Out of Sect

Out of sect is a mild debility a planet carries when it goes against the time of day a person was born. It rests on the same split: every chart is either a day chart, when the Sun was above the horizon at birth (diurnal), or a night chart, when the Sun was below it (nocturnal). Each planet also has a side it prefers. The day planets are the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn. The night planets are the Moon, Venus, and Mars. Mercury can join either one, depending on whether it rises before or after the Sun. A planet is out of sect when it is mismatched with the chart, a day planet in a night chart or a night planet in a day chart. It gets less support, so its rougher edges show more openly. This is a mild disadvantage, not doom, and it takes nothing from the sign the planet occupies. The two helpful planets, the benefics Venus and Jupiter, give less of their good, while the two harsher planets, the malefics Mars and Saturn, bite harder. Being out of sect means a planet works against the grain and must try harder to come through well.