How is Egyptian decans done?

Find your sun sign. Split the sign into three ten-day decans. Read the nuance of the planet ruling your decan.

Mama Adaeze

Ancestral tradition

Egyptian decans

Ancient Egypt; the 36 decans still used in astrology come from here.

The year was split into 36 ten-day periods, each ruled by a star; your decan refines your sign.

How it's done

01Find your sun sign.
02Split the sign into three ten-day decans.
03Read the nuance of the planet ruling your decan.

With your own tools

Your date is enough: the first decan is the pure sign, the second and third blend it with other planets.

With Ocluna

Ocluna's birth chart gives you the sign; we'll add the decan as a nuance in the same reading.

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What Mama Adaeze tells you

The 36 decans appear painted in tombs 4,000 years old; the Egyptians used them as a night clock by watching which star rose.
The ten-day week and the 360-day year plus five feast days come from the decans; the Dendera zodiac already blends them with the Greek signs.
The ten-day week and the 360-day year plus five feast days come from the decans; the Dendera zodiac already blends them with the Greek signs.
The ceiling of the tomb of Senenmut, architect to Queen Hatshepsut, preserves one of the best-preserved star maps with decans.
The Greeks of Alexandria distributed the thirty-six decans among the twelve signs, three per ten-degree sign, and thus they entered Western astrology.
The reappearance of the star Sopdet after seventy days of not being seen announced the flooding of the Nile and opened the Egyptian year; the Greeks called that star Sirius.
The five days that the Egyptians added to the three hundred and sixty days of the calendar were counted as the birth of Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Set, and Horus.
The zodiac ceiling from the Dendera temple was removed and taken to Paris in 1821, and has been preserved in France ever since.
The Egyptians counted the night by the successive rising of the decans, and from this comes the custom of dividing it into twelve hours.
The Chaldean order goes from the slowest to the fastest celestial body: it starts with Saturn and ends with the Moon; the third in line, after Jupiter, is Mars.
The names of the thirty-six decans reappear on amulets and in the Greek magical papyri of Egypt, copied mainly between the II and IV centuries.

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What Mama Adaeze tells you

The 36 decans appear painted in tombs 4,000 years old; the Egyptians used them as a night clock by watching which star rose.

The ten-day week and the 360-day year plus five feast days come from the decans; the Dendera zodiac already blends them with the Greek signs.

The ceiling of the tomb of Senenmut, architect to Queen Hatshepsut, preserves one of the best-preserved star maps with decans.

The Greeks of Alexandria distributed the thirty-six decans among the twelve signs, three per ten-degree sign, and thus they entered Western astrology.

The reappearance of the star Sopdet after seventy days of not being seen announced the flooding of the Nile and opened the Egyptian year; the Greeks called that star Sirius.

The five days that the Egyptians added to the three hundred and sixty days of the calendar were counted as the birth of Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Set, and Horus.

The zodiac ceiling from the Dendera temple was removed and taken to Paris in 1821, and has been preserved in France ever since.

The Egyptians counted the night by the successive rising of the decans, and from this comes the custom of dividing it into twelve hours.

The Chaldean order goes from the slowest to the fastest celestial body: it starts with Saturn and ends with the Moon; the third in line, after Jupiter, is Mars.

The names of the thirty-six decans reappear on amulets and in the Greek magical papyri of Egypt, copied mainly between the II and IV centuries.