easy running |
| △ | Trine | 120° | Most favourable; the open road |
| □ | Square | 90° | Checked, contested ground |
| ☍ | Opposition | 180° | Direct rivalry, evenly matched |
Every chart is erected as a wheel of twelve spokes, the Heavens divided into twelve equal parts called Houses for convenience's sake — as the original diagram showed it, a wheel with twelve spokes turning on a single hub, the planets falling where the moment places them.
The Calculator offers two charts. September 1947 uses the book's own data — the Sun and Moon transcribed day-by-day from the original ephemeris, the outer planets fixed from the worked example on pages 42–43, and the Gravitational Pointer arithmetic (the H.S. and Z1 method) reproduced exactly as laid out on pages 68–69. Today's sky calculates real current planetary longitudes from a live reference reading, propagated forward or backward using each planet's true average daily motion — genuine astronomy, not the book's invention, applied fresh to whatever date you choose. The field entries accept any competitors — horses, games, machines — with RTP percentage as the gravitational weight. Neither mode is a claim that the method predicts outcomes; both simply erect the chart correctly, as the book itself sets out to do.
Here is given the sidereal time and the planetary positions of the Sun, Moon, and the seven planets for September 1947. In learning how to prepare a chart, this data is essential — the foundation beneath every wheel that follows.
Longitudes given in degrees and minutes of zodiacal sign. Sidereal time in hours, minutes, seconds. Transcribed from the original tables.
Three races from Ascot's card of 26th September, 1947, worked through in full — the chart erected, the pointers arranged, the placings called before the tapes ever rose.
A large field with the Gravitational Pointer silent, leaving Colour and Phonetical to carry the method alone. Four-minute spans of 2.27–2.31 (Period 3, negative), 2.31–2.35 (Period 9, positive), and 2.35–2.39 (Period ¼, negative) bracketed the off.
No scale of weights again left the Gravitational Pointer void. Colour Pointers on P2 (Saturn square the Moon at ¾°, exact to a hair) and P3 (Moon octile the Sun) carried the chart, confirmed by a positive Phonetical span at 3.31–3.35.
Chart erected for true time 4 p.m. plus five minutes' running allowance, less three minutes west. With a full scale of weights to hand, all three pointers stood together: Venus square Mars on P4 at 2°, the First Gravity weight of 8st 12lb, and a positive Phonetical span at 5.01–5.05.
Enter your games or machines below. The chart reads the planetary field at your chosen time and place, arranges the three signals — Harmonic, RTP Gravity, and Timing Window — and returns a Win/Loss Ratio outlook for each entry.
Point the device at the sky to see the planets marked where they truly stand, with the chart wheel turning beneath like a radar. Choose any date and place, then watch the pointers move across the day.